Jamestown Bridge
During stormy and foggy nights, a young girl has been spotted standing under the bridge. She was supposedly killed on her way to the prom, and is still wearing her prom dress. She now attempts to get a ride home from passing motorists, but on the way, she vanishes.
I ave seen her and she is very wicked.
If you approach to close to her or talk with her she will reveal her fangs to you. Beware…she will bite!
Comment by John Nelson | 11.7.2005 | 12:20 am
This story is not true I have lived in Jamestown all my life and so has my family
Comment by Judy Morgan | 11.16.2005 | 3:10 pm
I’ve only passed this bridge en route to somewhere else in the daytime. But I hear she only appears to men anyway, so I guess it doesn’t matter.
P.S. Nelson, you’re a nut.
Comment by Julia | 11.24.2005 | 6:27 pm
i have seen her and she is beautiful. it was my and my step dad me and my step brother in the car,i was just 5 years old and still remeber to this day.my step fathre was driving down the road getting closer to the bridge and when we get up on the bridge my mom yells out come out you bxxxx.when we got under the bridge on the other side there she stood. my dad turned around to ask if she wanted a ride but when we got back to her she was gone,so we turned the car back around heading for our destination.got half way back down the road ,i felt something playing with my hair ,i turned around to look and she was holding me on her lap,i screamed ,my mom and everyone turned thier heads to see what was wrong and they seen her ,my dad slammed on the brakes and when he stopped the car she was gone agian. so yes the story is true. tell you a sercret it has to be at night and raining and on the night she died.
Comment by traci smith | 02.21.2006 | 2:38 pm
Okay… just for the record, the post…
“his story is not true I have lived in Jamestown all my life and so has my family
Comment by Judy Morgan | 11.16.2005 | 3:10 pm”
Well, if you infact live in Jamestown and so does your family, then you would know that Lydia (the girl under the Bridge) and the Mendenhall stories together make it one of the most haunted towns in America. Anyone who lives in Jamestown has heard of it, especially if they have been there more than 6 months (about all it takes to hear it).
The comment about her having fangs…. well, that was just pretty stupid.
And she wasn’t going to a prom. She was coming back from a dance in Raleigh and wrecked under the bridge. The bridge isn’t even accessible anymore, so I doubt anyone has picked her up. A new bridge was built years ago. My great uncle always told a story about picking her up. He even knew where the mother lived, but like anyone else in that town, they will never tell. Every state has the same story in some way, but Lydia is the main one that usually stands out the most. Either you believe it, or you don’t, but I honestly doubt she has fangs. (again, tat was pretty stupid) Jamestown has other haunts that you ca get info on if you search mendenhall plantation in jamestown.
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Comment by Shannon | 06.21.2006 | 6:36 pm
okay first of all they have no proof of this,there’s no police report or anything about this.this is just somebody’s theory!
Comment by victoria | 08.3.2006 | 5:49 pm
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Thanks,
J.
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Comment by annye ruggiero | 09.20.2006 | 12:35 am
FANGS? come on now…Nelson, you are crying out for attention. I may believe the story about the ghost, but yours is a made up story… Laura
Comment by Laura | 10.19.2006 | 1:19 pm
THIS IS THE FAKEST STORY I’VE EVER HEARD SO YOU NEED TO STOP TELLING FAKE STORYS AND TELL REAL ONES GET GOT GOOD!!!
Comment by LOGAN HEWITT | 01.8.2007 | 6:52 pm
THIS IS THE FAKEST STORY I’VE EVER HEARD SO YOU NEED TO STOP TELLING FAKE STORYS AND TELL REAL ONES GET IT GOT IT GOOD!!!
Comment by LOGAN HEWITT | 01.8.2007 | 6:53 pm
yes the story it is true we wet one day and win we got there she was siting there in the roed with blood all over her we got out of the car to help her but here came a someone eles in a car she scremed and was gone
Comment by jone | 02.4.2007 | 5:10 pm
my papa lived in north carolina I have seen some scary houses and one of them I saw was kind of the same thing!!!!!
Comment by Kelsey D. | 02.12.2007 | 5:31 pm
i have seen her to all the time when i go under the Jamestown bridge i feel a very cold chill running throgh my body and one time at night my grandma was coming back from work and i was with her and so was my little sister and so was my uncles girlfriend and as soon as we went under that bridge we saw her and me grandma stoped to give her a ride so she asked her and she said yes please get me home i waant to see my mama!so she dident talk much but she said that her name was lidea and i had to set right next to her and she was pale and she kep on saying I WANT TO GO HOME I WANT MY MAMA when we got there she vanished i was to scared to move so we got out the car and knocked on the door her mom answerd so my grandma ask if she had a daughter named lidea and she said yes but she died years ago and slammed the door !THAT WAS CREEPY!
