{"id":1333,"slug":"patsburg-bridge-patsburg-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Patsburg sits in the pine-and-creek country of Crenshaw County, where the state highway — the guide's entry places the crossing on AL-59 — spans Patsaliga Creek. The bridge's dossier comes from a July 2009 Greenville Advocate piece on the crossing's reputation: a few people had captured odd images, orbs among them, in photographs taken at the bridge, and one interviewed witness reported that a couple of people had died there and that a fisherman had once found a body in the water below.","That is the entire file, and the research notes keep it from growing: the source's road-number attribution needs verification, and the record stores a named creek crossing without assuming route geometry."]},{"heading":"Reported, not established","paragraphs":["The claim is filed as reported experience at low confidence — photographs of anomalies and one witness's account of deaths and a discovered body, none of it corroborated in the record.","What is documented is a rural Alabama bridge with a newspaper's worth of unease attached — the ordinary way bridge legends begin, kept honest by the archive's label."]}],"name":"Patsburg Bridge","aliases":[],"type":"BRIDGE","type_label":"Bridge","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["hauntings","roads"],"desc":"Bridge in Patsburg; research record.","full_desc":"A bridge in Patsburg, Alabama, Patsburg Bridge is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Bridge in Patsburg; research record. It sits in the archive under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip. It is the sort of entry the archive keeps because the ground and the telling both survive.","address":"Patsaliga Creek","city":"Patsburg","county":"Crenshaw County","state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":31.73031,"lon":-86.35904,"coord_kind":"COUNTY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Source road-number attribution needs verification; store named creek crossing without assuming route geometry.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":595,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Southern Spirit Guide cites unusual-photograph reports. The crossing keeps its reports the way roads keep their warnings — repeated, local, and hard to fully dismiss. Witnesses report it; the record leaves it there. The account appears in 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part III'. It's the kind of claim that outlives debunkings — too many witnesses, too few explanations.","evidence":"REPORTED_EXPERIENCE","evidence_label":"Reported experience","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part III","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-iii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part III","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-iii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}