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Do You Know The Haunted History Of The Niles Canyon Road- A “White Witch” Or “Niles Canyon Ghost”?
It has been rumoured that the Niles Canyon Road- A “White Witch” Or “Niles Canyon Ghost” in Niles, California is a haunted location. We’ll explain why people think this below. Do you think the rumors are true?
| Niles Canyon Road- A “White Witch” Or “Niles Canyon Ghost” Information | |
|---|---|
| Location Name | Niles Canyon Road- A “White Witch” Or “Niles Canyon Ghost” |
| State | California |
| City | Niles |
| Country | United States |
Why Is The Niles Canyon Road- A “White Witch” Or “Niles Canyon Ghost” Haunted?
A young woman who’s last name was Lowerey was on her way to a wedding possibly her own.
Riding in a horse drawn carriage near the way stop of Scott’s Corners, (between Pleasanton and Sunol, CA.
Area is now Highway 84/680) she was thrown from the carriage when the horses were spooked by the first of two oncoming horseless carriages (car).
After she was thrown the 2nd car struck her.
Miss Lowerey became the first person to ever be killed by an automobile in this area.
Many have seen a woman in white by the cemetery and near by areas, accompanied with strange lights.
– November update: A paranormal researcher found there’s quite an extensive collection of newspaper clippings that was donated to the library by a journalist.
The clippings go back to the turn of the 20th century, so they cover the period when the “accident” happened.
According to the first journalist to report on the supposed haunting, about ten years after the date in the 1920’s when the woman was popularly held to have died, there was no mention of anyone dying in an accident in the canyon, and county records of the time listed no account of the body of anyone who had supposedly died in Niles Canyon.
There was, in the early 50’s, a young man who dressed in a white sheet and jumped out in front of motorists near one of the bridges on Halloween.
He scared someone so bad that they immediately drove to the nearest phone and called the police, who arrived in force (owing to the legend of the white witch) and drew guns on what they thought was the ghost.
The young man was almost shot, though he was not arrested, but he had to be taken to a coffee shop where it took him until 2am to calm down sufficiently to go home.
The supposed “white witch of Niles” actually follows the scenario of a common fake ghost story, that being the “hitchhiking ghost” story.
The Niles ghost is most commonly said to hitchhike to one of the bridges in the area, where she disappears at the tollbooth.
There is no cemetery that they know of in Sunol, which is at the top of Niles Canyon Rd.
Similarly; there is no Morrison Canyon ghost.
Morrison Canyon road is a primarily one-lane road that leads up to the 680 freeway.
There’s even a radar-testing facility up there somewhere, complete with life-size wire models of helicopters and planes, mostly upside down.
Now, on the OTHER side of the coin, there ARE photographs of orbs in Mission San Jose’s church and in the graveyard, though the investigator does not own them.
The church, the cemetery and the grounds are VERY active.
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