A Reddit user said the story happened when he was a teenager fishing from an abandoned truss bridge over a river. According to his comment in the thread, he and his buddies used to go there often because the fishing was worth it. He said they caught big yellow perch there, along with bullheads and carp, and one of his friends had even accidentally landed a muskie at that spot before. The bridge crossed public hunting and fishing land, and it was one of those places that felt isolated enough to be exciting when you were young.
He wrote that one night he was there after dark with his younger cousin, who was around 13 at the time. His cousin was on the bridge with him, asleep on the railroad ties, while he kept fishing. That detail matters because it meant he was not just responsible for himself when things started to go bad. He had a sleeping kid beside him and a long way down from the bridge if something turned into a real confrontation.
According to the story, he suddenly heard voices coming from below the bridge. At first he tried to listen and figure out whether it was just random people moving along the riverbank. Then he realized the voices were talking about his truck. He said they were discussing the vehicle he had parked nearby and talking about coming up to the bridge. That was the moment he understood they knew someone was above them and were not just passing through.
He said he looked down and saw a group of men below, and from what he could tell they were all carrying knives. From the way he told it, there was no comforting explanation left at that point. He was up on an abandoned bridge at night, his younger cousin was asleep beside him, and a group of men underneath them had already noticed the truck and were talking about heading up. He wrote that he immediately woke his cousin up. Then he started yelling down at the men, telling them he was armed and had a gun on him.
That stopped them.
He said the men turned and ran. They did not come up onto the bridge after that. They did not stay there arguing. They took off once he made it clear he was armed and awake and that they were not sneaking up on a couple of helpless kids. He added that he and his cousin left after that, and he never forgot the feeling of hearing men below the bridge talking about the truck before he realized they were planning to come up to where he was.
That was the full story he shared in the thread. He was night fishing from an abandoned truss bridge where he and his friends often caught big perch and other fish. His younger cousin had fallen asleep beside him on the railroad ties. Then he heard voices below, realized the men were talking about his truck and about coming up, looked down and saw they had knives, woke his cousin, and shouted that he had a gun. The men ran, and the two of them got out of there.
What do you think — if you were stuck on an abandoned bridge at night with a sleeping kid beside you and heard men below talking about your truck and coming up after you, would you have stayed and yelled them off like he did, or started looking for the fastest way off that bridge?
Original Reddit post: Spooky Fishing Stories
