Short Story Of Big Liz And Cry Baby Bridge

The legends of Big Liz and Cry Baby Bridge will forever be in the minds of the young and old generations and more to come. Big Liz was an African American slave that lived in Dorchester county Maryland with her master, Big Liz was a strong woman she could lift two full-grown pigs under each arm and take them to the smoke house without any help. Big Liz was a part of the Harriet Tubman regime and was a spy for the north, keeping Intel about her master and his smuggling routes and she kept this from her master for a very long time. Her master was a part of the southern army and he would help smuggle goods from the north taking routes that the north did not know about, Big Liz’s master has a large amount of gold and wealth that he gets by smuggling

So the Yankees were after the master and he didn’t want the Yankees to get the chest of gold and wealth that he smuggled from them, so what the master did was he took Big Liz, a shovel, the chest full of gold and a tree sapling. The master and Big Liz were on their way to the swamp that is still to this day in Dorchester County. They walked the great muddy and dangerous waters of Briar swamp. Big Liz and the master found a spot and big enough for Big Liz.Big Liz was instructed to dig a hole to bury the chest filled with gold and with her in it as well. When Big Liz was almost to the point where her head was below ground, the master then said to Big Liz “you traitor” then chopped her head off. Big Liz’s master buried the wealth and big Liz so that no one would find her or the wealth from the north or the Yankees, then the master put a sapling over the wealth on the same location so that he could find it later as he was leaving the master felt a strange feeling that he was being watched, so an ease strange light mist came out of the swamp and the master

There are rumors that say Big Liz was cursed to protect the wealth because the south lost and she was a part of the south. The locals say that she doesn’t affect the homes that live near because she is protecting the wealth, but people get an odd feeling at night on a full moon that they are being watched from the swamp and that they can’t fight the urge to call her name wait to for her to come out of the swamp and take them to the wealth but they never come back and never to be seen again. Here is what you do if you want to find the gold you will have to turn on Decoursey bridge Rd in Cambridge MD go during the night, park on the bridge, flash your lights three times, honk your horn two times and turn your car off if she does appear she will come out of the mist and with her head in her hands and take you to the wealth that she has been protecting. She will have you at the wealth, but no one has been able to stay with her because she will do the same thing that happened to her she will behead you (“The Legend of Big