Coverts Crossing

Pennsylvania · USA · School

She was driving home from her school prom on a stormy night in the early 1940s and went off the side of the bridge.

In the early 1940s a girl driving home from her high school prom, on a night of storms, went off the side of this bridge near New Castle, Pennsylvania.

The instructions are the same every time. Drive to the middle of the bridge at midnight, turn off your lights, and she walks towards you in a white dress.

No name has ever attached to her and no record has been produced, which is the usual position for a legend of this shape.

The prom is doing specific work in the story. It places her at the single most anticipated night of an American adolescence, in a dress, at the moment before everything that was supposed to follow. That is why the detail survives and why the dress is always white.

Rural Pennsylvania roads in the 1940s were unlit, unpaved in places and genuinely lethal in bad weather, so the underlying event is entirely possible.

The bridge is on a public road.

FAQ

Hvor ligger Coverts Crossing?

Coverts Crossing ligger i Pennsylvania, USA.