Noodle
Muffin presents ...
White-Crosses.Com
(AKA TragicHighways.com)
Anyone who has traveled
America's vast interstate highway system has almost certainly seen them:
The ominous White Crosses that pepper the desolate roadways. Being a
well-traveled musician from
the Indie band Noodle Muffin, I
frequently encountered these road memorials during long treks across the
Western U.S. badlands. After a while, they became a morbid obsession
for me. I now have a sixth sense for locating these white crosses ... hiding among the desert shrubs,
lurking around treacherous bends, decorating empty stretches of road ... Each
monument evokes a slew of unanswered questions: How did the accident happen? Who were the victims?
Why do their families and friends decorate and maintain these crosses?
That's what drives me to catalog these roadside memorials:
the lonely mystery of the accident and the sad beauty of the monuments. So,
armed with a digital camera, I document the White Crosses I
encounter. On this website, you can explore dozens of road
memorials. I've put as much information as I can deduce from the
monuments, along with half-crocked, analyses of what might have happened (but
probably didn't). There are even a few cases where the riddle has been solved, thanks to Internet searches
and diligent visitors.
So, pull up a chair, grab a brew, and prepare to journey down the tragic
highways of America. Oh, and for a soundtrack to your morbid journey, be
sure to download some cool,
free MP3's from my band
Noodle
Muffin's website and
MySpace page. Enjoy!
- Major Noize, Noodle Muffin
Well, I've finally gotten off my lazy ass and added a few more white crosses to this website. This time, you'll discover a couple of cool ones from the ever deadly Hwy 395, a monument just outside Vegas, and an update to one of my favorite "white crosses", Ned's Star of David. Special thanks to those visitors who wrote questioning whether I'd become a white cross myself!
Thanks to "Nerdy Net Sleuth" Valerie, several of these White
Cross mysteries have been solved! I've updated the corresponding
pages and labeled them as
"Solved by Val". |
Major Noize's Analysis of the White Crosses Phenomenon
Liquor is Quicker |
A Touch of Class |
Dad |
Asleep at The Wheel |
Lost in the Wind |
Someone's Wife |
Tree of Death 1 |
Thanks for the Memories |
A View to a Kill |
Prom Night in Hell |
Momma's Boy |
God Bless You |
Over the Edge |
Grandpa Can't Drive |
Smells Like Teen Spirit |
Manzanar Memories |
Friday the 13th |
Roadside Rest-in-Peace |
Independence Day |
Death Valley Days |
Double Trouble |
I Think I Can't |
Checkmate in Bishop |
Queen of Hearts |
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SUBMISSIONS: Are you a sick bastard who cruises the lonely highways of America? Do you have any information on these accidents? If so, send us your digital pixs with info and commentary, and we'll put them up! E-mail us at noodlemuffin@white-crosses.com And if you want to join the legends of people who have sent us Hate Mail over the years, please try to be creative and original. A simple "Fuck you" just doesn't do it anymore... |
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Photos and website content may not be reproduced without explicit consent.
Any comments about the victims and causes of these accidents are pure speculation and should not be taken as fact.