Post by spekter on Jul 19, 2008 23:26:32 GMT -5
I have known about the Unusual Kentucky site for quite some time now and I would like to suggest a place of interest.
Hanging Bridge in Berea, Kentucky, a few miles away from Airport Road, is a genuinely creepy place, especially at around dusk and night.
I've been there myself, on multiple occasions, during the night and day. In the daytime, you don't usually encounter much. The only thing I have experienced during daylight hours are rather odd noises, like footsteps, on the bridge itself, when the air is mostly still, and traffic is nil. The two things that will make your skin crawl during the day, however, are not near Hanging Bridge, but a few miles before it in the forms of two old, abandoned houses.
However, this place tends to get a little more active when daylight expires.
The first time I ever went to Hanging Bridge, I remember seeing a strange, blue light in the woods behind my friend's truck. I did a double take to make sure that there wasn't some far-off man-made light source causing this, and there was not.
I returned again the next night with another friend and had a more intense experience. My friend in the passenger seat remarked that he was seeing a flickering green light on the bridge itself, to the left of our vehicle, about a few minutes after we pulled into the parking spot, rolled the windows up, and switched off the lights. I myself got a brief glimpse of what he was talking about and I can recalling a green-yellow light floating above the guard rail, flickering like a flame.
It wasn't much longer after that he remarked that the light was getting closer to our car. Then my friend began to become seriously frightened, claiming that he had seen a faint, white silhouette move quickly by the passenger-side door to the front of the car. Personally, while I did not see a figure near the front of the car after my friend had seen what he claims to see, I had begun to hear footsteps around the time after he had claimed to see his "ghost" and those sounds stopping at my driver's side door. I can recall the air being very thick from the moment my friend had seen the green light on the bridge.
We left soon after I had heard the footsteps on the driver's side of our car.
I have heard many stories and other encounters of Hanging Bridge as well. Another friend of mine who has visited here many more times than I have has seen a man hanging by rope from a tree on top of the hill directly in front of the Bridge parking space, as well as a man walking around where the tree line becomes somewhat more thicker and crowded. He has also told us that him and his cousin have seen a man at the end of the bridge who will watch you, sometimes holding a lantern (could he have been the ghost my friend had seen in the car that night?). In addition to the odd sounds I had once heard during the day, you can hear sounds of a something being dropped off the side of the bridge by a rope and the rope tightening.
Even if the experiences of my friends and myself have simple explanations, I do believe a visit to this place is well worth your while. Even before you get to the bridge, the roads that take you there have an eerie, creepy feeling. And the old abandoned houses only amplify that. In addition, there is a clearing just beyond the bridge that sometimes becomes choked with an eerie fog during a full moon.
Directions to this place are simple. Take Peggy Flats Road off of I-75 exit 77. From Peggy Flats, go about 7 miles and make a right on Madison Airport Road. On that road, make another right at the stop sign at the airport itself. Take this road to the end and make a left. You will also take this road to the end and then make another right when you reach the stop sign. The bridge will be just after a curve.
Hanging Bridge in Berea, Kentucky, a few miles away from Airport Road, is a genuinely creepy place, especially at around dusk and night.
I've been there myself, on multiple occasions, during the night and day. In the daytime, you don't usually encounter much. The only thing I have experienced during daylight hours are rather odd noises, like footsteps, on the bridge itself, when the air is mostly still, and traffic is nil. The two things that will make your skin crawl during the day, however, are not near Hanging Bridge, but a few miles before it in the forms of two old, abandoned houses.
However, this place tends to get a little more active when daylight expires.
The first time I ever went to Hanging Bridge, I remember seeing a strange, blue light in the woods behind my friend's truck. I did a double take to make sure that there wasn't some far-off man-made light source causing this, and there was not.
I returned again the next night with another friend and had a more intense experience. My friend in the passenger seat remarked that he was seeing a flickering green light on the bridge itself, to the left of our vehicle, about a few minutes after we pulled into the parking spot, rolled the windows up, and switched off the lights. I myself got a brief glimpse of what he was talking about and I can recalling a green-yellow light floating above the guard rail, flickering like a flame.
It wasn't much longer after that he remarked that the light was getting closer to our car. Then my friend began to become seriously frightened, claiming that he had seen a faint, white silhouette move quickly by the passenger-side door to the front of the car. Personally, while I did not see a figure near the front of the car after my friend had seen what he claims to see, I had begun to hear footsteps around the time after he had claimed to see his "ghost" and those sounds stopping at my driver's side door. I can recall the air being very thick from the moment my friend had seen the green light on the bridge.
We left soon after I had heard the footsteps on the driver's side of our car.
I have heard many stories and other encounters of Hanging Bridge as well. Another friend of mine who has visited here many more times than I have has seen a man hanging by rope from a tree on top of the hill directly in front of the Bridge parking space, as well as a man walking around where the tree line becomes somewhat more thicker and crowded. He has also told us that him and his cousin have seen a man at the end of the bridge who will watch you, sometimes holding a lantern (could he have been the ghost my friend had seen in the car that night?). In addition to the odd sounds I had once heard during the day, you can hear sounds of a something being dropped off the side of the bridge by a rope and the rope tightening.
Even if the experiences of my friends and myself have simple explanations, I do believe a visit to this place is well worth your while. Even before you get to the bridge, the roads that take you there have an eerie, creepy feeling. And the old abandoned houses only amplify that. In addition, there is a clearing just beyond the bridge that sometimes becomes choked with an eerie fog during a full moon.
Directions to this place are simple. Take Peggy Flats Road off of I-75 exit 77. From Peggy Flats, go about 7 miles and make a right on Madison Airport Road. On that road, make another right at the stop sign at the airport itself. Take this road to the end and make a left. You will also take this road to the end and then make another right when you reach the stop sign. The bridge will be just after a curve.
