The Covered Bridge

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

One Strange Thing

True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Vermont is home to many, many historic bridges — and if that doesn’t strike your fancy, the ghost haunting the Stowe Hollow bridge might. But who that ghost is, and why she’s so mad, are lost to history… and may never have been all that clear to begin with.

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0:00.0	I'm Lauren Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. Strangers, we're about to make a bold statement.
0:27.7	Of all the infrastructure out there, we think it's fair to say that bridges absolutely clean up in the paranormal department.
0:35.9	Sure, you have your clowns in the storm drains, your phantoms,
0:40.1	messing with the electricity, your Sasquatches, picking off chickens straight from the coop. But we are
0:46.4	hard-pressed to come up with a man-made utility that seems to attract more, shall we say, odd stuff than the humble bridge. There's goatmen on bridges,
0:59.5	bridges frequented by the mothman, and Jeff Bridges, who will count honorarily as a cryptid
1:06.5	because he has earned it. If you've been listening for long enough, strangers, you'll recall
1:13.5	that we've discussed a few bridges in our time, and today we return to the realm of crossing rivers
1:19.5	and connecting roads to visit a bridge in Stowe, Vermont. Stowe is a small town due east of Burlington,
1:26.8	Vermont. It'd take you about 40 minutes to get there by car.owe is a small town due east of Burlington, Vermont. It'd take you about 40 minutes to
1:29.5	get there by car. This is a nook of the country where, no matter where you are, you're perpetually
1:35.5	nestled in the trees, and closer to Canada than to the eastern seaboard. Nowadays, Stowe
1:41.9	describes itself as a, quote, four-season destination, which just sounds like a
1:48.3	destination to us, but the main attraction looks to be a very Vermont-y ski resort and a cute
1:55.1	mountain town on its periphery. It all looks very nice, and so does the Stowe Hollow Bridge.
2:02.1	Per the Associated Press, this bridge is a covered one.
2:06.0	Picture a barn-like roof over a trestled bridge.
2:09.5	It's little and located on Hollow Road, hence the name.
2:13.6	Photos make it look like it stands alone among the forest and farmland, spanning a creek and a pretty shallow dip in the forest floor.
2:22.1	Who built this bridge? That's unclear, but according to the Burlington Free Press, it was erected sometime in 1844.
2:30.0	And, in fact, if we're having a covered bridge competition, which, let's just say that we are,
2:35.8	Vermont is probably the winner.
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