Roller Coaster Road
This is a story that I was told about 10 years ago. It's from a small town in southern Indiana known as Marion Indiana.
In the small town of Marion, Indiana there is a road that the natives have coined " Roller Coaster Road ". They named it that because of it's shape. There is a first huge hill with a valley just as deep. The first hill is followed by two other not so steep hills. At the end of this hill is a tight curve. The local teens have a game they play on Roller Coaster Road. When you get to the first hill, you drive to the top. As you start to go down into the valley, you step on the gas to get up as much speed as you can. As you hit the other two hills, you take your foot off the gas and use the speed you built up from the first hill to try and make it over the bridge. The idea of the game is not to fall off the bridge and into the swamp. This isn't an ordinary swamp, as you probably have guessed. This swamp is haunted by a school bus of grade school children who met their fate one weekday afternoon .
The year was somewhere in the 1950's. A school bus was coming home from the school. The bus driver came upon roller coaster road. As the driver approached the bridge's sharp turn... it missed. The bus with all of the children flew off the road and into the dark swamp. No one was able to rescue the bus nor the children inside. If you look real carefully into the swamp , you can still see the rusting bus.
Strange things happen on the bridge now. The locals will tell you never to stop on the bridge, because your car won't start again. Oddly enough, when my friend took me onto this bridge, her truck did just that. It stalled and wouldn't start for about 10 minutes! Other strange activities have been spotted by the bridge and in the swamp. The laughter of small children can be heard at times. Sometimes their laughter is replaced with crying. Others say that if you look into the windows of the school bus you can see little glowing red eyes. An eerie feeling is definitely there.
Miss Brenda, la Porte, Indiana
