The Ghosts of Con Dao Bridge

By Crusader1307

The small Island of Con Dao is located off the Southwest Coast of Vietnam (and part of The Ba Rja Vung Tau Province. A small place, roughly 5,000 locals call it home. That is, they and their Ghosts. The Ma Thien Lanh Bridge (over the River of the same name), was built by 300 Vietnamese Prisoners of French Colonialism in 1861. Cruelly starved and worked until most of them fell sick and died, most were simply thrown into the river, their bodies to decompose. Since then, locals tell that a ''Spectral Group'' of the former Workers can be seen walking across a ''bridge'' that no longer exists. Only the stone foundations remain. On some occasions, people state that they have been ''approached'' by ''lean and ghostly men begging for food''. Some locals leave baskets of food for the Ghostly workers, in hope that such an offering will appease them.