Helen's Bridge- The Legend

I first heard of Helen's Bridge when I was in Mrs. Linder's Third Grade class at Hillandale Elementary School although in her ghost story, she referred to the location as "Helen's Mountain." It was a ghost story that Mrs. Linder told our Third Grade class one afternoon and she said she had experienced the ghost first hand. The story went something like this: A woman named Helen had lost her daughter in a house fire in the early 1900's and she was so distraught over the loss of her daughter that she had committed suicide near the spot where her house stood. After Helen's death, she roamed the mountainside in search of her daughter. If you drove to the spot where the house stood, you said the incantation "Helen come forth" two times, the ghost of Helen was supposed to appear. Mrs. Linder told us that her, her boyfriend/husband and another couple drove up to the spot late one night when she was younger, and they parked near where the house stood. The chimney to the house was still standing and they walked almost to the front steps. They all said "Helen come forth" in unison two times and as soon as they said it the second time, a giant ball of fire appeared from somewhere inside the remains of the house and came at them. Terrified, they all raced back to the car, and jumped in but the car wouldn't start. The driver let it roll backwards and he popped the clutch and the engine finally came to life. They sped home and it was not until they got home that they noticed two handprints that were burned into the hood of the car. It was a great ghost story that scared the crap out of a class of Third Graders. Mrs. Linder was quite the story teller. I am going to write a Part Two, the facts about what is really known about Helen's Bridge.