Cry Baby Bridge Ghost
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Ghost story from Abbey as sent to Angels &
Ghosts!
I was in the car with my friend and her mother, and we were
just taking a ride for the heck of it. It was March in
the year 2005, and I remember that it wasn't specifically cold that day, but it
was a little misty and dark. We were
getting
bored, just riding around the neighborhood, so my friend's mother suggested we
try to test a legend about a bridge in Woodbridge, New Jersey. The legend
goes:
"Many years ago, sometime in the 19th century,
there was a farmer who lived with his pregnant wife. They lived in a nice house
next to a creek with a bridge overtop. They had a happy life, with little
disagreements. The couple
seemed to be doing well in the world, and the baby
finally arrived. They were excited for the new arrival, but after just a
few nights of listening to his wife tend to the baby, the
farmer grew insanely jealous that he wasn't getting her love. One night, when
the baby was crying very loudly, he went into the room
and grabbed the child from her crib. He made his way down to the
creek and threw the baby in, then went in and grabbed his wife and killed her,
as well. The legend says that if you drive down to that house on a foggy day and
stop on the bridge, you will hear the baby crying, then the baby and mother will
try to push your car off the bridge."
We arrived at the destination in about an
hour. We were
growing a
little bit anxious when we approached the house and bridge, but continued on for
curiosity's sake. My friend's mother is not a skiddish person, and is actually a
very good driver, so we were sure she wouldn't play a trick on us. She stopped
the car in the middle of the small bridge, and we waited. After about one
minute, we heard a faint sound coming from down the creek. It did indeed sound
like a baby's cry. We sat there with our jaws hanging, listening to the sound.
Just as we were about to step on the gas pedal, we felt a huge jolting on the
left side of the car, followed by another attempt. We immediately raced off onto
the dirt road ahead, and heard our own hearts pounding.
I will never
forget that experience, and I will never go back to that bridge.