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The Riverside Bridge Monster (1958)

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

On the night of November 8, 1958, Charles Wetzel was driving where North Main Street crossed the Santa Ana River when something man-shaped with a glowing, fluorescent face and a beak-like mouth reared out of the riverbed brush and clawed across his windshield. He floored it, drove to the police station, and the scratches were real enough for a report. Another driver described the same thing the next night. Riverside has told the story ever since.

The ground it haunts

Santa Ana River crossing at North Main Street, Riverside. Source: Riverside police report and November 1958 press accounts, a documented California cryptid case. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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