Indiana ghostlore
Numerous narratives and folk beliefs make up the ghostlore of Indiana, a U.S. state in the Midwest, and there are many locations that are considered to be haunted by locals.[1] In the town of Avon, Indiana stands a railroad bridge constructed across the White Lick Creek in the 1850s by immigrant Irish workers.[1][2] While the men finished the work on the bridge, and for years afterward, many claimed to hear knocks and screams from inside the pylon.The railroad decided that, since the unfortunate laborer was already dead, they would simply inter his body in the bridge when they sealed the support with cement.Perhaps, as some Avon residents aver, the ghosts on the Haunted Bridge belong to a young woman and her baby.The story goes that she was walking to the doctor's house late one night with her sick baby when she had the bad luck to get her foot caught among the railroad ties on the bridge.She struggled mightily, finally getting free of the railroad ties, but had no time to run across the bridge to escape the train.Located in Clinton Falls, Indiana over Little Walnut Creek, the Edna Collins Bridge is said to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl.A child named Edna Collins enjoyed playing in the creek underneath the bridge with her dog, and was often left unaccompanied at the site.One day, while she had been left to play, her parents honked their horn three times and she did not arrive at her usual pick-up location.In actuality, she was Alice Mable Gray, the daughter of a wealthy Chicago family, who had come to live on the dunes after she began to lose her eyesight.[7][8] The local legend claims that Alice's ghost still returns to the beach at the dunes to relive her happier days.