Don’t pick up a young girl hitchhiking on Highway 365. (Especially avoid her if she’s wearing a white dress.) Actually, beware if you pick up a young girl wearing any kind of dress because it appears that there’s more than one vanishing hitchhiker on Highway 365. But if you just can’t help your desire to assist that frightened young girl standing out in the rain…she doesn’t look dangerous, after all…and she’s definitely not a ghost, right? Right? Well, don’t be surprised if she disappears when you try to drop her off at her home. If you’ve seen this article, you’ve been warned. This might just be the most haunted road in Arkansas, and here’s why.

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In 1973, a man picked up a girl on a bridge near Wrightsville. She was covered in bruises and cuts. She told the man she had been in a car accident. When they arrived at the house she claimed was hers, she disappeared from his car. He went to the door anyway, and found a father whose daughter had died on a bridge near Wrightsville the month before.
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There's a report of a man who picked up a young woman on a bridge and drove her to a house in Woodson. When he arrived, the girl asked him to knock on the door because the house was dark. He did so and a woman answered. The do-gooder announced that he’d brought the woman’s daughter home. The woman replied that her daughter had died the year before, on that same night.
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Another man picked up a girl near Woodson and drove her to her home in Redfield. When the man got out of the car to open the door for the girl, she had disappeared. The man went to the door anyway, and a grieving father told him his daughter had someone drive her home every year—on the anniversary of her death.

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The creepiest story has a man picking the girl up near a bridge in the rain. Because the girl was soaked through, he put his coat around her shoulders. When they arrived at the house where the girl said she belonged, she disappeared, taking his coat with her. After his conversation with the dead girl’s mother, the man visited the girl’s grave—where he found his coat draped across her headstone.
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There is more than only the girl in white, however.

There is allegedly a girl who runs out in front of you, causing you to strike her. When you get out to look for the injured body, it is nowhere to be found.

Some folks claim that you can stop in the middle of the highway, turn off your headlights, and honk three times to summon a ghostly motorcycle that will drive right through your car.
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Another hitchiker, this time a man, speaks of the second coming and then disappears.
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The one thing all these stories have in common is that they take place on Highway 365, near the towns of Woodson and Redfield. Reports of creepy activity there date back to the 1950s.

What about you? Do you know another haunted road in Arkansas? Have you seen anything spooky on Highway 365? Let us know in the comments below!

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