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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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carly says:

December 3, 2006, 2:40 pm

thats nice wat u people r writting STOP CUSSING i am so tired of hearing u guys cuss if u dont have anything nice to say dont say anything i mean it stop

SHARD says:

December 8, 2006, 5:02 pm

OK SO I WENT MUD BOGGING ON THE ROAD THAT CRYBABY BRIDGE IS ON AND NOTHING F***ING HAPPENED. I EVEN PISSED OFF OF THE BRIDGE AND WE TOOK PICTURES IN THE CREEK SO THIS IS ABUNCH OF BULL. BUT THERE IS A CHURCH ON THE SAME ROAD THAT THE SATAN WORSHIPERS HANG OUT AND A REAL OLD GRAVE YARD THAT WAS MADE IN THE 1700′S I DOUBT THERES ANYTHING THERE EITHER BUT ME AND SOME BUDDIES ARE GONNA CAMP OUT THERE (IN THE GRAVE YARD) AND DRINK SOME BEER AND STUFF BUT ILL TELL YOU HOW THAT GOES.

sarah w. says:

December 17, 2006, 1:49 pm

hay,
anbody know were i can get directions to crybaby bridge in shelby county alabama,saraland alabama,gadsden alabama or russellville alabama? if u do,please please please tell me becouse i really really really want to go!! pleae and thank you!!

Tommy says:

December 22, 2006, 12:38 pm

Ive been to the one in lawton,oklahoma. It is kinda freaky late at night when theres no moon. Me and my buddies drink out there all the time. To me its just a good place to go and get away from the city. I dont hear any noises either. Just cattle and wind. All I know is 20 years ago there use to be a cult that went out there on halloween and string black cats up from the trees and god knows what else. Plus I heard a story about a black chevy truck with a lift on it that would come out of nowhere and chase you off. Im guessing thats just a pissed off farmer. Anyway thats all I know.

justin says:

December 27, 2006, 9:48 pm

dam that sucked i waz so fa king scared dude i wanted my mommy!!!!!!!!!!

Jordan* says:

December 27, 2006, 9:50 pm

Oh my ga. me my brother and 2 frends went up there. it was so scary. everyhitng is true! no joke. dont listen to all those **** talkers! i literally p***ed my pants. i felt like some one was running after us!!!!!!

ashley eberle says:

December 29, 2006, 5:39 am

This is in regards to Cry baby bridge in Viola, IL. A couple of friends and I went there a few hours ago around midnight and turned the car off in neutral and sat there and we didnt hear anything besides the creek water. I did get out of the car however about an hour later and decided to take some pics and i noticed that in all of my pics that i took towards the left side of the bridge there was several orbs. in a pic of myself i noticed there to be 7 or 8 or them in one spot around my head. im looking to go back soon on a different day and time and see if i can hear anything else. its a really spooky place and when your there you get the feeling like you should be. another thing i had problems with was

jami says:

December 29, 2006, 2:39 pm

my friend went ther once and NEVER CAME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

dawnie says:

December 30, 2006, 6:39 am

I’m facinated by hauntings and the unknown so I was enjoying reading what was on display until I came to the swearing (cussing). As an Australian I’m pretty broad minded but find it a shame when people find they must try to shock everyone in this way. I’ve never heard of ‘the crying bridge’. I bet the old plantation homes have plenty of movement and many stories to tell. As a child I lived with my family in a haunted house in the Australian bushland, it was burnt down by the town people as they were very frightened, and didn’t understand. There are many bush tales of hauntings from Australia, but the land is not as old as America so you will have more .

TARA says:

January 2, 2007, 6:22 am

HEY GUYS.. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME.. I AM TRYIN TO GET FROM BURLINGTON IOWA TO CRYBABY BRIDGE IN ILLINOIS SO IF U KNOW THE DIRECTIONS CONTACT ME AT MARIESASSY2005@YAHOO.COM

russ says:

January 7, 2007, 12:56 am

hey yah on the haunted plantation we went there 1 night and desided to take a vidio camara with us we got some freaky **** on there and there is slave quarters in the back of the plantation, we we desided to go in there but everytime we did the camara battery went dead, buit as soon as we would leave the camcorder would turn back on, and we have it on the vidio camara about the big black slave, we couldnt see nuthin but a black image through the camcorder yah its freaky, univesity of south alabama is referbishing it now and they say if they work after dark they can hear people ” slaves ” hollaring because of gettin beaten its real after all of that ive not been to crazy about going to cry baby bridge
just go to the plantion around 1:30 at night on a full moon and i bet u wont stay for long

elaine says:

January 13, 2007, 2:09 am

There is a crybaby bridge in Chilton Co. Alabama also.Went there last week heard noisees and took pictures of orbs also battery went down on camera for aminute till we got away the camera was okay

Breezi says:

January 13, 2007, 3:42 pm

hey send me directions

Breezi says:

January 13, 2007, 3:43 pm

hey send me a comment

Tyelar says:

January 14, 2007, 12:33 am

Dude, I went there and it true nig! The damn baby followed me with its foot prints! I lucky i got out of there alive!

Rachel says:

January 15, 2007, 7:28 pm

Hey, I live in SC and my friends and I went up to Crybaby bridge today and a couple other times. But I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about the cult that sets up on Saturday nights in the church not but just down the road from the bridge. I would just like to know about this cult, not join it or anyting. But I’ve heard people talk about it but they don’t know what they do or anything like that. But just to be more specific the bridge I’m talking about you take 5 notch rd. all the way down and it turns onto sweetwater rd. then you turn right by this old decrepit gas station and then go until you take a left onto old stage rd. But if anyone knows about the cult or anything please send me an email at
the_only_kix@yahoo.com

hannah and amy says:

January 18, 2007, 3:36 pm

i think it was enteresting;-)___amy
i am going 2 see !!!!retards!!!!-hannah

holly kombrink says:

January 21, 2007, 1:40 am

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE

I NEED directions to CRY BABY BRIDGE in OLATHE,KANSAS
Come on! There must be somebody out there that knows where the thing is located!help me. help me. help me.

SarahandKerrie says:

January 21, 2007, 3:30 pm

holy hec!!! we really want 2 see this place…we leave near a haunted building! we go there a lot…it’s called the Whole Back Stage. have you herd of it? well get back to us… c-ya

SarahandKerrie says:

January 21, 2007, 3:31 pm

holy hec!!! we want to go see this place… we live near a huanted building… it’s called the Whole Backstage…have you herd of it??? well get back to us! c-ya

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