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Cry Baby Bridge & Kali Oka

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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Greg says:

February 21, 2006, 12:37 pm

Yall needa quit yalls comin on my property. That plantation yall be talking abouts my house. I’ll shoot you litle fu**ers if yall aint quit comin round here

Ryan says:

February 24, 2006, 6:58 pm

I will like to hear a baby cry i need Directions.

KYLE says:

February 27, 2006, 12:09 am

MAN I HAVE BEEN 2 CRY BABY BRIDGE ON HALLOWEEN AT NIGHT AND JUMPED IN AND I FELT SOME THING GRAB MY FOOT AND I HAVE ALSO SEEN THE 10 FOOT SLAVE DOWN THE ROAD AT THE PLANTATION AND NOCKED ON THE DOOR AND I HEARD FOOT STEPS LIKE SOME ONE WAS GONNA ANSER THE DOOR IF U GO 2 THE PLANTATION U HAVE TO TURN OF UR CAR AND ONLY U GO 2 THE DOOR AND NOCK AND U SHOULD HERE FOOT STEPS AND THERE SHOULD BE A LAMP ON IN THE UP STAIRS WINDOW

KYLE says:

February 27, 2006, 12:11 am

OH YEAH GREG NO ONE OWNS THE HOUSE BUDDY SO NICE TRY

Jessi says:

March 8, 2006, 4:23 pm

Yall there is only one Cry Baby Bridge and its in Saraland Alabama, and the Plantation Down the Street from it was bought by someone and they are fixing it up, but I do beleive the stories about the Bridge and the house because Ive lived there all my life and somethings people say are outrageous but some of them are true Ive seen and heard them myself

bigd says:

March 15, 2006, 1:48 am

IF ANY OF YOU BEEN TO CRY BABY BRIDGE I HAVE SEEN THAT WOMAN WHO THREW HER BABY OFF OF THE BRIDGE SHE IS AT THE WALMART IN BIRMINGHAM EVERY OTHER FRIDAY TO SIGN AUTOGRAPHS BUT SHE WONT DO PICTURES BECAUSE IT BURNS HER EYES AND PLUS THE BABY IS THERE TOO BUT YOU TAKE HIS PICTURE WITH A BACKDROP OF A BRIDGE IN THE BACKROUND SPONSORED BY THE LOCAL WALMART SHE WILL LET YOU GET REAL CLOSE TO HER BUT SHE STINKS I DONT KNOW IF ITS A STUNT DOUBLE OR IF ITS HER SHE SAYS ITS HER AND SO DOES THE BABY BUT THE BABY WONT LET YOU GET CLOSE OR IT CRIES

marie says:

March 18, 2006, 10:13 am

to bobby,doug, and big d
this is a website for cool haunts not d**kheads like you. they have websites for what you guys are into. max was right,you guys are just plain idiots!!!!!!!!!!!

evelyn says:

March 25, 2006, 4:49 am

bobby doug bigd why are you on the website if you are not curious about the stories you need a fuc*ing life and stay out of the website if you are not interested!!!

Emile says:

March 29, 2006, 3:45 pm

These stories are awesome and I would love to go to one if there is one in T-Town! Is there? Anywho, Oscar good luck hope to see a flim like that or of yours! One question: In the case of a myth like these in order for me to believe without seeing myself I must know :: If these story is true how come there are numerous Cry Baby Bridges? and exactally how many bridges are there?

karen says:

April 28, 2006, 6:32 am

ghost stories are good, but seriously putting powder on a bridge???

christina says:

May 4, 2006, 8:19 am

is there a cry baby bridge in alliance ohio because i heared there is
love cj pimpen

foe_shizzle says:

May 7, 2006, 12:29 am

hey everyone whats up? it was a great day today! me and my girlfriend went to the lake of the ozarks and went fishin for a while and then took a nice long walk. Did anyone see the cardinals game on friday? did they win? u dunno. alright peace,
frank

ican_beyourz says:

May 20, 2006, 1:34 am

FYI ALL: everyone that posts on this site is a bunch of fuking losers. this is not a daycare and i am not here to babysit your fat asses

jesikah says:

May 29, 2006, 1:05 pm

Does anybody now the story of Cry Baby Bridge in South Carolina? Where is it? And is it true?

Spaz 2 High says:

May 30, 2006, 5:06 am

there is a cry baby bridge up in shelby county alabama off of home depot its a old wooden bridge that is closed off on a dirt road. its goes over the cahaba river. you can get to there on 280 in birmingham and turn left off the home depot and follow that road and it takes you to it. its a real pretty place at day time but at night it feels all freaky and i get freaky vibes like chills running down my back and hairs sticking up. i go there to drink sometimes at night and it can sometimes get freaky hearing stuff under the bridge like the water splashing and stuff. im no ghost hunter i just wanted to check up on the bridge but it has the same story but ive never heard a baby or seen a mom or something but its freaky like something is there. you can send me a e-mail if you want and i can give you more specific directions. spaz2high1@yahoo.com

angela reece says:

May 30, 2006, 4:44 pm

has any one ever been to cry baby bridge in Lawton, Oklahoma? if you have i would like to hear about your experience

Mia says:

May 31, 2006, 9:15 pm

There is a Cry Baby Bridge in Iowa too. You put your car in neutral and get pushed across the bridge.
Take 67 south toward Viola. From the stop sign in Viola, go exactly 18 miles on 67 and you’ll come to 230th Av. (230th is 2 miles past of the entrance to Lake Warren Camp ground) Go right on 230th Av and travel 1.5 miles and take a left. Go down the hill and you’ll see the bridge. I haven’t been there but it sounds cool. And for all you bozos out there who say this is stupid you came across this website how? Do you have so little of a life that you go looking on the internet for people to make fun of? Or did you come across this site just looking for something fun for you and your friends to do like the rest of us? See we’re not that big of losers as you think we are. You’re just as bad as us if not worse.

billy says:

June 6, 2006, 3:13 pm

i lived around that bridge most of my life and i heard the crys but the wierdest thing i ever saw was on the bridge just before it. It seems my life is plagued by black dogs if you know what those are then good if you dont i aint explaining it but on the bridge just before cry baby as i was riding in the bed of a truck i looked behind us on one of those bright alabama nights and saw a dog runnig across the bridge and then just as it should have ran into the gaurd rail poof it was gone there one second and then gone. Then as i was explaining what i saw to some friends the driver stoped on cry baby and killed the engine this was bad timing.

Hannah says:

June 7, 2006, 12:14 pm

hey,
those who are saying cuss words about the articles, you guys forgot that you were reading it 2. so just hut your freakin mouths up. and this means yyou mealinie ! Or what ever your name is .
thank you . have a nice day
P.S. north america roks. Be proud to be an american, or else

Dan says:

June 17, 2006, 6:25 pm

I would like to know exactly where Cry Baby Bridge is at in Saraland, Alabama. I am in Daphne, Alabama and would like to make up my own mind about this so called haunt.

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