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San marcos
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This bridge
is haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier toting
a muzzle-load
rifle. His ghost has been reported walking near the
bridge
since the 1920s. In 1939, two men fixing a flat tire on the
bridge
were startled by the shirtless figure of a tall man wearing
a rebel
cap. Because the man was carrying a rifle, one of the two
businessmen
went for gun in the car, but the apparition disappeared
before
he could confront it. Legend says the ghost is a man who lived
in a cabin
near the bridge before the Civil War. When he and his
brother
went off to fight for the South, they promised each other
that they
would return home, no matter what happened.
LOCATION
San Marcos
is located forty-seven miles northeast of
San Antonio
on 1135. The bridge is over the San Marcos River on
the road
between San Marcos and Nixon.
