Stowe, Vermont

View north along Historic Vermont State Route 7A, Manchester

Stowe is a town in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States. Pictured is Stowe Community Church courtesy of Terry Foote. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Gold Brook Covered Bridge

Gold Brook Covered Bridge, also known as Stowe Hollow Bridge and Emily's Bridge after the ghost story, is a small wooden covered bridge, spanning Gold Brook. It was constructed in 1844, and is the only 19th-century covered bridge in Vermont built using wooden Howe trusses and carrying a public roadway. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

It is reputedly haunted by the ghost of Emily Smith, a young girl who hung herself from the bridge when her lover failed to meet her in their plan to elope, sometime around 1849. People report that she is often in a vengeful mood - scratching people, hitting cars on the bridge and screaming. Her apparition is described as "something straight out of a nightmare".

Some paranormal investigators claim to have obtained EVP recordings of Emily.

Pictured left is Gold Brook Covered Bridge courtesy of Mfwills.

Bowman House, Highway 103, Cuttingsville, VT 05738, USA.

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For further information, please read Haunted Vermont by Thomas D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson.

For further information, please read Haunted Bridges by Rich Newman.