The railway bridge at Columbus

Indiana · USA · Bridge

In the 1920s a woman had a child outside marriage and could not bear what the town said about it. They found her. They never found the baby.

In the 1920s a young woman in Columbus, Indiana had a child while unmarried.

What the town said about her was more than she could carry, and she took herself and the baby to the middle of this railway bridge.

Her body was recovered. The child's was not.

That is what has kept the story alive for a hundred years, and it is also where it stops being history and becomes something else: what people now report at the bridge is not a woman but a two legged figure with yellow eyes, described as guarding the place.

The drift from a woman to a creature is common in legends about water and children, and it usually happens over generations, as the people who remembered the actual event die.

What should not be lost is the first part. An unmarried mother in a small American town in the 1920s faced consequences that are difficult to imagine now.

The bridge carries a live line.

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Wo befindet sich The railway bridge at Columbus?

The railway bridge at Columbus liegt in Indiana, USA.