Tug Hill Annie is a local legend from Lewis County, NY, concerning the spirit of Anna Joan Machowski, who died in a tragic car crash on Sears Pond Road in 1954. She is described as a headless ghost, or a pale, ghostly woman, who appears along Sears Pond Road and State Route 177. Sightings include seeing a headless apparition and hearing a ghostly car or a repetitious clinking sound. The real woman was Anna Joan Machowski, born in 1917. In 1954, while going to get wine, she was decapitated in a car crash on Sears Pond Road. Not long after her death, people began reporting a headless apparition along Sears Pond Road and State Route 177. She is sometimes seen as a pale, ghostly woman, also described as calling out, or a headless spirit. Other reported phenomena include hearing a repetitious clinking of metal or the sound of an old car driving down the road.