Cry Baby Hollow

Missouri · United States · Haunted site

Go between ten to midnight and twenty past. A flash like a door opening, a baby crying, then the mother. Red eyes in the dark around you.

Cry Baby Hollow lies off DD Highway just outside Crocker, Missouri, and the instructions are precise about time: go between ten minutes to midnight and twenty past.

What is described comes in sequence. A flash of light, like a door opening. A baby crying. Screaming. Then the mother, crying for her child.

Around you, in various places in the dark, sets of red eyes.

Cry Baby bridges and hollows exist in almost every state, and the story is nearly always the same: a mother, a child, and water. It is one of the most widely distributed pieces of American folklore there is, and it belongs to the same family as La Llorona.

The red eyes are the local addition. Deer, raccoons and possums all reflect light back from the treeline, and there are a great many of them in a Missouri hollow at midnight.

The road is rural and unlit.

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Where is Cry Baby Hollow located?

Cry Baby Hollow is in Missouri, United States.