Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, if you drive on this stretch of I-4 please use caution and make sure to look twice before changing lanes-you might just see something that you did not expect to be there. This section of I-4 is extremely prone to deadly car accidents, and has gained the grim nickname of the “I-4 Dead Zone.” Some long haul truckers have claimed that their CB radios blast with static while driving over the stretch of highway.
THE DEAD ZONE DRIVERS
Drivers taking I-4 over Lake Monroe have reported strange interference on their radios, and some claim to have seen ghostly apparitions on the road. The Dead Zone was optioned shortly after its publication in 1979, and several screenwriters and directors were involved in its production before Cronenberg took over the project in 1982. It was one of many strange occurrences at the former site of St. Soon after, Hurricane Donna unexpectedly changed course towards Sanford, passing over the gravesite on Septemand leaving a wake of devastation in her path. While the graves were initially marked for relocation, they were either forgotten or deemed unimportant and were paved over.
When Florida began buying up land for the construction of a new highway, the field was sold to the state. Enough strange activity occurred in the area that it earned the nickname “Field of the Dead.”
THE DEAD ZONE DRIVER
Locals say a farmer’s house burned down after he removed the grave markers, and a child was run over by a drunk driver after he dug at the site. Joseph’s became a local legend-it was said that deadly consequences were in store for anyone who tampered with the gravesite. The land changed hands several times, eventually becoming part of the city of Sanford. A particularly devastating outbreak of Yellow Fever in 1887 sealed the fate of St Joseph’s, and the surviving settlers buried their dead in the woods and left the failed colony behind. Joseph’s Catholic Colony at the site.Ĭonditions were difficult and rampant disease hampered any chance of success for the colony. He sold 640 acres to a group of German immigrants, who founded St. In the 1870s, the real estate tycoon Henry Sanford marketed the southern shore of the lake to new immigrants and potential citrus farmers.
Just north of Orlando, the highway passes over Lake Monroe. The quarter-mile stretch of Interstate-4 in Sanford, Florida is said to be one of the most haunted highways in America. Every day thousands of drivers pass over this unassuming stretch of highway on their commutes, unaware of the dark history that lies beneath them.
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