Talk:Crybaby Bridge

message: In a recent edit - some things seem to have disappeared such as external links and see also section as well as most of the Billy Joe section.  These things appear in the history section but not on the page.  I have NO clue what gives.  i will attempt to restore this stuff after wikipedia gets over its headache and ehaves normally! I didn't do this on purpose folksLisapollison 04:38, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I managed to get things straightened out.Lisapollison 04:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: problems editing this article

message: I removed the following addition from the article:
:Another possibility is opened by the original spelling if the suicidal youth's name, the feminine "Billie Joe" with an IE, instead of the masculine "Billy Joe" with a Y. The narrator could have been a childhood friend of Billie Joe's and had helped her with her "problem". 
It was removed because it had no bearing on the Crybaby bridge folklore.  Also, it is pure speculation and original research unless a source can be cited.  If this material is to be included anywhere, it would be within the body of the article on the song Ode to Billie Joe and not here.  Also, to be included, a citeable source is needed.  The supposition that it was a baby thrown off the bridge is properly cited in the article on the song so I added a note to see that article for a full discussion of that implication.LiPollis 12:11, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Off-topic speculation

message: I just reorganized the unreferenced template. This article's information is cited through external links, which (for the most part) are going on a state-by-state basis. It would be great to cite in a better manner, but I didn't know what other way these could be presented. If anyone does, go for it. 130.101.100.106 (talk) 14:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I can recall hearing stories about Crybaby Bridge as prototypical ghost story as a child in Maryland in the 1980's, well before the internet age,  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.230.167.61 (talk) 05:26, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fakelore 

message: Despite an extensive Google search I can't find any evidence that a place called "Helltown, Ohio" or "Boston Mills, Ohio" exists or has ever existed; further, I can't even find any evidence that a real and persistent urban legend about the existence of such a place exists.  The multiple references to it across the internet are all on unverified, open content sites - it appears to be an extensive campaign by one individual (with rather poor writing skills) to retroactively create this legend, possibly for the purposes of a work of fiction or Alternate Reality Game.  Unless anyone can provide a reliable citation for this "Crybaby Bridge" of Helltown I recommend the reference be deleted. DustFormsWords (talk) 05:11, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The only reason Helltown is mentioned in this article is because the reference puts a crybaby bridge there. You might look at starting a discussion at Helltown, Ohio. However, the links provided are already by different sources (and I added an important one about the fakelore aspect of it); more importantly, it's received a decent amount of published coverage as a textbook example of fakelore phenomena- see   . JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 20:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Boston Mills may refer to the Boston Mills Brandywine ski resort area, which is mentioned in the Peninsula, Ohio article.  If this is the case, it's not an official city or neighborhood, but a colloquial reference to the Brandywine Falls area. 76.253.132.162 (talk) 00:51, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helltown? 

message: There is supposed to be a Crybaby Hollow outside of Decatur, Alabama.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.209.144.16 (talk) 23:05, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Decatur, Alabama

message: This article seems to be geared towards those that believe in these liebaby--er, crybaby bridges, particularily the Oklahoma section. How do you recommend that the article be changed to have a more neutral point of view?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Venku Tur'Mukan (talk • contribs) 03:45, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, I should mention that "you" should not be used, as this is an encyclopedia, not an instruction manual. "You" should only be used in quotation marks. Venku Tur'Mukan (talk) 03:49, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

text: Sulphur Springs (Texas) and Georgia... In these I found a total of ten uses of either you or your. At the moment I don't have enough time to fix it. Not only is this unencyclopedic, but it's written as a tutorial (e.g., "If you put baby powder on your car..."). Venku Tur'Mukan (talk) 16:14, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: There's a pattern to all of the locations listed... they're all in the US. Is that because the urban legend itself is of US origin, or is the article biased to that one country? 66.102.83.61 (talk) 00:27, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  US-centric? 

message: I'm from Anderson, Indiana, and I've been to that bridge, its not in Anderson, its in Markleville, a town next to Anderson. So I corrected that part. --ECayce187 (talk) 15:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: ... so presumably you're sure you know all the screaming-brat bridges in the county? Don't you feel any obligation to provide geodetic co-ordinates, rather than expecting us to accept your opinions that there aren't two creepy bridges haunted by either 1 or 2 ... uh, phenomena?? C'mon, souls are at stake!--Jerzy•t 03:58, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Markleville

message: I reworded to
: The "baby cries" have been said to be heard at night or during the day.
after finding, roughly, the vaguer yet even less plausible version
: The baby cries can be heard night and day.
(Look up the exact bizarre wording in the edit history, if you think i was lax in being more concerned with the exact new wording than abt the old, and might have inadvertantly made the removed wording sound even more outrageous than you think it really was -- if you think i was, don't expect to make your best possible case for you. I'm editing with an iPad 2, and jumping back and forth to make multiple pastes here would be even more stressful than this one-finger typing on the touch-scream. [That's intentional sarcasm, to lessen my stress in this talk-edit; don't hope for me to apologize.])< br>--Jerzy•t 03:58, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:   Night and day 

message: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.246.18.45 (talk • contribs) 14:10, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  there’s one in Ridley oklahoma too 

message: About two miles south of the oil refinery in Coffeyville, KS. Only good after dark of course.  Scream at your own risk!? 2600:100A:A011:891C:8D43:8610:8A11:EDE1 (talk) 05:50, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kansas has one too…