The Legend of Munger Road
<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="001d4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Land"><U>Click here to go back to the mainland</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Everything put together"><U>Click here to go back to the detailed Map</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Welcome!"><U>Click here to go back to the Hanover Park mainpage</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0a720583.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="0b358da0.jpg" border=0 width="600" height="218" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> So here's the story on the Urban Legend behind MUNGER ROAD. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0f890400.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="320" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#C0DCC0" FACE="Calisto MT" >Back in the day, most likely in the early 1900s or so, there was a couple that lived in a small house on Mugner Road, just outside of the growing town of Bartlett. The house that they lived in was rather small, in fact it was just one or two rooms, depending on who you talk to. They built it next to the train tracks, because the man who lived there worked for the trains and so he helped out with the rail crossing at Munger Road. The train tracks that are still there today are still being used by freight trains to help carry freight on the Chicago, Central & Pacific Line. </FONT></div> <div> Anyway, in his elderly ages years, the man began to somewhat lose his mind, and ended up going a little on the whacko side. Being in the psycho state of mind, he killed his wife and burried her under the house. </div> <div> Within a few days, the residents of Bartlett noticed the woman's disappearance. She wasn't talking with her girlfriends at the parol shop. She wasn't getting the daily fresh bread from the bakery. She wasn't saying hello to all the neighborhood children that lived in the area. She used to give them candy and often gave some spare change to the really poor kids. <IMG SRC="0b790c90.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="201" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Seing as how the nicest lady in town wasn't around anymore, the neighborhood kids went to her and the her husbands house on Munger Road. Since they didn't really know the way, they followed the train tracks until they came to the area. But when they came upon the small house, the old man jumped out from the woods and murdered them, and burried them underneath the house as well. </div> <div> Well, when the kids never came home for supper those days the parents began to get worried. And with the dissappearance of the nicest lady in town, they were even more worried. So they sent out the police to the house on Munger Road to ask the husband some questions. When they got there, they found the house empty, deserted. Underneath the house, they found the dead bodies of the wife, four (or possibly five, records are kind of sketchy from that time period) children of Bartlett. The old man was never found. They assumed he escaped into the forest and further out. <IMG SRC="0b990cd0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="205" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Little did they know, that the old man was still hiding out in the forest. He had built another little shack in the woods (very small one, even more smaller than his house) and lived there until he died on cold cold winter. </div> <div> The house near the railroad tracks was torn down. Years later they came upon the old shanty the man had escaped too in the woods and found the man's dead body as well. The shack wasn't really torn down, it was basically destroyed already, so they left it there. </div> <div> But the Urban Legend goes that the old man still haunts the Pratts - Wayne Woods there. And sometimes late at night, the mist on Munger Road grows thick, and the shape of an old man can be seen, standing near those train tracks. <IMG SRC="0bb90d90.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="217" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Other strange happenings in that area are as follows: the railroad gaurds going down when there aren't any trains around. Slight white mists on the railroad tracks, where the kids used to walk down. Strange cars following people down Munger Road and then making U-Turns and heading back into the woods. </div> <div> Our Senior year (Spring 2001), an old homeless man was found beaten to death in the woods right off of Munger Road. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0cc90f50.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="245" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This picture is of the train crossing junction box that is still in operation today. </div> <div> <A NAME="spitzer_road"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>OK:</div> <div> Now here's the real deal:<IMG SRC="0c9affd0.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="253" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> One night, probably back in junior year, Shannon and i were driving down Munger Road. Now, Munger Road we thought ends at Stearns Road. Surprise: nope it keeps going north. We followed the road north and found out there's more to Munger Road than meets the eye. It was a strange and desolate, gravel road that was surrounded by more trees and weird shrubs. but in the background you could see construction equipment. Then we came up to a house in the middle of this weird area, and the road curved sharp left. Then the road turned into Rees Road for like a block, and then curved sharply right. It was now known as Spitzer Road. Still gravel, still surrounded by old trees and semi tractor-trailer trucks and large cranes swooping overhead. Spitzer was even worse condition than Munger Road was. the potholes were huge and then it came out to West Bartlett Road. </div> <div> Well, we kept going down there everyonce in a while to see what the hell was going on back there. And why there was such heavy industrial construction traffic down there. We saw signs that said "Trucks have the right of way". It was really creepy. And we found a pond back there was a nasty ass green it looked like a toxic waste dump. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0df25c40.jpg" border=0 width="293" height="196" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Anyways, over the years they've been doing some developement down on Munger Road passed Stearns. During my senior year, i took my Exchange partner Thomas down that area to show him just how messed up Munger Road is, and at the time it was closed and when i went around the "road closed" signs, i got pulled over by the cops. They then said i "had no reason to be back there". figures. Another time, Shannon and I were driving down Munger Road and i accidentally honked at a cop and she pulled me over and again said, "i had no business being down this road". even though it's a public road and there's plenty reason for me to be down there. blah. </div> <div> Over the summer, they built up Munger Road, north of Stearns and so now it's a 4 lane , divided street with a grassy median. and now there are empty building back there. And what's really weird is that it just STOPS. they have huge cones and baracades that say, "road closed" only this time you can't drive around them. D'oh!</div> <div> But you can still get in on Sptizer Road, off of West Bartlett Road but it's totally screwed up now! Rees Road is GONE, and Sptizer curves and twists and winds around this barren wasteland that is filled with huge piles of concrete, abandonded semi trucks, and it leads to a factory of some sort that doesn't really seem to be in operation, yet there is smoke coming from it all the time. Odd. </div> <div> Recently, we found that Sptizer Road now connects to "Brewster Creek Blvd", which is west of Munger Road. Again, like Munger, Brewster Creek is a 4 lane road that comes to a halt with road closed signs. Only these ones you can drive around and low and behold you end up on Spitzer. It's really a crazy area. Here's some pictures of that:</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0be90fc0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="252" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0c090dc0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> As you can see, it's just an empty barren wasteland that doesn't seem to have any purpose. The buildings they just built are all empty too. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0c290920.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="146" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0c490090.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="265" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> And then it just ENDS. there's no getting around those baracades, and in the picture on the right you can see that factory on Spitzer Road that doesn't really do much. Apparently, if you were to go passed that road closed sign and drive on the mud-filled ruts, you would end up where Brewster Creek ends and Sptizer meets up with it. </div> <div> <IMG SRC="0c690400.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="320" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0c867410.jpg" border=0 width="359" height="321" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Here's a shot of Brewster Creek Blvd. there's another huge construction area, and there's a huge pile of concrete which doesn't make sense because this whole area was just woods and mud. There shouldn't have been any concrete whatsoever!!!! Unless there was something hidden in the woods. Strange. </div> <div> So that's the whole Munger Road story. if you're ever bored and in the Bartlett area, check it out. It's worth a looking. </div> </td> </tr></table></body>