This Legend is more than just another ghost story, for some its real.



Lets take a trip into west Erie county, just south of Fairview to Elk creek. There along the banks the stream meanders peacefully through a gorge. As the hill steepness and curves you see a vision out of the past a covered bridge, Rickety and overborne, timbers of undeterminable age. The rut of wagon wheel and car tires, well worn into its floorboards.



The Gudgeonville Bridge. Built in 1868 between Beckman and Francis road in a valley over looking a gorge known as “devils punch bowl”. It is said at night when conditions are right; the babbling of elk creek keeps a constant groan, accompanied by the rustling of leaves, and the twinkle of moonlight barely visible on the roof of the ancient bridge.



But listen carefully and you’ll hear another sound. The sound of hoof beats echoing through the woods, closer coming your way. Soon on the wooden floor of the bridge you can hear it a horseman riding at a frantic pace. Out of the darkness you see a black Morgan horse, a touch of white on its nose its eyes glowing with a demonic red glare astride the form of a man. You look and the Horseman has no Head!



Laugh if you will but this has been reported as far back as 1900, over and over again. Over the years not just one or two sightings, but dozens all with the same story. The frantic hoof beats, glowing red eyes of the steed, and a caped headless horseman that disappears into the darkness.
http: //members.tripod.com/~sargonarhes/gudgeon.html


in the summer this is where me and my friends go to party, there's a large stone with carvings we sit on. i've never seen this bridge during the day and i've spent all night till mid morning there before and never heard or saw anything the article states above

one time we heard somthing thing in the bushes, my friend megan threw me in front of her...only to find a cat scattering from the bushes, lol. but the atmosphere is spooky.

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