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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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MIRANDA says:

October 2, 2006, 11:13 pm

HEY GUYS I USED TO LIVE ON THE SAME ROAD THAT THE PLANTATION IS ON AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT BEING FREAKY IS TRUE,ME MY HUSBAND AND MY STEP SON,WE ALL TOOK A TOUR OF THE PLACE WHEN THE PEOPLE THAT OWNS IT NOW HAD JUST BOUGHT IT, THERE IS FOOT PRINTS THAT LOOKS LIKE IT IS STAINED ON THE FLOOR,AND THE UPSTAIRS IS REALLY FREAKY TO, IT FEELS LIKE SOMEONE IS WATCHING U AND IT FEELS LIKE SOMEONE OR SOMETHING IS BREATHING ON UR SKIN.I HAVE ONLY BEEN THERE ONE TIME AND I WILL NEVER GO THERE AGAIN,AND ABOUT CRY BABY BRIDGE,I HAD LIVED NOT EVEN A MILE FROM IT AND THERE WERE ALL KINDS OF NOISES AT NIGHT THERE.THAT WAS EVEN MORE FREAKY.ALL THIS STUFF ABOUT THE BRIDGE AND THE PLANTATION IS REALLY REAL.

Jessi says:

October 3, 2006, 6:06 am

I went to cry baby bridge tonite…I herd the baby cry….very very very scary….theres even a lite the seems to appear…make sure when u stop u turn off ur car and out the keys on the dash….sit for a minute and u will get terrified out ya mind….(hell maybe I was juss creeped out….but i swear i herd a baby….)

Kacey says:

October 4, 2006, 2:09 am

Hey ppl cry baby bridge its f****** real me and my frnd went there last halloween night and we put baby powder on the bridge and we saw baby foot prints and we say the woman and we was told to say the mothers name i cnt remember the name but anyways we wast told to say the name and to say were ur baby and the mother came close to u then when she relised u wasnt her baby she got really angry and tried to push us of the damn bridge it scared the f*** out of me and my frnd oh and also take some chocolate with u and put em in a line on ur windsheild and u will see baby foot prints and the candy will disapear this is no joke i dnt lie but cry baby bridge is really F****** SCARY AS HELL! ! ! ! any one wanna now anything else that happend to us e-mail me at cuttie_pie2006us@yahoo.com

Kacey says:

October 4, 2006, 2:09 am

i meant saw the woman

redneck chick says:

October 8, 2006, 12:45 pm

alright ican_beyourz listen hear u is a fine 1 2 be talking caz u posted a freaking note 2 and 2 eveybody that says that ppl on here need 2 get a life well…theyve got a life theys just checking out other stuff and yall r just hating caz it aint yo life that theys looking at oo and also i belive this bridge thing it sounds so kool and it fits 2gether

Ben says:

October 8, 2006, 7:38 pm

Real haunts should really read their statement about removing any inappropiate comments and follow it, or is it just another dead and not maintained web sight!

CARLITA says:

October 9, 2006, 12:45 pm

I HEARD OF THIS ONE IT IS SPOOKY.

payton says:

October 10, 2006, 11:08 am

cry baby bridge is not real..
get a life, you stupid morons !
you are all homosexuals, like myself-

Robin says:

October 10, 2006, 10:29 pm

Actually, Cry Baby Bridge is in Birmingham(biggest city in Alabama) off of a road called Sicard Hollow…a lady crashed her car in the river with her baby in it and saved herself but let her baby drown(PPS). We go there every halloween and mess with people so any alabama people wanna get scared SHI*LESS come to cahaba beach road 35223 alabama.

messiahofpower says:

October 11, 2006, 7:29 am

The stained footprints are fake. The movie crew put them there for the movie dead birds. Really people dead birds the horror movie was filmed there. Check it out and you’ll see the footprints.

coolerbodyguard says:

October 11, 2006, 8:11 am

As I was going through your “Real Haunts” I was amazed to see this. I never knew or bridge was so well know around the Internet.

Cry Baby Bridge United States, Alabama, Saraland

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Under this bridge, many years ago, a small baby drowned. It is said that the cries of the baby may be heard at times, and if baby powder is sprinkled on the bridge, footprints of a small child may be seen.
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I live within a few miles from cry baby bridge as a teen we would skip school and swim there until it grew up and got were the snake’s took it over, Cold Black water never could touch the bottom the deeper you would go the colder it got.
There’s many storys about Kali Oaka and my mom and dad and there friend’s wounld go to Kali Oaka and hang out… there is a light at the end of this dirt road and if you tried to get closer it got further away it was a hang out for some good beer partys and “necking”.

Let me tell you all about a story of many about Kali Oaka…one night this dude and his girlfriend were parked out bye Cry Baby Bridge.
They heard something as they were necking in the car so the dude told his girlfriend look lay down in the floor board until I get back and don’t move be real quite.
So she did and he got out to investigate what the noise was well he never came back as day light came up. She had been hearing rain drops on the car but still he had never come back from looking to see what the nosie was so she lifted her head still scared because when he got out she heard more noise’s.
She was not coming off that floor board no matter what while it was dark… but with the day light started coming up she really was worried about her boyfriend so she got out of the car and the rain she thought she heard hitting the car was her boyfriend’s blood as he was hung up. By his neck with Bare-Wire.
The story was told for many years there was a 8 ft wild man who live in the woods of Kali Oaka.

And with the real story of cry Baby Bridge if you go to the bridge on the exact same night and time as the child died you can hear a baby cry for many years even to this day people are scared to go down Kali Oaka Road.
The old plantation home with the grave yard was owned bye Authur Outlaws family which at one time was the Mayor of Mobile, Alabama.
Downtown Mobile has a Convention Center and its named after him.
I’m from Eight-Mile Alabama and if you look on a map you will see 8-mile is just a few miles from Kali Oaka Road.

There’s many more storys and its not a road you ever want to break down on late at night alone.

Are you to my be one of the storys of Kali Oaka Road.

Tuesday October 10, 2006 – 09:04pm (CDT)

Pelham High Students says:

October 11, 2006, 9:33 am

welll we here at pelham high schoo dont belive that any of this is real…and also we think yall are IDIOTS!

chelsea says:

October 11, 2006, 2:21 pm

well i heard bout it but it was in hell town soo i rele smell alot of bullshit from sum ppl

Kristy says:

October 13, 2006, 2:48 pm

Theres is also A Cry Baby Bridge in Gadsden Alabma. Ane everywhere else in the U.S.

Tiffany says:

October 14, 2006, 5:43 pm

I really want to see a picture of this bridge!!!! And see if it is the one i think it is. Thanks

Tiffany says:

October 14, 2006, 5:51 pm

Doug, get a f***ing life!!!!1

steven says:

October 15, 2006, 1:21 pm

hey listen, does anyone know exactly how to get to cry baby bridge in edgefield, SC. If you do please let me know

Laura says:

October 19, 2006, 11:45 am

I.am lokking forward to going to cry baby bridge >I just hope we don’t drive al that way for nothing

james says:

October 22, 2006, 7:24 pm

i went to the one in saraland al. and it is real. i leaned over the ledge of the bridge and saw a baby laying on its stomach covered in mud criing. I felt so sorry so i went down and by the time i got there the baby was gone! THIS IS TRUE

jone says:

October 22, 2006, 9:25 pm

help me i want to know more about cry baby brige

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