Personal Thoughts On U.S. Highway 666, Part 2

As far as I can tell, the stories of the spirits of Navajo Skinwalkers suddenly appearing  in the back seat of someone's car or shapeshifting into an animal and appearing in front of someone's car seem to be total fabrications. The stories about "Satan's Sedan" also seem to be made up, but I am only saying this because I have never found any evidence of incidents like this actually occurring. If similar incidents actually did happen, they could have been "mythified" into a bigger story. One thing that I know about myths is that there is nearly always some core of truth to them and then the story was expanded upon and embellished by subsequent tellings and retellings of the story. 
  There was alot of hysteria about the highway because of its nefarious number. That is actually the main reason why Arizona renumbered its portion of the highway in 1992. The reasons for the renumbering have always been the fact that the "666" signs kept getting stolen and also because the highway's number did not fit the pattern because north-south routes are supposed to end with an odd number. Fact is, the Arizona Highway Department was being flooded with requests to renumber the highway because people were afraid of the number 666. That is the real reason why it was renumbered as U.S. Highway 191.
New Mexico, Colorado and Utah did not renumber their portion of the highway until 2003. It was also done because of the uneasiness people had with the number and these states have actually admitted that it was renumbered to destigmatize the road. The Governor of New Mexico was instrumental in getting Colorado and Utah to agree to renumber the remaining portion of the highway.