4. Overtoun’s ‘Death’ Bridge
In the quiet village of Dumbarton, Scotland lies the Overtoun bridge. This seemingly inoffensive collection of brick and concrete hides a dark secret to the casual onlooker; locals have nicknamed it ‘the bridge of death’. Even stranger, it isn’t just humans that are affected by its deadly stonework.
Over the years and for no logical reason, upwards of 50 dogs have thrown themselves from the top of the bridge in a disturbing trend of spaniel suicide. The dogs throw themselves from the same point of the bridge, in the same weather conditions – the effected dogs are always the same, long-muzzled breeds. The tale became even more sinister in 1994, when local man Kevin Moy suddenly threw his baby from the same point of the bridge, proclaiming it to be the Anti-Christ. Moy attempted suicide straight after murdering his child but only seriously injured himself and has been confined to a mental hospital ever since. Are maligned forces compelling suicide and murder on the picturesque bridge?
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