The Dark Haired Woman Haunting the Road in Asturias

Like if appearing out of nowhere, a dark haired woman is said to haunt a road in Asturias. Some say she fell out of her carriage, some say she was killed by a jealous suitor. All say that she looks disoriented as if she is lost both in time and place.

Spain is a country that’s steeped in history, culture and mystery. and it’s no wonder that many of its roads are steeped in legends and lore. There is one road that has long been known as a place where ghostly apparitions have been spotted and where drivers have experienced unexplainable occurrences.

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One of the stretches of roads in Spain that gets the most complaints of being haunted is the AS-17 between Mengollo and Blimea in Asturias.

The Strange Dark Haired Woman in Asturias

The complaints that comes in on this stretch of road in Asturias is about the same thing and has been going on for centuries, and is mostly about a dark-haired woman with long hair, looking around expressionless, looking a bit disoriented who suddenly appears when she comes out from behind one of the signs and shows herself to the shocked drivers.

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Like if appearing out of nowhere, a dark haired woman is said to haunt a road in Asturias. Some say she fell out of her carriage, some say she was killed by a jealous suitor. All say that she looks disoriented as if she is lost both in time and place. — **Castle of Blimea:** The ghost on the stretch of haunted road in Asturias is often connected with the legends of the castle of Blimea and the story about Florinda, the daughter living there.

According to the legend the ghost of this girl was Florinda, the daughter of the first owner of the castle of Blimea or possibly de la Cabezada. She was said to be very beautiful and had many suitors that wanted her hand in marriage.

Only problem though, she was in love with someone else. All the same, her father promised her to the most powerful, the lord of La Buelga. He demanded to know who her secret lover was, but Florinda kept her mouth shut. Even when she was imprisoned in the tower of his castle, she would not name him. In fact, she warned him that she belonged to no one but her secret lover, and she would kill herself if she couldn’t have him.

There are different version about how she ended up dying. Some say it was her spiteful suitor that ended up murdering her when she refused him on that stretch of road. Some say it was the secret lover, a servant in the castle that stabbed her to death as she wished when she was forced to marry the lord. He then proceeded to stab himself with the same dagger, that still was dripping with her blood.

The tragic tale of Florinda has been changed, merged and forgotten by many over the years. But the strange thing about the dark haired woman that suddenly appears on the road have often been connected with her.

The Women Missing from the Carriage

Another speculation about who this ghost on the road in Asturias is comes from the version of the legend where Florinda was a girl that returned to her family in the 11th century after taking her first communion when she fell from the carriage and died.

People think that when they were passing through Valparaiso, a now abandoned city a pack of wolves as well as snakes scared the horse so it ran off with the parents still inside.

When they finally made their way back, the daughter was missing and was never found. What happened with her was a thing of mysteries. Did she die? Did she go into the wild to become feral only to come back as the scary ghost of a dark haired woman suddenly appearing on the road?