The Lake Shawnee Amusement Park is now a defunct amusement park near Princeton, in Mercer County, West Virginia, but when it was operational, many accidental deaths occurred inside. Many believe the park was cursed because it was built on what is considered “cursed land.” The land on which the amusement park was built was the…
Was it the “Mothman” or a Mechanical Failure that led to the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967
Just before Christmas, on December 15, 1967, tragedy struck Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio, on the Silver Bridge around 5:00 p.m. During the late afternoon rush hour, as dozens of cars were packed onto the bridge, the bridge collapsed. In all, 64 people plunged into the frigid waters, resulting in 46 deaths, nine…