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Location: Independence KY
Physical Description: Railroad Underpass Spookiness Rating: 1/5 The Legend: A woman was killed driving her car across a swollen creek bed. The car had stalled in the high water and washed it off the bridge. Another variation of the story of the woman that haunts this bridge is that her house caught fire and went running across the tracks to get help and she was struck by a train and killed. On rainy nights when the creek bed is high it is said that if you park your car on the bridge with your headlights off, you will see her ghastly apparition. Our Findings:
We've made a few trips to the Cody Railroad Bridge. Each time, nothing out of the ordinary happened. While we have never tried driving onto the tracks and turning our lights off, we did walk the tracks for quite a bit of time. The atmosphere does seem eerie though. The stories and legends behind this bridge seem to have an explanation. The following is an excerpt from Linda Linn's Kentucky Home and Ghost Stories from a man named Quentin Baker: Just an update to your post that the Cody Road crossing is haunted. It's true that the railroad bridge and road bridge are often flooded, and I believe someone did in fact die once due to that. However, almost all stories of hauntings of these railroad tracks are false. During the prohibition, moonshiners would walk park on the road and cross the hills to the railroad tracks and make their product. The ghost stories were created to keep people away during their activities. I've lived the first 20 years of my life in a house next to those tracks, Cody Road was only a 20 minute walk down the tracks for me, so I was always interested in the subject. The most popular ghost involves a lady who "died in a house fire" and roams the tracks screaming for help and alerting people to the fire. In actuality, the woman in question never died in the fire (only the family pet, actually). Apparently two moonshiners had a falling out, and one of them set fire to the other's house. The women who everyone believes haunts the tracks lived a long life until she died peacefully in the late 1980's of old age. I'm not trying to debunk ghost sightings or activities (hell, I live within 10 minutes of Bobby Mackey's in Wilder Kentucky). But having been a resident of Independence most of my life, I like to set the record straight whenever possible on the Cody Road hauntings. -Quentin Baker Directions:
Take I-275 to the Turkeyfoot Rd. exit. If coming 275 West, turn left onto Turkeyfoot.Turn left on Independence Station Rd. Turn right onto Cody Road. Small Video Clip:
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