Where I live there's a story about a dog suicide bridge. If anyone wants to check it out for themselves throw 'Dog suicide bridge Overton Dumbarton UK' into their Google machines.
They say over 300 dogs have lost it and jumped over the side of the bridge to their deaths.
I don't buy the 300+ number tbh - that's hyperbole but I do know for a fact many dogs have done so. At a guess maybe in the 50+ range in the last 25 or so years.
I even remember being in USA one time and there was a mention of it on the cable TV in the hotel room at night late on. That was a bit surreal.
The bridge has a bit of history.
This is much scarier than any dog suicide reports, but in the early 90's - either 1993 or 1994 - there was a local man going over the bridge with his new born baby in the pram and he said halfway across the bridge he saw the devil's face appear in the babies face and threw the baby over the bridge to it's death. The man (as far as I'm aware) is still locked up in a mental hospital to this day.
I've got a story of my own that relates to the bridge. There could be an innocent explanation though? you lot can decide ...
I go jogging every day. Some times if I've been busy during the day I enjoy going out late at night when it's quiet and I don't need to worry about other folk, traffic, kids, dogs, cyclists etc.
The route I was running (for a brief time) involved crossing said bridge.
It was either 2 nights out of 3 or 3 nights out of 4 it happened (I can't remember exactly which combination it was) but late at night, maybe 10pm, I'd guess that about 50 feet before the bridge my fairly new I-Phone would cut out completely (I'd have it on me listening to music whilst jogging)
It always had an almost full battery because I'd let it charge to 100% for the music and the little torch on it for the dark whilst running.
and then it would switch itself straight back on again, battery same % on the phone and the music at the exact same point it cut off at.
and it would always switch back on again at the same spot the other side of the bridge - which was just a couple of metres past Overton House which was at the side of the bridge.
I could never explain why either 2 nights from 3, or 3 nights from 4 it done it and at the same spots too - switching itself on and off at the exact same point before the bridge then after the bridge (and it wouldn't let me turn it back on either until the spot after the bridge).
I've had a new phone and a subsequent upgrade from that one since then, but the time I had the phone after those events it never did it again - which makes me wonder if there's a connection with the bridge.
Could there be an innocent explanation though? does anyone know if there's issues with phone signals in areas with woodlands, fields, phone masts etc? that would only account for a lack of signal and not the phone device itself switching off and not letting me switch it back on.
I've never heard an explanation as to why this could have happened and knowing the spooky history of the bridge and Overton House it's easy to put 2 and 2 together.