Crybaby bridge being an ambush predator actually raised the hairs on the back of my neck. That's a great idea for a story!
@general0mega
2 жыл бұрын
I'm going to love this series. I used to go looking for these kinds of places in Pennsylvania and saw too many of them torn down or sanitized.
@erichinkle7347
2 жыл бұрын
I live in Pennsylvania myself and way too many of the old places have been torn down where I live. Usually to replace them with strip malls and/or developments full of McMansions.
@general0mega
2 жыл бұрын
@@erichinkle7347 Ugh, it's all too true. Nothing from a swamp to a cemetery is safe in PA. I'm way more afraid to go back to these places to find out what they've become than for how scary (or legendary) they were when I first stepped into them.
@erichinkle7347
2 жыл бұрын
@@general0mega Yeah. We used to have so much open countryside where I live when I was a boy. Not any more.
@erichinkle7347
2 жыл бұрын
I'll like this series, but one question: does a story count as 'American' if it's set here in the USA but uses monsters normally seen as Old World? Here in Pennsylvania, especially in the parts inhabited by the Pennsylvania Dutch, you had tons of stories about dragons being told. Usually they were supposed to be dead lovers whose spirits turned into fiery monsters that flew across the night sky. And 19th century American newspapers were full of stories about giant flying reptiles, though they weren't taken very seriously even back then.
@GrimDarkHalfOff
2 жыл бұрын
The only problem I have with your videos is that while substantive they are very short. I hope you start a long form podcast soon. You seem like an explosive thinker and anyone who has the position of co-host with you would be better off for the experience! Look forward to your next entry!
@skipx5858
2 жыл бұрын
I feel exactly the same
@pixelamerica6601
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, seconded
@deplorabledegenerate2630
2 жыл бұрын
I loathe podcasts. Short, scripted, to the point videos that don't waste my time are far better.
@engineerforthefuture8593
Жыл бұрын
Sandy, this video helped inspire to write my first ever complete short story. And I just found out it has been accepted for publication by Skywatcher Press for their upcoming The Depths Unleashed anthology. Thank you so much for everything you do!
@georgekostaras
2 жыл бұрын
Sandy your enthusiasm is infectious
@kennethnegaard7599
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in the Northern United States. So many rich tales I took with me. Thanks for the great idea.
@stingyjack2526
2 жыл бұрын
Making Americas based folk horror videos is something I am here for. Looking forward to it!
@PurplePixieEater
Ай бұрын
AS a kid watching made for TV horror movies in the early 70s, this was the most terrifying idea for me, the idea of The Devil or witch that mimics a crying baby to draw people in. First saw it in the very good and creepy Hope Lange movie CROWHAVEN FARM (1970), and 2 years later it was taken to a extreme by Steven Spielberg in SOMETHING EVIL with the crying baby thing in the barn, one of the few things I saw as a kid so terrifying I changed the channel (temporarily). I'm assuming the directors of Blair Witch Pproject saw this film since it uses the same idea
@ExtremeMusicPromotion
2 жыл бұрын
There's a cry baby bridge outside Monmouth, IL.
@MRptwrench
2 ай бұрын
First off, glad I found this channel! During my misguided youth I dabbled in occult...stuff. Many different sources I read referred to optimal places to summon or call The Big Guy (some call him Satan or Lucifer) or any of his buddies, is at the "in between places". Ex. Crossroads, the shoreline, or...bridges. And from the time I was a small child I knew that trolls lived under them!
@nonbiz1520
Жыл бұрын
They are hearing Beavers. They sound uncannily like babies crying, are nocturnal and live in the water. It explains the widespread reports on bridges and since people don’t see them during the day, they are unfamiliar with the sounds they make. KZitem it, baby beavers are dead ringers for crying human babies. It’s what I think is happening anyway, as reports of this are also fading along with local habitats in many areas.
@dutchvanderlinde4713
Жыл бұрын
Was looking for a comment about Beavers
@barclayv8282
2 жыл бұрын
It makes sense that the crying would be heard from under the bridge as that's where your typical teens would be hiding whilst they made crying noises.
