Crybaby Bridge
This covered bridge with a covered pedestrian walkway was built in the 1800s and is the oldest of its kind. Legend has it that a woman decided to murder her baby and thus threw him off the side of the bridge where he plummeted to his death. Since then, many have reported hearing a baby’s cry coming from beneath the bridge.
Urban Legend!
Comment by kelbean | 10.9.2005 | 3:56 pm
i have heard of crybaby bridge and me n some friends r goin this weekend if we can find out where it s if u can let me knoe plz it would be a great help thanks e-mail me or im jordan04clever (AIM) http://www.sunshinebabehhs@yahoo.com (E-MAIL)
Comment by jordan clever | 10.26.2005 | 8:53 pm
dude what’s up does every state have one of these stories tye are all lies maybe one is true and they are copying all the rest I don’t know
Comment by Natasha | 10.28.2005 | 3:07 pm
omg another crybaby bridge? come on ppl there cant be this many copys of the story!!!!! when there 2 many remakes of it then the storie just isnt scary or interesting any more!
Comment by Mistybear | 11.19.2005 | 6:44 pm
all i can say is i lived 25 years in newton falls and never once heard of this story also have been on the bridge many MANY times never once heard anything! Were do you get you information??? Someone is pulling you legs lol…
Comment by lesa | 12.21.2005 | 7:56 am
I agree lesa, I’ve live in Newton Falls my whole life, am 52 and have never heard that story and have also been across the bridge many, many times. Also attended the grade school which is right beside it. Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me…..someone’s makin up stories!!
Comment by PATTI | 12.23.2005 | 7:24 pm
I’ve been to cry Baby Bridge and you have to read the Legend and know how to go there and acrossed
the bridge.
Comment by Jessica | 12.27.2005 | 1:06 pm
And I have read the legend it is
not a myth. I have been there
and heard the baby cry.
I have heard the woman
calling for her baby.
Comment by jane | 12.27.2005 | 1:12 pm
And I have read the legend it is not a myth it is true and I heard
the baby crying and I have heard the woman calling for her
baby and other screaming spirits from other people
who died there long ago!!!!!!
Comment by jane | 12.27.2005 | 1:21 pm
Okay. That is a LIE. I lived in NewtonFalls since I was 4 years old . Right down the street from the bridge on Arlington Blvd. I often walk past/though the bridge . No crying !!! Nothing ever Happened there .
Comment by Sheree | 12.29.2005 | 8:26 pm
it can be ture it was scary my dad died when i was 3 and i ear him calling my name in the middel of the night he waches me and he sits in my rocking chare rocking when i am trying to sleep i dont rilly like it am and that was years ago and it still gowing on
Comment by email me smancgirl@aol.com | 01.22.2006 | 2:47 pm
shizz to all and all a good night
Comment by ur grandma | 01.26.2006 | 4:37 pm
this is not that scary, it is just weird and stupid
Comment by brandon | 02.15.2006 | 9:27 am
ok…why would sum1 murder their baby, then start calling after it later, after they KNOW it is already dead? just wanted to know if i was the only person who wondered about this.
Comment by Taylor | 03.1.2006 | 6:36 pm
HEy no no no dude cry babys bridge is some where by alliance ive been their its real but its not to scarey..
oXoBrittanyoXo
Comment by Brittany | 04.2.2006 | 9:07 pm
when i visit ohio yes i’m from california and when i visit my daughter and son in-law that lives in new philadelphia,ohio we go there and i never here a baby or a mother so i believe its not true and i wish you people in ohio had haunted things but you dont so crybaby bridge isn’t scary at all.-
Comment by Carla | 06.10.2006 | 9:32 pm
Okay this is bull dust!! I live in kentucky and we have one as well. either the person that submitted this lied about the location or we just have a bunch of idiots copying fake stories. Please people, stop lying!
Comment by Ash | 06.11.2006 | 1:24 am
Your all worong, that is not even how the story goes, this is the real one, a phyco women was walking with her nonstop cying baby. The women was tired of it cying , and the only way it would stop was if she tied a rope around its neck, so she did this and hung it on a branch, then the branch broke and the baby fell into the water. It is said that you go to the bridge on a friday night at midnight, and you hear the babycrying, and a branch brake….. I get you all non belivers and everything, ya it could be made up, but it could be true!….Peace Out*…Lafunda
Comment by Lafunda | 09.15.2006 | 4:49 pm
im soooooo sick of the dam crybaby bridge ledgends, i dont even think that they are real. theres way tomany of them. whom ever started them need to be shot.
