Indiana's Legends and Stories of the Crybaby Bridge

The legend of the Crybaby Bridge is a popular one in the Midwest. Many of the stories seem to be centered on or around Indiana and Ohio. The stories usually have a few differences, but generally they remain the same. The basic story involves a young mother who can no longer care for her baby. She takes it to a bridge and throws it over the side, before jumping in herself. In Indiana, you'll find a few variations on the classic story.

Indiana has a small number of cry baby bridges and these stories are quite popular in the Midwest. The Crybaby Bridge in Anderson was the site of a grisly accident. Police on the scene found the parents, but never found the baby's body. People on the bridge now hear the sounds of a baby crying.

The Railroad Bridge in Columbus is also haunted. According to the legend a young woman became pregnant by a man in town, who refused to marry her. Rather than giving up the baby and risk her secret getting out, she waited until the baby was born and threw both herself and the baby off the bridge. Now there are stories about the baby cries in the middle of the night and that the ghost of the mother can be seen. There are also stories that a large creature with glowing eyes protects the bridge.

Dublin also has a similar haunted bridge, though this one is known as the Crying Woman's Bridge. The female ghost here roams around calling out for the child she killed and crying over the loss.

Redkey also has a haunted cry baby bridge. A troop of Girl Scouts were killed when their bus crashed off the side, and now manifest by crying into the night.

Podunk, near Bargersville isn't necessarily a cry baby bridge, but it does have some similarities. Locals report seeing a baby crawling across the road or hearing a baby crying and laughing near the bridge. Oddly enough no one seems to have a story as to where the baby came from.

There's no disregarding what people claim to see, feel, and experience on these bridges but considering the sheer amount of stories, you have to pause for a moment and think. Is there any way that all of these stories could be true? Maybe the story passed from town to town as people heard the ones in other areas and adapted them to their own town. It seems like we may never know.

Sources:

http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/haunted/hauntedplacesofindiana.htm

http://theshadowlands.net/places/indiana.htm