The name Bloody Mary is scattered throughout history in various different locations. In this case. We’re talking about South Texas.
The story takes place on the mysterious street that runs from the Texaco Neches Chemical Plant in Port Neches to FM 366 in Groves, Texas.
In the Port Arthur News article July 20th 1970, It read: ‘’Old River holds the legend of Bloody Mary. She was a legendary woman pirate, supposedly hung by villagers for her transgressions. The woman is said to still haunt the River Road, calling out on foggy nights to her lost baby.’’ Apparently, before being taken over by the angry villagers, she hid her baby on the side of the road. And could never find the baby again. In the story the baby’s name is Sarah Jane and the bridge today is called the Crybaby Bridge. This is where, sometimes the sound of a baby crying is reported to be heard.
In the Beaumont Enterprise on October 31, 1985, there is an article about a pioneer woman who drowned as she and her family were crossing the Bayou stories say they hear her crying for help in the Bayou.
Twenty years later, again in the Port Arthur News on October 31, 1992, the story is told this time a bit different. This story takes place in the 1950s. In this situation, it is a woman who’s name is Sarah Jane. She is going from Lake Sabine to Port Neches in a wagon, she’s accosted by a group of bandits. For the safety of the infant, Sarah Jane is said to have placed her in some weeds by the Bayou and left her there, according to an old-time resident. But when she came back her baby was gone.
Another waterway with some infamous ghosts, according to the Houston Post, is the Sabine Pass. It is in Jefferson County, near the Louisiana border, and it was once a thriving village, and in the days when Lafayette and his pirates roamed the Gulf Coast, tales of buried treasure abound in this area. And of course, ghosts. According to this story one of Jean Lafayette’s ships was chased across the Sabine Lake and anchored to Port Neches in at the mouth of the Neches River to prevent the treasure aboard the vessel from falling into the hands of Spanish pursuers, it was carried ashore and buried in a marsh. Maps purported to show where this treasure was secreted have appeared from time to time on treasure maps.