Comment by savannah | 03.2.2007 | 12:09 pm
I have been to the jamestown bridge…just for the record, the one you drive through now is NOT the original. the original is about 25 feet to the side, the last time I was there (about 15 years ago) it was mostly grown over with kudzu… My aunt used to stop in the underpass and call for Lydia every time we went through it…. she never showed… and I’ve never heard of her having fangs…they wouldn’t have gone with her prom dress.
Comment by dani | 03.8.2007 | 12:04 pm
WHAT THE ****?
Comment by alley | 03.13.2007 | 9:32 am
“okay first of all they have no proof of this,there’s no police report or anything about this.this is just somebody’s theory!”
Yes, Yes there is. Recently in the county records someone found the death certificate for Lydia. She died in a car crash at the bridge December 23rd 1923. If hse is really a ghost waiting there, that’s another story.
Comment by Nick | 03.24.2007 | 6:57 pm
Do she still think that she is alive.Has she not gone 2 tha light. That light is calling her name.She need’s 2 go and be free.She should just fine were tha light is.
Comment by veronica | 03.27.2007 | 5:03 pm
Ok… Me and my Cousin Kalie Are from Reidsville and i have heard this story all through growing up. I am driving up there and going to see if i can pick her up. If I do then I will let you know what Happend.
Comment by Rachel&Kalie | 07.20.2007 | 1:29 am
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Comment by Jacquelyn Brown | 08.6.2007 | 12:06 am
oops.
Comment by Jacquelyn Brown | 08.6.2007 | 12:06 am
B U L L S H I T.
Comment by Jacquelyn Brown | 08.6.2007 | 12:07 am
i saw that girl, so i believe all whose seen her since i did.
Comment by susie | 08.12.2007 | 9:38 am
i need direction some one help me out
Comment by nelson | 08.16.2007 | 10:59 pm
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Comment by Nicky | 08.24.2007 | 10:11 pm
Okay, anyone who lives in the triad (Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem) of North Carolina or in/around Jamestown knows this story.
Here are things that are true in every version of the Lydia story.
She is coming back home after a fight with her boyfriend from a dance in Raleigh (not prom).
She is in her party dress, but appears normal (not bloody/scary).
She asked men for a ride home, but when the men try to drop her off at her parent’s house, she vanishes.
She may have moved to a bridge on high point road, since the Jamestown bridge has since been abandoned and there have been reports of a vanishing hitch-hiker on high point road who matches Lydia’s description.
Thank you for reading. Please, use some sort of common sense when posting, so you don’t take away from the story and annoy others.
Comment by Kit F. | 09.7.2007 | 3:08 pm
I grew up in Winston-Salem and live in Greensboro. I’ve heard Lydia’s story all my life. Most natives here have heard about her.
Comment by Em | 09.8.2007 | 11:14 pm
thats not how the story go’s is I October 13 a fifteen year old girl she was walking to her house at 11 pm but then a man stoped and ask her if she wanted a ride she said ok and got in his car, afterwards that man rapped her and killed her and then left her on that same road on the floor so now every october 13 at 11 pm, only the men see her walking on that same road and when they stop and ask her if she wants a ride she will always say yes, but you say no to her she will appear on the back of your seat, but if you do she will show you wear she lives but then when she gets of and goes in to her house a old lady would come out and ask you what do you want and they tell her that they came to leave her daughter and she always tell’s them that she died a long time ago that same day but the girl would never show her face.
Comment by Alex | 09.14.2007 | 6:30 pm
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Comment by jocelyn | 09.27.2007 | 4:09 pm
the brige that this happend is covered up with ivy.. the new brige that we go under now is not the brige it happened at. when coming from gtcc towards the brige, look to the left and you can see where the brige still is but is covered.
Comment by nancy | 10.6.2007 | 3:56 pm
YOU R A LLLLLLLLIIIIIIIEEEEEEEERRRRRR
LIER,LIER, YOUR PANT R ON FIRE
Comment by Katelyn this is such a nontrue story i dont believe u LLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR | 10.11.2007 | 8:52 pm
Alot of people get upset about ghost stories saying that they’re not real. If you really didn’t believe in them why are you looking them up on the internet. The fact is whether they’re real or not it’s always fun to hear them. So instead of getting up here and critizing them just enjoy the story. What’s the saying if you don’t got anything nice to say don’t say anything at all.
