The bridge on Enochs Knob Road

Missouri · United States · Bridge

A boy fell from this bridge a long time ago. Look down into the lake late at night and something moves in the water. Some describe it as serpentine.

Near the end of Enochs Knob Road at New Haven, Missouri there is an old bridge over water.

A boy is said to have fallen from it and drowned, long enough ago that no name or date survives with the story.

Stand on the bridge late at night and look down, and something can be seen moving in the murky water. Some describe it as a serpent rather than as a boy, which is the detail that has kept this one going.

That drift, from a drowned child to something with a shape, is common in water legends and it usually happens over generations rather than all at once. The warning at the heart of it is unchanged: do not go on the bridge, and do not go in the water.

No record of the drowning has been found. The road is rural and unlit.

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The bridge on Enochs Knob Road is in Missouri, United States.