We take a look at Australia's most haunted roads

There are countless roads in Australia that lead to places of compelling beauty and inexorable splendour. But there are also a handful of roads that lead to… well, darkness, foreboding and possible abduction. Read at your own risk…

You'll find this infamous stretch of road north of Newcastle in New South Wales and motorists have reported seeing very strange things in the woods…

Legend has it that if you blast along the stretch of road you may have a supernatural experience with various lights and other unexplainable phenomena occurring. Of course, if you blast along any stretch of road you'll see lights (and hear sirens) when the cops pull you over, but Lemon Tree Passage Road is a known spook zone.

Reports of ghost sightings through the woods in the suburb of Lemon Tree Passage are numerous but the story behind the haunted road is shrouded in mystery. It's said that sometimes piercing lights appear from nowhere (wreaking havoc for motorists) after a motorcyclist was hit and killed at the nearby intersection. Sceptics reckon it's just other vehicles approaching at speed.

Whatever the case, the mystery surrounding Lemon Tree Passage Road was so compelling that a movie was made about it in 2014.

Australia's own Area 51, Woomera is located in the dusty Australian outback more than 400km north of Adelaide. If you follow the Olympic Dam Highway north of the small township of Woomera Village – which has a population of just 150 people – you will almost certainly see a UFO.

While a UFO doesn't instantly mean aliens, the concept of an unidentified flying object or UFO has resulted in multiple sightings of glowing orbs in the area that exhibited impossible feats of acceleration and movement. These have been recorded from the early 1950s up until today.

Like Area 51 in Nevada, Woomera is in the middle of nowhere… and it's home to a large military base, part of the RAAF Woomera Range Complex. The aerospace and former propulsion and rocket testing facility covers a whopping 122,000 square kilometres and is owned and run by the Australian Defence Force.

Even the Australian Government's Department of Defence has a story on its website about UFOs. Say no more!

In the magical Blue Mountains west of Sydney is Mt Victoria Pass where the Lady in Black has been seen countless times as the sun dips low.

While there's plenty of ladies who wear black in the area – activewear is popular you know? – this Lady in Black is different: she died in the 19th century. Legend has it that the ghost of Caroline Collits still haunts the bridge at Mt Victoria Pass on the Great Western Highway after she was murdered beside the road in 1842.

According to urban legend, horses would become skittish when they approached the bridge and even spookier still are reports that the Lady in Black has been spotted clutching on the back of cars with some vehicles in the area inexplicably veering off the road.

The myth of the Black Lady gained such notoriety it was even written about by legendary 19th century Aussie poet Henry Lawson.

Fondly referred to as 'Anti-Gravity Hill', Straws Lane in the provincial Victorian town of Woodend has the curious effect of making your car roll uphill. Rumour has it this bizarre road, located roughly 75 kilometres north of Melbourne, is how you get to the Aussie version of Hogwarts.

This peculiar road creates the visual effect that appears to make your car roll uphill if you slot it into neutral, hence the anti-gravity name, but it's unlikely a rift in the space-time continuum has genuinely occurred here, prised open by the mystical forces of ultra-spooky nearby Hanging Rock.

More likely is that a unique landscape combined with high winds that push the trees to a slight angle create an optical illusion. But there's only one way to find out… see you there!

In the northern Sydney suburb of Oxford Falls is a stretch of the Wakehurst Parkway that is steeped in pain and misery. It gained notoriety as a dumping ground for the dead bodies of hapless murder victims from around Sydney, with one particular case creating an urban myth.

According to reports, a ghost named Kelly has been momentarily witnessed in the back seat of cars that pass through the area. The unholy apparition allegedly shows up inside cars at the traffic light intersection between Wakehurst Parkway and the forbiddingly-named Dreadnaught Road. The story goes that if she's not asked to leave, she'll take control of the car and, well, do you in. You've been warned…

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