Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

The Ghosts of Peltier Road Bridge

Sometimes with stories, you have to tell the past in order for the present to make sense. This is such a case. The date is January 1981. The Central Valley tule fog formed that evening casting an eerily quiet feeling over the valley.

A car with three people is driving down Peltier Road near Lodi, California. One of them is being strangled with a belt by the person sitting behind them. The person sitting in the back is Michael Morales. Morales was armed not only with a belt, but a claw hammer and a 7 inch kitchen knife. The driver, Ricky Ortega, is the jealous lover of the victim’s boyfriend and cousin to Morales. Ortega, in his rage and jealousy against the victim, asked his cousin Morales to get rid of the victim. Morales was eager to comply.

Morales thought of ways to kill the victim and practiced cinching a belt around a female roommate’s neck, waiting for Ortega to …