The history of Avon's haunted bridge
AVON, Ind. -- Did you know there was a haunted bridge in Hendricks County?
Now a bridge carrying CSX railroad tracks across White Lick Creek, Avon's haunted bridge was built in the 1850s.
As the legend has it, one afternoon a platform collapsed, throwing one of the bridge workers into a cement vat. The legend claims that his fellow workers couldn't save him in time – only listen to him knocking on the walls of the vat. Construction then continued around the vat, which became a bridge pylon.
Since then, people have claimed to hear knocks and screams coming from the bridge. When it was torn down, people reported seeing a man wandering along the tracks trying to flag down trains.
