5 Places in Brooklyn That May or May Not Be Haunted
The Brooklyn Bridge
It’s no secret that the groundbreaking, years-long construction of the Brooklyn Bridge resulted in many, many casualties along the way. Not even the bridge’s original designer survived the project. Plus, it’s just generally a little bit of a creepy place, lest we forget that cold war bunker they found on site a few years back. All of which is to say that no one should be too surprised that people think the place is haunted. Reports vary, but are generally along the lines of “shadowy figures,” the distant sound of screaming, and more specifically, sitings of a headless man (thought to be a worker decapitated when a cable on the bridge snapped in 1883). Some people even say the ghosts are the result of numerous people buried alive inside the bridge, though experts have shot that down as “more spooky lore than fact.” As with all of these things, you sort of have to decide for yourself. But if you decide, just for kicks, to have a seance on the bridge and things go terribly, terribly wrong, you can’t say you weren’t warned.
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