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This was such a great, easy and creative book. The characters were easy to fall in love with and follow, along with the story. Jun 10, Julie Donovan rated it liked it. More mystery and romance I was expecting a paranormal mystery. Still a fast and easy read. Just not my cup of tea. I did enjoy the extra story at the end, that was exactly what I wanted to read. Feb 16, Mikayla Bowlin rated it liked it. Ok This book was ok.
I'm not really into romance but like a good mystery. Well this was nothing like her other book I read Fog Bound. This just wasn't that good but at least it was short. Jun 03, Marilyn rated it really liked it. Good the story was a great way to tie the different types of lawinfocement. Jul 21, Gloria Schamis rated it liked it. I can't call it 'literature' as its nit that well written in my opinion; and the story was OK; but I still "sorta" enjoyed reading this book.
Jul 05, Candice Mckinney rated it really liked it. Enjoyable book, good characters, nice little twist at the end. Jul 28, 'becca rated it did not like it. Lame This book reads like it was written by a prepubescent 13 year old girl. Simple minded, and underdeveloped. Jun 19, Spencer Anderson rated it it was amazing.
This is the first book I have read by this author. I will be reading more of her work. I really enjoyed how things came together. Jun 07, sheri lynne sundheimer rated it really liked it. Good reading Good reading I never wanted to put this book down.
I would recommend it to anyone. Jun 18, Twyla rated it did not like it Shelves: Well that was a cold dead fish of a read. Mrs judith Plumb rated it it was amazing Jul 28, Lacey rated it it was ok Jun 10, E J Rutherford rated it liked it Aug 10, Libby rated it it was amazing Mar 16, Karen rated it liked it Oct 16, Bonnie rated it it was ok May 01, Caroline rated it really liked it Oct 05, Debbie Houston rated it it was amazing Nov 17, Carol S Mirany rated it really liked it Apr 19, Mia rated it really liked it Jun 20, Leslie rated it it was ok Nov 23, The legend says that a car carrying a man and a woman stalled on top of the bridge.
The man got out to get help while the girl stayed. When the man returned, the girl was hanging on the bridge above the tracks.
The man then supposedly perished with unexplained causes. To this day, many people have reported hearing the ghosts' conversations, then a woman's scream followed by a man's scream. A second story is that a woman was being chased down the road and when she got to the bridge she did not know the area and thought that there was a river underneath, so she jumped over the bridge and when she saw the train tracks screamed all the way down to her death.
They say that to this day on certain nights you can still hear her screaming. Another popular and typical Crybaby Bridge story says that a woman once threw her baby off the bridge and hanged herself afterwards.
The bridge is property of the Rogue's Hollow historical society , which also owns the adjacent Chidester Mill. The cry of the baby is said to be heard at night. The story of Cry Baby Creek tells of a young mother who loses her baby in the slow moving waters after a late night accident on the bridge. The witnesses of these events range from young teenagers to elderly men and women. It is about feet long and about 17 feet wide. In Oklahoma City at Lake Overholser, the metal bridge by Route 66 is known for sightings of a woman in all white with a baby on the bridge or on the side.
Legends attribute the crying baby to one that fell in and accidentally drowned. There is also a rumor that there is a cult of some sort in the woods surrounding the bridge. In , there was a murder of an elderly woman that was found, strangled to death and burned just off the bridge.
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This crybaby bridge is in the area of the melon heads. A large section of the road is permanently closed; the bridge lies just before the south end of the closed section.
The bridge as well as the melon head homestead is torn down now, as of in an attempt to keep the melon heads from leaving the area. The ancient sandstone bridge abutments still remain and local residents report the howling has only become louder in recent years. In Alderson , near McAlester , the bridge is located at the end of Alderson Road and has been known to legends of a woman who was raped by her father several times and would throw her unwanted infants off the bridge.
Local residents have reported sounds of babies crying underneath the bridge late at night and the appearance of a glowing woman floating over the rocky bed of North Boggy Creek. In Moore , approximately 2 miles east of Sooner Rd. Legend of a woman and infant in their vehicle falling through the wood of the bridge during late-night hours, a few days later the vehicle and remains were discovered by law enforcement patrolling the area. The bridge was never repaired and the road was deemed unsafe and was closed off to vehicles. The cry of the baby is said to be heard at night. Between Moore and Norman , on S.
Douglas Blvd just south of th Street is a wooden bridge. It is at least as old as the school house sitting next to it. Strange moving objects have been reported there late at night. In Kellyville , approximately 1. There is a local legend about a woman and her infant child driving down the road trying to escape her husband, only for the woman's car to run off the bridge.
Legend has it that the baby was never found, and that if the bridge is visited at midnight the baby's cry can be heard and sometimes accompanied by a strange blue light. In Oklahoma City at Lake Overholser, the metal bridge by Route 66 is known for sightings of a woman in all white with a baby on the bridge or on the side. At night her shadow allegedly appears if cars turn their lights off, and, additionally, walkers on the bridge have also allegedly reported feeling her presence and hearing a baby cry.
Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. It is in or near the areas where the legendary goatman has reported to have been seen. There is another on Governor's Bridge Road, in Bowie. This bridge is a lateth- to earlyth-century steel truss bridge; legend states that a woman and her baby were murdered in the s.
It is also said that in the early 20th century, a young woman was impregnated, but not married. In order to avoid judgment by family and peers, she drowned her baby in the river. Purportedly, if one parks one's car at or near this bridge, a baby can be heard crying; sometimes a ghost car will creep up from behind, but disappear when the driver or passenger turns around to see it.
The locations mentioned are the Governor's Bridge Road bridge discussed above, one on Lottsford Vista Road and a third unspecified, but possibly described the Lottsford Vista Road bridge as well. The latter narratives make mention of purported Satanic churches near the bridge and appearance of the Goatman. The local legends attributed to this particular bridge range from a young woman who became pregnant and was afraid to tell her family to the location being used by the KKK to drown black babies in the s.
Many travelers mistakenly refer to this bridge as the "Smyrna Crybaby Bridge", due to its proximity to Smyrna, Delaware. The bridge in South Carolina was built in Virginia in , brought to Charleston, South Carolina to connect two counties together. In it was brought to Anderson, South Carolina. It is about feet long and about 17 feet wide. Shortly later locals called it Cry Baby Bridge. An old Grist mill sat below the bridge along the Rocky River in , and ran until about s. In an electrical plant was built there by W. One of the generators from the electric mill is still on display in Anderson County.
The bridge has many changes through the times, from no bridge, to wooden bridge, to the well known Iron Railed Bridge called Cry Baby Bridge to now modern cement bridge that now runs beside Cry Baby Bridge, it still remains a part of Anderson County's history and a famous landmark. A popular destination for paranormal enthusiasts just south of Pageland, South Carolina is one of the oldest "cry baby" bridges.
Locally known as "Cry Baby Creek", the bridge spanning Flat Creek has been closed off to auto traffic since the late 50's, but is accessible by foot via a short walk through what is now a nature reserve. The story of Cry Baby Creek tells of a young mother who loses her baby in the slow moving waters after a late night accident on the bridge. Unlike the most other crybaby legends, the sounds coming from the creek are not limited to hearing a baby cry while standing on the bridge; many legends refer to witnesses actually seeing the mother search for her baby up and down the creek.