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A previous article in this blog got me thinking about a very specific phenomenon, Cry Baby Bridges When reading about the Overtoun Bridge and the infant tragedies that occurred there, I thought back on an old term my grandmother had used to describe why she didn’t want us to cross the small walking bridge on the outskirts of the town where our cottage was located. She had said “it’s a cry baby bridge”. I never did cross the bridge, but I do know what “cry baby bridge” means. It means simply that an infant died in a tragedy at that site, and that to this day you can still hear it crying as you cross. There are over a hundred of these bridges all across America, obviously I won’t be covering the hundreds of bridges that fall under this category, but I will cover the five most haunted bridges in the US’ most haunted state, welcome to numerous bridges across Ohio….
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