The Huey P. Long Bridge is fairly well known in Louisiana, but it has a dark history that few are aware of. By day, it is a sleek industrial bridge that holds up train tracks and a highway, but by night, the spirits of the workers who built it come out to play.
Many trestle workers who aided in the bridge’s construction fell to their deaths, off the sides of the high beams from which they worked.
Travis Upright / Flickr The Mississippi River swept their bodies away, but their ghosts are said to linger on.
Men in overalls are seen on the sides of the bridge, and it is assumed that they are the spirits of these poor workers who crashed down to their watery graves.
gwen / Flickr
One horrifying story reveals that a few workers were entombed alive in the cement pilings that support the bridge.
formulanone / Flickr How they ended up meeting that dreadful fate is unclear, but the tragic tale of their demises circulates around Jefferson Parish to this day.
The haunting doesn’t stop there! The bridge’s designer and builder, Ralph Modjeski, is seen from time to time, inspecting every inch of the bridge.
Chris Lin / Flickr But Modjeski died in 1940, five years after the bridge was built.
He had designed many famous bridges, including San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, and it is said that his ghost travels to inspect each one in an unending loop of scrutiny.
Ken Lund / Flickr
Many homeless people would attempt to cross the bridge on foot after its construction, but would get flattened by vehicles, and their apparitions still travel the length of the bridge as they did in life.
Jasperdo / Flickr
Today, death is still prominent on the Huey P. Long Bridge.
Darren Whitten / Flickr Spirits are said to appear out of thin air, startling drivers and causing them to swerve into the guardrails and/or oncoming traffic.
The Huey P. Long Bridge is in Bridge City, Louisiana. For anyone traveling across it: good luck, and keep your wits about you!
Travis Upright / Flickr
The Mississippi River swept their bodies away, but their ghosts are said to linger on.
gwen / Flickr
formulanone / Flickr
How they ended up meeting that dreadful fate is unclear, but the tragic tale of their demises circulates around Jefferson Parish to this day.
Chris Lin / Flickr
But Modjeski died in 1940, five years after the bridge was built.
Ken Lund / Flickr
Jasperdo / Flickr
Darren Whitten / Flickr
Spirits are said to appear out of thin air, startling drivers and causing them to swerve into the guardrails and/or oncoming traffic.
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