Haunted Skyway Bridge in Florida........

daeskew53 · Haunted Skyway Bridge in Florida........

HOW about this for an investigation.......while wetting the hooks? Debbie The Haunted Skyway Bridge in Florida
With Hundreds of Sightings, Could Ghost Be Real?
The Skyway bridge, a beautiful sight in itself.
From the top you can see countless miles of open water, and experience
the peace, that nature has to offer. It is unfortunate the bridge is
also associated with suicidal jumpers. Throughout the years several
people have taken their life by jumping from the Skyway bridge. Is it
possible some they never left the place, where they chose to leave it
all behind? Fishermen of the Skyway pier tell countless stories of
seeing "ghost". What is now the Skyway pier used to be the old Skyway
Bridge where the stories of the jumper, and the hitchhiker will live
forever.

Throughout the 1960's and 1970's scores of motorists using the
Sunshine Skyway Bridge claimed to see a young blonde lady dressed in a
tight T-shirt in an off-white or tan outfit poised to jump off of one
of the main spans. She was reported during both day and night, many
times when the structures were shrouded in fog. When Sheriff's
Deputies would investigate, no trace of the young lady could be found,
either at the top of the bridge, or in the waters below. By the end of
the 1970's reports of a lady of similar appearance filtered in to toll
collectors and local Sheriff's Deputies, only this time she was
hitchhiking. Several motorists would pick her up.

She explained in a nervous tone that she had to get to the other side
of the bridge. She would become more notably agitated the closer to
the top of the bridge that the motorists went. When the drivers of the
cars would turn around to reassure her that everything was all right
she had simply vanished. These incidents involved many out of state
drivers not familiar with these stories! Once the old southbound
Skyway span was destroyed in May 1980 by the freighter "Summit
Venture", the spectral Skyway lady was never seen again. Was she the
spirit of a young lady who unbeknownst to others jumped to her death
from the Skyway in the 1960's, or was she a harbinger of the death and
terror that would occur on the old south span on that fateful May day
in 1980? Another legend or haunting of the
Skyway involves a Greyhound bus and it's 22 passengers. Now known as
the "ghost bus". On the morning of May 9, 1980, a storm born in Texas
several days earlier slammed into the Tampa Bay area, pelting it with
heavy rains and winds. At 6:20 A.M. that morning, Harbor Pilot John
Lerro climbed the pilot's ladder in order to navigate the empty 606'
long phosphate freighter, the "Summit Venture" from the mouth of Tampa
Bay to port of Tampa. As the ship continued to head east in the
channel not far from Egmont Key, visibility became near zero.

The storm became so intense that Lerro lost his bearings by 800' and
the result was that the bow of the ship struck the southbound span's
support pier at 7:34 A.M., resulting in a horrendous collapse of the
main span. Six automobiles, one pick up truck, and one Greyhound bus
bound for Miami plummeted almost 200' down at an estimated speed of 67
miles per hour into the waters of Tampa Bay-only one person
survived-the pick up truck landed first onto the ship itself, then
into the Bay-the driver of the pick up truck was recovered from the
water, hospitalized and later released.

All in all 35 people died that morning. The Greyhound bus, a 1975 MC-B
Crusader, had one driver and 22 passengers onboard. The bus was
sheared by the impact so severely that the entire top 2/3rds of it was
shorn off "like a pop top". More then 20 people have reported seeing
the shadow image of a Greyhound driving down what is now the fishing
pier, as if on the main road. The driver has the looking straight
ahead, with both hands on the wheel, as if nothing was wrong. Some say
a lady wearing black is looking out the back of the bus, smiling, and
waving at those who are staring. The the bus the just disappears off
the end of the pier. Others say every now, and then you can feel a
strong breeze, and smell gas, as if a bus just drove past you.

Does the stories just make for good fisherman tales, perhaps they are
just stories. It makes for a good spooky tale whether you believe it
or not. The Sunshine Skyway bridge connects Tampa / St. Petersburg to
Sarasota. The Skyway pier is great for night fishing, so grab a pole,
and let me know if you see any ghost.

By Pen
Published May 08, 2007
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Actually , The next book on my to buy list is about just that, The books name is "Tampa Triangle ;The Dead Zone" written by an aquintence of mine by the name of Captain Bill Miller and his wife
There is ALOT more things that happen out there in Tampa Bay and I have personally experienced a few of them for myself ! Tales of paranormal activity has been focused around the body of water called Tampa Bay from Anclote Key all they way into Old McKay Bay, but you never hear about it unless you spend alot of time on the water like I do,and then it is rather hush,hush , or passed off as ghost stories.

daeskew53 · BEFORE COMMERCIALISM....

I remember right after the bridge fell.....when I first moved here (about a year or so after the incident) we use to hike out to the center span and camp out for the weekend to fish. You could actually climb down to the water there. now that part is all gone and its all commercialized. WOW I wonder what kind of energy could have been there back then...had I known about ghost hunting back then.......Debbie

zoesgarden · The Bridge

The first investigation I did at TGW was on the bridge. A few of us went out there about midnight one night. They charged the guys $8 to drive out there but when I told the guy at the booth we were there to do an investigation he actually said, "It's about time!" There were people behind me so we didn't get to interview him like we wanted. He indicated that he'd seen plenty. AND...he didn't charge US! We got nothing on our meters. Nothing in our pictures. There were a LOT of people out there and it wasn't the quiet place I'd hoped for. Employee interviews might be more revelatory. We went to the rest area also, as it has bridge debris as part of it's building material. Hoped for some stored energy. The security guard had been drinking so....we didn't mix spirits!

I've read the Tampa Triangle book. Bill admits a lot of it is legend, but it's wrapped around the truth. History is history, you know. It's when it goes into aliens kidnapping the hammerhead sharks and horseshoe crabs that I get a little skeptical, ya know. I checked it out of the public library. You can read an excerpt of it online.

Haunted Skyway Bridge in Florida........

BEFORE COMMERCIALISM....

The Bridge