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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melanie says: |
October 31, 2005, 2:44 pm |
i meant to say mean AS hell
Brittany says: |
October 31, 2005, 9:07 pm |
Is the plantation house still vacant ? Someone said that someone bought it and was fixing it up…I hope not..A bunch of my friends are headed there right now…(mon. nite,,halloween nite) : {
Kristy says: |
November 14, 2005, 8:32 pm |
There was suposedly a Cry Baby Bridge in Walker County, AL, but mysteriously no one can find it. The truth is, the bridge that everyone is talking about was replaced a long time ago by a cement bridge. And it was fake.
Oscar says: |
November 15, 2005, 3:54 am |
Hi, I’m doing a short film base on the Cry Baby Bridge, anyone has a suggestion on what would make a good movie using this theme?
pavan kalyan says: |
November 28, 2005, 3:21 am |
i wish i’d see that place. oscar,all the best.
sonya n julie, u 2 suck
Morgan says: |
December 11, 2005, 11:09 pm |
i’m just wondering but do you know if there is a cry baby bridge in tuscaloosa?
will says: |
December 23, 2005, 6:55 pm |
old lady midget porn with ****** and butt plugs
look jesus shagged a whale
taylor says: |
December 30, 2005, 3:17 pm |
yea so cool but
in huntsville their is a railroad tracks that at late at night you can go to a railroad .park your car get out, put power on roof and inside if you have thing that are value take them out and wait at 12:00 eactly the car well turn flip but no train what until it stoops go to the car you will see foot prints and hand prints. and some things well not be be there like keys or money ect.
Because long a go 5 kids for a gang were go to a friends house at 12:00 and got killed from the train there are more like some say it is a van full of kids coming home for a football game late at night no one knows for sure .
IF YOU DO THIS YOU MAYE NOT WASNT TO USE YOUR CAR LIKE MAYE A OLD CAR BECAUSE THEY WILL MESS IT UP
Justin says: |
January 3, 2006, 1:42 pm |
going into edge field on highway 19 you fork left and then immediatly take the next left where the prision is. you go past the prision and when u get to a stop sighn u take a left and the paved raod wil lturn into dirt and keep going down the road and you will come to the bridge
melanie says: |
January 8, 2006, 7:27 am |
ive been there. i took my grandma there for her birthday and then the baby came out and blew out all the candlez
Max says: |
January 9, 2006, 2:14 pm |
First of all, thank You for this site. This is just great and sorry my lousy grammar. I am not used to write english.
Okay.. How to make this simple as possible, because it is clear to me that SOME of you are plain idiots. I meen thouse who come here just to make *** out of them selves. Not to mention any names (DOUG, WILL, BIG D for example – hyvää matkaa hevettiin senkin kullittomat kojootin äpärät(that was finnish, something that I am too polite to translate in english)) just go away and never come back. Thank you. I shouldn’t even noticed you, but stupidnes like that shines to miles away even as far as here. Kusipäät..
It would be nice to see cry baby bridges, all of them. Even thought if they are real or not. I try to keep my mind open. Oscar, all the best for you with your project.
playabonez says: |
January 12, 2006, 8:04 am |
i talked to city officials yesterday and they are now making cry baby bridge a state landmark. at the entrance youll have the opportunity to buy 3-d glasses in the souvenoir shop. Then, once you purchase the 3-d glasses you then may proceed to the bridge where you not only dump a whole box of baby powder but also a whole box of tide laundry detergent plus a half box of pancake batter. the baby will come out of the water and up in the air and then do that dance from the movie “beetlejuice” and dance to the song “shake shake shake scenora, shake it all the time.” the event costs 34 dollars but its worth it. plus the mother of the baby gives a guest speech regarding arnold shwarzennegar and how she hates his ***.
Max says: |
January 14, 2006, 11:14 am |
Sweet..
amy says: |
January 22, 2006, 6:07 pm |
do all you really belive in this you all must be crazy i don’t belive it only if i really seen it.
Julie Bee says: |
January 28, 2006, 7:43 pm |
I havnt heard of any other crybaby bridges but on eoutside of witchita kansas that is also called theorosa’s bridge it was said a women threw her baby off a bridge but couldnt live with the quilt so drowned her self in the creek and so if you go there you will hear baby cries and if you say “Theorosa i am your baby” she will apear. i went there and took some pictures and one picture it shows up with two lights floating in the air. it was really cool.
Brittney says: |
January 29, 2006, 11:50 am |
Hey Yall!!!!
I think some of yall are plain stupid and need to get a life. Some of yalls stories are so fake you can tell by the first sentence. Like that guy that was a bodybuilder and his girlfriend being pushed off the bridge by DR DRE!!!!!!!!!!!! COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am sorry but this gurl right here is looking for a TRUE STORY!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT A FONNIE DAM STORY!!!!!!!!!!! Bye
rebecca says: |
February 1, 2006, 1:55 pm |
Cry Baby Bridge is Real!! My Aunt,sisters, and friends all went to the bridge to see if it was real. It was We heard pounding under the bridge, my aunt and I always witnessed a object that appeard to be a young boy run across the bridge and jump off. When that was all we needed to see, we tryed to crank the car, but none would. My aunt’s car cranked up, but our friend’s wouldn’t, we tryed for 10 mins ,then finally when it cranked, all things went crazy, lights, blinkers, ect. We turned around to go back to the Hwy and when passing over the bridge for the last time, we noticed a little boy, smiling, sitting indian crossed, and dissappered.
sabz says: |
February 5, 2006, 7:43 am |
i think dat bare freaky man!!! if any1 has anymre stories dats scary and freaky then tell me and we can chat….kashmirigal91@hotmail.com
Alana says: |
February 16, 2006, 10:46 am |
brittany i had 2 say this cud i cudnt stop laughin..the bodybuilder story n dre was fake he was takin the pi$$
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melanie says:
October 31, 2005, 2:43 pm
haha why dont the ppl that think its fake go suck a **** or sumthin and the ppl that want to go see it GO SEE IT! damn ppl yall are mean and hell!