Hey how ya doin, my name is eric and i live not to far form the bridge you speak of. Anyway my friends and i have gone to it and heard the crying babys or at least what sounded like them. i know where it is so if you need me to tell you just ask. but now i have a question for you. Im looking for other stuff like this around this area to do , like other places that have stories like this so if you know of any i would like you to tell me so my friends and i can go check them out thanks.
Submitted by: Eric
I wanted to do some research on cry baby bridge to find out all the legends behind it. Last night me and 4 of my friends went up to cry baby bridge near new hope and parked the car. We locked our doors and had the windows up and shut the car off. Everyone was holding each others hands and as soon as we turned the car off we started hearing tapping noises on the car as if someone was knocking on the windows or the roof of the car. Shortly after we heard what sounded like a horse and carriage. The legend we heard behind it was that a mother and her baby were on a horse and carriage crossing the bridge when the horse got spooked and the carriage tipped over and the baby died and supposedly if you put baby powder on your car you can see baby hands imprinted in the powder. We covered her car in baby powder and we saw finger prints and hand prints all over and marks that looked like someone ran their hands down the window. there are hand prints followed by nail scratches on the top of her car now.. I just wanted to tell you my experience.
Submitted by: LiNdZ
the story I heard about Cry Baby Bridge is based in a city in South Carolina my experience with this Bridge is if you drive up near the middle of the Bridge turn off the car roll down the windows and turn off the heads lights you will eventually hear two babys crying you will soon get scared and roll up the windows and try to start up the car but it won't start up you have to push the car off the bridge onto the road before you can start up the car
Submitted by: Jeff
ok about this Cry Baby Bridge!!! my friend Derek, a few others, and I decided to drive up to it becaue byberry was on lockdown. We went onto mapquest and found out where it was. They said it was 15 miles from street road. 3 hours later we stopped and asked for directions. These two girls knew exactly where it was. So we finally got there. when we got out my friend Derek saw a womanly figure. While on the bridge I thouight I saw out of the corner of my eye, one of our members, a female, lagging behind like she didn't want to cross. when i looked back she wasn't therem abd the girl I thought was lagging was no where near back there she was right next to me. We took some pictures. I'm waiting for them to develop.
when we were leaving we heard three cries in the woods. We got ou of the car and walked to the edge, didn't see anything, then we drove ontp the bridge, nothing, and finally left.
The directions(the correct directions) are 532 to 32(river rd(North) left on to aquatong, left onto covered bridge. Its called the Van sant Bridge!!
PS Byberry has gotten way too much attntion and they mowed the grass around the place and cut many of the trees and bushes down.
Submitted by: Dark Elf
It is on Brielle avenue, this area is known as Seaview Hospital. The block that you say was abandoned was once the TB ward of Seaview Hospital back in the early 1900's. After the TB epidemic had subsided once they found medication to treat this disease, the buildings were no longer used. The main part of the hospital is across the street.
The New York City Farm Colony – Seaview Hospital Historic District, the first historic district in Staten Island, was designated in 1985. The district consists of the buildings and grounds of two municipal institutions sited on approximately 320 acres at the center of Staten Island. The two institutions lie across Brielle Avenue from one another. For two short periods in their history they fell under the same administration, but they were founded separately – The Seaview Hospital as a tuberculosis hospital, the Farm Colony as a poor farm. The demolished building - Dormitory 3 & 4 was the second building constructed in the Farm Colony. It was designed by William Flanagan and completed in 1909. This building had been damaged by arson fire in the early 1990s.
The buildings you refer to were the poor farm colony.
Submitted by: Roc
me and a couple of my friends went out to the bridge the other night im not really sure how to get there but i do know that it was a covered bridge on covered bridge road... so anyway we all stand in the middle of the bridge and to tell you the truth i didnt hear anything myself but my friends say that they did so i guess it is fun to just go out there and try it out but if i were u i wouldnt get my hopes up but we are gonna go back and try it again just for the sake of wanting to hear it so anyway that is about all i know so i hope this info helps.
Submitted by: name omitted by request
Ok I stumbled on your page about Cry Baby Bridge. I don't know how long it has been since you wrote that/updated it/or if you even been there yet. I haven't heard the story of the lady killing herself by jumping off the bridge with her kids, I dont see how it would kill her-maybe the kids-but not her because the bridge is maybe only 30 feet high and it passes over a maybe a 1-2ft deep creek and its rather small only maybe 25 feet long(I thought it was larger bridge before I visited it). It doesn't go over the delaware like you thought it might from what i read on your page. But it is pretty close to it.
I've heard many stories of Cry Baby Bridge(which is really named Van Sant Bridge). I've mainly heard stories of what might happen to you if you go there. But resently a friend of mine said he found an article on www.phillyburbs.com about the bridge and its history. It was said that the bridge was used to hang horse-thieves. But thats the only history of killings/deaths that I know of that have taken place there. Not anything dealing with a woman and her kid(s) but I wouldn't doubt that something like that didn't happen. Because why else would it be called Cry Baby Bridge? Unless it was named that because it made guys cry like a baby.
Some of the stories I heard of what would happen to you if you went there ranged from things of actually seeing dead baby(ies) crawling around the car if you park it in the middle of the bridge and turn your engine off and all your lights off. Other things are that you hear babies crying-now what I would say that is probably just a Cat-Bird which tend to sound almost exactly like a baby crying. Other friends' have told me of seeing shadowy figures looming over the car "staring" down at the passengers or more shadowy figures standing at the opening of the bridge just waiting there. My friend claims that all his mirrors started shaking while he was sitting there - which according to him brought his attention to the shadowy figures around his car. You're suppose to be able to see little red lights that fly around the area. I was told by other people that if you stand on the bridge and a fog rolls in and if the fog touches you its suppose to kill you or some crap like that. I was also told that if you park on the bridge and turn everything off in your car and wait there long enough a pair of headlights will appear on either side of the bridge and they'll come straight for you to try and push you off the bridge. I later found out the town that the bridge is in is full of KKK and other white-power groups, so that could probably explain the car trying to push people off the bridge.
