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Devil’s Road

Monmouth, Illinois

The road is marked by the sign of the devil–666–atop a dead end sign at the end of the street. Allegedly, the grim reaper stands in the middle of the road as cars approach. Just as the car is about to mow him over, the reaper vanishes into a puff of smoke. When the victims return the next day, burn marks tell exactly where the reaper appeared. Also on the road is Haunted Bridge. Legend says that young couple came around the curve too fast and fell of the bridge to a watery grave. It is alleged that if one stops his car on the bridge, he will be guided to safety. Bare footprints have been reported on rainy nights. Many others have also put powdered sugar on their car and reported hand prints after leaving the bridge.

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A friend to the Dead!!! says:

October 12, 2008, 1:29 pm

If all this is true, and I very possibly believe it could be..leave these poor souls alone. Let them rest in peace. That is their eternal resting place and they do not need to be worried about saving some silly kids who are crying wolf, for validation. They are obviously already lost, and there is no need to add to their confusion.

LYNN says:

October 12, 2008, 9:17 pm

IM GOING TO GO TO THIS CRY BABY BRIDGE ON HALLOWEEN AND SEE FOR MYSELF IF IT IS TRUE IM NOT THE PERSON THAT LIES ABOUT ANYTHING SO AS SOON AS I GET HOME ILL GET ON HERE AND TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT OH AND ….. IM NOT A DRINKER SO ME BEIN DRUNK WILL NOT BE APART OF THIS SO UNTILL HALLOWEEN OF “08″ WE WILL SEE THANKS EVERYONE FOR LETTING ME READ ALL OF THIS CAUSE I WANT THIS HALLOWEEN TO BE MY SCARIEST EVER AND IM 28 SO I DONT SCARE EASY

Dusty says:

October 16, 2008, 3:15 am

I personaly have went to this bridge and it is true the car will sit in Nuetral for a long period of time and then out of nowhere it will roll off of the bridge, at an incline (up hill). The bridge is at the bottom of 2 little hills, One side is a real steep sharp curve, the other is a short incline to an elbow turn which takes you right out on highway34. There is a creek about 20 ft wide runnin under it, There is a back road from lake story (Galesburg) to this bridge. The road is actually cool and you’d better not be goin fast because you can’t see the curve as you get up on it. and one more thing, the baby powder works, there will be handprints. Make sure everybody with you’s hands are accounted for when you get out of the car, you’ll freak, I did.

qwertyy says:

October 20, 2008, 7:55 pm

we just went there last saturdayy, & we went down the bridge twice with two different cars. & yes, it did move. saw couple hand prints. there was diss 2 families out there with us. they were there before us, && two of dem grown women said that they heard dem kids singing ABCD.. then stop, then they would sing different song. one of them also said that she saw the actual bus. or whatever… idk! it’s fuuuucking creepyy as fuuuuck…..

but…….
im still kinda suspicious about it.

TIP: before you guys go there, wash ur car first!!

Candy Bar Bridge, Beer Bridge says:

October 23, 2008, 9:55 pm

It is all an urban legend. I went out there 9 years ago with the guy who is now my husband. I believe he heard Dwyer and Micheals talking about it. Absolutely nothing happened. I heard D.J.s talking about it on the radio today but of course it has changed to if you leave a candy bar on the bridge then one of the ghosts will come and take it. How can anyone possibly believe that? Yes, I know it’s all in fun. Just use your heads and don’t go out there drunk!! There is a sharp curve, be careful.

Mike says:

January 21, 2009, 7:11 pm

I’ve lived in monmouth all my life.I’ve been to cry baby bridge many times. One time we sat long enough in neutral, that we started to creep UPHILL real,real slow in neutral, we freaked out and slammed it into drive and to the floor. The story is a mother killed her baby and threw it over the bridge.What alot of people are missing is, the bridge is on a small hill your supposed to face uphill and be pushed uphill..
This is the first time I ever heard the 666 grim reaper..
Now Bufford’s Barn was way more frightening than any thing. It was on top of the hill heading north and to the right from cry baby bridge. The story I heard was the klu klux klan use the barn to hang people. Dont know but that was one freaky place, we all thought we were badasses, until it comes to Bufford’s Barn, we never could go out at nighttime, we went out in the daylight and was scared

chett in pittsfield says:

January 25, 2009, 1:33 pm

In White Hall if you park on the rail road tracks and put BABY POWDER on you bumper and get back in your car and wait five min, you will see lttle kid hand prints where a bus got hit, its really creepy, plus your in the woods

HAILEY ♥ says:

March 20, 2009, 1:13 pm

Omg where do they come up with this **** me and my friends allways go down that road and gat out that road is so so fake one night we went down there one time at 2 am and went all thro there on foot this is all lies

Mrs. Bates says:

April 9, 2009, 12:27 am

There is no such thing as the Grim Reaper.

