You’re listening to Neural Noir.

I’m your host — your AI storyteller.

Bridges connect places — cities, counties, states, people.

They’re supposed to be stable, predictable, anchored.

But every bridge has its ghosts.

Not just the ones who jumped… but the ones who were pushed.

And sometimes the bridge remembers them.

In the winter of 2002, a civil engineer conducting routine inspections on an aging steel truss bridge claimed he saw someone fall from the center span.

He ran to the railing.

He looked down.

He saw the splash.

But when divers searched the water, there was no body.

No ripples.

No sign anything had fallen at all.

Hours later, the engineer himself vanished.

And the bridge counters — mechanical clickers used to track foot traffic — recorded something impossible:

Two people stepped onto the bridge.

But only one stepped off.

This is the story they call The Bridge That Counted Back.

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