Hello my name is carl im a paranormal researcher i am currently investigating this legend you can view the proof and out come at
www.texasparanormalresearch.com email me for any information peace and blessings On Feb.4 1961 a group of girls from the high school had went to the movies and on the way home they turned down old Arlington-Bedford Road. It was on a cold night with heavy snow fall. They passed a car that was going backwards after nearly going off the bridge just ahead. He had slowed down due to a train that ran just across the other side of the bridge. He got out of his car and noticed that the bridge was burned out with his tires at the edge of the creek. As the girls passed he stated that he honked his horn and flashed his lights to warn them that the bridge was out. The six girls Mary Lou Goldner, Kathy Fleming, Claudia Jean Reeves, Donna Post, Jo Ann Anderson, and Dorothy Ibsen out of fear only proceeded to drive faster until they flew over the creek crashing into the embankment. Bill Young the driver of the other car said that they were going about 45 miles per hour. Two of the girls were killed instantly the third was dead upon arrival at Baylor hospital. The other three girls were injured but know had to live with the tragedy for the rest of there lives. They later found out that the bridge had been burned buy four boys Clinton Veres, Tracey Stanley, Ronald Max Moore, and Richard Truett Rivers on the night of Jan.27 1961. It had been stated that they found some straw and lighted a match, stuck it to the bridge and drove away. The jury decided to give the boys leniency and stated to give the boys one more chance in life because it was only a prank. To my knowledge they never found out who had removed the barricades that would have warned the teenage girls of the fate they were fixing to meet. After the grieving was over the stories began that you could still hear the screams of the girls at midnight which the accident occurred at around 9:30 pm. The bridge was then bulldozed down and big drainage tunnels and mounds of dirt were brought in to replace the bridge. Then they had built another bridge further up the road so the legend went on at the wrong location. Then years later on March 10 1994 another accident happened at the same place where the bridge once stood. Rayelynn Jonston, and Tammy Lynn Dodson apparently tried to race an oncoming train and it smashed into the passenger side of the truck. One of the girls was knocked out of the vehicle while the other remained trapped while it burst into flames. Both ladies died at the scene of the accident. Which turned the name of the place from the screaming bridge to death crossing. We have and will be conducting investigations of the area for paranormal activity.
