Deviatus - A Personal Look Into The Paranormal

On December 15, 1967, with less than two weeks before Christmas, residents of the towns of Gallipolis, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia flock to shopping centers after work to finish their Christmas shopping.  Traffic jams ensue as a result, and people sit in their cars attempting to cross the aging Silver Bridge, which connects the two towns traversing the Ohio River.  The bridge collapses, sending vehicles and their occupants into the ice-cold water, ultimately resulting in 46 fatalities. The bridge, which was built in 1928, was not designed to support the weight of the high number of vehicles that were on it.  The investigation into the cause of the collapse indicated that a defect of a single link in the bridge where there was a small crack was responsible.  The increased amount of stress from the weight of higher than usual traffic caused the link to break, causing residual stress on the rest of the bridge.  It was said that the original crack was no more than 0.1 inches de