This is a story about my feelings and I believe a psychic warning. On the last Saturday of August of 2008 (the 30th) I drove to Chesapeake City, as I have done off and on over the years I've lived in Elkton, MD, and crossed over the same bridge I've used for years.
But, this time, for some reason, during the time I was at the bridge I become so frightened I couldn't bring myself to cross it to go home later that afternoon. So, instead I went over and around through Delaware. The feeling I had was one of an impending disaster if I crossed over the bridge again. It was so strong it affected my physically, and I went weak in the knees.
Later that day, I told a friend who is into the occult about my feelings, and said that I thought is was a psychic warning of some kind. He told me that it might be, but, if could also be something called "residual energy" from emotions of people who had been killed when an older bridge connecting Chesapeake City to Elkton collapsed about 50 or 60 years ago. He wasn't sure when the older bridge went down or, if it killed anyone when it had fallen. Therefore, we looked in back issues of a local interest magazine he gets called "Cecil Soil" as he thought he might have read about it in there.
Sure enough, it was mentioned in a column about life on the Chesapeake in bygone days. The columnist who was raised in Chesapeake City had this to say: "Back when I was a boy, in the summer of 1938, a terrible disaster occurred; the suspension bridge coming into Chesapeake City gave out one afternoon and killed several people". Researching the matter a bit more closely, I discovered that the bridge that fell killing several motorists had been built in the late 1890's, and fell apart at about 11:25 AM on August 30th, 1938, plunging nine people to a watery grave instantly.; two others who were walking across it when the tragedy occurred were injured so badly they died within days.
The whole episode freaked me out and, now I'm questioning what we think we know about time and death. Was it residual energy of a bunch of ghosts who were hanging around the spot on the 70th anniversary of their physical deaths? Or could it have been I might have had an accident on my way home if I hadn't taken the longer toll road through Delaware back to Maryland? If it was the former, how long do spirits hang around the earth plane, if the latter, how could I know beforehand I'd be killed in an accident if I crossed over the bridge again? As I was going to lunch at the time, it was probably the exact time that the bridge had collapsed 70 years ago. If it was a psychic warning, were any other motorists getting it or was it just for me?
Joanne Parker
