The Weeping Bride of the Arta Bridge

The Bridge of Arta in Epirus is tied to one of Greece's darkest folk songs. According to legend, the master builder and his 45 apprentices could not complete the bridge — every night what was built during the day collapsed. A dream told the master that the bridge would only stand if the first living creature to cross at dawn were sacrificed in the foundations.

The master's own wife arrived at dawn. She was entombed alive in the bridge's central pillar. Before dying, she cursed the bridge: "As my heart trembles, so shall the bridge tremble." Travelers crossing the three-arched bridge at dusk still report hearing weeping from below the central arch, and the stones are said to vibrate during the full moon.