The Atco Ghost

Atco is a little town in the south Jersey pinelands bordered by Wharton State Forest. So it is pretty much out in the woods. The town is famous for a few things. Atco Dragway and its famous radio commercials of the past. Sunday, Sunday, Atco Dragway!!! We also have a Famous TV celebrity and icon to kids of the 60’s. Sally Star. She had all the Delaware Vally kids watching her cartoon and variety show that was on every afternoon. Now she has a Ice Cream and Sandwich Shop on Jackson Road headed to the Dragway. A favorite take out place for most of Atco’s residents. The other thing Atco is famous or at least noted for is “The Atco Ghost“. An old story about a boy getting hit and killed by a truck on Burnt Mill Road and if you go there now at a certain time and go through a specific ritual with your headlights the ghost will appear. I have not tried it. But I have been down the road many time at night and day and have never seen anything worse than a turkey buzzard eating something dead on the side of the road. Nobody seems to know how the story got started and there are no actual records of any such events. The story did come form somewhere though and who knows. Maybe there is some truth to it. Check out our PAGES and see what you think.