Comment by horrorchick23 | 09.17.2006 | 6:29 pm
The crybaby bridge in newton falls has definately been an attraction. This has made many people travel from near and far to listen for the murdered baby. If you know your way around the place you will find an old farm on the other side of the bridge that has been there for years. This farm has a bird called a picock! The noises you hear are not from a baby they are from a bird!!!!!
Comment by haunt | 09.29.2006 | 2:05 pm
I was there one year, just a fews days before halloween. It was late/early morning. What I saw scared the **** out of me. I would never do something like that again. If I told anyone they would think I was crazy so I just leave it alone. But yes, it is very very real.
Comment by john doe | 09.30.2006 | 11:47 pm
I was there also. I was sitting underneath the bridge and a babe crawled out of the water with a knife and came after me. I beat it up and tied its hands together. Then I called the police. They arrested the baby and it is now awaiting trial. That was so scary.
Comment by john doe | 09.30.2006 | 11:51 pm
maybe it was just that night!
or it was just a lie who knows ohwell i go sometime and find out!
Comment by Amber | 10.3.2006 | 3:38 pm
Maybe it was just that night!
ohwell i’ll go sometime and find out!
Comment by Amber | 10.3.2006 | 3:40 pm
OMG! How many versions of this story are there? I’ve heard of like 10 different cry baby bridges and thats just here in Ohio. I think its all a bunch of bs.
Comment by Susan | 10.16.2006 | 1:00 am
I think that it is really crazy that a woman would do that to her own child. She needs to be locked up.
Comment by taylor | 10.19.2006 | 2:41 pm
I think that this woman is so crazy and she needs to take a chill pill and I also think that she needs to be on trail.
Comment by Bob | 10.19.2006 | 2:44 pm
i have been in newton falls all my life and iam 14 years old and i have to be a ghost expert and yes there is a cry baby bridge
Comment by zach | 10.30.2006 | 7:40 pm
i have been to cry baby bridge it seems real but its not
Comment by Taylor | 10.31.2006 | 8:42 pm
i have been to cry baby bridge it seems real but its not it a fricken legend thats not true if any one killed there child they should be locked up dont belive this.
Comment by sandy | 10.31.2006 | 8:46 pm
im so scared thats just a stupid story someone made up and it went around the world ITS SO STUPID dont listen to this!
Comment by Tori Lynn | 10.31.2006 | 8:59 pm
hay this is true i live right besid it. it is true my mom says it is true belef me
Comment by kelsey lochbaum | 10.31.2006 | 10:28 pm
Hey! This place is really haunted!! My whole family lives around there and it’s so spooky!! We rode across it one time and our car shut down for about a second or two!!! At that time we heard a baby cry!! I nearly started crying, too!!!!! I was only 10 years old at the moment that happened!!! IT WAS DEFINETELY THE SCARIEST PLACE IN OHIO!!
P.S if you’re coming to Ohio please do not cross this bridge… I’ve heard of 4 people dying there. My greatest enemy died there!! I hope he doesn’t come to haunt me!! WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Comment by Matt Lamp | 11.1.2006 | 5:52 pm
this doesnt sound all that scary people believe things that there imagination brings up when its quiet and lonely outside.
Comment by danna | 11.1.2006 | 6:31 pm
I FELL OFF THE BRIDGE BUT I AM STILL ALIVE. I DON’T CRY ANYMORE, I’M GROWN UP NOW. I STILL POOP IN MY PANTS! GA GA GOO GOO
Comment by Cry Baby in the flesh | 12.1.2006 | 5:29 pm
i been there i got the gost pregnet the baby needs to be bress feed lol
Comment by eddie | 12.7.2006 | 12:49 am
I don’t Know about everyone else, but I thought that the guy that told the story about the baby crawling out of the water with a knife made me laugh all night!! And I think the story is true!!!! You all are just non beleivers!!!!
Comment by Trixie | 01.15.2007 | 12:14 am
I think that you all should go see it for yourselves befor you say anything and I have been there alot of times and I am a beliver of the cry baby bridge. so thank you and have a great day lol
Comment by Meg | 01.22.2007 | 4:55 pm
ur full of ****!!! there is no such thing we never been to it but i agree wit trixie that guy was full of ****!!!!!!!!and eddie ur full of **** 2 buddy!!! ur just nasty and needs to shut ur BREST FEEDIN KUTER LICKIN MOUTH UP OR I WILL!!!!!!!!GET OVER URSELF!!!
Comment by susanna & stephany | 02.16.2007 | 1:18 pm
i am goin this weekend but i ttly forget how to get to cry baby bridge!so if u can give me directions how to get there my email iz dramaqueenjcd1@aol.com!my mom went there bout12 years ago when she wuz 16!she said she heard the crying but it wuz hur friends big bro and his friends!
