Situated at Colorado Street, Pasadena, the 144-foot high Colorado Street Bridge is an impressive crossing in Southern California which rests on the original Route 66, its graceful structure a framework of exotic curves and seemingly artistic supports. Despite its image of romance and beauty, this bridge is known for a number of suicides which have occurred since 1913 when the bridge was completed.
Six years after the construction the first suicide took place, and it is now estimated that more than one-hundred people have plummeted to their deaths from the heights, although it has been argued that the figure is closer to two-hundred. Many of these suicides are blamed on the Great Depression of the 1930s which left many local folk so distraught that the only way they could exit the gray times was to end their life.
Researchers who've investigated the bridge claim that many people have been lured to their deaths by a strange specter, a ghost of a construction worker who allegedly fell to his death six months before the structure was finished. At the time no one was sure about the incident because the worker was said to have plummeted into a concrete pit used to support one of the pillars of the bridge. His body was never found.
Many claim that such an apparition is mere spook story as to explain as to why so many people have died on the bridge, but believers say that every time the ghost is present the street lights turn blue!
Whether some supernatural force loiters around what has become known as Suicide Bridge we'll never know, it's unlikely the bridge will ever give up the ghost or its grim nickname as the bodies continue to leap from the crossing.
