Expedition Team: Dave Miller
Date: August 6, 2025
Forney is a rural road meandering and winding east and west through the township. The urban legend associated with the road is it that a young man had a fatal car accident while racing along Forney Road. Supposedly, if you stop your car on the road at the location that he died, the deceased man’s car headlights will appear and follow you until you turn off Forney Road.
My first step was to research the Dayton Daily News/Dayton Herald archives. After much searching going back to 1910, I could find no articles indicating a fatal accident along Forney Road. Giving it a grain of salt, perhaps the accident did not make the newspapers. Scanning the internet I also found nothing about a fatal car accident on Forney Road although back in May 2014 a dead body was found stuffed inside a discarded carpet and dumped along the 9000 block of Forney.
Since there was no specific starting point where the car accident occurred, to begin my investigation I drove to a logical “haunted” site along the road – the Forney Road Cemetery. The cemetery was not very large and was just off a turn in the road surrounded by many trees. Forney Road was not a very long rural road and was very tight, lined mostly with trees and gave me a very isolated feeling.
No “real” cars came by during the ten minutes that I parked by the cemetery at dusk, nor did headlights follow me down the road as I drove away. I repeated the experiment at a different part of Forney Road, and had no ghostly lights follow me. If anyone reading my post has any factual information about the alleged fatal car accident, please contact me so as to help add some legitimacy to this urban legend.
