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A NORTH Wales road has been named one of Britain's spookiest. Scores of scary sightings on Holt Bridge, Wrexham, have earned the road a top spot in the list of most haunted British roads.
The road has such a reputation for haunted happenings that the medieval sandstone bridge, which spans the Dee on the Wales-England border, is known locally as "The Bridge of Screams". Many motorists claim to have heard blood-curdling screams.
They are said to be the cries of two young boys murdered at the spot in 1338. Van driver Bob Williamson, 49, from Cefn Mawr, said: "I drive over the bridge regularly and you seem to get a strange feeling when you pass it. It's very spooky."
Mum-of-four Liz Smith, 41 from Wrexham said: "I am not sure if I believe in ghosts or not but there's something very weird about this place so there could be something in this story." Alison Smith, 42, from Chobham, Surrey, visited the area last summer with partner Craig Burnside.
They were crossing the bridge just after dark when they heard screaming. "I knew nothing about the bridge being haunted. If I had I would not have walked across.
"The screaming seemed to come from beneath the bridge and I thought it was a dog trying to find its master. When I found out about the story I was spooked," she said.. The two young boys were said to have been murdered shortly after the bridge was built.
They were the sons of Madog ap Gruffudd, of Dinas Brān, Llangollen, who died leaving the boys with no trustees. John, Earl of Warren, and Roger Mortimer, of Wigmore, were appointed their guardians. Hoping to get their hands on the cash the boys would inherit on their coming of age, they plotted to kill the boys.
One night they took the boys from Chester to Dinas Brān and, as they crossed the bridge, they stopped and lifted the sleeping youngsters down from their horses. They heaved them over the parapets into the freezing waters of the river beneath. The boys screamed in terror as they drowned. France | Ghostly Headless Rider | Gloucestershire | Phantom Coach | Alaska | Belmont County | Broomhill Road mystery | Chicago | Chicago | Cranborne | East End | England | Ghost of a man | Ghostly Vehicles | Grim Spectral Figure | Kent | Knottingly | Lancashire | Lincolnshire | Lynwood | Lynwood House | Morristown | Perthshire | Sailor | Stamford | Taiwan | The Bride |