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My favorite haunted place growing up was the infamous Head Road. The real name of the road is Buckhout Road. Up until a few years ago, it didn’t have any streetlights. Even with the recent addition of these lights, it is still a scary place. It is a long, desolate one-way road. This means that once you enter the road, you have to ride its entire length––there is no getting out! The legends all seem to revolve around a number of X’s that are painted near a house on the road. I have heard two different things about these X’s. One is that back in the day a few witches from the local area were captured and killed by frightened residents of these parts. They were buried underneath what is now Buckhout Road. The X’s mark the spots where they lie. This story claims that you should avoid driving your car directly over the X’s, because if you don’t, your car will shut off. |
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One night, a kid pulled up outside the house to place an M-80 in the mailbox of the house. He approached the mailbox and opened it, only to be met with a terrifying sight. A child’s decapitated head fell out of the mailbox and landed at his feet. Hence, the name Head Road. The moniker has stuck ever since. Needless to say, those kids learned their lesson and didn’t mess with the albino family ever again. But many people do still take late night rides down Buckhout Road. Some are tempting witches and some are looking for albinos––all I know is that Head Road is a true Westchester County rite of passage. –Bobby You can read about all of New York’s other legendary Roads Less Traveled in Weird New York.
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