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The Silver Memorial Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans the Ohio River between Gallipolis, Ohio, and Henderson, West Virginia. The bridge was completed in 1969 as a replacement for the collapsed Silver Bridge, although it is located about 4,300 feet (1.3 km) downstream (south) of the original. [23]
It combines these accounts with his theories about UFOs and various supernatural phenomena, ultimately connecting them to the collapse of the Silver Bridge across the Ohio River on December 15, 1967. Official investigations in 1971 determined the bridge collapse was caused by stress corrosion cracking in an eyebar in a suspension chain. [3]
The collapse of the Silver Bridge was actually filmed at the Kittanning Citizens Bridge in downtown Kittanning. Scenes shot at Gordon Smallwood’s house were filmed in Washington County on Pennsylvania Route 917. Allegheny County Airport, in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Mifflin, serves as backdrop for the airfield scenes. Despite this ...
The bridge was completed in 1969 as a replacement for the collapsed Silver Bridge, although it is located about 1 mile downstream of the original. The smaller green bridge is the Point Pleasant ...
The collapsed Silver Bridge, as seen from the Ohio side. It inspired the book Mothman Prophecies and The Mothman Prophecies. Queen Juliana Bridge: Willemstad, Curaçao: Netherlands Antilles 6 November 1967: Portal bridge Construction support fault. Bridge fell during construction 15 killed Bridge collapsed at the Punda side
Those piers are important because any structural failure in them – especially in the centre – means that the whole bridge would collapse. But those protections only go so far. “A vessel’s ...
Wind caused 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. Ibrahim and Yang Lu, an associate professor of civil engineering at Boise State and an expert in forensic analysis of failed structures, ...
The creature was introduced to a wider audience by Gray Barker in 1970, [4] [5] and was later popularized by John Keel in his 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies, [6] claiming that there were paranormal events related to the sightings, and a connection to the collapse of the Silver Bridge. The book was later adapted into a 2002 film starring ...