Soldier Still Guards Bridge in San Marcos, Texas

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The San Marcos Bridge is haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier toting a muzzle-loading rifle. His ghost has been reported walking near the bridge since the 1920's. In 1939. two men fixing a flat tire on the bridge were startled by the shirtless figure of a tall man wearing a rebel cap. Because the man was carrying a rifle, one of the two businessmen went for a gun in the car, but the apparition disappeared before he could confront it.

Legend says the ghost is a man who lived in a cabin near the bridge before the Civil War. When he and his brother went off to fight for the South, they promised each other that they would return home -- no matter what happened.