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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MIchael says: |
March 27, 2007, 8:24 pm |
Hey i was just at cry baby bridge and I brought like 5 baby powder cans it was scary as hell I mean there were foot prints every were even in my car! I warn you don’t go up there it”s bad news
Zach says: |
April 4, 2007, 3:36 am |
I was told that the Horton Mill Bridge in Oneonta, AL was like this. I went at midnight and tried the candy bar thing. Nothing really happened, except for the wrapper was peeled back more and I kept hearing voices next to the bridge, but the only thing weird with that is the bridge is 200 ft over a river. That bridge is almost 72 years old and is a covered bridge so it could have been the wind. Who knows?!
ami says: |
June 13, 2007, 9:40 pm |
ok everybody that sais that crybaby bridge is real well it is not so real the only thing real about it is that u hear a baby crying u see no footprints and no footprints on your car or anything like that i live in alabama and i have to this bridge 5 times and every time i do the babypowder and nothing ever works ever
dee says: |
June 16, 2007, 5:58 pm |
Um, we’re in the Alabama section. Why are you people talkin about New Jersey?????
cry baby's momma says: |
June 24, 2007, 10:51 pm |
i live less then 5 minutes from “cry baby bridge” its so not true and as far as it being in saraland thats also false gee for pete’s sake get the story straight…ITS BULLS**T
alice says: |
June 30, 2007, 12:59 pm |
i like ghosts their cool i mean have u ever seen one? I wish i had, when im older im going to that bridge and brinbing some powder!!!!!!!!
kaye says: |
July 1, 2007, 2:32 pm |
You know most of the people on here cant even spell, let alone tell a complete story yall are so stupid.
Amy Lynn Falls says: |
July 2, 2007, 6:19 pm |
The RealCry Baby Bridge Is Located In Mulga Alabama.It Is Haunted By A Woman And Her Child After Being Hit By A Drunk Driver,The Woman And Her Child Was Crossing Over The Bridge On Foot Because Her Car Broke Down On The Side Of The Road Right Before The Bridge.Her And Her Child Went Over The Side Of The Bridge.The Legend Is If You Park Your Car And Walk Over The Bridge You Will Hear The Child Crying And See The Woman Walking Toward You.She Is Looking For Her Child.
mike says: |
July 3, 2007, 2:50 am |
thats bayview brige in mulga al,theres many differnt stories about the lady i lived close to there never saw anything camped out fishing all night nothing but alot of snakes around there 1980 they tore down the old iron brige the new brige spooky but not like the old one lots of people go there and get scared becase they want to see something and they here lake noises like beaver loons fish jumping but it is rel dark and spooky there
kara says: |
July 6, 2007, 6:54 pm |
This sounds like a story I’ve heard from Texas. It’s called La Llorona “the crying woman”. she killed her child and she cries near every river and if you hear her cries too close she will take your life and drown you.
mike says: |
July 7, 2007, 2:53 am |
what people here are screech owls and some times bobcats at night when it dark it can scare the hell out of you exp if your from the city and never herd noises around lakes before at night sounds like a baby crying or maybe its bigfoot and nesse steped on his little toe or maybe a bunny sad becouse he jroped a unicorn egg no its a owl or something like that i do think some of this stuff is real but lets face it how many cry baby bridges are they in the us over 40 what the odds in that its a good story but told 2 many times
cassidy says: |
July 9, 2007, 4:33 pm |
THE CRY BABY BRIDGE SO COOL COULD YOU GIVE ME DIRECTIONS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whitney Romero-from kansas says: |
July 21, 2007, 12:29 am |
Hey, In a couple of nights I will go out the the one in Olathe Kansas to see about all dis s***. Im kinda scared, But Im not, soooo…. If anyone from Olathe has gone there Say something so I dont waste my Time
Adios
yolando says: |
August 3, 2007, 12:30 am |
ive been to cry babay bridge in saraland on holloween night and some kids that were there that live in that area said theres i a peacock farm behind the woods and thats what make the whinning noise that we think is a babay!
GARY says: |
August 4, 2007, 4:56 am |
hey what’s up? just thought i would say that i never heard of cry baby bridge until tonight. actually saw some photos of the one in s.c. i won’t lie, the photos are freaky if they are real. there is a photo of a woman reaching out and like some figures in the back ground. it was on the web. i don’t know if it is true, but i guess if you want to know, you’ll just have to go find out. it is on a paranormal investigator website.
tabitha says: |
September 6, 2007, 6:00 pm |
i want to know the direction to the cry baby bridge in russiville al henry hill in hatton al and any other one that anyone know about please please please please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tab says: |
September 6, 2007, 6:07 pm |
If anyone know direction to the cry baby bridge in russellville al henery hill in hatton al or ant other hunted places in north alabama south tenneessee oreast mississippi please email me trboggus@yahoo.com
mike says: |
September 18, 2007, 2:56 am |
BAYVEIW BRIDGE DIRECTIONS ALABAMA ONLY MICHB402@AOL,COM
mike says: |
September 18, 2007, 3:03 am |
VILLAGE FALLS CEMERTARY DIRECTIONS MICHB402@AOL.COM SPOOKEY OR TOUR GUIDE MIDNIGHT TOUR ONLY BAYVEIW BRIDGE TOURS ALSO
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Chad Pilgrim says:
March 19, 2007, 12:53 am
The Plantation house on Oak Grove Rd (by crybaby) has people living in the house and so does the house next door. but on oak grove you will see some wood post by the plantation house and the trail leads to the family graveyard… its pretty freaky. And there are two houses on 45 by the exit to the school they are really scary looking but the one with the brick fence has an alarm so becareful and watch out for the po po