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No one truly wants to cross Hell's Gate Bridge - it's too haunted for that.

Hell's Gate Bridge is not it's official name as matter of fact it isn't clear if if has an official name. Located on Boling Springs Road in Oxford, Alabama, it bridges the waters of the Choccolocco Creek or it did once as the bridge had been in terrible disrepair for years. It was built around 1930 but was declared seriously unsafe by 2000. It was closed to traffic around 2005 - 2006 and then blockcaded in 2007.

The legend of the bridge is based upon an incident from the 1950s. Sometime during that decade a young couple's car carreened off the bridge plunging them ino the waters of Choccolocco Creek where they perished. It is beleived by some that the lovers did not move on and if you had decided to park your car in the middle of the bridge at night and turned off the car lights, you would end up with an extra passenger in the back seat. You might see them or not but what you would have noticed was a wet backseat.

"The last most common story of the bridge includes that if you walk up the road from the bridge towards the nearby mansion, then you will be chased by a ghostly car that wont disappear until you reach the bridge again, this to me sounds a little hard to believe. However, the tale about the road appearing to look like the gates of hell has been reported by many people, as has the ghost car." - http://www.hauntedhovel.com

Another part of the tale concerns the name Hell's Gate. It was believed that if you stopped on the bridge while driving and looked behind you - you would not see the entrance to the bridge but the fiery Gates of Hell instead. Could that be what the young lovers had seen before losing control of their car?

In 2007, the Oxford Paranormal Society investigated the area and did not find any evidence of paranormal activity.

A personal account from http://anoldsoulinanewlife.blogspot.com

So Last night me and 3 friends went to go find the Hell's Gate Bridge in oxford. I don't know much about it besides the stories i have herd the main one is that you drive a cross the bridge and you look be hide you and you see the gates of hell hits the name. There is all so this one many years ago a young couple lost their lives on this bridge. On a dark night, if you stop on the bridge and turn off all the lights, a member of the dead couple will get into the vehicle, leaving a wet spot on the seat. That's really all the history i could find on it. I do know how ever most people will tell you that the road to it is closed off now that is true to a degree but the road we found the gate was open so we drove down a very narrow some times claustrophobic old road that they closed off because they built the new highway. So as we pull the the end of the line me and two of the people got out you can feel the strong energy flowing off it! I walked around the huge cinder block wall and walk on the bridge i had to let my eye adjust the the darkness and when they did i walk more down the bridge i know i did not go far when i saw three dark skinny fingers standing at the other end of the bridge cold chills when down my spine and went all over my body. All most the same time i said stop go back one of the guys that were with me said i got a bad feeling and started to head back to the car. So we bolted back to the car as our hearts were pounding we back up and herd a sound that i know sens chills down to ever one in the car it was the mix of a pissed cat and metal being warped. So we trund around and head back to were we came in out when the guy that was driving stoped the care and said listen he said he herd people whispering really fast like. We started the car back up and left...