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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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SarahandKerrie says:

January 23, 2007, 8:48 pm

sorry we put the same thing twice we thought it didn’t send…

mark says:

January 25, 2007, 12:53 am

its a bunch a bull!!!!!

mae says:

February 1, 2007, 6:45 pm

I live in mobile and I have been to cry baby bridge several times and only once was i scared out of my mind. I did not hear a baby cry but I did hear a woman scream. Not a scream of fear but a scream of pure terrior.
I would tell anyone interested in the place to visit it.

karina says:

February 9, 2007, 2:26 pm

wow thats not interisting but it boring

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February 11, 2007, 5:37 pm

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mash says:

February 15, 2007, 4:32 pm

#1. There are a couple of “crybaby” bridges in SC. One in Anderson one in EDGEMOOR as opposed to edgefield.

#2. The one in Edgemoor is off of Humpback Bridge Rd. between Rock Hill and Chester. If you google Edgemoor, you can get a map.

#3. It’s creepy, but judging from the number of used condoms and beer bottles, it’s a pretty popular place.

aneesa says:

February 21, 2007, 8:34 pm

ACTUAL STORY I SAW ON THE NET

CRY BABY BRIDGE: IT IS SAID THAT ONE RAINY NIGHT IN OKLAHOMA ON A SMALL DIRT ROAD . A YOUNG WOMEN WITH HER BABY WAS LEAVING HOME TO HEAD FOR WORK. SHE HAD THE SMALL BABY SAFLEY STRAPPED IN THE CAR SEAT. WHEN SHE CROSSED THE SMALL WOODEN BRIDGE THE DAM OF THE LAKE THAT WAS NEXT TO THE ROAD BROKE. WIPING OUT THE BRIDGE, AND SWEEPING THE CAR DOWN STREAM. THE MOTHERS BODY WAS FOUND WASHED UP ON SHORE, BUT THE BABYS BODY WAS NEVER FOUND THE BABYS CLOTHES AND BLOOD WAS FOUND ON A METAL STAKE UNDER THE WASHED OUT BRIDGE THE CAR SEAT STILL STRAPPED IN THE CAR. THEY DRUG THE LAKE AND THE STREAM AND NEVER FOUND THE BABY. THE BRIDGE IS STILL WASHED OUT TO THIS DAY AND IT IS SAID IF YOU GO THERE ON A RAINY NIGHT YOU CAN STILL HERE THE BABY CRY, AND THE FRANTIC MOTHER WILL APPEAR AND ASK YOU IF YOU HAVE SEEN HER BABY.

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February 26, 2007, 1:28 pm

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February 26, 2007, 1:29 pm

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your mom says:

February 26, 2007, 1:30 pm

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Jennifer says:

February 26, 2007, 10:36 pm

I live in Georgia, right across the bridge is Edgefield SC, where “Cry Baby Bridge” is. I have only heard two stories about how the whole thing came about and they resemble each other. There are 3 bridges total out there. After the first one there is a old church and small house on the right hand side with a cemetary in the back of the church. The story goes as I have heard it, The preacher of the church had a daughter, whom had a baby out of wedlock. He was ashamed by it and took the baby and threw it over the bridge and she went in after and they both died. The other story I heard was that she was ashamed after having the baby out of wedlock and threw herself and the baby over the bridge.

I have some very close friends whom have been out there awhile back and was scared out of their mind. You have to travel down a dirt road to get to the bridges. On the first one is where most of the wierd stuff took place. You are suppose to go there, turn ALL your lights off…Get out of the car and put the keys on the hood. Then yell “B!t@H I got your baby!” 3 times. They claimed to have heard a baby crying afterwards. They took several groups of people with them. My friend said she jumped into the car with her sister to keep her company so she wouldnt be by herself and was turned talking to her in the drivers seat and her sister started shaking and screaming and telling her not to look behind her. There was a woman trying to get in the door where she was. They tried starting the car but it wouldnt start up right away. Afterwards they went to a gas station nearby and there were tiny hand prints all over the side of the vehicle and windows.

We went the other night for the first time, we had a farely large group and alot of them wouldn’t shut up so we could even try to hear anything, and me being the chicken I am, wouldn’t even think about yelling things out to anything or anyone that might be out there. But unfortunetly nothing happened at any of the sites around there.

If you live around the Augusta, North Augusta area..I have a good haunting site that I promise you will experience something everytime you go there. I Have been their numerous times and still to this day after the first time going there, wont get out of my car. Email me for directions… JMims76@knology.net

Shane Kimbrough says:

March 4, 2007, 8:26 pm

This is real **** i live in Fayetteville, Tn right outside of Flintville, TN and i’ve been there twice cuz my friend lives right next to it iz some greepy **** 4 real.

Shane Kimbrough says:

March 4, 2007, 8:29 pm

You will see baby foot prints and also you will see a woman holding a baby if you get to clse she will chase you so don’t get to close ppl. It iz off a road called sicard hollow or at least the one in Flintville is! so try it for your self it is creepy!

Lauren says:

March 10, 2007, 10:30 pm

For crybaby Bridge in Olathe, Kansas.. you take santa fe all the way until you get to Lake Shore Drive. Turn on Lake Shore Drive and you drive as far as you can get until you have to turn. Take a left and keep going until it turns into a gravel road and at the end of the gravel road you’ll see the lake and you stop on the bridge and you’re there. Turn off your car and turn off your lights and roll down your window and be completly silent. when I went, I didn’t hear anything but my friends swore they did. have funn. =]

Susie says:

March 11, 2007, 2:34 pm

I’ve been to crybaby bridge numerous times. The only scary thing out there are the numerous rednecks with shotguns that surround the area. Don’t waste your time.

Christina says:

March 11, 2007, 4:38 pm

ive been to crybaby bridge and yes i did hear a cry and i heard shots but i didnt bring powder

shiann says:

March 12, 2007, 5:28 pm

My Sister Saw Tiny Footprits And Heard Crys.

amy says:

March 15, 2007, 12:15 pm

whoa dude that is scary man

where d’you find that story from that is scary i am scared of my baby sista’s now shut up man

Kristin says:

March 16, 2007, 12:08 am

Tonight just like last night my friends and I went to crybaby bridge in Edgefield S.C. We didn’t see anything I think i was praying a little to hard. But we have been before …..most of ya’ll have the story all wrong i have lived in Edgefield and we were always told that there was a women with a baby and these men took her baby and held it over the creek and acted like they tossed it in when really it was a big rock and the women jumped in after her baby and was killed….the story goes on to say that if u go on to the bridge and yell “***** I have your baby ” wierd things will happen, and believe me it will… But that place is under watch by the cops so watch out….there are a lot of other places in are town that are haunted the court house, the local pond, some churches and a lot of houses.

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