Real Haunted House
Cry Baby Bridge & Kali Oka
Saraland, Alabama
By Robin Wright
Take a turn off of Kali Oka Road in Saraland, Alabama, go carefully around Dead Man’s Curve (so named for the numerous fatal car accidents) and you will be heading towards Cry Baby Bridge and the Kali Oka Plantation. The plantation may look familiar to independent film buffs as it was used as the location for the horror film “Dead Birds,” where a mix of demonology and voodoo create a horrible place to stay the night in post-Civil War Alabama. There is an eerie aura around the plantation house and the smaller house that was once the slaves’ quarters. Some have said they have seen a woman in white lighting candles in a window. Others have spotted a hulking African American man, believed to have once been a slave on the plantation, walking the Kali Oka Road. These two ghosts, it has been said, are the reason you can hear a baby cry at night on the bridge just down the road.
The woman was the mistress of the plantation house, and her husband was an abusive, cold-hearted master. The giant was a slave and the Mistress’s lover. One night, the master of the house followed his wife as she entered the slaves’ quarters just behind the plantation house. He caught them in a lovers’ embrace, pulled them apart and at knife-point, forced the slave to a tree where he was chained up. Both of his hands were cut off for daring to touch the master’s wife, and he was left to die as a warning to others. Afterwards, the mistress of the house discovered she was pregnant. According to local tradition, she delivered a baby boy in the woods and drowned him in the nearby creek, where Cry Baby Bridge crosses today. Now, they say, one can hear the baby cry as his poor, innocent body touches the cold, running water in a constant repetition of his mother’s desperate betrayal. The slave still walks the road, looking for the son he’ll never know on the mortal plane.
But there is another version of the story, too…
Some believe the Master actually showed favoritism towards his behemoth slave. After the master’s death, however, the wife was the one who tied him up to the tree because she hated him so much. Insanely jealous, she supposedly left him tied to the tree in front of the house so that she could watch as he died a slow death.
Cry Baby Bridge also has multiple legends as to why one can hear a baby cry when you cross it at night. Some say a bunch of kids were playing on the bridge when they knocked a boy into the creek, where he downed. There are a few versions that a woman and her baby had a tragic accident. In some versions, she escapes and doesn’t even try to save the baby, in others, both she and the baby die. Those who follow logic claim that the sound is actually the wind blowing across the pipes that lay beneath the bridge, but that does not explain why cars have so much trouble crossing the bridge at night. Cars will stall, lights will go haywire, and some have even reported that their cars have moved from one end of the bridge to the other without any earthly aid.
Some have tried to get physical proof of the bridge’s haunting by sprinkling baby powder on a car from bumper to bumper. Wait inside the car for a few minutes, then go out and look. Some say that you will see a toddler’s hand and footprints. Another, much more satisfying twist on this (some have suggested) is to send a passenger out to sprinkle the car with baby powder. When they get out, drive away, leaving them alone in the dark to experience the bridge for themselves for a few frightening minutes. But we would never suggest such shenanigans….
No one knows which, if any, of the stories are true. Everyone does agree, however, that there is something definitely otherworldly in this area of Alabama. The plantation house has been relatively recently purchased and renovated by a family who do not seem bothered by the ghosts that haunt Kali Oka Road.
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Jennifer says: |
October 9, 2008, 12:47 am |
I’ve lived in alabama my whole life and I’ve done all the tricks and never seen anything
Anthony says: |
October 11, 2008, 3:29 pm |
There are supposedly several haunted bridges in chilton co. ALA.One is in the refuge community and another near Montevallo near what used to be the Hayes house. I also heard of a place called double bridges but never found it.
jennie says: |
October 12, 2008, 10:04 pm |
i live not even a mile from cry baby bridge on kali oka! this is just an urban legend and does not work so dont get your hopes up on getting a fright! we have tried it over 10 times and this dosnt work!
Chris says: |
October 13, 2008, 3:28 pm |
This is very true. I have been there a couple of times with friends. The crying is very real and the footprints were faint, but could have been. Never know. Go check it out.
