EDITOR'S NOTE: What is it about bridges that fascinate us? There seem to be a lot of folktales related to bridges.
Subject: Hazleton Bridge
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:52:02 -0500
From: "jessie anderson"
My name is Jessie. I am from Bicknell, IN.
Two years ago I met a guy (who is now currently my fiancé ). Anyway, a few miles from his house down south on highway 41, past Decker, there is a bridge. It is the old bridge by Hazelton. It is shut down now, though. A car can't even get on it because of the high mound of dirt blocking the way. His grandmother owns a bait shop out by there. Well we used to go out there all of the time. I've heard two stories from that bridge. One, that there was a train wreck and the other that a guy got his head chopped off there by riding on top of a truck.
I used to not believe in ghosts and weird stuff happening until something happened out there.
It seems like the moment you step onto the bridge it's cold. No matter how warm it is outside there's still a chill in the air. My boyfriend and I have witnessed several weird phenomenons that we have tried to explain, but can't. We have seen a bright green glow of light shoot across the sky while standing on the bridge. I would like to think that it was a star, but somehow I know it wasn't.
On some nights my boyfriend and I get the urge to walk down to the metal bar where the guy died, but I doubt that we do that again, especially after last time. Last time we did that we got really scared by the time we reached that spot. In fact we all felt weird, so we did what anyone else would do, we ran! By the time we reached the car I felt a little better, but out of breath. As I started to put the car into reverse and looked at the rear view mirror I saw a red light in the mirror. I asked the person in the back seat if they had a cigarette. She said yes. But then I asked her if she had one lit. When I heard her reply we were out of there in no time. I swore that I saw the red glow of the end of a cigarette in my mirror. I really can't explain it.
One other time that I'd like to tell about is when we planned on calling the spirit. My friend from work had some really neat candles that had skull heads on the base that she planned to take with her. Well we sat on the bridge and concentrated around the lit candles. Nothing big really happened, but each of us that were there that night heard a faint heart beat. Later when we returned home, my friend from work decided to leave her candles at my place. In the morning something strange happened. I guess when my boyfriend woke up he had found blood on each eye of one skull head. He didn't tell me until later that day. He said that he had a dream about the skull heads crying and when he woke up he found the blood along with blood on his finger. His explanation for it is that he slept walked and did it. He used to sleep walk as a young boy, but it doesn't happen very often anymore.
I really can't explain any of this. If anyone who knows anything about this please let me know. I would really like for someone to tell me more about the guy who died so I can do a little more research.
Jessie
email me at: daub18@hotmail.com