The Ghost of Route 66

Route 66 has claimed thousands of lives, but one victim refuses to stay dead. Every trucker who's

driven the midnight stretch between Flagstaff and Winslow knows about her. The woman in the

torn white dress who appears at mile marker 247, always crying, always begging for

help. Her face is streaked with mascara and blood, and she clutches

a small purse against her chest like it contains her last hope. Last month,

a driver named Jake stopped for her. She climbed into his passenger seat, sobbing about needing

to get to the hospital. Her story was always the same, a car accident, her husband trapped

in the wreckage just ahead. Jake felt her cold breath on his neck as she whispered