Emily's Bridge: Vermont's Haunted Covered Bridge

This bridge, built in 1844 by John W. Smith, is known formally as Gold Brook Bridge or Stowe Hollow Bridge. But to the locals, this one lane bridge will always be known as Emily's Bridge. Why? Because Emily is the ghost who haunts it! Leave it to Vermont to have a haunted covered bridge!

According to Joseph Citro, "no one has been able to prove that Emily actually lived. Or died. While most stories say that Emily died by her own hand, all agree her tragedy occurred on the bridge around 1849."

"The best known tale is that Emily was a young Stowe woman who fell for a man who didn't pass muster with her family. Forbidden to marry, the love-struck couple decided to elope. They planned to meet on the bridge at night. The appointed hour came and went, but the young man never showed up. Shattered, Emily hanged herself from a rafter. And her desperate, angry ghost has haunted the bridge ever since, waiting for her lover to return."

You'll have to buy the book from our Country Bookstore in the Folklore section to learn more about the menacing and terrifying dramas that have occurred on Vermont's haunted bridge!!

Source: Joseph A. Citro,Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls and Unsolved Mysteries, Montpelier, VT, 1996.