Nine Mile Bridge

Missouri · USA · Cemetery

Local tradition at Auxvasse, Missouri holds that enslaved children were drowned in the creek under this bridge, and that they will tickle your feet if you.

Nine Mile Bridge crosses a creek near Auxvasse, Missouri, with a church and cemetery close by on the hill. What is told about it locally is bound up with slavery in Missouri: the tradition holds that Black women were hanged at the bridge and that enslaved children were drowned in the creek beneath it. No record has been produced for either claim, and it belongs to oral tradition rather than to the documented history of the county, though the wider history it draws on is real enough.

The practices that have grown up around the site are unusually specific. Switch your engine off on the bridge, or near the church and cemetery, and it is said to make odd noises when you restart it. Sit on the ledge of the bridge, take your shoes off and hang your feet above the water, and visitors describe a tickling on the soles of their feet. The story says that is the children.

Lights are also reported: paired points like eyes, blinking, seen beneath the bridge, in the trees along the creek, and up in the cemetery on the hill.

FAQ

Hvor ligger Nine Mile Bridge?

Nine Mile Bridge ligger i Missouri, USA.