Have you ever heard of the Parkway Phantom of Exit 82? If you drive on the Garden State Parkway, you may want to learn more about it.

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Maybe you live, work, or travel near Toms River, and if you do, you should know you may be traveling in an area that could lead to an eerie encounter.

The Parkway Phantom Of Exit 82

I just learned about the Parkway Phantom of Exit 82, and some stories about it are spine-tingling.

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I read an interesting article about it at Weird NJ, and it made me stop in my tracks because I use Exit 82 all the time.

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There are stories that if you travel at night on the Parkway in a stretch of road near Exit 82, you may see a man in a long coat with a belt at the waist waving his arms.

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If you have, some people say you may have had an encounter with the Parkway Phantom of Exit 82 and didn't even realize it.

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The article even includes readers telling their stories about their encounter with the strange phantom.

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According to an old article at Patch about the Parkway Phantom, there have been reports of ghost sightings in the area since the mid-1950s, around the time of the completion of the Garden State Parkway.

Believe it if you choose, but one thing is for sure. Remember the story next time you're on the Garden State Parkway in Toms River near Route 37.

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