Posted in Nebraska
February 14, 2016
Driving Down This Haunted Nebraska Road Will Give You Nightmares
We have a lot of ghost stories here in Nebraska. They range from the sadly tragic to the utterly bizarre. The story of Seven Sisters Road in Nebraska City falls somewhere between the two. Although parts of the legend have been lost, added to, and embellished over the years, the basic story has remained the same for generations.
(Editor’s note: We received the below photos from an outside source, but many commenters have pointed out that the photos do not depict the actual Seven Sisters Road. We apologize for any confusion.)
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Just outside of Nebraska City is a road known to locals as Seven Sisters Road. On maps, it is labeled Road L.
Legend has it that one night more than a century ago, a father went crazy and turned his madness loose on his seven daughters. (An alternate version of the story says that it was a brother rather than a father.)
In the middle of the night, he dragged the girls one by one to the seven hills on the road. He hung them all from trees, one on each hill.
Today, only a few of the hills remain, and none of them are as prominent as they were a century ago - but the spirits of the sisters are said to inhabit the road still.
Many people claim that if you drive this road at night, you will hear the screams of the seven sisters and feel their eerie presence all around you.
Other visitors report more extreme experiences, such as their car stalling on the road. Some say their headlights got mysteriously dimmer while on the road, only to return to full power once they were past the Seven Sisters area.
No matter what your experiences have been on Seven Sisters Road, this macabre tale is one that will endure. Has anything spooky or unexplainable happened to you while driving this road? Tell us your haunted tale in the comments!
(Special thanks to Hauntin.gs for permission to use their photos.)
