The Oxford Light - Oxford, Ohio

Milford Road runs straight through a rural area filled with farms and forests just east of Oxford and north of Trenton Road. For years, local residents and students at neighboring Miami University have told a tragic story about two young lovers whose ghosts appear along the road as bright burning balls of light. According to legend, a young woman once lived on Milford Road and was forbidden from seeing her boyfriend. When her father was asleep, she would drive his car down the driveway to the edge of the road, where she would flash her break lights three times. That was the signal for her boyfriend, who was hiding up the street on his motorcycle, to come over. Unfortunately, one evening a boy was peddling down the road on his bicycle and didn’t see the young man. They collided and were both killed. The young woman was so distraught that she hanged herself in the barn. Today, if you travel down this road and flash your headlights three times, bright red lights will materialize. One person describes his encounter: “Sure enough, and much to my disbelief, there it was! A single, bluish-white light seemed to actually make its way down the road. I mistook it for a car and cried out ‘Tony! Car coming! Turn your car back on, we don’t want an accident!’ Well, luckily, he knew better. This light just faded in and out from ontop of a hill, perhaps a yard away from our car, never actually coming down at us.”