Comment by MAE | 10.12.2007 | 9:02 am
Geez, I have never heard so many different version of Lydia’s story. I am 44 and I have lived here all my life. Kit F. has the facts as I have always heard them.
In the winter, if you look closely to your left (coming from Greensboro into Jamestown) you can still see the old bridge where the accident happened.
I personally do not know anyone who has picked her up, but I have heard the stories just as Kit stated. Of course everyone knows someone who knows someone who picked her up.
I do think that the story is that it was a rainy night and she only appears on rainy nights. But I could be wrong.
Comment by Susanne | 10.21.2007 | 11:24 pm
Sorry . . I meant if you look to your right coming by GTCC from Greensboro to Jamestown.
Comment by Susanne | 10.21.2007 | 11:25 pm
wellllllll
i heard there were 3 *** guys havin a ..
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you know…
=D
Comment by betty | 10.29.2007 | 2:17 pm
I have heard three different types of this story,the first one i heard was that she and her boyfriend were on there way back from an Opera on a rainy night and she and her boyfriend got in a car accedent and she died but her boyfriend survived,the second one was that she was on her way back from a dance and she and her date got into an argument and she told him to let her out at the underpass,and then this one says that she was on her way to prom and got killed.So i dont really know if it’s true or not but i’m not one to say anything i’ve never been to Jamestown but i’d really like to go sometime at night and see if the story is really true!
Comment by Kaitlen | 10.29.2007 | 2:25 pm
GIRLS WHO ARE READING THIS STORY DO NOT TRY TO GO PICK HER UP BECAUSE SHE ONLY ASKS MEN TO PICK HER UP!!
Comment by Kaitlen | 10.29.2007 | 2:40 pm
son mentiras!!!!!!! yo vivo en jamestown, y nunca he visto eso… so!!! no seas mentiros@!!!!!!!…. ahahah mas sin embargo en puerto rico, q es de donde yo soy, si hey muchos diferentes casos de fantasmas… si alguien les interesa escuchar historias de misterios de otros paises, hablenme!! ok… mi email es junkyky_20@hotmail.com… ajajja so, me hablan!!!
Comment by Juan | 10.31.2007 | 2:05 pm
I lived in Greensboro for almost ten years. These were the best times of my life (even though I went through some hard times). I’ve been in the area coming back from mates houses. I would have to drive through the area (man does it get dark out there). Well, to be honest I’ve never seen anything. But, it is not what you see,it is what you feel. My heart starts racing like mad.
My college is haunted to and that is also in Greensboro. There has been a lot of haunting in the Greensboro area.
You can feel something there.
Comment by Todd Bridges | 12.9.2007 | 6:25 pm
i heard of this story but it was a girl coming home for a night club in the 50s and her name was mary aka resurrection mary and it been on unsolved mysteries and other shows!!! dont know if its the same girl but sounds a lot like her and all she wants to do is get back home but always winds up at her grave site
Comment by dez | 02.16.2008 | 8:06 pm
I live in Jamestown and can see both the original and the new bridge from my front door. I’ve never seen Lydia but I do feel that haunted chill at times. Perhaps it’s wishful thinking, but I believe that she exists and justs wants to get home. It’s almost calming to imagine her so close to where I live.
Comment by Stell | 05.7.2008 | 11:12 pm
i hered of this story befor and i traced down
some of the people she got rides form
ask what happened they said they were
in the car with her in the car
she vanishies all the sounden
Comment by tabitha marie carroll | 06.29.2008 | 2:22 am
I live 5 minutes away from this bridge and I drive under it everyday on my way to school. Everyone who lives here knows this story and that this story is not true!
Comment by Alexa | 07.1.2008 | 1:05 pm
Supposedly, the bridge near Ragsdale High School, Jamestown is not the same bridge she haunts. The one that the story originated has not been open to road traffic for at least 50 years.
Comment by Joy | 07.5.2008 | 1:36 pm
I have never been there in a storm or foggy nights.But i have had family members tell me that they have picked her up and they ask her wher she liveis and she will tell them then when they get there she will be gone. So they will go to the door and say i had your daughter and her mom will say honey she has been deid. So i dont now if it is true or not i guess i’ll find out when i get old enought to drive
Comment by Emily M. | 07.6.2008 | 5:10 pm