猛鬼橋 Mang Gui Kiu Traditional Cache
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It was a sad and scary story...
On 28 August 1955 at around 1:30 in the afternoon, a group of teachers and students from St. James' Settlement on a week-long camp in the nearby Tai Po Rural Orphanage were having a final picnic at Tsung Tsai Yuen before returning home. An unexpected rain came, so they sought shelter under the bridge, but most were washed away to the lower course of the river by a sudden landslide. 28 of them died with only few alive.
在1955年8月28日的下午約1時30分，一群師生正在溪澗旁午膳，突然下雨，他們走到橋樑的底部避雨，誰知山洪突至，大部分人走避不及，被洪水沖走，遇難者經過大水渠（現為滌濤山）再被沖出大海。事後點算，一共28人罹難，死者中約20人是在聖雅各褔群會小學就讀。事後大埔七約鄉公所立《怒水橋洪流肇禍記》石碑以誌此慘劇。
After the accident, the Tai Po Tsat Yeuk Rural Committee erected a stone plaque to commemorate the tragedy and to placate the restless spirits.
To avoid similar accident from happening, the Hong Kong Government constructed a dam on the head-stream to reduce impulse generated by the flash floods. The downstream area where bodies are found was turned to a private housing estates.
The original Mang Gui Giu has need replaced by a reinforced concrete bridge after several road works and thus no longer exists. Yet, constant car accidents on Tai Po Road close to the original Mang Gui Giu site continues to bring more para-normality to the haunting place.
松仔園的風光仍然吸引觀光客 ，它現在是「大埔滘自然護理區」的一部分。事後，香港政府在溪澗上游建造水壩蓄水，降低山洪的洪峰強度。原有的「猛鬼橋」經多次改建道路工程，已不存在，由近年新建的鋼筋混凝土汽車大橋取代。那塊《怒水橋洪流肇禍記》被遷移至「松仔園」的「大埔滘自然護理區」之入口附近的大埔滘花園的草坪上。發現28具屍體的下游地點，現時已建築了滌濤山私人住宅群落。
Stone plague (original and current)
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Additional Hints
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Hc gur fgrry ynqqre, orgjrra 3 cvcrf naq 1 oevpx