Comment by Julie | 03.3.2007 | 10:56 am
I love Cry Baby Bridge. I go there all the time.
I always here the baby crying! You people are just not as cool as me.
I usually like to go to Arby’s and get a beef and chedder and sit there for 3.5 hours slowly nibbling on the sandwhich as I listen.
Sometimes I take my cat Whiskers along.
I want to take a date, any ladies interested?
I’ll share my beef n chedder. Who knows maybe we will swing by the Circle K for a slushie afterwards! SOUR APPLE ROCKS MY WORLD!
-Bill Sutley- Cry Baby Bridges #1 FAN!!!
Comment by Bill Sutley | 03.16.2007 | 6:29 pm
Well I am from Ohio i have indeed heard of cry baby bridge but being an athiest you already no what my comment is
Comment by joseph little | 06.13.2007 | 11:39 am
Natasha I SO agree with you!!!!!!!! THESE ARE ALL UNTRUE LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by katlin | 06.19.2007 | 12:27 pm
Okay I read this same exact story on this same website and it said that the mother and her baby fell off the bridge and this one said that the mother had merdered her baby and then threw it off the bridge …. this doesn’t make any sense.
~~*MissAlexisBrookePruett*~~
Comment by Alexis Pruett | 06.20.2007 | 1:17 pm
I live in newton falls too. And i heard this story and i acctually live right by the bridge.And i have never heard a noise. So it may be true but i have never heard a sound.
~lil linds`
Comment by lindsey | 06.30.2007 | 8:23 pm
ok yall ive lived in ohio all my life and am like 5 minutes away . is it all that scary ???
Comment by amber | 07.10.2007 | 5:12 pm
Again there are 19 of these stories in Ohio alone. Not to mention the hundreds of others in the U.S. alone.
Comment by Zach | 08.7.2007 | 4:21 am
Okay, well, I grew up in Newton Falls, was there when the tornado went trough and all. My sister wrecked my dad’s van into the side of the Covered Bridge and I fished under it all the time. I never heard the story of the crying baby. As for Bill Sutley eating Arby’s under the bridge, WHAT ARBY’S!? Now, if you want some real ghosts from Newton Falls, go over to the cemetary beside the Nazarene Church on North Canal Street. I grew up behind the church and trust me, there are some freaky, creepy, and scary happenings in the graveyard.
Comment by Rick Trump | 08.13.2007 | 12:20 am
Mr. Rick Trump. You must not have been to Newton Falls for a few years. The fine fast food establishment that once was Hardee’s is now an Arby’s! shocking I know, but these things happen. good day sir.
Comment by big Bill | 09.6.2007 | 11:32 am
Unfortunately, due to stupid kids that want to be noticed, the actual location of Crybaby Bridge is publicly lost. There are four ‘Crybaby Bridge’’s in Indiana alone, and two thus far on this state’s list.
Your best bet for finding actual haunted locations is to go to your local library and look for a book on it. The internet, sites like this in particular, are the LAST places to look, simply because -like wikipedia- it is user edited content, and as such, I could say that the ghost of elvis lives in my bathroom, and be given as much credibility as anyone else.
Comment by NewWindRider | 09.10.2007 | 10:55 pm
ok well i have been there and the baby powder works there is little hand prints and i put a basket ball on there and it didnt roll and then a level and it is level and the car sits for a second and then it began to roll that stuff is for real u need to go the hand print really freaked me out little baby hand print yeah f*** that steelestown2005@yahoo.com
Comment by steele | 10.4.2007 | 8:25 am
FAKE!!! i live under that bridge && their is no babys underthere. silly.
Comment by Maddie, Lanie,&& Liz | 10.6.2007 | 10:06 pm
BS that bridge is shut down it has be for years i have never even hurd a baby cry there hat is bs
Comment by rae | 10.8.2007 | 3:52 pm
I have lived in Newton Falls since I was like 4 and this story has always been around! ugg! Whatever I think it is all fakeola!!! But whatever! Oh and since the bridge has a trailor park and various houses around it with children/babies in them did anyone ever consider that hmmm possibly it could be a real child/ or baby crying??? I mean really people they cry LOUD!!! ha ha ha oh well although there are various “ghost” stories other than this for Newton Falls that may be true you can look them up in the public library!
