Clinton Road is located in West Milford, New Jersey. It runs in a generally north-south direction, beginning at Route 23 near Newfoundland and running roughly 10 miles to its northern terminus at Upper Greenwood Lake.

The road and the land around it over the years have gained notoriety as an area rife with many legends of paranormal occurrences such as sightings of ghosts, strange creatures and gatherings of witches, Satanists and the KKK. More prosaically, it is also believed that professional killers dispose of bodies in the surrounding woods, which actually did happen once.

Since there are very few houses along the road and much of the adjoining property is undeveloped publicly owned woodlands (either City of Newark Water shed or stste forest) and the road itself is a narrow two-lane that receives little maintenance, is not part of New Jersey's county highway system and was until fairly recently unpaved for some of its length, connecting two areas of minimal population and growth and thus having little traffic even at the busiest times of day, it is understandable that it would give rise to cautionary tales about traveling the road alone, particularly late at night.While it is not the only thoroughfare in northwestern New Jersey to have such a reputation.

Kidnappings by cannibals

Some area residents warn that if you travel down the road at night and encounter a fallen tree blocking the road, you will have fallen into a trap set by local natives and you must turn around immediately before they cut another tree down behind you. If you are captured, you will be eaten.

Other legends

Besides the ghost boy, One claims to have seen a ghost Camero driven by a girl who supposedly died when she crashed it in 1988 (any mention while driving the road at night is supposed to trigger a manifestation). Another claims to have encountered two park rangers one night while camping with friends near Terrance pond, a glacial tarn on a ridge accessible from the road by hiking trails, who in the morning turned out to have been the ghosts of two rangers who had died on the job in 1939.

Strange creatures, fromhellhounds to monkeys and unidentifiable hybrids, have been caught in the glare of headlights crossing the road at night. If not of supernatural origin, they are said to have been survivors of Jungle Habitat, a nearby attraction that has been closed since 1976, which have managed to survive and crossbreed.

Some visitors to the area report also seeing people dressed weirdly at odd hours who simply stare at those who see them and do not speak. Sometimes these people disappear or are apparently not seen by those present.

Other drivers claim they have been chased down the road by mysterious black pickup truck with bright lights that turn back as soon as they reach the end of the road.

Lastly, some travelers have reported a feeling of uneasiness or mounting dread as they drive down the road, sometimes so great that they have to turn back. Like I Did!!! But I did not turn around! 

The Druidic temple

A conical stone structure just east of the road south of the reservoir was said to be a site where local Druids practiced their rituals, and horrible things might come to pass for any intruder who looked too closely or came at the wrong time.

However, the building's origins are easily explained: It is an irons smelter left over from the 18th century when the ore was common in the area and needed for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. It has nothing, at least not by design, to do with any religious observance. It is currently fenced off by the Newark water department to prevent any entrance and the liability for injury that might result.

The ghost boy at the bridge

Supposedly, if you go to one of the bridges at the reservoir and throw a quarter into the water, within a minute it will be thrown back out to or at you by the ghost of a boy who drowned while swimming below. In some tellings an apparition is seen; in others the ghost pushes the teller into the water if he or she looks over the side of the bridge in order to save him from being run over as he was in life.