Gibb’s Road Bridge is located in Richfield Township Ohio between Sylvania and Berkey. Legend has it that the bridge is haunted by the victims of a deadly auto accident that occurred on the bridge. The sounds of a collision and laughter are said to be heard at night. People have also reported being chased off the bridge after dark by ghostly shadows.
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I investigated this Bridge on two occasions. The first was with a couple fellows employees after work. We arrived at the site shortly after 8:00pm. We set up two video camera’s while taking pictures with a Fuji A210 digital camera. Nothing exciting occurred during our investigation but as we were leaving the car seemed to be very cold inside. We stopped along side the road 1/10 mile down from the bridge and got out of the car wondering why it was so cold inside, while looking back towards the bridge we all saw a misty figure coming towards us walking right down the middle of the road. This figure continued walking towards us as it dissipated. The car remained cold inside for another several minutes. I could not explain any of these events but knew that I would be back with the group.
On our second investigation to Gibb’s bridge we ran E.V.P recordings along with Digital & 35 mm camera’s, two Panasonic Camcorders and an Infrared laser thermometer. We recorded several drops in the temperature and several cold spots. I’ve added a few photo’s of the Gibb’s bridge that may be interesting. I don’t necessarily believe all the Orb stuff you read but have included a picture that Butch took that picked up a strange looking Orb.
Below is another story on the Gibb’s bridge that I found on the Tri Mar Paranormal Research groups web site.
I arrived at the bridge at 8:14 PM about 30 minutes before dusk. The air temperature was 60 degrees with light wind and low humidity. Gibbs Road Bridge is located .25 miles North of Sylvania Metamora Road. There is one house near the main road to the South and nothing for at least a half mile down Gibbs road to the North. Both East and West of the bridge is wooded terrain. The bridge was constructed in 1928 and is 60 feet long with one plus lanes and crosses over a 25 foot wide stream called Ten Mile Creek. The sides of the bridge consist of a concrete wall about three feet high that is covered in painted graffiti.
As I approached the bridge I turned the camcorder on and left it on for entire investigation. For the first twenty minutes I took many digital and 35 mm photos for documentation purposes. At 8:32 as I was putting a new roll of film in the 35 mm camera and the film would not advance. It took several attempts before the film finally advanced. As I was loading the film, a crinkled up brown paper lunch bag that was on the side of the bridge slowly rolled four feet by its self. There was no wind and the leaves on the bridge did not move. This was the first of several events that began to happen over the next fifteen minutes.
Shortly after the bag moved I began to feel a presence and started to become uneasy. I decided it was time to try the dowsing rods because the TriField meter was not recording anything unusual. The dowsing rods barely moved as I walked back and forth across the bridge over the next ten minutes. Suddenly at 8:42 near the Northwest corner of the bridge the dowsing rod in my left hand began to spin very slowly counter clockwise but also pulling at the same time. The sensation that something was on the bridge with me became very strong and I asked out loud if anyone was there. I felt that it was a good time to leave because it was beginning to get dark and I didn’t like the feelings on the bridge. I packed the equipment and left at 8:50.
I returned home and viewed the digital photographs in the camera. Several low light orbs were visible on the twenty five photos but four photos also showed multiple darker white orbs on and around the bridge. My interest was elevated and I discussed what had happened with Trista. She was interested in going back to the bridge that night and I agreed even though we try not to conduct investigations in the dark. At 10:00 PM we made the short drive back to Gibbs Road.
Little did I know that the camcorder tape would also reveal several interesting events of that night . Beginning at 8:40 the tape showed a blur pass by the view finder on five different occasions. It looked almost as though the camcorder was attempting to refocus, this is a possibility but I’m not so sure because the camcorder was stationary on the bridge wall at the time. At 8:45 a heavy breathing sound could be heard for a full two seconds before disappearing.
Trista and I arrived at Gibbs road at 10:05 to take another look. I decided not to take any photographs in the dark and chose instead to use the camcorder in night shot mode. Trista walked the bridge with the dowsing rods while I filmed with the camcorder.
