Most of us have a version of cry baby bridge near enough to our home to go and inspect it. We pull up, shut off our headlights, and sit in silence, hoping to catch a faint sound of a crying baby. Or perhaps we want to see the visible handprints on the back bumper that is left by the child who pushes the car when it is placed in neutral. But most often, the stories culminate in nothing, leaving the lot of us disappointed. The cry baby bridge of Saraland, Alabama has a story that adds much to the tale and makes a person curious about whether or not it’s true.



Down Kali Oka Road stands an old plantation of the same name. The house has been used for many horror movies, including Get Out. Tales of haunting and ghosts encircle the manor. Most common is a woman in white, who will often be seen walking from room to room, lighting candles in the windows of the house. Another notable spirit is that of a slave which was 7 feet tall, stalking the grounds of the plantation. These two spirits are tied together by the legend of the cry baby bridge.



Sometime in the 1800s, this plantation was owned and operated by a cruel, cold-hearted old man. His wife hated him and fell in love with the 7-foot tall slave. She would sneak out of the house at night to be with him.



Upon discovering his wife’s nightly disappearance, the husband followed her to the slaves quarters. There he found the couple together. Using a knife, the plantation owner forced the slave to a nearby tree, where he was chained. After leaving the man for some time, the owner cut off the hands that dared to touch his wife and left the man to die.



Soon after, it was discovered that the owner’s wife had become pregnant. She was hidden away in the house until the time she was to give birth. She was forced to walk through the woods to a nearby creek. She birthed a healthy baby but was forced to immediately drown the child in the cold water.



One man claims that on a dark night shrouded in clouds, he and a few friends stopped on the bridge. The area was near pitch black when they stepped foot out of the car. Nothing seemed abnormal and the group stood at the rails of the bridge peering down the creek bed.



After roughly fifteen minutes of goofing off, the group decided to leave. As the man started in the car, he heard the faintest whine of a child from the creek below. Quickly, he walked the bridge rail and looked over. A white spirit stood below appearing to hold a mass in the water. As he started the wailing grew louder. The screams began to cause ringing in his ears as he sprinted back to the car. He claims to this day he can can hear the screech of a cry baby on nearly black nights.



The woman stays in the plantation, mourning the loss of her child. The slave still wonders the grounds looking for the child he was never able to meet. And if you were to stop your car on the bridge of Kali Oka Road just pass dead mans bend, you may hear the wailing of the innocent child in the cold depths of the creek which runs beneath cry baby bridge.