On a lonely gravel road, just southwest of Meridian Mississippi, is a rusty old truss bridge no longer open to cars or traffic. The bridge was built in 1901, but many believe it is haunted by a treacherous man who is said to walk across its predecessor at night luring in victims with the light of his lantern. His name was Stuckey and his legend has grown for over a century since his violent death at the hands of a vigilante mob.
My name is Brandon Schexnayder and you are listening to Southern Gothic.
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