Over the past 10 years or so, I have heard many accounts from several different people that this road can seriously give you the willies.
It runs close to Joe Pool Lake, where Mansfield, Grand Prairie, & I believe Cedar Hill come together.
I once had these 2 roommates that would not shut up about a pee-your-pants-with-fear "Confederate Graveyard" that was supposedly located out on this road.
They said it was one of those places where the only way to get directions was to ride along with someone who already knew how to get there.
They kept threatening to take Orchid & I there, but they never really did.
Whenever we'd ask directions, they'd say they couldn't remember, or somesuch.
Incidentally, I worked with at least 2 people who claimed to have been there, but again, they just couldn't seem to remember how to get there.
At any rate, anyone who has anything to say about it agree that it's terrifying.
Orchid & I have been out that way several times looking, and we haven't found it yet.
Apparently, there's a story about a jogger who was the victim of a hit and run.
Now, this adds fuel to one of our experiences along that stretch of road.
It was a couple years ago...maybe 3, that we were on a nighttime drive in search of the "Confederate Graveyard" we'd heard referred to so many times as "Hanger's Low" .
We were having a really hard time finding it (using a 10 year old Mapsco)!
We finally just decided to pack it up & head back home.
On our way up to make a U-turn, we pass this guy running.
Now, autumn in Tx is really nothing to write home to your mom about, but it was chilly enough to need a jacket.
This guy was wearing a tshirt & shorts.
Oh, well, maybe he works up quite a sweat.
Anyhow, we made a U-ey, and the guy is long gone.
"Too bad," we joke. "We could've asked if he knew where the cemetery is. **guffaw*chortle* kersnicker**"
We didn't find it odd at the time.
When we got back home, I make with the Google to see if we were even on the right track.
It was out of desperation, because it was a pretty fruitless search thus far
(You try Googling 'Hanger's Low'. Try it. See what you get!).
This was when I happened upon the story about the jogger.
Now, I don't think that we saw him.
I'll even go so far as to say that I don't think the incident ever really occurred there.
I've lived in DFW all my life, and spent about half that time in the S. Arlington/Mansfield vicinity, and I'd never heard anything about it...but then, maybe my memory's just bad.
I plan to head out that way here in the next couple of weeks to look again.
Who else knows about this place?
Fess up.
Subject: Hangar Lowe Rd. - TX 
Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:31 am
