This Famous N.C. Bridge Will Make Your Heart Skip A Beat

Right off of Chair Factory Road in Nakina, North Carolina, is a bridge where you wouldn’t be caught dead before sunrise. Most bridges cross over lakes, and this one crosses over a swamp named Monnie Swamp. Coming from Old Tram Road, you’ll see two bridges within eyesight of one another. One isn’t much prettier than the other. At any rate, somewhere between these two bridges late at night, it is said that if you stay quiet and perfectly still, you can hear someone’s heartbeat. For the best chance of catching the horrifying sounds, try turning off your car’s light. As a bonus tip, the first bridge has a pentagram spray-painted in the middle of it. Try it first - if you dare!

A Haunted North Carolina RoadPhoto byThe Association of Paranormal Study

The stories range from a cab driver ending someone’s life to chasing a bride with a knife. Regardless of the stories’ differences, they all have one thing in common: A woman lost her life, her heart cut from her chest, and then thrown off the bridge into the swamp. In one particular version of the story, a man caught his wife cheating, and that is how she lost her life. After throwing the heart off the bridge, the heart continued to beat - calling the assailant back to the location of her body. He then took his own life at the bridge, going mad from the sound of his dead wife’s heart continuously beating louder and louder.

Legend has it that the heart will beat so loudly that it forces people to flee from the location to think straight.

Is there truth to any of these stories? Well, as it turns out, there was a body that turned up at the very bridge that so many believe is haunted. Allisa Lee, 24, was found dead in April of 2023. Some believe that Lee is far from the only victim that has met this fate. Only time will tell. Do you have what it takes to visit the bridge and uncover the truth?

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Written By: Izzy

Photo By: The Association of Paranormal Study

Sources: https://www.wect.com/2023/04/18/identity-released-homicide-victim-found-nakina/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElXH-7r0x68

https://www.belmontlakepreserve.com/rocky-mount-nc-community-news/haunted-roads-in-north-carolina/