@GunsoftheArchangels
Жыл бұрын
Another common element in Crybaby Bridge stories: If you put your car in neutral after parking on one of these, the car will move as if being pushed. If you dust the car bumpers with flour or baby powder beforehand, you might find little handprints, as if incorporeal infants had pushed the car themselves.
@deplorabledegenerate2630
2 жыл бұрын
To be perfectly honest the obsession with skinwalkers is part of what made me bow out of creepy pasta stuff. The other part being bad writing being rewarded too much. Though this should be a fun series.
@TheParanormalPatriot
Жыл бұрын
I like this theory a lot. I just made a video of my own called the crybaby bridge anomaly, and I wish I would’ve seen this because this theory would’ve definitely been in there lmao. Grey video overall, and very well spoken.
@toddellner5283
2 жыл бұрын
It's interesting how different the literary and cinematic worlds were on this. I grew up on Algernon Blackwood and Manly Wade Wellman. American-grown monsters and other horrors were much more common. Was cinema just more conservative in general especially in the McCarthy and post-McCarthy eras? About the only monster indigenous to the Americas that regularly made it onto the screen from the 1930s on was the Afro Caribbean zombie.
@IllegalOperationSA
2 жыл бұрын
Something is trying to lure people off the bridge after the goatman lures them onto the bridge.
@sigurdvonliebenfels3304
2 жыл бұрын
I've been to a crybaby bridge east(?) of Cache Oklahoma. Didn't hear anything but it was definitely a part of the local teenager lore back before there was an internet.
@LifeguardLeroy
2 жыл бұрын
Steel creaking from the underside and echoing makes most sense, that or demonic alien ghost babies.
@AaronLitz
2 жыл бұрын
Cats humping under the bridges. Cats in heat sound like demonic babies crying.
@wilsoncalhoun
2 жыл бұрын
It's tire noise. We had one of these in my home town. If you crossed it at the right speed at the right time of year it sounded very much like a baby crying. They replaced it with a modern bridge a number of years ago and even though the new one doesn't really make any noise at all the local kids still tell each other stories about someone's girlfriend's cousin's youth pastor's gay roommate who swears they were attacked by a dead baby while crossing the bridge alone one night.
@sandypetersen6935
2 жыл бұрын
@@wilsoncalhoun see the tire noise doesn't work because the noise can be heard when you're not driving. And the creaking steel doesn't work because then this phenomenon would be in other countries besides the USA.
@wilsoncalhoun
2 жыл бұрын
@@sandypetersen6935 No, people claim it happens when you're not driving which is not the same as it actually happening when it's not driving. I've heard a lot of stories about the crybaby phenomenon but they're all eventually friend of a friend accounts and as of yet nobody's provided any convincing proof of it actually happening. Which is in itself kind of telling considering the number of videos of ufos, spook lights, possible cryptids, etc. As to it happening anywhere else who's to say it doesn't? Haunted or cursed bridges are kind of common in Asian and Latin countries (where the traditional, and most effective, way to deal with weird shit is to ignore it), and the apparent lack of any reports from Europe kind of dovetail nicely with my original statement. Personally the only bridges I've experienced the crybaby effect on were old, wooden- or occasionally steel grid topped specimens built before WW2 with slower moving, narrower tired traffic in mind compared to modern vehicles and Europe doesn't have a lot of that kind of bridge left anymore. I'm not saying that there isn't some original and truly haunted bridge somewhere in the US where if you stop your car under the right circumstances you'll be treated to the cries of a spectral baby, but the rest of them are probably caused by a mixture of old construction, new tires, and bored kids.
@sandypetersen6935
2 жыл бұрын
@@wilsoncalhoun Friends of mine have literally walked out onto the bridge when no cars were active, and heard a crying sound. Your explanation may have some justice behind it, but it seems strained to me, since otherwise it would happen on neighborhood bridges, and probably not on bridges of every different construction. It's always the knee-jump reaction to say, "Well it must be one of rather than seeking an actual answer." I mean, that technique is what gave us the flat earth.
