Clinton Road begins at Route 23 near Newfoundland and runs 10 miles to Upper Greenwood Lake. The area is said to be traversed by ghosts, odd creatures, devil worshippers, witches, and members of the Ku Klux Klan, and is known for being a spot where murderers choose to dispose of bodies. Stories include a ghost of a little boy who drowned here, who appears at a bridge over Clinton Brook near the reservoir if you put a quarter on the yellow line in the middle of the road; a ghost girl driving a phantom Camaro who crashed here in 1988; two ghostly park rangers who died on the job in 1939; an 18th-century iron smelter that some mistakenly call a Druidic temple; phantom trucks and other vehicles; and strange creatures such as animal hybrids, monkeys, hell hounds, or escapees from a nearby attraction called Jungle Habitat, which closed in 1976. Also nearby is Cross Castle, built by Richard Cross in 1905 and now ruins rumored to have been used by Satan worshippers for sacrifices. The castle was razed in 1988, but its ruins remain. One more eerie event told about in these parts is that of the “Iceman,” which began when a murdered body discovered here by a bicyclist in 1983. The autopsy showed ice crystals in blood vessels near his heart, leading investigators to think the body had been frozen so that his death would have been thought to have happened later than it actually did. In 1986 Richard Kuklinski confessed to being the killer and a mob hitman who killed over a hundred others, freezing their bodies the same way, earning him the nickname “Iceman.”

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