Students at Iberia Middle School are hunting for a haunted bridge.
I haven't heard of it, but I'll bet somebody else has.
School librarian Janet Gary said the hunt is part of a program to help the kids learn to use information resources, and they are "having a great time exploring the haunted places of Acadiana." The place they're hunting for is known to them as "Mary Jane's Bridge," and they think it is in the New Iberia-Broussard area
According to legend, Mary Jane was a young girl who was killed by her boyfriend and thrown over the bridge. Every year since then, she had been seen crying on the bridge on Prom Night, wearing her prom gown. The apparition apparently has no feet.
The kids want to know where the bridge is, and what happened to Mary Jane's feet.
I'd also like to know more about the places you know about that are haunted.
I'm a believer. Photographer Pete Piazza and I had a close encounter with spirits of some sort at Albania Plantation, and a little old lady used to sit in a rocker from time to time in an old home my wife and I lived in for a while.
Some of the employees at city hall in Broussard swear that the ghost of a former owner of the converted residence still lives with them, and my home town of Washington has nearly as many ghost stories as people.
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