Cody Road Bridge legend is creepy and you can blame moonshiners

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Cody Road Bridge legend is creepy and you can blame moonshiners

Posted 7:39 am / October 17, 2018

Reports from this area are often of a female ghost in white, walking the Cody Road bridge in Independence, sometimes crying, others say yelling for help.

Orbs, phantom trains, and disembodied voices are also reported here. Some locals refer to the phantom as “Pig Face," supposedly referring to her injuries after going head to head with the train.

While researching this urban legend, Creepy Cincinnati did come across the following story that may explain the legend. This is an excerpt from Linda Linn’s Kentucky Home and Ghost Stories:

"Just an update to your post that the Cody Road crossing is haunted. It’s true that the railroad bridge and road bridge are often flooded, and I believe someone did in fact die once due to that.

"However, almost all stories of hauntings of these railroad tracks are false.

"During the prohibition, moonshiners would walk park on the road and cross the hills to the railroad tracks and make their product.

"The ghost stories were created to keep people away during their activities. I’ve lived the first 20 years of my life in a house next to those tracks, Cody Road was only a 20 minute walk down the tracks for me, so I was always interested in the subject.

"The most popular ghost involves a lady who died in a house fire and roams the tracks screaming for help and alerting people to the fire.

In actuality, the woman in question never died in the fire (only the family pet, actually).

"Apparently two moonshiners had a falling out, and one of them set fire to the other’s house.

"The women who everyone believes haunts the tracks lived a long life until she died peacefully in the late 1980s of old age.

"But having been a resident of Independence most of my life, I like to set the record straight whenever possible on the Cody Road hauntings. - Quentin Baker"

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