Well, until there is proof it is an urban legend.
Tis the time of the year when legends of unseen beings’ surface. The story of the Haunted Monkey Bridge lives on, it seems with the story on one man’s experience. Supposedly in the 1960’s a circus train had an accident that caused the monkeys to be able to get out of their cages (could be true) and when their handlers tried to “handle them” the monkeys attacked and killed them. I will have to go to the history center and look through old newspapers to find out if this is true. On The Portal to Texas History, I put in the search term “monkey attack” and nothing was found.
Only one man has spoken of the train bridge with the odd name and that is Christopher Reyes. He was famous for 15-monutes when the Tyler Times told his experience and then Coast to Coast aired his story nationally.
He always felt weird when he was around the bridge as a child. One day a man wearing a mask shouted at him and told him to go away and he has never felt good vibes in the area ever after. At night he can hear the screams of monkeys and humans.
That’s it. As far as I can tell no one else has come forward with Monkey Bridge experiences.