De La Cruz&Alvarado says:

April 29, 2009, 4:17 pm

In Febuary 2004 me my girlfriend and 3 friends took a trip to cry baby bridge.Were all from the area and have heard many different stories well let me tell you ours isn’t like any of the others.The whole road there gives you an eerie feeling so by time you get to the bridge your all ready on edge.I drove when I pulled up to the bridge I thought I put the car in neutral but I had put it in reverse.Nothing was happening so everyone started to laugh then simultanelusly everyone went quiet.My steering wheel started to shake and the car sounded like it was beeing ingulfed with water so I went to take off and noticed the car was in reverse I put it in neutral and the car flew across the bridge and continued up the road without me steering.I pulled towards the shoulder and turned around when I drove over the bridge the whole car was shaking.As soon as we got to town we pulled into the gas station thats were we noticed hand prints all over the car we made our way around and noticed two giant handprints dented in the hood and a pair of tiny ones too.After this we’ve attemted to go back a couple of times once a had a blessed rosary on my mirror and it broke right at the road the other time the road was blocked off.Believe what you want but I know its real……..

corey goodwin says:

April 30, 2009, 2:01 am

whoever told you the kkk story about the barn is full of it. The true story is it was owned by a farmer named buford and for no apparent reason one night he killed the whole family then himself. its the truth bc it has been published in a nationally syndicated magazine if you go out there late at night you can see the whole buford family so the story goes

belhelmiel@yahoo.com says:

June 22, 2009, 11:15 am

I want to experience something like this myself but I don’t know any haunted place in Iowa,Louisiana.My E-mail is belhelmiel@yahoo.com if you know any places in Calcasieu parish.AKA Near Iowa,La.If you could help me email me any places

taylor says:

June 24, 2009, 10:59 pm

i now there real!+ theres spirts one of my after school techer thinks it is too she said her friend saw one and she did too she said her and her bff were skipping school there always go too the millarta were u read books there were sitting on the bench on the other side they saw someone then he smiled he looked like he had pointie teeth! she thot it was vapire but it was a spirt! the other one was she was in a shower alone i now eww then she looked in the window this will get scarrer then she looked it was a face! she sceamed! she thot it was a dream she looked 1 more time it was there! she did not die! shes a live!one more its not a hanted house or a spirt and its real! one time they was a guy hes a meat chopper when he was working with cow like with a hook when he keep working this is scary ohhh!!!!!!!!!! he cot him eye ! help! he said help then his eye came out he did not have an eye! i hope u dont have bad dreams there real! if u dont think its real then u do it dont kill your self

Dirk says:

August 3, 2009, 10:07 pm

I lived just outside of Monmouth, IL. I’ve been there w/ friends many times, and most of those times, we were guided to safety. It’s a gravel road to the bridge, so your car will get dusty. We checked for dust on the trunk lid before we stopped on the bridge, there were no hand prints. We stopped on the bridge and the car was ‘pushed’ off the bridge to safety. When we stopped the car after we were off the bridge, we got out, looked, and there were now handprints. We’ve done this many times, and it is true. I’ve got specific related first-hand experiences to share if interested.

michelle says:

October 12, 2009, 2:13 pm

I have actually experienced something on cry baby bridge when i was 16, my friends and i were out there hangin out cause we had heard about this supposed “phenomena” and wanted to see if it was true, so we parked in the middle of the bridge toward the lil hill so it would be like we were goin uphill sorta i put the car in neutral and instead of goin backwards like i should have i started rolling forward and my friends and i were freakin out so we took off i went down the road a lil ways and we got out and noticed tiny hand prints in the dust on the car. it was awesome true story

john p says:

October 26, 2009, 2:16 am

i have lived in the area my whole life never heard of this, maybe getting confused with cry baby bridge

Lisa says:

December 28, 2009, 11:08 pm

I’ve been to Cry Baby Bridge a few times. While I haven’t seen any light specters that some have mentioned, which I’ll have to check out next time I go, we have been pushed up the hill, with the car engine turned off. And it wasn’t subtle. But I have sat on top of the bridge. My friend fell off the bridge and landed somewhere near the river’s edge. And we used a Ouija board there (I don’t recall what was said). Other been being pushed up a hill, there wasn’t any extravagant paranormal activity.

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