Did you see her? Most people who have lived in Jefferson County, Alabama for a while have heard the ghost story about the ‘lady of the lake’ at Bayview bridge. The way the bridge was constructed caused tires to make strange noises when you crossed it and high school boys use to take their girlfriends across the bridge to scare them.
The old bridge was replaced in 1977, but many say that the area still remains haunted.
The first is that the ghost is supposed to be a lady that lived in Edgewater back in the early 1940’s that had hired a lady in Bayview to make her wedding dress. It was before everybody had cars and people still walked most everywhere they went. It was stated that the girl had gone to her final fitting and was on her way back home with her dress when she was attacked by a pack of wild dogs and killed. Another version states that the girl ran away from her wedding when she crossed the bridge and her car ran off the bridge and a third version states that she crashed through the guard rail on the night of her wedding and she is looking for her groom.
Another story is that a mother and her child were crossing the bridge in their car and it crashed into the creek. The mother survived but the child did not and the mother haunts the bridge looking for her child.
Once a man reported a new car suddenly stopped on the bridge and he saw strange misty figures on the bridge.
Hand prints on windshields were often reported by people.
