Emily ran home that night excited and happy. She told her parents. Her father became very upset when he learned who his daughter had been hanging around with. The boys rich family was Jewish and her familiy was Christen.This age old debate was foolish to Emily and her boyfriend, so they decided to run off and elope.
He said "Meet me on Cold Hollow bridge at midnight, and we'll never look back." The night air was chilly, and Emily was bundled up. She was waiting in the dark at the bridge. She remembered that she left the ring he had given her at home. She quickly turned around and started to run back home. A nail had snagged her shawl and the shawl stuck to the nail. Emily in such a hurry just left it.
Twenty minuetes later her boy friend shows up. He finds the torn shawl and believes that her father came and took her home. Frustrated with the situation the boy friend goes to the parents house to murder the father.
Emily is now back on the bridge waiting. She waits and waits, and her lover never showed up. It just so happened that there was a rope that had fallen off someones wagon. Emily climbed the rafters, and hung her self thinking that if she couldn't have him she would never be happy. So she dangled from the rafters suffering for air.
The next morning her fathers hired help found Emily's father with a axe embedded in his skull, and the Jewish boy shot, with a large musket ball hole in his heart. The mother had shot the Jewish boy with an old hunting musket, and ran off in fear of being thrown in prison.
Weeks, months and years after the tragic deaths the villagers still can see Emily waiting on the bridge. The farm where Emily's future husband murdered her father and was killed was said to be haunted, the ghost of Emily's father and boy friend can be heard fighting. But sometime in the 1930's it burnt to the ground and the land is now interstate 89.
Emily to this day haunts people that dare cross her bridge, scratching, crying or screaming from that old Cold Hollow Bridge.
-Justin Bunnell |
