S9E5: Colorado Street Bridge | Pasadena, CA
The Scarecast
Michael Crutchfield
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide, including real-life incidents and urban legends. Listener discretion is advised.
Step into the chilling shadows of Pasadena’s Colorado Street Bridge—infamously known as “Suicide Bridge”—in this haunting episode of The Scarecast. Mike explores the bridge’s tragic legacy, from its construction in 1913 through decades of sorrow, supernatural encounters, and stories shared by listeners and locals alike.
Episode Highlights:
- Discover the urban legend of a worker entombed in concrete and the real-life 1913 construction accident that claimed a life and may have sparked the bridge’s haunted reputation.
- Hear the heartbreaking story of Myrtle Ward, who, overwhelmed by despair, jumped from the bridge with her young daughter in 1937. Miraculously, her daughter survived, and this event led to the installation of the first suicide barrier.
- Listeners and locals report sightings of a sorrowful woman in white, believed to be Myrtle or a jilted bride, and a mysterious man in wire-rimmed glasses who silently wanders the bridge before vanishing. Underneath the bridge, some have heard chilling whispers like “her fault” and “jump.”
- The episode recounts the 2008 murder-suicide involving Walter Garcia, as well as the 2015 death of actor Sam Sarpong, highlighting the bridge’s ongoing struggle with its tragic reputation despite increased prevention efforts..
- Several Firsthand Paranormal Encounters (as detailed below)
Listeners share spine-tingling experiences:
- Feeling unseen hands beneath the bridge
- Witnessing vanishing figures and “ghost jumpers”
- Hearing unexplained screams and voices
- Encounters with shadowy forms and sudden waves of sadness or fear
The episode concludes with a heartfelt reminder about the importance of mental health and suicide prevention, urging anyone struggling to reach out to the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for immediate support. If you or someone you know is struggling, please call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org. You are not alone, and help is always available.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's episode of the Scarecast, we're diving deep into a bridge with a very dark history in Pasadena, California. |
| 0:13.0 | A bridge that has gained a chilling reputation not just for its tragic past, but for the countless ghost stories and eerie encounters reported |
| 0:22.9 | over the years. |
| 0:24.2 | I'll be taking you through the haunting legacy of the Colorado Street Bridge, also known |
| 0:31.3 | as the Suicide Bridge, in which we will be exploring its infamous history, and I'll be sharing |
| 0:37.3 | a few of the spine-tingling |
| 0:38.7 | stories sent to me by followers on my social media pages who have experienced the bridge |
| 0:45.0 | firsthand. |
| 0:47.8 | Colorado Street Bridge, a bridge that was completed in 1913, an architectural marvel that |
| 0:58.7 | quickly gained a dark reputation. |
| 1:02.9 | There is an urban legend that during the bridge's construction, a construction worker |
| 1:07.2 | had fell into the wet concrete, only to be entombed within the bridge, |
| 1:12.6 | being completely covered unbeknownst to other workers who had only made the grim discovery |
| 1:17.6 | when it was too late. |
| 1:19.6 | Did this really happen? |
| 1:22.6 | Well, there is no actual documentation of this event occurring that a man was buried in the concrete |
| 1:29.3 | of the bridge. However, from an engineering perspective, a human body inside of wet concrete |
| 1:37.2 | would create air pockets, thus compromising the integrity of the bridge. Such a flaw would be |
| 1:44.0 | detected and corrected as it could potentially lead to a catastrophic |
| 1:49.5 | failure of the structure. |
| 1:52.5 | However, there are reports that in the same year the bridge was completed, there was indeed |
| 1:59.0 | a tragic construction accident, where 100 tons of scaffolding |
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