Hello again, Aral Stein Story Club members.

I'm Ivy, your ghostly host and keeper of those strange and spooky tales from the hidden

vault of R. L. Stein.

Today is, you guessed it, another chilling tale.

This rousing place I visited in New York State Story Club members is called Mount Misery Road.

Mount Misery Road is located in Huntington Long Island.

In the 1600s, this area was a small farming community and the road was used as a trade

route.

The early settlers nicknamed it Misery because the steep hill and rocky train

made it difficult for wagons to pass over. But that's not all. Strange things kept happening

there. Can roads and highways be haunted? Because it seems Mount Misery Road is. Settlers purchase

the land from Native Americans for the equivalent of $25. The indigenous people warned the settlers to stay away from the area.

They claimed there were evil spirits haunting the old hill.

Also, there were reports of mysterious lights blazing in the sky

and that a man beast with glowing eyes lurked among the hills.

In 1840, a mental hospital was built on top of the mountain near the road.

Not long after the hospital was built, a mysterious fire engulfed the place and burned it to the ground.

Many patients were killed during the blaze. Nearly 15 years later, the hospital was rebuilt.

It was reported that the smell of the burning building and screams of the victims could be heard at night during the construction of the new mental facility.

In a strange coincidence, the new hospital burnt down only five months after completion.

According to legend, a ghostly police officer patrols Mount Misery Road.

In the 1970s, the officer was killed in the line of duty on Mount

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