Comment by sillyness | 10.23.2007 | 5:52 pm
Ok the thing is probably in a lot of states because the combined sound of the bridge and train can make a crying sound so people think it is a babyand the story is created
Comment by realistic | 10.30.2007 | 10:07 pm
I was born in ohio. I have been to six different cry baby bridges (purely by accident, my friends like to bridge jump. Four of them have actually been caught and charged with attempted suicide, how retarded is that, but anywho)I never heard or saw anything at any of them. Then I moved to Tenn. Since I got there, I’ve heard tell of 3 more crybaby bridges. I believe in ghosts, but I think that most of these were the attempts of parents to keep their kids from swimming in the river at night. That’s when the snakes come out. shudder.
Comment by Jessie | 02.20.2008 | 3:10 am
My family and I have lived under the bridge for years. Yes, we are trolls. I often hear Billy Goats galloping above. I have also heard Bill Sutley munching on his beef and chedder, but never have I heard an infants cry.
Sometimes when Papa troll eats broccoli, he gets the stinkers. Perhaps that is what you heard?
Comment by Birth Von Jacobson | 03.17.2008 | 6:42 pm
I live in Newton Falls, I go over the bridge at least once a day now that it has been done. Never once have I heard a baby or woman crying or screaming. I do believe that there are haunted places out ther but Newton Fall’s bridge is not one of them. I live right down the road from it.
Comment by Michelle | 04.3.2008 | 11:13 am
I think its somewhere near Alliance Ohio a couple of my friends drove out there last year they didnt hear anything the first time they went but heard it the seconed, they wolnt talk about it when you bring it up. as for me I’d have to go there myself to believe it. I’ve heard and seen paranormal things all my life and I dont nessecarily believe in ghosts
Comment by Sarah | 04.30.2008 | 9:39 am
i think this is real people. i’ve been there before. it s true but it is just a goat that sounds like a baby crying.
Comment by Jim | 05.1.2008 | 11:18 am
this is true. It is just a goat that sounds like a baby crying.
Comment by Jim | 05.1.2008 | 11:19 am
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Comment by Jim | 05.1.2008 | 11:23 am
suck my **** *****!!!
Comment by Jim | 05.1.2008 | 11:24 am
i didnt believe this at first but then i
went and now i beleive it was really scary
Comment by Anna | 05.13.2008 | 6:28 am
Well, Im not quite sure if I could Call it a “crybaby” bridge but the area around the bridge definately has some sort of ghostly activity there. Here’s my story: When my friends and I were in high school(about 4 years ago) we decided to do a little “ghost hunting” ourselves since we were interested to see what was out there. So we had found out about the Newton Falls supposed “crybaby bridge” on a website and decided to take a drive down one day around dusk(just light enough to see)but where it was still creepy enough to have some fun! We arrived and parked the car(there were 4 of us)and we got out and walked down to the covered bridge and had some cameras to take pictures and so on and so forth. We all dared eachother to cross the bridge(to see if we could hear the baby crying) and only I and one other person went while the other 2 stayed back….we got about half-way through until we started hearing creeking and creepy noises(just the brige though)and decided it was too much so we went back. It was just about to get dark by this time(still hadn’t heard the crying baby) but decided to take a few more pictures before we left. We had gotten in the car and left. We went and got our pictures developed and found one that really stood out. At one point during the night 1 of my friends had taken a picture of the other 3 of us infront of the bridge and in the picture above all 3 of us was a ghostly figure starting from the bottom of my friends foot and extended up over all 3 of our heads and suprisingly looked like it was “Waving” a hand at the camera. You could tell where the face was and all. True story-no lie. To this day, I cannot find that picture and I wish we would have kept it in a safe spot. Im sure one of us has it in an album but who knows! maybe one day one of us will find it again!
Comment by Nicole | 05.17.2008 | 8:20 pm
Im tellin’ ya, this place is haunted!!!
Comment by Nicole | 05.17.2008 | 8:28 pm
Okay, I had not been to NF for a while but I still know the bridge. There are a number of dd things in Newton Falls. I know the old bakery was haunted and I saw numerous creepy things in both the old and new cemetary. My father did not believe in ghosts however, once when I once was out walking with my parents at night near the new cemetary, he stopped and told us we needed to go home right away, but not through the cemetary. When we finally made it back to the house he told us that he had seen something in the new cemetary and did not want to go near it. I still do not know what he saw but whenever I ask him he just tells me he does not want to talk about it but trust him it was something we did not want to be near.
Comment by Rick Trump | 05.28.2008 | 3:46 pm
I’ve heard that story before but this version was alot creepyer but why did the lady have to kill her baby thatz just downright low and nasty!
Comment by hunter | 06.26.2008 | 4:39 pm
This is not the real cry baby bridge. the real one is located in Doylestown. just outside summit county.i visit this place often. and there are books about this place library’s. here is the website where it can be found.http://www.forgottenoh.com/rogueshollow.html
Comment by dylan | 07.18.2008 | 9:23 am