Birthday Bridge/Giblin Bridge, Mount Pleasant


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The Giblin Bridge, also known as Birthday Bridge, near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is said to be haunted by a young woman who died by suicide on her birthday. The exact location is near the intersection of Kentucky Avenue and U.S. 218. The core of the legend is that a local girl, devastated after an affair with a married doctor, hanged herself from the bridge on her birthday. Her spirit is said to linger, and some claim to have seen her ghost hanging from the bridge. A "birthday bridge" phenomenon: While similar legends exist for other "Birthday Bridges" across the country, the most common reported event is tied to her birthday. Some versions of these stories suggest that if you sing "Happy Birthday," you may hear the girl's ghostly screams. However, it is not specified if this is part of the local lore for the Giblin Bridge. Some visitors to the location have described it as having a peaceful, rather than sinister, energy. In one account, ghost hunters on a trail in the area felt a sense of cold and general unease but did not experience any malevolent presence. They felt the spirits that were there seemed "nice".

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