Colorado Street (Suicide) Bridge, Pasadena, CA

History of the Bridge:

Built in 1913, the concrete Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California, has a perilous 150 foot drop to the riverbed below. It's known by locals by the moniker “Suicide Bridge."
The concrete bridge spans 1,467 feet across the Arroyo Seco, a deeply cut canyon linking the San Gabriel Mountains to the Los Angeles River, and containing the intermittent Arroyo Seco Stream for which it is named. The bridge is also often incorrectly called the "Arroyo Seco Bridge."
In Pasadena's early days, before the historic Colorado Street Bridge was built, crossing the Arroyo Seco was an extremely difficult task. Horses and wagons descended the steep eastern slope, crossed the stream over a smaller bridge, and then climbed up the west bank through Eagle Rock Pass.
The bridge was designed and built by the J.A.L. Waddell firm of Kansas City, Missouri and named for Colorado Street (now called Colorado Boulevard) which was the major east-west thoroughfare through Pasadena.
The first tragedy on the bridge occurred before construction was even complete. Allegedly, when one of the bridge workers toppled over the side and plunged headfirst into a vat of wet concrete, his co-workers assumed he could not be saved in time and left his body in the quick-drying cement. His is only one of the many souls said to haunt the “Suicide Bridge.”
The first suicide occurred on November 16, 1919 and was followed by a number of others, especially during the Great Depression. Over the years, it is estimated that more than 100 people took their lives leaping the 150 feet into the arroyo below. One of the more notable suicides was when a despondent mother threw her baby girl over the railing on May 1, 1937. She then followed her into the depths of the canyon. Though the mother died, her child miraculously survived. Evidently, her mother had inadvertently tossed her into some nearby trees, and she was later recovered from the thick branches. Story

Today the bridge contains a suicide railing to prevent suicides, but they still do happen.
~Justin~

  The Investigation
Suicide bridge is accessed via a trail from a park about a quarter mile down river from the bridge. You park your vehicle in the park's dirt lot and walk the rest of the way to the bridge. You'll find people exercising at the park, running, and walking their dogs on the trails that lead to the bridge at pretty much any given time during the day, which makes an investigation a little tricky because it's easy to pick up human noises there, but hard to know where these noises come from due to tall vegetation.
The investigation was started at about noon, and only ran a couple of hours because we all had to get back. We viewed it largely as a trial run for this location, a first phase, so we could get a feel for the logistics and baseline noise levels.
The EVP's we did throughout were all pretty much compromised  due to an inability to rule out human causes of noises.
Steve

We spent our hours wandering around the areas of the bridge and the arroyo below.  Lots of heavy spots.  We felt as though tons of weight was on us at different points or that we were being watched.  Some parts of it felt very abnormal.

When we reached the bottom of the bridge we started to immediately take pictures.  Caught one orb which is not all that big of a deal, although daylight orbs are more rare that oprbs illuminated by a camera's flash.  A true surreal kind of place.  Knowing the history of the bridge we began to discuss the drop from all the suicides over the years and you could actually picture where people might of landed to their fate below.  Once again this was a trip to see the layout of the bridge and the surrounding area.  A second investigation is in a possible pending state.  With the blood that has been shed on the ground below and all of the history of years past their most definitely has to be something.  We did get one picture of an apparition that appeared to be what looks like a city courier from possibly the 1930s or 1940s.  You can even see his small mail sack strapped across his chest.  We don't know if that is how city couriers carried their mail sacks, so if anybody has any information on this aspect please do contact us.  Other than that photo and possible EVP's we dismissed phase one is complete.

-Justin-

Tunnel of trees, courier man almost invisible, on right, walking towards right.

 
Satchel Man isolated (left)
The outline and details of courier man (AKA satchel man) (right)

	Just his face

Orb in a fall path that people took on the way down.

 
Over the years hundreds of people have taken the short way down!