The Ghost of Matthews Town Bridge

There is a covered bridge located in a small Indiana town called Matthews. The legend surrounding this bridge is that a man hung himself from one of the rafters. If you drive onto the bridge, turn your headlights off and wait, you can see his feet swing down and begin to jerk, as if he were in the final stages of this painful death. We drove onto the bridge, headlights out and waited. Nothing. We drove the length of the bridge and turned around in someone's driveway. On our way back through the bridge, I turned to speak to my friend sitting in the back of the car, that's when we, the driver and myself, saw it. A pair of legs were hanging down from the back rafters!! Needless to say, we gunned it out of there. We have gone back several times and experienced different phenomena, dimming headlights and streetlights. We even WALKED this bridge and saw the legs, not to mention heard footsteps behind us in the pitch blackness. Upon consulting with other "ghost hunters" I have discovered that others have experienced the same thing, however, no one else has gotten out and walked the length of the bridge like we did.

Submitted by The Almighty Smurl


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