Social Distancing Adventure Ideas: Driving Down A Haunted Street

When each and every day consists of the same at-home workouts and homework assignments with no social interaction besides Zoom, it’s time to switch things up. Last week, I took a few minutes and thought about how I could potentially have fun without breaking any of the social distancing rules. I came up with a list and will be sharing my social distancing adventure ideas over the next few weeks. This week’s adventure: driving down a haunted street. 

I came up with the idea of driving down a haunted street while sitting in the car with my little sister. We had just driven my mother to work and found ourselves sitting in the car because we missed the feeling of going somewhere… literally anywhere. I realized driving would not be breaking any rules–as long as we did not get out of the car. 

As I scrolled down the Google results for scenic roads, I stumbled across a haunted street only twenty minutes away from my house. According to myth, various ghosts have been seen walking the Harland Street at night: a Puritan woman, a child, a headless man, and a black car that follows people and blinks its lights. Even though I only half-believed these stories, I was in desperate need of a silly adventure. Of course, the family member that accompanied me on my adventure was my dare-devil little brother, who was also going crazy taking online courses.

Around 9 pm my brother and I got into the car, downloaded the “top-rated ghost radar” from the App Store, and headed to Harland Street. The street runs alongside Blue Hills: a common hiking destination for Massachusetts residents. During the day, I could imagine it would seem harmless. But at night? Simply horrifying.

When we reached the street, both of our eyes started to water and we were frozen in fear. We couldn’t really put our finger on why our eyes were watering. We blamed it on being hyped up on New England myths. 

Harland Street was pitch black and lined with wooden fences that looked straight out of The Hills Have Eyes. As we drove down the street, we were freaked out, but nothing was really happening. That was until a car started following us down the street.

The car was driving suspiciously slow. We figured the car was a group of other people trying to spook themselves. However, the car started BLINKING ITS LIGHTS AT US. Just like the myth! Like Scooby and Shaggy, we zoomed down the road as the car chased us. 

We finally lost the car as we drove down a few more streets. Hyped on adrenaline, we decided to drive down Harland Street again. Only this time, we pulled over and played with the ghost radar. The app was pretty glitchy and we did not expect anything to happen. Then, a Puritan-looking ghost appeared on the camera. As we moved the radar, the ghost moved from the side of our car to the front and got closer. Freaked out, we raced home.

While the events from our drive probably were not paranormal, it was still fun to play pretend for a bit. After all, when reality becomes difficult to understand, some imagination could go a long way. 

 

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