Immediately the dowsing rod in Trista’s left hand began to spin counter clock wise rapidly on the West side of the bridge. When Trista would walk to the East side of the bridge the dowsing rods would go still. This pattern was repeated over and over for the next twenty four minutes. At 10:29 the dowsing rod also became active on the East side of the bridge where there was previously no activity. At this time Trista became chilled and said “Its time to go”, I agreed. The entire atmosphere of the bridge had changed over the course of just a few seconds as if a new more powerful energy was now present. As we crossed the bridge on our way to the car at 10:32 Trista was visibly shaking from the cold, only it wasn’t cold outside.
The next day I reviewed the tape from the camcorder and was not surprised by what I found. At 10:28 less than one minute before the energy became present on the East side of the bridge a voice was heard on the tape. It was not clear what was being said and consisted of only a few words. Twenty two seconds later the same voice could be heard again. Then once again twenty nine seconds later a different voice could be heard for a full two seconds but could not be understood. Two seconds later the activity started on the East side. Twenty six seconds later the final activity recorded on the tape took place. This consisted of a very deep breathing noise that lasted only briefly. I picked up the nineteen 35 mm photographs several days later and found seven of them to have anomalies.
In conclusion, it appears that the Gibbs Road Bridge is the location of paranormal activity of undetermined origin. The orbs that were captured on film, the voices recorded on tape, and the dowsing rod activity all indicate paranormal phenomena. We will continue our investigation at a later date.
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DON’T go out to Gibbs road. My friends and I have been going out there for awhile with no happenings. We were there last night and ended up coming back to the bridge several times because of traffic. The very last time, with the headlights and the car off, we saw a dark figure at the end of the bridge on the left side (West). After turning the lights on, we discovered a man coming at us. He was in a dark shirt and dark tan khakis, caring a silver handgun. The man walked quickly towards us as we turned the lights on. He ran towards us very fast as we quickly went reverse in the car. He had a gun, and shot it off twice at us. The man was very alive and very angry. A friend went by there today and brought back two 9mm casings. Be very careful if you go out there. It is not the unatural that is scary, it is the very alive, very angry man who is in his late twenties. I will NEVER go back.
Yea, me and 4 friends went out there with 2 seperate cars. We were chased all around Berkey by a huge black diesel pick up truck. Spot lights lined the top of the truck and a spot light on both side mirrors, no license plate. This truck hid in woods, behind houses, in residents drive ways with headlights off, when our cars approached unknowing of the trucks presence the truck took off chasing us on our ass’ going 70 down yankee and dirt roads. When we were finally lost just trying to get away from that area going any street we can find – we found that truck again. The chaser parked his truck at an angle in the middle of an intersection on farmland dirt roads. Considering how narrow the roads are, no street lights and ditches on both sides of the road we couldnt get around. Two men (one in his twenties and the second an old and lanky) approached our cars. The young man took pictures of our license plates. The older man stuck his upper body through the drivers side window of the car in front of mine and told a story.
The story goes: a man has stolen a berkey police car and posing as a police officer raping women and leaving them in the field of Gibbs road. Any car that goes down that road more than once with in a night is subject to questioning. Every house on that street has a shotgun aimed at the road.
We only went down Gibbs road once that night…the truck was parked on the bridge, when we were approaching from Yankee road heading south towards Sylvania Met. the truck turned head lights on and started taking off towards us. We through our cars in reverse into ditches heading back to yankee.
Few weeks later we took a different vehicle went down Gibbs road in the day time, and saw a police car in a barn behind a tractor. The black truck did not have any license plates.
I have collected six different stories of death at this bridge–none of which are probably true. In five midnight visits to the site, I have taken pictures, sat and listened to night sounds, and walked around the area. I haven’t observed anything unusual at the bridge, but one set of pictures (35mm) recorded a spot of misty light. I plan on returning one more time…
I have checked the Lucas county records, no accidents or hangings. The local people know this as well. It’s a hoax. The cops have been checking the area lately.
I was wondering where exactly is this bridge? I’d like to visit it
Gibbs Bridge is on Gibbs road, in Sylvania, OHIO.
I live off sylvania Avenue,
Gibbs road is off of Sylvania Metamora Road,
and Gibbs road leads somewhere up to fuckin Michigan, Yankee road, i’ve been there a LOTTTT.
Weird shit happens, dude.
My old friend Tyler and I went with his mom’s friend’s paranormal team,
and they got weird EVP’s and photos, it was crazy,
but yeah, dude. Google haunted places in Sylvania, OH
we have interesting serial killer shit too. lmfao.
