Haunted Stuff by Stacey Graham

Author:Stacey Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ghosts, poltergesists, spectres, hauntings, antiques, dolls, skulls, rings, curses
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2014-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

With suicidal patrons favoring the view from the east side of the strait and looking at the famed city, the death toll rose as the disheartened chose a tragic path to the water and rocks below. Newspapers had kept a running tally of the suicides until that number neared one thousand. At that time, they chose to stop so as not to glamorize the deaths and to prevent anyone from claiming the notoriety of being the one thousandth body pulled from the cold waters of the bay. Today, the psychic residue of these victims may be felt and heard by visitors. On nights deep in the frequent fog of San Francisco, passersby can sometimes hear the screams of jumpers as the mist swallows them.

Bodies falling from the heights aren’t the only things haunting this famed bridge. In 1853, the mighty USS Tennessee ran aground on the sharp rocks of the Golden Gate Strait. The current pulled the steamer ship quickly into the fog-shrouded waters, though luckily its 550 passengers and cargo of 14 chests of gold made it to land onto what is now named Tennessee Cove. Since the sinking, there have been reports of seeing the ship sail under the Golden Gate Bridge and into the fog. In one sighting, the crew of the USS Kennison told of the Tennessee’s abandoned decks as it glided past the ship in November 1942 without even leaving a blip on its radar.

London Bridge

The bridge built in 1831 and spanning London’s River Thames really was falling down due to the stress of modern traffic. After city officials decided to put the bridge up for sale in 1962, American businessman and real estate developer Robert P. McCulloch bought the famous bridge and had it assembled stone by stone in Lake Havasu, Arizona. With the pieces pre-coded for an easier assembly of this great puzzle, it took four years for forty workmen to piece the bridge together again in the desert, finally completing the project in October 1971.

A vintage postcard of the London Bridge in its original setting. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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