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Baby Give Away
On a lonely road off of
Main Street in my hometown you’ll find a bridge with an unfortunate
past. A young family lived near this bridge and the husband was away
from his wife and child fighting in the war. A neighbor had always
held a candle for the young wife and when he discovered that she had
had a child and the husband had gone off to war, he became jealous
and determined to have her for his own.
He came to her house one
night and forced entry into the home. When she refused him, he
savagely attacked her and threatened to kill her child. She escaped
and ran from her property with the baby, blindly crashing through
the forest and brush seeking a hiding place from her obsessed
neighbor. Just as she realized she couldn’t hear the man chasing her
anymore, she came to the bridge and took refuge under it with the
scared baby in her arms.
The distressed child had
been whimpering in fear during her flight from the house, but now
that they had stopped the baby began to wail. The child began to cry
loudly and ended the hope of the bridge being safe refuge. The
neighbor was drawn to the baby’s cries and their position was
revealed to the man. He brutally murdered both mother and child
right there under the bridge.
Only the woman’s body was
ever recovered.
Now, if you drive down
this bridge and stop half way across, turn off your car engine and
headlights and lights and get out, you can hear the baby’s cries
that gave it's mother’s position away years ago. Beware! It’s been
said that if you go down underneath the bridge at night, you will
never be seen again! The spirit of the young mother is trying to
protect her baby even in the afterlife.
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