Haunted Highway to Heaven

Haunted Highway to Heaven
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI’s Esoteric Detective
Sacramento Paranormal Investigations
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There is a section of the I-80 in Wyoming that is known as the “Highway to Heaven” because of an optical illusion that it makes. On a stormy day, foggy day, or a cloudy day, the stretch of road seems to be reaching toward the sky. Some long-haul truckers refer this stretch of road as The Sisters, because of the twin hills. The Sisters are notoriously bad in the winter for snow and ice, and so they’re somewhat treacherous in the winter if we get a bad storm. No one ever says anything nice about this stretch of highway. Deanna Jaxine Stinson used to live in Wisconsin and Montana. Deanna’s father was a long-haul trucker. Deanna, her sister Abby and their father have been on the Highway to Heaven many times in their travels. Deanna being a psychic has seen many ghosts along the Highway to Heaven. Deanna has seen ghosts of the deceased lying on the pavement or wandering around aimlessly. A truck driver named Lionel remembers seeing an 18-car pile-up. Lionel has driven this road at night and the first thoughts that come into his mind, is of death. In the past decade, there have been 175 crashes and 207 fatalities. This road gets about 17 car crashes a year. Some people as they drive this road, feel depression or sadness. Most likely these people have empathic capabilities and do not know it.

Some drivers say that they feel like they are entering a portal. They will hear strange yelling and screams as they enter the highway portal. They say it usually happens at night. Besides Deanna, other drivers have seen ghostly bodies lying on the ground. Voices are heard. Louis Bihval says while he was driving his 18-wheeler up the highway, he heard soft voices by his right ear. It was a voice of a man saying “be careful”. Louis says that stretch of the highway creeps him out. Deanna’s father did not like driving on this road. It is said that the area has some of the largest wind turbines in Wyoming because of the strong, prevailing winds adds to the dangerous nature of the highway. When you go into the valley, there is no wind, then when you climb out of the valley, you are hit with strong unforgiving winds. These winds have caused many accidents. Don Meagan, an RV driver once had an accident on this road. The winds overturned his RV. While Don was pressed up into the passenger section, he was visited by a ghost. The ghost told him that his leg was broken. Don said when the ambulance arrived, the medics told him his leg was indeed broken. Special Note: This information was provided to me by Deanna’s family members that are very familiar with this treacherous road. An RV driver says: “It’s nerve-wracking to be dragging a 40-foot-long, 13-foot-high RV – even though it weighs 34,000 pounds,” he said. “One of the reasons it’s scary is because of all the semis, there’s just so many semis on that road.” The Highway to Heaven leads to Bridger Valley and there are people that find Bridger Valley heavenly.

Another interesting aspect of this highway is that some people have seen UFO/UAP activity around Bridger Valley or along the Highway to Heaven. The whole state of Wyoming appears to have UFO activity. A Thermopolis housewife saw one. A man poaching deer was certain he saw one. So did an Air Force pilot flying near Rock Springs. At the height of the flying saucer craze in the 1950s, Wyomingites saw their fair share of UFOs, and dutifully reported them to the authorities. But while most of the handful of sightings in those years were easy to explain away, a few reports in the Cowboy State still remain unexplained. Merced Gonzales while on a road trip from Utah and through the Highway to Heaven saw a cigar shaped object that seemed to follow her vehicle. At one point of time, the cigar shaped object sent down a beam of light to the ground, as if it was looking for something, or scanning the ground. Jerry Donavan was doing a cross country drive with 2 of his buddies and they were playing songs like: “Sweet Hitchhiker by Creedence Clearwater Revival”, “Born to be Alive by Patrick Hernandez”, “She Blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby”; “Time Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show”, “Them Changes by Buddy Miles”; “Hollywood Swinging by Kool and the Gang”; “Men in Black and Forget Me Nots”. Jerry and his friends were having a great time, laughing and singing along to these songs. As Jerry approached the Highway to Heaven, one of his buddies yelled out…”what the F is that in the sky??” Jerry looked, his friends looked and what they saw were 3 UFH (Unidentified Flying Humanoids). Jerry says that the sun was going down, but they could see clearly the UFHs. The UFHs seemed to have noticed them and it appeared as they were headed to their moving vehicle. Jerry sped up and felt terrified. Everyone was yelling in the car. When the sighting happened Jerry turned off the music, but as the UFHs got closer the music started up on its own and the song that was playing was “Time Warp”. After the song ended, the 3 UFHs just blinked out, as if they were never there. Jerry says he has no desire to ever drive that stretch of highway again. Jerry says that was the most scariest thing that ever happened to him and his friends. Jerry thought he was going to be abducted.

INFORMATION FOUND ON THE INTERNET
“The Battle Pass Byway is one of the most scenic drives in the Cowboy State. The 11-mile stretch of WY-70 from Encampment to Slaughterhouse Gulch may also be the most haunted road in Wyoming. Located in the Sierra Madre Range of the Medicine Bow National Forest, it was a popular area for prospecting in the late 1800s. According to local legend, the ghost of a miner killed in an underground explosion still roams the old trail at night. Shortly after the incident, a stagecoach driver along the route reported a stranger walking on the side of the road. After spooking the horses, the man vanished into thin air. Years later, several forest rangers were camped out in the area when they saw the man wandering down the road. When they approached the stranger, he disappeared.” I asked Deanna about this road, and she said it is indeed haunted, but she feels the Highway to Heaven is more haunted. Deanna has only been on this road once. Deanna says she saw two apparitions on this road.