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JAKE'S BRIDGE
Between Hutto and Pflugerville, Texas, near the Williamson-Travis County line, is a bridge. This is known as Jake?s Bridge.
Central Texas legend states that the ghost of man named Jake still resides in and around this bridge. He likes to have fun with crossing cars and some even believe that he tries to push them off.
Jake (his last name is unknown) was a simple cotton farmer during the Great Depression. The life of a cotton farmer wasn?t the easiest one, especially in a place like the Texas Hill Country. Some years drought would sweep the land and nothing grew. Others would bring far too much rain and flooding ensued. In 1931, the price of cotton had dropped to an all time low of less than 6 cents per pound. Nearly a 300% drop from just 2 years before! As a result, many farmers lost everything, including their will to live.
There are a few versions of what happened to Jake. The more popular one claims that he murdered his wife and two children inside their house and, after realizing what he had done, hanged himself from a wooden bridge close by. Another take is that he ended the lives of his parents by pushing a car containing their bodies off that same bridge. Shortly after he was burned to death when his house caught fire. Both accounts have tragedy inside his home and on the bridge.
Today, coming from inside the now abandoned house, there are reports of screaming children, clattering footsteps, and the voice of a man that says, ?I?m coming for you.? The cemetery in Hutto where Jake is buried is seen to glow at night when approached. It is the bridge though, that attracts the most attention. Thousands of Texans, and adventurer seekers alike, have driven out to the bridge late at night in hopes of crossing Jake?s path. It is said that if your car is stopped on the bridge, and in neutral, it will slowly begin to move across. People have even dusted the trunk of their cars with powder and gone out to the bridge. After it has been moved across unexplainably, there is seen the distinct outline of handprints where the powder once was. Many critics easily try to dismiss this phenomenon by stating that the bridge must not be level. A simple gust of wind and gravity would bring you across right? Yes, but the bridge is fairly new and been proven level. There have also been accounts of cars mysteriously crossing from both directions. Gravity goes down not up.
This year, during the week of Halloween, Austin?s news station, KXAN, reported on the bridge and tested it out. No powder was used, but the car involved did move across the bridge twice without human assistance.
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