Type
Vehicle bridge over water
Legend
There is no concrete story associated with the bridge, other than the ritual of how to hear them. Most people just associate the screams with the Melonheads, the other legend connected to this bridge and road.
Ritual
If you want to hear the baby crying, park your car on the bridge at night, turn off the engine, and roll down all your car windows. Then, just sit quietly and listen.
Location
Chardin Township in Geauga county. The bridge crosses Gulch Creek at roughly the 9800 block of Wisner Road.
Notes
According the online records, the Wisner Road Bridge was built in 1970. Seacoastonline, which houses a searchable database of bridge inspections in the United States, lists the Wisner Road bridge as being in “fair” condition, but that was in 2022 with the average daily traffic being 7 vehicles. That’s right; only 7 vehicles were crossing the bridge each day (with the future projection being a whopping 10 vehicles daily). What’s more, the structural evaluation concluded that there is “somewhere better than minimum adequacy to tolerate being left in place as is.” I don’t know about you, but all that doesn’t make me feel very comfortable about driving up onto that bridge. Ghost babies and Melonheads would be the last thing on my mind.
And full disclosure, the last time I crossed that bridge in my car was way back in 2008, and I was nervous about falling through then. So nervous that on subsequent visits, I walked across the bridge. Even that was a little sketchy. So I can’t recommend you driving onto this bridge. In fact, I highly suggest that you don’t. Portions of Wisner Road are actually closed to vehicle traffic, too. Oh, and if you do decide to cross the bridge, only to realize it was a mistake, there’s a dead end waiting for you on the other side of the bridge, meaning you’re going to have to go BACK across the bridge. It’s not worth it.
Personal Experiences
I used to go this bridge all the time until the locals started causing a fuss about people driving back there. The bridge was sort of a two-for-one bonus because we were back there looking for Melonheads and the foundation of doctor Crowe’s house. Never found any of that and never heard any babies crying while I was back there, but it really is a creepy place and if Melonheads and ghost babies exist, Wisner Road would be where they’d live!
—Molly W.
I had always heard that the babies you would hear crying were Melonhead babies and that they lived under the bridge. This is going back a few years, but my friends and I would sometimes go out and park on the bridge and try to hear the crying. We never did, but sitting out there on the bridge in the dark is spooky enough. I don’t know what I would have done if I’d heard crying! My boyfriend at the time told me that he and his friends actually climbed down and went under the bridge, but didn’t find anything weird. He said they thought they heard crying coming from the woods, though. But I wasn’t there, so I can’t say how true his story is.
—Julie D.
Kids have been going down Wisner Road to party for as long as I can remember. I remember hearing all sorts of stories about ghosts and monsters out there in the woods. Personally, I don’t believe any of them. I think that since people were hanging out there, they just tried to scare each other. Oh look, there’s a creepy bridge. It must be haunted.
—John F.
Additional Information
Geauga County Maple Leaf: Revenge of the Melonheads (Part 1)
Geauga County Maple Leaf: Revenge of the Melonheads (Part 2)
Seacoastline: Bridge Inspections–Wisner Road Over Gulch Creek
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I'm done with these bridges! Take me home, please!