Emilly's Bridge

From: Justin Hurd (esham9@excite.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Stowe Vermont/Stowe Hollow
Source: Form Submission

I consider myself a realist,thays why this is such a strange occuance. Anyway There is this bridge in stowe vt that is supposed to be haunted, it has been dubbed as Emilly's bridge.The story goes that some time in the early 1900's a man and women were engaged to be married,and come the day of the of the ceremony the groom to be decided not to attend the wedding. And needless to say the bride was left standing alone at the alter.So in a fit of despare the Bride (Emilly) left the ceremony alone in her carridge. After a short time her carridge was discovered at the bottom of gold something creek (I forgett the whole name)anyway she had of course died.Apparently she had gone right off the side of the bridge which was said to be very unsafe to begin with.Since then the town of Stowe had turned it into a covered bridge, and of course there were stories of sighting which I dismissed as absured.Now I had been living in Stowe for quite time and had frequently seen and passed over the bridge without incedent. However one time my mother ,her boyfriend ,and a couple of his friends had gone to the bridge at midnight to freak them selves out,as well as get drunk,which had actully turned into a monthly ritual.Every time they went they would bring my dog (Caine) with them without incedent.However on one particular late night excurtion to the bridge my dog began to act up and started barking furiously at the bridge and for a rise my mothers boy friend attempted to bring the dog inside the bridge (as it was a covered bridge) which they had done before with no problem,but this time my dog would not go. They could not budge him,they told me that he put up the fight of his life. But lets get back to my expeirence.

One summer evening in 1991 after attending a concert at the Stowe mountian resort,which featured Aerosmith we rode or bicycles to my friends house.Now you may think this has something to do with it but I nor my friends do,we had all dosed earlier that evening but we had all peaked already and were starting to come down.But anyway we were going to stay at my friends house,and they happened to live on a road that passed directly by the bridge. So after a very long journy on our bikes me and my buddies (there were five of us) had decided to walk our bikes the rest of the way due to the uphill portion of the ride,when we approached the bridge.We must have been about twenty feet away.

Now keep in mind that we did not have to pass through the bridge to arrive at our destination,because it was a four way intersection so we would just pass by it. So as we approached it we formed a horizontle line on the road so we could all talk to each other ya know.As I stated befor we were about twenty feet away from the bridge when all of the sudden a large black shapless mass came bareling out of it. It was moving at such a high speed that even though the moon was out none of us could make out a shape.We did nothing ,we just all stopped dead in our tracks completly slack jawed,as it continued on it cousre strait out of the bridge and up the road.Now remember how I said it was moving at such a high velocity ? Well the other mysteriuos thing was it made no sound what so ever.If it had we probebly would have dismissed it as a deer or something.After it was out of sight we all looked at each other as to say {did you see that} And of course we all did.