Danbury, Connecticut
I live in Bethel Connecticut and when I was growing up, me and my friends would get bored and tried to think of some things to do. Danbury Connecticut is very boring for kids, at least it was back in 1988-89. Well I heard from a friend about this tree that looked like Jesus. On this road called "Joe's Hill Road" in Danbury Connecticut.
Well we hopped into a car. Me and my friend Lenny his girl friend and another friend. We enter the road and everyone was telling stories of the cars that had stalled out near the tree and the haunting of a lake where some girl had died. But all I wanted to do was see this tree. I pictured it being this skinny small tree, but it was much more then that. As we drove up the road I could believe the darkness that suddenly came over everything. I mean I have seen dark before, but as we turn off the lights on the car, I couldn't even see before my hand. Soon the road changed from your average Danbury road to a creep long straight away with strangely warped trees.
We drove on and I felt like I had left Danbury and was suddenly in the twilight zone. We drove pass the lake and my body was telling me that I sould be where I was. Then we drove pass a golf course with Gargogle stautes. All the time I was thinking that I never saw a road so creepy and we didn't even get up to the tree yet. Then we passed a Convent and then I saw the tree. I felt real scared at that moment. Here was this tree without any leaves but still alive and about six feet in diameter, it looked like Jesus on the cross. Arms out (and both branches looked like real arms, they where the same size as each other.) And there was his head to the side like he is seen on our crosses.
Everyone got out and walk over to the tree, and I felt a presence all around us. I looked at it for a moment then headed back to the car. I got in the car and waited. After about five minutes I saw everyone else running for the car like they were being chased. They got in and said that something was not right about that tree and lets get out of here. I started my car and suddenly the radio switched to the religios channel (which always faded in and out up there. We would start losing one channel as we drove up the road.) and a man came on a said "God under stands he feels your tears." I it the gas and jetted down the road, and went in a direction that at the time I had no clue where it was going.Then my car stalled, but it did start up and we made it home.
Anyway the town did cut down the tree, because too many weird things were happening. It was a hang out for anyone in town that was bored. We would go up and look at the tree and get scared and leave. We did that for years and so many other people did the same thing. Then in 1989 two local kids murder a Danbury Mall worker after he had stopped to see if they were ok, they shot him with a shot gun and robbed him of four dollars. They got caught and a year after that happen the town cut the tree down. Joe's Hill road is haunted even the warrens have said so. Tonight I was up in that area coming back from listening to Jazz at a Resturant and my friend asked if I knew a short cut home. I told him to take a left and we went down the back side of Joe's Hill road. He has never heard of the Jesus tree and right when we got near the area he said he was getting chills and that he didn't like the area. I told him the story and he high tailed it out of there.
Well anyway Joe's Hill Road is haunted in my book. Maybe you can check it out and find out why it is haunted or why it's called Joe's Hill road anyway. Just wanted to share some new modern day folk lore with you. Joe's hill road is in Danbury Connecticut near the border of Brewster New York. Racerx out