Are haunted sites everywhere?

Over at a website called The Shadowlands, I found a nice comprehensive listing of places that, according to some, are haunted. The website has a pretty good database of what I would call "all things strange and unexplained." Just the sort of stuff we're looking for. Under the Haunted Places Index you can search by state; I picked my own state (Maine) which has long been a haven for ghost tales and the supernatural (after all Stephen King lives about 15 miles from where I'm sitting right now).

I checked out the town I live in and what do you know? A famous haunting here on campus; I was actually surprised they just had one since it seems every other building here has a host of ghost tales attached to it, but I think they're picking the best-known for this database. Of course they did have the infamous "reappearing foot on the tombstone" in Bucksport Cemetery, but I was disappointed in that they don't seem to have any mention of the most famous haunted place from the area of Maine I grew up in.

Catherine's Hill lies along the quickest route from Cherryfield (middle of nowhere Washington County) to Ellsworth (something resembling civilization), a road most of the locals call the Black's Woods Road. The legend varies, but they all agree that decades back a young woman was somehow beheaded while traveling along the road. Hundreds have reported seeing her along the road, or even inside their vehicles for brief periods.

It's not difficult to see how the road can be spooky, especially at night. It's a desolate 20-some mile stretch through a winding, decrepit road thick on both sides with forest and occasional lakes. I've made the drive hundreds of times myself, especially during the two years I dated a girl from Lamoine, in which I was driving it nearly every night around midnight, but I have never seen anything strange myself. Plenty of deer, rabbits, and other sundry forest animals darting across the road, in front of my car, were the only heart-stopping encounters I had along Black's Woods. I even tried to "set the mood" for a ghostly encounter, keeping my radio low, tuned to the paranormal talk show Coast to Coast AM.

Perhaps tomorrow will bring better luck. That's right, stay tuned because tomorrow's update will hopefully be something special. I'll be traveling to a nearby cemetery, with members of the campus Paranormal Investigations Club, to report and take photos on their investigation. They hope to primarily prove if the messages they received, on a Ouija board, from spirits who said they were buried there, are true...but who know what else may happen when you trod upon the domain of the dead?