The Haunted Bridge

Alabama · USA · Bridge

A couple with a farmhouse near Gadsden quarrelled. She left with the baby. He took the carriage out to look for them.

The Haunted Bridge is the best known legend in Gadsden, Alabama.

A couple lived in a farmhouse near the town. They quarrelled badly, and the woman finally left, taking her baby with her.

Regretting it, the man took the carriage out to search for his wife and child.

What is said to have happened when he found them is told several ways, none of them documented and none of them repeated here.

What people report at the bridge is a woman with a child.

Alabama has a considerable number of bridge legends and they share a structure: a woman, an infant, water, and a man. It is not difficult to see what the recurring elements are, or why the stories were told and retold in communities where none of it was unthinkable.

The bridge is on a public road.

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The Haunted Bridge liegt in Alabama, USA.