I've actually visited the bridge acouple of times. Its a rather cool place. It does have a very eerie feel to it. But the bridge is well kept other then the graffiti. I think I've visited it 4 times. The first time I visited the bridge was the first and only time I seen or heard anything. It was during a party. Acouple of friends gathered into a car and we started driving. I'm surprised we found the place because the only person who knew the way was passed out in the back seat. But we pulled up to the bridge and put it into park. we left the engine on though. but killed all the lights. Now I was rather intoxicated so I don't know if what I saw was real or not. But I stared forward at the opening of the bridge infront of me. And it started closing in on me so I freaked out and tried ducking under the dash (which wasnt easy) but when I calmed down. I sat up and turned to look at my friend mike and I saw a figure standing behind the car we were in. It didnt move or anything just stood there. The outline of it made it seem like it was a rather tall man. But I couldn't make any features out. But after I saw it, I yelled and urged my friend to get us out of there and he took off as quick as he could. Which didnt help because we had to turn around and head back the other way across the bridge again to go home. heh. On all my other trips to the bridge I actually got out and walked around the bridge,climbed it, went under it. And it was all normal no "sightings" and the only thing I heard were frogs and every once and awhile a scream from a girl(s) we bring along because its just toooo easy to scare them. I've never seen anything yet since the first time other then other people who were coming there too to get the crap scared out of them. And the only little red lights I seen could easily be explained by the cherry of another person's cigarette heh.
Submitted by: Jesus
i have been looking all ova the net and i cant find a map of seaview any were and its been pissing me off cuz i cant figure out wut leads were and how to get to that big ass 5 story bilding im seeing in so manny pictures i cant fucken find it is it on the other side of the street or somthing cuz the biggest biulding i can find is the one with the bridge and now its got like some barbed wire fence around it i dono wut the hell thats about but wut ever thats not important i wana find a map or some info on how to get to that big building so can u send me anything you know
From: Magkj
I stumbled upon this site in research for a book I'm writing. I have been to the Van Sant Bridge several times in the past few years. I personally, have seen the bridge enveloped in a weird white fog. It was around Samhein 1999 (I can't remember what day it was in particular.) I have seen ghost lights and have heard very freaky stuff, especially a woman crying. That was actually during the day. It also appears that there are rope marks on one of the beams. I have also sensed stuff there (I'm also a slight psychic as well)
I don't know the true history of the bridge; I'm assuming that there was a bridge that transversed the Pidcock Creek there prior to the covered one that is there. The current one was built in the late 1800s. The bridge is definitelty haunted, as is most of New Hope.
If you have questions for me, I can definitely answer most. And to the poster who said that New Hope is in Newtown. It's not. It's in New Hope.
From: Latisha
I have been trying for forever to get directions to Clinton Road in West Milford New Jersey. If you could help me out it would bne greatly appreciated. Im from Pennslyvania.If you could help me out it would be great.
From: Kat
I've been checking out your site and reading a few of the stories. I think this little tid bit that I have to share with you would be of some interest. Your Pitcarin story is totally true infact they are rumored to still be like that today but heres where it gets interesting. You referred to them as being really into real-estate. Pitcairin owns Byberry, on Roosevelt Blvd.I live around here and my parents and their friends grew up around here. From what they have told me Pitcarin used to put their "inbreeds" in Byberry and after it was closed they bought it. It is said that to this day they still put them in there.
Oh and the story about Cry Baby Bridge is true. My friends and I go up there all the time, we try to find new places but always get lost, anyway also back in the days of "witches" supposedly 3 women were hanged on the bridge. I have heard the cries but if you sit there long enough you just get this eerie feeling period, like something bad is there that wants to hurt you.We have heard the floor boards crack and on time something kept tapping on the car...My friends sister and her friends one time went up there and when they went to turn back on their car it wouldnt start, I have heard a few other people have the same problem.Its hard to stay up there too long because people do live by the bridge and the cops patrol the area often..
Just thought this would be of some interest to you.
From: Kat
the story you have on your website about cry baby bridge lives in kirtland, ohio, just 15miles from my house. It is connected to the eerie story of the kirtland melon heads. type in on yahoo.com "melon heads" and be amazed with what you see. Tonight im goin to the find the elusive melon heads and i will write you with the information on the melon heads and the bridge which you have to cross where the melon heads lurk, cry baby bridge.
From: Brian
I live about 20 minutes away from Cry Baby Bridge, and many people from my neighborhood venture to this haunted place. I have yet to visit there myself; however, I've heard that the brigde is very scary. Pennsylvania itself is relatively haunted. I live in relative proximity to an area named Bensalem; however, if you look on a map it is usually spelled Ben's Salem. The story is that a man named Ben escaped Salem, during the witch trials, the night before his execution and settled this area. There are numberous cemetaries dating back to the early 1700's. Many, many stories of ghost and hauntings are known around here, and if you would like to post them I could email you them. But, anyhow, yes this bridge does exist and there are many stories originating from that area and the areas near it.
From: ShagyHairedHippy
Note from the editor: I know we have a lot of readers from around Pa, so let's hear some of these stories and maybe get some of these cemetaries photographed for the website, eh? I'm interested now.