One of the more famous street names in New Jersey roadside culture, this road runs along an old haunted lake bed which occasionally has pillars of mist rising from the top of the water. I think it was a legend about the early settlers killing the Indians and throwing them into the lake. This phenomena is also called The Great Meadows Fog.
Some people claim to see the dead walking along the road in the mist.
The road was also the site of many deaths once thought to be a curse on the area. That's why they greased up the pole. I have a couple of stories about Shades of Death. The first one is when I was up there with a couple of friends one night we were all sitting at Ghost Lake. When this car filled with kids drove by, they had flashlights and at first they looked like they were just shining them on us, to try and freak us out.