There’s a restaurant that’s haunted, cus Sylvania’s first serial killer being sentence to death by being hanged, lived in the lot,
and did weird stuff with the bodies. It’s nuts.
I talked to the lady at the bar, and she said that you always hear them walking above you, and in the kitchen, and dropping pans and shit.
and one time she was like “I swear theyre gunna come down from the ceiling one day..”
and someone said loudly in her ear “NO”
like jeeeeez
just helpinggg.
thanks<3
xo xo Dollfayce
I’ve been to Gibb’s Bridge a number of times (probably 6 or 7 total). A few years ago, my friend and I decided to be “real ghost hunters” and set a voice-recorder on the bridge to see if we could get any EVP. We got to the bridge around 10:00pm, walked to the bridge and looked around and took pictures for about 10 minutes. We turned the recorder on and left the bridge so the only thing on the bridge was the voice-recorder. We walked back to our car (50 yards away) and stayed there for about 10 mins. We walked back to get the recorder then left.
Upon downloading the file to my computer and listening to it, we got some crazy stuff. You can distinctly hear a girl giggling for about 2 seconds, then saying something like, “I’m over here” or “I’m under here”. About ten seconds later, the girl talks again, but you can’t understand what it says. Throughout the tape, you can also hear some sort of deep breathing, and the sound of cars driving by (but no cars drove across the bridge).
We also got a lot of orbs in pictures we took that night.
If anyone would like to look at the pictures or hear the audio, I would be glad to send it to you…just let me know.
Hitman,
I would love to ear the EVP’s you captured on the bridge that night, My email address in on the about page.
Thanks Harold
TOGHS-Founder
I was wondering if you could send me those audio and pictures to my email that would be fabulous
Something I forgot to add to the last post…
We went to the bridge last weekend and got a weird smeer in one picture, and everyone heard (6 of us) something with a deep voice clear their throat as to get our attention or something. The object was probably only a few feet toward the creek when we heard it. One person said they could see a human-like figure standing near the road right by us when we heard the noise.
Just another weird event at Gibb’s.
We’re going back tonight to put a voice-recorder on the bridge and leave it alone again. I’ll post back after we listen to the tape.
This message is for hitman my wife and i went there 3 weeks ago and we have a evp of a man and have a picture of a mist we didnyt see when we were there, contact me at mrmad40@bex.net
I would love to meet up with anyone who has any evidence of stuff happening on the bridge.
If you are interested, please let me know! Maybe we could plan a trip out there one night to check it out.
My group, OHPRI.com investigated this bridge in October of 2008. We used equipment such as EMF detectors and digital voice recorders and video equipment. We were there for several hours. There is absolutely no evidence to substantiate any type of paranormal activity. In answer to the reports of a glowing mist, during the investigation we explored the area down beneath the bridge. We found an old solar powered landscape light which was still operable. It gave off a small light which was visible from a distance. The combination of fog and this light could easily debunk any reports of glowing mist. As far as reports of laughter, voices, etc., our impression is that Gibbs Bridge is a local hangout for younger people as evidenced by all the graffiti on the bridge. Quite likely that if people know others are going to be hanging out at the bridge they will mess with them. We discovered no EVPs or any other intriguing evidence. We have concluded that Gibbs Bridge is nothing more than an urban legend.
I used to live out in Berkey, OH and only went down the road a couple of times and all during the day. Heard the story as a kid, and from possibly the oldest man in town with the most time on his hands. But when entire town knows about the story and doesnt seem to care or believe it, I think everyone might be reading a little too much into this legend. Dark rural area with trees and shadows in the moonlight can seem like a lot of things. Not to mention people live nearby that don’t enjoy the kids doing drugs on that bridge, so you may just be seeing iritated homeowners.
Hey, harold why dont you update your website.
my friends and i were out at the bridge last friday. before being interrupted by 3 carloads of teenagers, we heard several strange noises, as if someone hit the guardrail with a hammer. this happened 4 times before a very loud noise startled all of us. everything seemed to come from the east side of the bridge. we took pictures, that showed orbs, and in 2 of them, a small glowing light. we plan on going back another time, maybe once the kids are back in school!!
its a bunch a bull puckie
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It’s a hpax. Nobody died in an automobile accident, I checked the Lucas county records. Those same records do not record anyone being hanged either. I can tell you that the local police are checking this area more frequently.
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