Didn't do it for me. I think the story in general could have been tighter. "He fought to banish the thoughts from his conscious mind to the dark recesses of his brain from where thoughts never return." Or you could say "forget." I know it's nice to say mundane things in an interesting way, but replacing one word with a dozen seems a bit much. Also, when an old country boy is telling me about the evil ghost bridge, I would rather not flashback to a guy's wife laughing at him for buying a riding cap.
This got me thinking about the use of details in fiction. We are always told to put in as much detail as possible. But it seemed like this story had too much. I didn't need to hear so much about the type of alcohol they were drinking or what a meticulous man the main character was and how he liked driving. A few key word choices could have conveyed the same info without needing entire sentences. On the other hand, the details of the spooky stuff were great and really put me there.
The following is not a criticism of this story, but something I've been thinking about with horror in general. I don't believe in ghosts at all. Even people who believe in ghosts acknowledge that many ghost stories are not true and take them with a grain of salt. But often in horror fiction someone is put in the position of believing or not believing, and the reader always knows that the "right" choice is to believe. In real life choosing to believe in a ghost story is almost always the wrong choice. In Christmas Bridge the writer uses the phrase "resists temptation" to refer to the main character not driving down that awesome road, and as a listener I'm supposed to root for the character and hope that he can be strong. But why should he? If someone told me about a new horror podcast, but then told me not to listen to it because it's haunted and someone who listened to it killed themselves, that podcast would be the next one I downloaded. You guys would download it too. If we were all horror fiction characters, that would be a stupid thing to do, but in real life it's not. So I feel weird hoping that the main character in Christmas Bridge does the dumb thing and believe in this crazy old guy's ghost story. Again, this observation happens in a lot of horror stories. I'm not trying to pick on this one.