Crybaby Bridge

Yeah, it is.

A lot of it is, and it's everything from the stories, of course, not just Gorfinch, but places like the Crybaby Bridge legend, some of the old haunted cemeteries.

They make up a story about a really spooky-looking... burial site a gravestone and then it's either someone who had murdered somebody and they're buried there for that reason or or this is the other one it's a witch's grave and unfortunately many times when a tombstone or monument get designated as a witch's grave its days are numbered because out come the fanatics out come the people who gotta go and they gotta see the witch in the middle of the night or the ghost of the witch and then they break out the can of spray paint or they start knocking pieces off or something like that and then it's before you know it it's gone it's uh it's an unfortunate thing that happens uh but yeah stories change over time uh and they evolve they're almost like a living breathing entity these these legends uh The crybaby bridge legend, for any of your listeners who aren't familiar, again, the story says that way back when, a mother has a child on a wedlock and she hides the pregnancy and hides the birth.

And then after giving birth to the child alive, steals away in the middle of the night with the baby wrapped in a blanket and goes down to the local river, down to a bridge that crosses the river.

She casts the baby off into the raging waters.

And then they say if you go there at night, you could hear the baby crying.

Again, an urban legend mostly made up about a very spooky-looking bridge.

But in most cases, almost every case of the crybaby bridges that I've researched, that never happened.

and uh there's a like a kitchen thing down behind it like that they used to uh entertain like kids and things that was haunted to the guy that uh worked there he was a chef or something he died and they'd still see him in there after there's a lot of haunted stuff in gallenberg and severe bull and pigeon forage that whole area up there

now um We've all heard of crybaby bridges.

Yeah, those

are everywhere.

I think I have, yeah

... called Cry- Crybaby Bridge.

No, I have not.

[laughs]

But the escaped mental patient angle rests on a misunderstanding of what the building actually was.

Then there's Governor Bridge, a.k.a. Crybaby Bridge.

This is a single lane bridge over the Potexant River near Bowie and Davidsonville line.

It's a classic legend tripping place to go.

I would love to hear it.

Maybe you drove out down Fletchertown Road.

Maybe you sat on Crybaby Bridge with your lights off.

Maybe your older brother swore he saw something.

I, I, I've got some I don't know what, so I can take it next time, so.

[laughs] I'm gonna note that earlier in this you said you were not the sort of person who was gonna go poke the, the ghost to try to get them riled up, and I have read books of yours about you going to Crybaby Bridges and walking out in the middle of the road-

Well, he's not poking it

... at the right time of night, you know.

Now they were at Strickfield Junior High.

As much as they had tried, they just couldn't forget the horror they had experienced on the Crybaby Bridge on Indian Hollow Road.

It was just supposed to be an urban legend.

Brian and his older brother Kenny made plans to scare Horton and Chapman by making it seem like the legend of the Crybaby Bridge was real.

Kenny had even gone so far as to mount a speaker at the bridge to amplify the sounds of a little baby crying.

The joke had worked, and Horton and Chapman were both scared.

Kenny revealed the speaker before he took it down and went home.

But what the three boys were about to find out was that the legend of the crybaby bridge was indeed true.