@KzudemRiM
2 жыл бұрын
Seems like a great idea for a video series
@singletona082
2 жыл бұрын
Easy mundane answer is material creaking combined with airflow, but if I were doing a tabletop campaign I'd go for something far less mundane. I like your idea of an ambush predator mimicing infant noises to try luring people in because most people 'oh shit what is a baby doing out here? go get the baby. protect the young.' Abusing our natural instinct.
@sandypetersen6935
2 жыл бұрын
But if that was the answer, why wouldn't it appear in other countries than the USA?
@professormoore4876
2 жыл бұрын
Great new series. I love it. These horror bits are always inspiring.
@sirguy6678
2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for sharing! Love the series!
@WarDogMadness
2 жыл бұрын
Im gonna blame a owl cry
@sandypetersen6935
2 жыл бұрын
North American owls make different cries from those in other continnents, so it would explain why it's only in our country. But the people hearing the cries ought to know what an owl sounds like. Also, seems like there would be lots more Crybaby bridges in that case. .
@kadper
2 жыл бұрын
heck yeah! thats my next scenario
@AaronLitz
2 жыл бұрын
I remember years ago (2003-4??) that I got really excited because I found a Jersey Devil movie at the rental place (called Mother Leeds, or something like that?) Unfortunately, from what I remember it wasn't very good. I'd love a good Jersey Devil movie.
@sandypetersen6935
2 жыл бұрын
I liked Satan's Playground a lot but ImDb gave it a terrible rating for some reason.
@venkataramanareddy4419
Жыл бұрын
The bridge with the roof over it is where I know so 😭 baby bridge if you drive a car and cover it with flower and stay in the car and weight for 12or13minuts a hand print will form on the car in random areas so you have to search for it. 5:12p.m. At this time exactly and ⚠️ the ghost that touched the car will haunt you for the rest of your life.
@briankito1655
2 жыл бұрын
If I've learned anything from Billy Goats, it's that trolls live under bridges. Could be a baby troll, or maybe a human baby the trolls are about to have for dinner.
@bopaintsminis
2 жыл бұрын
Proud to live in the land of the skinwalker.
@elfbait3774
2 жыл бұрын
American trolls. Trolls are known to be tricky and sly to lure people to their doom
@kadper
2 жыл бұрын
A KZitem channel called Moe Sargi had a very spooky video about the cry baby-bridge
@aoe2sucks571
2 жыл бұрын
Onagers both in AOE and AOE 2 are overpowered. Sad u didnt notice
@tabletopgamingwithwolfphototec
2 жыл бұрын
Cool
@bigsarge2085
Жыл бұрын
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@MKempICI
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a great a great idea for a series. Looking forward to it, sir!
@alannatherson7721
Ай бұрын
I mean there is a reason for "Crybaby Bridge" as a story, it's the idea of unwanted mothers typically from a time before things like abortions and birth control, who very often in the stories are victims of r*pe, being forced to carry a baby they don't want and/or can't take care of and decide to get rid of it by throwing it off a bridge into the water below, a story that is disturbingly mundane and unfortunately unrare enough that all those communities probably all had an instance of it happening some time ago.
@Djturd64
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe the crybaby bridges were made out of the same materials. Babies were abandoned in an old farm shed, only to be knocked down and repurposed for bridges. Yet the cries of the babies have left a stain on the materials? I like this new series! keen for the next one
@phantomaquarist3417
Жыл бұрын
We have a cry baby bridge in Ohio too near me.
@SneakyNinjaDog
2 жыл бұрын
Gotta say that, when I saw the thumbnail and read the title, I thought you were gonna talk about terrorism ... and that made me almost not click on it. Maybe rebrand it to "American horror" :-)
@saymana11
2 жыл бұрын
You have no idea the humanitarian service you provide just from casually namedropped Call of Cthulhu. Hoping and praying someone quits 5e tonight.
@jimdoom2276
2 жыл бұрын
you do realise that this is the guy who actually designed Call Of Cthulhu, right?
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