Dump Road
Dump Road, as it has come to be called is located along the old Chief Ladiga Indian Trail in Jacksonville, Alabama. You can find it along the bottom of the Appalachian Mountain, but it’s not necessarily going to be clean. The “Dump Road” received its name because those who lived up in the mountains would literally dump their garbage all along this road. Though its now lost most of its glory, the Dump Road was used way back in the early 1800’s by pioneers.
Not much became of the road until the 1980’s when the city tried developing a sub division in the same area around Dump Road. During this time the contractor working on the development suddenly stopped all his work on the road. It’s believed he had some sort of scary of frightening experience along the road that caused him to stop his progress. Because he didn’t finish, Dump Road once again lost a lot of attention, but this time with power line poles lined up along the road with no working lines installed.
Though Dump Road has remained mostly unused in recent history there is still much unexplained activity going on. There have many reports of horses and old wagons being seen at night, and even during the day. Due to its long history of being used by early pioneers it’s believed Dump Road is still haunted by those who traveled along this path from long ago. Among other sightings have been reports of a slave hanging from a tree near a clay embankment found on the road. During the late 1980’s an old slave house was discovered in the area, right next to an old plantation that had burned down around the turn of the 1900’s. This may explain the sightings of the hung slave. There have also been reports of a strange man walking along the road at night and seemingly vanishing out of nowhere into the woods.
Campers along Dump Road have experienced the feeling of a dark presence around them, and have been woken up by frightful screams as if someone was being attacked. Some even have reported hearing what sounded like angry groups of people and horses in the distance. It’s believed all of these reports are responsible due to the hanging that took place. Even more sightings have been made of lanterns and torches being seen at night.
4 Responses to “Dump Road”
September 11th, 2009 saat: 7:59 am
I am the original person who posted the haunting of dump road on shadowlands. After some investigating here is an update on the place:
UPDATE TO DUMP ROAD
–In the past two years, the illegal shooting range where the slave was allegedly hanged has been graded and turned into a large parking lot where a good portion of the mountain dump road is on has been turned into an offroad vehicle park called “Choccolocco Mountain Offroad”. Apparently during the grading and development of several trails being integrated into the original Chief Ladiga Trail there were several artifacts found relating to early settlers that seems to help back the story of the dump road hauntings. Several items related to farming were found(possibly explaining the plantation and slave story). There was also an old stone horse trough found along the old trail as a stop off point for settlers. A 1800’s era stone fireplace was also found deep into the mountain with part of the foundation intact as well as several wooden ruins leftover from what is believed to be some sort of cottage or small house(could explain the slave house mentioned) Locals don’t like the publicity surrounding the events described and mostly don’t acknowledge the existence of the haunts on dump road.
–After viewing satellite photos of dump road I noticed that the Greenleaf family owns most of the land on that mountain. After repeated attempts to contact some of the family I gave up. I stopped in a traditional southern diner north of the square in Jacksonville and decided to ask a few locals around town about the place and most people shrugged me off and told me not to be asking about things I know nothing about. One man even told me if I knew what was good for me to leave town and not ask anyone else if I didn’t want to end up like the slave I was inquiring about. Apparently the appalachia-ness is still quite prevalent around Jacksonville and locals don’t like outsiders much. I was eerily reminded of the movie “Mississippi Burning” and how tightly lipped the locals were in that movie.
September 11th, 2009 saat: 8:03 am
Hmm I just posted the previous update and it seems that someone is fooling around with me and posted a comment the day before challenging the legend of dump road. Interesting….
October 31st, 2009 saat: 8:58 pm
Bull shit dude I am from jacksonville and no one around could care less about dump road. I doubt you got that type of response but as far as the road itself well I went last night (oct 30) and me and my friends made it to
a fallen tree without much activity. Although a few minutes after passing the tree our flashlights,new batteries, and my phone were drained of all power and that dark presence was slightly felt. I wanna make the whole way but I am a little nervous
November 7th, 2009 saat: 10:25 am
I had an eerie experience on the Chief Ladiga trail last year. Every day, I walk my dogs about 3 miles on the portion of the trail that goes by the Jacksonville Civic Center. Early one morning, from several hundred feet away, I noticed a man wearing bright blue running shorts stretching by the mile marker near the benches across from the adjoining trail of civic center. I thought nothing of it until I saw a tall, dark shadow-y figure approach the man from behind. The bright morning light streaming through the trees slightly obscured my vision momentarily, but in that time, the man disappeared. I stopped walking and looked at my dogs, expecting some kind of reaction from them, but they seemed completely unaware. For some reason, I wasn’t very afraid of what I’d just seen and proceeded toward where the man had just been. In the distance, I could still see the dark figure moving away from me down the trail and then disappeared into the woods. Once I reached the marker, I began to feel a little apprehensive and decided to turn around. I continue to walk along this trail daily, and have never again experienced anything like that.
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