Highway & Travel Legends
Urban legends set on roads, highways, and travel routes, often involving strangers, isolated environments, or unexplained roadside encounters.
Introduction
Travel removes people from the safety of familiarity.
Highway legends take advantage of that distance.
They unfold in transit, where witnesses are alone and movement cannot easily be interrupted. A driver encounters someone in the road. A passenger appears unexpectedly. A vehicle follows too closely for too long.
The encounter ends.
The explanation does not follow.
These stories rely on isolation. The road offers no immediate confirmation or denial. Only the memory of what was seen.
And the knowledge that the road continues long after the witness has left it behind.
They say if you light a match at midnight in Ontario’s Screaming Tunnel, you’ll hear her scream—the ghost of a girl consumed by fire and forgotten by time.