FRANKLIN FERRY BRIDGE
Bridge — Franklin Ferry Road over the Black Warrior River, Adger, Walker County County, Alabama
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Bridge in Adger; research record.

A bridge in Adger, Alabama, Franklin Ferry Bridge is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Bridge in Adger; research record. The archive files it under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.

Franklin Ferry Bridge crosses the Black Warrior River on Franklin Ferry Road near Adger in Walker County, on a crossing that predates the bridge — ferries ran this stretch of the Warrior when the river road was the only road. The modern span is an ordinary rural bridge on the coal-country grid, which is what makes its reputation interesting: this is a legend carried almost entirely by the people who drive over it for a living.
The file's documented source is a Birmingham News Halloween feature from October 31, 2002, which recorded the story as a legend circulating among truckers passing through the region.

THE ANGRY MOTORIST
The report is a specific one: the spirit of an angry motorist haunts the bridge, and he makes his displeasure physical — reportedly throwing sticks and stones at eighteen-wheelers as they cross the span. The Southern Spirit Guide files it, with a shrug toward motive, as 'a spectral case of road rage.'
Nothing ties the figure to a documented death at the crossing — no named victim, no dated wreck has surfaced — and the archive keeps it filed accordingly: a truckers' legend attached to a real bridge, the kind of roadside warning-story that long-haul folklore produces at narrow river crossings everywhere. The research notes flag that the precise location and any deeper chronology still await independent verification, which is exactly where a file this thin should leave it.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: The guide recounts a hostile phantom motorist. Franklin Ferry Bridge's legend rides the corridor itself: a stretch of Alabama ground where drivers have told the same story for years. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII'. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.
  source: Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vii/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII — Southern Spirit Guide
  https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vii/

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