The generally accepted story of Hell's Gate Bridge starts in the 1950s, according to the Oxford Paranormal Society; a young couple driving over the bridge somehow drove their car off the bridge one night and they both drowned.
The Tlingit tribe who live in Juneau have their own explanation for the high number of missing people: evil spirits called the Kushtaka. According to books such as 'In Search of the Kushtaka: Alaska's Other Bigfoot,' the Kushtaka are shape-shifters (half-man, half-otter) who lure women and children to the water with fake cries in order to steal their human spirits and drown them.
Potentially to curb ghost hunters and bored teenagers, Hell's Gate Bridge is closed to cars, according to The Anniston Star, and it is in such disrepair that walking across is strongly discouraged.
On average, five out of every 1,000 people go missing in Alaska, the Los Angeles Times reported in 2005, so even if there's nothing supernatural going on, it's easy to get lost in the Alaskan wilderness.
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