Tit is for those who often wonder if some of the things they have experienced can ever be explained. Almost everyone has heard the story about the “Cry baby Bridge”, heck, almost every state, and some cities have one. This is the story of the one that happened in my hometown. The location will not be disclosed to protect the privacy of people living in the area. It is said that a youthful unmarried woman gave birth to her lover's child, and when she presented it to him, he rejected them both, wanting nothing more to do with mother and child. For the distraught youthful lady who was unable to turn to her family for assist, it was a moment when giving birth to a child out of wedlock was considered shameful. So she decided to jump off the bridge with her baby, it supposedly drowned and they were never seen again. They say that if you are on the bridge on moonless nights, you can hear the baby crying and see the mother as a white featherlight walking along the river bank looking for her baby.
I decided to investigate this story and see or hear for myself whether it was a real haunting or just another urban legend. My friend and I arrived at the bridge around 11 p.m., sat and listened to the wind and river, nothing at first, then we heard what sounded like a baby crying. We also saw what appeared to be a white featherlight moving up the shoreline and then disappearing almost at the same time as the baby stopped crying. We did some more research and found the causes of both the featherlight and the crying. The crying was the sound of peacocks coming from nearby residents, and the featherlight was the reflection of headlights off a piece of metal near the river bank from a car(s) driving on a nearby road. It would seem that the lights of oncoming cars would disturb the peacocks, causing them to scream, which would sound almost like a baby crying on the bridge. Once the car(s) had passed, the peacocks became noiseless and the white featherlight disappeared.
