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Witches Bridge of Morrisonville is the kind of rural bridge that feels like it belongs to the night before it belongs to the road. Local legend says a woman accused of witchcraft was hanged near the bridge, leaving behind stories of shadows, uneasy silence, and a presence around the crossing after dark. Unlike the separate Woodlawn/Jefferson County Witch’s Bridge, this version belongs to Christian County’s Bear Creek landscape: a narrow span where old superstition, isolation, and local fear seem to gather beneath the trusses.

This Witches Bridge is generally identified as a historic truss bridge on East 990 North Road in Christian County, Illinois, west of Clarksdale and near Morrisonville. Bridge/road references describe it as crossing Bear Creek, measuring about 104 feet long, and dating to 1916. Its documented history is mostly architectural and geographic; the haunting belongs to local folklore, where a rural bridge becomes more than infrastructure. In the record, it is a 20th-century crossing. In the legend, it is a place where the road narrows and the past develops a silhouette.