The crossroads where the paranormal and history meet.
Years ago, at the house across from the bridge, a man cut out a woman’s heart and threw it into a stream by the bridge. To this day, if you go there and turn off your engine … you can still hear her heartbeat, off of Bonnie Branch Road.
Haunted Lineage note: The legend of the Heartbeat Bridge describes a murder near a bridge off Bonnie Branch Road in Ellicott City, MD, where a man allegedly cut out a woman's heart and threw it into the stream below. Visitors claim that when you turn off your car engine at the bridge, you can still hear her heartbeat. This claim could not be substantiated through news archives, police records, or historical documents at this time.
Imported from The Shadowlands Database