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I have been to this one personally, in the dead of night, and I can confirm that THIS ghost story, at least, is an optical illusion. Rumors about the Bono Bridge have been floating around for years, with different reasons for the supposed hauntings. But the main story involves a dead railroad man (the bridge is an old one lane wooden bridge over railroad tracks, not water) and his wish to take anyone on the bridge into the afterlife with him. Supposedly, if you are there at night standing on the bridge when the train passes under it, if you are there on the WRONG night, the train will rise from the tracks and you will, essentially, become a bug on the windshield. Prayer is supposed to keep you from dying by making the train sink back to the tracks.

This ghost story relies on the “there are no atheists in foxholes” idea, because it is a self fullfilling prophect. The tracks approaching the bridge go over a small rise, then down into acutout area to go under the bridge. Because of the rise and the fast dip, at night it DOES look like the train is rising up to kill you. Then, presumably as you pray, it sinks down and goes through the dip under the bridge, which rattles your teeth loose but leaves you otherwise intact.

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