Ghosts, Haunted Places Part of 'Weird Texas'

WOAI ^ | 10/28/05

[stand watie]

looks like we're going to beat OSU, after a few stops/starts.

free dixie,sw

[hispanarepublicana]

I had to hiss to UT and A&M, they being TTU's most intense rivals.

[stand watie]

WALK 'EM, raiders.

rotflmRao!

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[small voice in the wilderness]

Just last night, we drove around the haunted Humble underpass. We were one of several cars there. Hmmmmm...Weird Texas must be a best-seller here!

[Army Air Corps]

Some of these stories may interest you...

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks.

[Army Air Corps]

Have a look at the hyperlink on post #60.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks again, lol.

[Deguello]

I'm late on the thread but I can help out a little.

"and at Arlington's Screaming Bridge tombstones reportedly glow in the Trinity River where a carload of teenagers were killed in a traffic accident in 1961."

Okay, this is just a urban legend.

Screaming Bride was a one lane, steel tressel, wooden roadbed bridge over the Trinity. With it's steep onramps, vehicles could go airborne if the driver took the speeding. My last drive over was as a passenger in about 1971 and those of us in the vehicle were shown why its name is such. Yes, we went airborne as the driver wanted to do to scare us.

Arlington & Fort Worth closed off the bridge around 1973 and this was a popular place for everyone to shoot their firearms since the sixties. Favorite targets were old cars that were dumped into the river. When the sun was just right, a tail light or headlight would shine through the water until the new target was shot out. There was always a supply of junk cars to shoot.

The two cities in jurisdiction began busting people for shooting inside city limits around 1974 and by '75 the road leading up to the bridge was closed 1/2 mile up on each side.

During this same period is when someone set fire to the bridge twice (wood roadbed) and the cities didn't want to deal with it. The bridge was blown up around 1977 to remove all reasons for people to be out there.

A new bridge was built about 1/2 mile upstream around 1985 on Greenbelt Rd as a shortcut for Bell Helicopter employees that lived in Arlington. There is a concrete railroad bridge between these two locations, but that is a different story.

[stand watie]

i talked to a @35YO Latina from SA over the weekend about "the dancer with chicken feet".

she said that her grandmother always warned her to look out for him at dances from the time she was about 2-13. she also said she really knows nothing else about the subject.

fwiw, she said,"all the frogs i EVER kissed had regular feet". i LOL!

free dixie,sw

[hispanarepublicana]

I'll have to ask my older "Tias" about that.

[M. Thatcher]

Oh, that was music.

Thank you.

[stand watie]

i wish you would!

NOW, i'm interested in learning more about the "dancer w/chicken feet"!

free dixie,sw

[Americanexpat]

When I was working in Kuwait one of the sites we had to protect and patrol was the Ammunition Supply Point (ASP) south of Kuwait City. When Saddam invaded Kuwait his forces overran the ASP which was guarded by Kuwaitis and a small detachment of Pakistani mercenaries. The Kuwaitis hauled their ashes out of there but the Pakis stood their ground, making a last stand near one ammo bunker. It was the one that was really shot up and all the Pakis died fighting.

While on patrol and driving around this bunker at night it would get real cold and the hairs on your arms and neck would stand up. I felt this even before I found out the Pakis died to the last man defending their positions. Many guards avoided this bunker.

[Americanexpat]

When I was working in Kuwait one of the sites we had to protect and patrol was the Ammunition Supply Point (ASP) south of Kuwait City. When Saddam invaded Kuwait his forces overran the ASP which was guarded by Kuwaitis and a small detachment of Pakistani mercenaries. The Kuwaitis hauled their ashes out of there but the Pakis stood their ground, making a last stand near one ammo bunker. It was the one that was really shot up and all the Pakis died fighting.

While on patrol and driving around this bunker at night it would get real cold and the hairs on your arms and neck would stand up. I felt this even before I found out the Pakis died to the last man defending their positions. Many guards avoided this bunker.