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Bessie Little Bridge

The ghost of a murdered girl named Bessie Little returns regularly to this bridge on the outskirts of Dayton. She was murdered there on August 27, 1896, by her boyfriend, Albert J. Frantz. Bessie was pregnant and Albert didn't want to have to marry her, so he shot her in the head and arranged to scene to suggest a suicide.

For some reason, however, he shot her twice, so it was obvious that she hadn't done it to herself. On November 19, 1897, Albert J. Frantz was strapped into the electric chair at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus and put to death for first degree murder. Back in Montgomery County, Bessie Little's ghost continues to haunt the bridge. Bridge | Dundee | Emily | Farndon | Glasgow | Newton Falls | North England | Wakefield |