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BURNT BRIDGE






                                                   Purvis, Mississippi
               ALTHOUGH THE OLD BRIDGE HAS been replaced, legend has it that it

               used to be haunted by a girl in a prom dress who was killed there.

                    Other Versions
                    An elderly member of the community that the “Headless Woman of Burnt

               Bridge”  was  a  story  made  up  and  passed  down  by  accident.  The  “Headless”
               woman  was  actually  the  wife  of  a  WWII  draft  dodger  who  hid  out  in  Black

               Creek Swamp to avoid arrest. The wife often wore a light colored dress with a

               black  shawl  over  her  head  to  protect  her  from  the  night  air.  She  carried  a
               kerosene lantern and took her husband food and supplies late on dark nights.

               Hunters  often  saw  her  from  a  distance  and  the  legend  was  born.  It  was
               perpetuated to protect the man and as time went by became an urban legend.

               The old bridge actually did burn early in the 1900 in a cattle and sheep feud. The

               man on the south side of the creek owned cattle and the gentleman on the north
               side owned sheep. Sheep destroy grazing vegetation for cattle so the cattleman

               burned the bridge to keep the sheep from crossing the creek.

                    Story is a woman was killed on the bridge she was supposed to be a witch
               after her death the Church up the road burnt down as well as the bridge, hints

               the name burnt bridge. Some say it was an act of god

                    A couple was driving home from prom late on a stormy night and the car
               crashed on the bridge. In the crash the girl was decapitated but the boy survived.

               The  car  either  caught  fire  or  completely  exploded  and  set  the  whole  bridge
               aflame. The remnants of the bridge are actually still out there. The story goes

               that if u drive over what’s left of the original bridge on a dark and stormy night,

               the poor decapitated girl will jump onto the roof of your car and hitch a ride
               across the bridge that she never left.
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