My two favorites from this town were of Hank Williams, who played the opening of a hardware store in town, according to the plaque that accompanied the mural. I also learned on the spot that Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations was from Union Springs. While taking photos, someone emerged from my destination, funny enough.

I became a spooky traveler not through some childhood fascination with ghosts or a late-night horror binge, but through an uneasy encounter at a roadside motel in Pennsylvania.