Florida – The Bloody Bucket Bridge, Wauchula
There are so many ghost stories and urban legends in the Sunshine State that it makes the Florida Man headlines look kind of tame. At least those people are only being weird while they’re alive, right? So legend says that the late 1800’s an ex-slave came down from Georgia and started working as a midwife. This woman thought that many of the families she served already had too many mouths to feed, so she took it upon herself to start smothering newborns, which she would then take and bury in the woods by the river.
Eventually the townspeople caught on and stopped letting her deliver babies, so she went insane (You know, because of all the baby souls haunting her). She would sitc next to an empty bucket and it would slowly fill up with blood, which she would take down to the bridge and empty into the river. Over and over again this happened, until she just threw herself in the river, and it ran red for three days. If you go to the bridge at night and look at the water, it runs red.
You missed the boat on New Jersey! THE JERSEY DEVIL is most definitely the official haunting creature of the Garden State. Long before NJ was even a state, the legend of the Jersey Devil began. It was the 13th child of Mrs Leeds, who had no desire for another baby. According to legend, she cursed the baby even before it was born. At its birth, the creature assumed otherworldly dimension and flew up the chimney of the home. Since then, the Devil regularly haunts the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, frightening all it encounters. On the eve of a National tragedy, the Devil is said to appear at many varied places in the state to warn of evils to come (most notably in December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor.)