As Halloween approaches, a local legend in Rockford continues to attract visitors to an abandoned bridge in the woods near Cedar Creek and the Rouge River.
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Haunted history: the dark legend behind Rockford area’s ‘Hell’s Bridge’
Known as “Hell’s Bridge,” the dilapidated metal footbridge sits a quarter-mile hike from Friske Drive and has earned a reputation as one of the area’s most haunted locations.
The bridge’s dark legend dates back to the mid-1800s, according to parapsychologist Christopher Schippers, Ph.D., who has investigated the site numerous times.
“It was originally a cement bridge that went over, this was in the mid-1800s,” Schippers said…