Buddy says: |
October 14, 2008, 6:42 pm |
First I believe in the supernatural, but I have to say that the babypowder thing can easily be explained. When you put the powder down it covers what ever it is you’re powdering it only adheres to the oil left by the many hand prints you put on your car daily, then when it is blown by the wind or jostled by movement, presto “ghost” prints. Think about how cops find fingerprints, they use powder.
anonymous says: |
October 19, 2008, 1:37 am |
Anyone in the Mobile area should definately check out the Plantation. I have seen the slave and a small child glowing in the window. This is for real! And, the family that bought the house was disturbed by it, and they moved out after they couldn’t take it anymore. I’m an eye witness to this!
David says: |
October 21, 2008, 4:36 pm |
Hey, Can someone please give me directions? I need like actual road names. I mapquested it and I am pretty sure I got it right, but I wanna make sure. Is it about two and a half hours away from Montgomery? Thanks.
Tessa says: |
October 21, 2008, 10:24 pm |
out of all the stories on here i’ve never heard the original one that i heard. okay… so it was said that a school bus of kids crossed the bridge but the bus driver was crazy and drove the bus off the bridge and all of the kids had died. And the experiences i heard was that when you get to the middle of the bridge you put your car in neutral with the baby powder all over your bumper and back window. its said that the kids will help push you safely across the bridge, just as they wish they would have made it safely across the bridge too and once you make it to the other side check your powder and you’ll see their hand prints on your car.
alyssa&steven says: |
October 23, 2008, 11:43 am |
ok, we are planing to go….
1st of all if you dont want to waste your time, dont go… and dont post comments hatein on it..
well tell you how it goes!
~is you rollin-Alyssa&Steven~
:]
La fresita says: |
October 24, 2008, 2:38 pm |
I have nered bein in that plcase bu ti hope that one day i can go see or what ever, i wish that i could go some time on hollween night!
chris says: |
October 29, 2008, 10:04 pm |
Hello my name is chris my grandmother lives down that road and it is a plante beside the bridge that lets off the pressure from the pipes at night
steven anderson says: |
October 31, 2008, 10:44 am |
if you read this your stupid
Bradney creel says: |
December 15, 2008, 12:25 pm |
But heads!
samantha says: |
December 20, 2008, 1:43 pm |
this is so damn true once i went down there by myself, and i went to ask directions does old peope told me a storie about a women who got raped by her husdband and she was left pregnant. and when she gave birth to the baby she went to the woods and drowned the baby.and now its says that u can hear baby cries.
Katie says: |
February 5, 2009, 3:01 pm |
I have been to the Plantation on Kali Oka rd in Saraland, AL. My friends and I took a picture on the front porch in front of the door. I wish I could find this picture. After taking the picture, you can see a white fog going around us, and it kinda looks like a face as well. This was so long ago, but I know I will never go back out there.
ashley jenkins and sam says: |
February 8, 2009, 12:08 pm |
i have been to crybaby tunnel before in chillicothe ohio i didnt hear anything at all i thought it was fake but when we left there was footprints an hand prints all over the car and i was freaked out. but it is reallty awesome and we mite go tonite bc its supposed to be a full moon tonite. so go an check it out. have fun and be prepared to get scared.
Lyns says: |
February 9, 2009, 12:54 pm |
okay firstly i went to cry baby holler in saraland and nothing happend i beleive its just a tale someone made up to scare to begeesus out of some one i havent done any research b ut i have lived here in alabama for all my life and truly believe its just a case of an urban legend how else would you explain justt about every state in the u,s have a cry baby holler in one town or another?
brittany says: |
April 9, 2009, 8:43 pm |
dude i live like 5 min from there and all that people say is true you can really hear the baby cryin and my aunt wnet across the bridge one night and the car just shut off and would not crank for a while finally she got it cranked and got out of there as quickly as she could. but if your brave go check it out but be careful on a friday night around 11:45pm a man at the plantation will chase you and try to get into your vehicle.
breanna says: |
May 6, 2009, 5:14 pm |
i need to know if this is real. and the directions to the bridge. please?
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Chris says:
October 8, 2008, 7:27 pm
I am a founding member of the Augusta Paranormal Association, and just last night, we went to do an investigation of CryBaby Bridge in Edgefield, SC. I swear that we got EVPs, which are Electronic Voice Phenomenon, that tell us to leave. Latern lights were also filmed in the woods moving around, and a second later, they were gone, and we also took pictures of different colored orbs moving around us. We used Dowsing rods as well, and they were moving a whole lot, especially in the hands of the females. I dont know whats out there exactly, but there is something there. We will be posting our finding on our website really soon.