Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2017 13:47:03 GMT
Maryland's Crybaby Bridge
Crybaby Bridge has now turned into an American urban legend that is told in Maryland and various other states, including South Carolina and Oklahoma. The Crybaby Bridge in Maryland is a one-lane bridge in Prince George's County and is said to be in one of the same areas where the goatman has been spotted. The bridge crosses over a branch of the Patuxent River...the same river that reportedly served as a watery grave for an innocent baby back in the 1950s.
The reason this bridge is referred to commonly as "Crybaby Bridge" is because the cry of this dead baby has been heard by locals on various nights, while crossing the creepy, rusty one-lane bridge. There are different theories as to how the baby was drowned in the Patuxent, including a story about a young mother who was running out to the road to meet her husband who was driving home after being gone for months. The young mother was tragically struck by her husband's car, as he did not see her in the fog that was covering the bridge that night. She dropped the baby and it fell into the waters below...crying. Other stories just say that the mother purposely threw the baby over, as she was too young and did not want to deal with the struggles of raising a child. One recent theory I found on a haunted places website stated that the area was thickly inhabited by the KKK back in the early 20th century and supposedly these vicious men would throw little African American babies off the side of the bridge to drown and kill them.
Whatever the horrible theory, I can attest to hearing this baby's (or babies') cries. When I was thirteen years old, my Aunt told my cousins and I the sad and scary story of Crybaby Bridge and we laughed it off...just thinking that she was trying to scare us. To prove the story, my Aunt took us down to the bridge in the middle of the night and parked. She turned off the headlights and killed the engine, totally. My cousins and I were frightened, being silly thirteen year old girls but we did not think in a million years that we would actually hear the horrifying wail of a newborn...just outside the truck's windows. It seemed to be coming from underneath the vehicle...under the bridge. My Aunt even seemed terrified herself, and we ended up quickly turning around and driving home...the four of us literally shaking and barely saying a word.
Maybe it is not actually a ghost baby crying in the waters below Crybaby Bridge...maybe it is some sort of wind tunnel that gives the illusional sound of a crying baby...maybe there is some scientific explanation to the creepy wailing that can be heard at Crybaby Bridge. Or maybe there isn't a logical reason...we will probably never know.
The goatman and Crybaby Bridge are recorded in many Maryland Urban Legend books and many videos can be found on youtube describing different witnesses' accounts of these legends. You can watch a couple of these videos below.
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