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Crybaby Bridge Urban Legend
The Crybaby Bridge urban legend is very well known in other states as well. Surprisingly if you think that South Carolina’s Crybaby Bridge is a one of a kind you would be mistaken. Other states that have the “Crybaby Bridge” is Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Texas and Utah. Even though they might have the same urban legend there is many other different versions. For instance one version goes that instead of her and her baby getting struck, she ends up throwing her baby off the bridge into the river down below. They say that she did this because her husband was suppose to come home from the army after he was gone for 3 years and didn’t.
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