Another day, another stop on the Streets of Fear tour – on which we check out the creepiest roads, highways and byways that America has to offer.  While traveling the country, we found ourselves in the Keystone State of Pennsylvania, and a bit parched.  So we stopped at a spring to drink that sweet natural water.  It tasted strange, however…in fact, coppery.  That’s because we’d happened upon Bloody Spring Road, today’s Street of Fear!

Bloody Spring Road runs near Bernville, Pennsylvania in rural Berks County.  The road is idyllic, passing through small residential areas and farmland.  So why the gruesome name?  Bloody Spring Road gets its name from the nearby Bloody Spring, and both were host to some of the most violent battles between natives and early settlers in the French-Indian War.

According to legend, families were attacked by natives in their homes.  One night, a family of settlers fled for their lives, seeking safety near the spring.  The story follows that they were found by the natives and hacked apart.  And when the local law found the family the following morning, their body parts were strewn about the spring, which ran red with their blood.

Now, a hotbed of violence and pain like that just has to have the right kind of energy for otherworldly phenomena, right?  Right!  Locals in the area report seeing ghosts, one of whom (named Mary) haunts a house where a family was brutally murdered.  The entire area surrounding the road seems to have an effect on people, as multiple sources claim to have felt an extreme sense of unease wash over them while crossing a small footbridge.  And how about all of that beautiful farmland?  Locals have reported seeing ghostly sprites fleeing across the fields, perhaps reliving the night they died.

It’s hard to wash those kinds of stories from your mind, especially when using water from the Bloody Spring.  To see the road and hear what a psychic had to say about it, check out our Bloody Spring Road episode of Streets of Fear!