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Episode 8: Goat Man's Bridge · Hidden Creatures: Stories, Sightings, and the Search for What Hides in the Dark

• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Hidden Creatures.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: Stories, sightings, and the search for what hides in the dark.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_05: Join us as we explore mysterious encounters, legendary creatures, and unexplained stories from around the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: From eyewitness accounts to local folklore, we'll follow the clues and search for the truth behind the unknown.
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  SPEAKER_05: Some stories may be unsettling, eerie, or hard to forget.
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  SPEAKER_05: Listener discretion and advice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something is out there.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Waiting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Join us as we step into the shadows and follow the trail into the unknown.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: This is Hidden Creatures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's begin.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_06: Welcome back to the Hidden Creatures Podcast, and I'm your host, Lori Chen.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_06: With me are my co-hosts Kristen Jones and Richard Sykes.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_06: Hi, everyone.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Hello.
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  SPEAKER_06: And tonight we're taking you to one of the most infamous locations in Texas, a place known as Goat Man's Bridge in Denton.
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  SPEAKER_06: A bridge steeped in stories of murder, curses, demonic encounters, and a tree some claim is nothing less than a portal to hell itself.
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  SPEAKER_05: Whether you believe those stories or not, we recently walked those trails ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_05: And what we found wasn't just local folklore.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_05: There was a heaviness there, an oppressive feeling that settled over the woods the deeper we went.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, the spirits may not be the scariest thing about that place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because after dark, people come there looking for something.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: Some claim they're trying to summon entities, some wander through the woods calling out from the darkness, trying to lure strangers off the trail and into the trees.
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  SPEAKER_06: Maybe it's demons, maybe it's ghosts, maybe it's just people playing dangerous games in a place with a dark reputation.
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  SPEAKER_06: But standing there in the middle of those woods, hearing voices where no one should be, you could start to understand why so many people leave feeling like they've encountered something they can't explain.
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  SPEAKER_05: Tonight we're sharing our own investigation of Goatman's Bridge, what we experienced on site in an interview with our new friend Charles, who has its own fascinating perspective on the mysteries surrounding this infamous location.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_05: Welcome to Hidden Creatures.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_06: Hidden Creatures Podcast out on location in Denton, Texas, Goatman's Bridge.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_06: And it's off the actual road, so you can't drive on it with a vehicle, but you can walk to it and walk over it.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_06: It's quite beautiful.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_06: As we're walking in, it does feel still, but we're also surrounded by a lot of large trees, and it's pretty quiet except for the vehicles off the side.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_06: There's a lot of foliage covering everywhere.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_06: So there's a note over here from somebody, I guess this is some graffiti.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_06: There's not an Egyptian symbol right there.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_06: It's a protection symbol.
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  SPEAKER_06: Eye of Horus.
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  SPEAKER_05: It resembles the ancient Egyptian eye of Horus, a traditional symbol often used to represent protection, health, and restoration.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, if we follow the green spray paint, there's also something over here.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_06: Uh Kristen, hey, there's another one.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_06: Richard, you want another one?
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_04: Oh.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_04: Um that is the same.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_04: Oh I'm gonna check over.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_06: This is pretty there's some kind of ripped bag or cloth that goes down.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_06: And I don't know if there's something purple, crystals or rocks or something.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_06: Maybe left an offline.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_04: Oh that's interesting.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_06: Hey guys, there's another one.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_04: That's kind of interesting.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_04: Four, five.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_06: Hold on.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_05: This one's really clear.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, are we seeing this?
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_06: If you all step back, so there's a huge like metal slab on the ground that says open your mind.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_06: There's another eye.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_06: You see?
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_06: One, two, three, four, five.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_06: Did you get that one?
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_06: Six.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_06: There are six.
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  SPEAKER_06: Seven.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_06: Oh but there's some on the oh, there's another one.
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  SPEAKER_06: Seven of those Egyptian symbols.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_06: And did you see the eye over here?
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_06: There's two eyes, but those look different.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_06: Those are different.
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  SPEAKER_06: All right, you guys ready?
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_06: All right, we're about to step onto Goatman's bridge.
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  SPEAKER_06: And Kristen, I know there's some history that has to do with a really tragic happening here.
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  SPEAKER_06: And there's also some lore that's existed a lot longer than the other story.
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  SPEAKER_06: That there's the demon is here and there's a portal to hell nearby.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_06: There's two different stories, but the oldest story is that there's a demon that protects the bridge.
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  SPEAKER_06: He lives here and that there's a portal to hell here.
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  SPEAKER_05: And that would explain all of the symbols everywhere, protection symbols.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you guys, there is a ton of graffiti.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_06: There's a lot of symbols.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_06: Somebody drew a representation of a half goat, half man head.
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  SPEAKER_06: And you guys can see too, the bridge is old and it's creepy, and they've reinforced it with other boards.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_06: There's a uh Christian fish there.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_06: What do you see?
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  SPEAKER_05: Christian symbol.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_06: Did you hear that?
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_05: Sounds like something moving along underneath.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know what's beneath us besides water.
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  SPEAKER_05: I just stepped down and not pay attention.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_05: It's muddy over there, but it's um like clay and sand.
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  SPEAKER_06: Where does it go, Richard?
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  SPEAKER_06: The other side.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, it does come out here.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_04: That's all kind of you okay?
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_04: Shaky.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_06: There's a little uh smell.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_06: I don't know what that smell is.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_06: It's like something creepy over here.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, watch yourself.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_06: So there are reports of people hearing goat hooves.
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  SPEAKER_06: Um one of the scarier ones that they're feeling pushed or pulled.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_06: And there's scratching too that people hear.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_06: Watch right here.
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  SPEAKER_06: I feel compelled to go under the bridge.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_06: But you have to be really careful right here.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_06: That doesn't seem safe.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_06: Maybe over this way.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_06: Like it's like the old story with a control under the bridge.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_06: Right over there.
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  SPEAKER_06: It feels safe.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_06: It feels over here, right?
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  SPEAKER_06: I can feel it's underneath.
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  SPEAKER_06: Something different over.
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  SPEAKER_06: I wonder how we can get down.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_06: I wonder if we can.
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  SPEAKER_06: Shall we go?
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_04: If you can get there.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_04: I can go check it out.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_02: There's a man.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_04: There's somebody down there right now.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_04: To my right or left?
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_06: Left.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's where I all understand.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_06: They're filming the podcast, so that would be great to know.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_06: You said down here?
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_06: And then up?
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_06: There's more of the bridge.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, cool.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: Horrible a joke it is to have somebody type in these.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_06: Pretty bad.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_06: That's that's really messed up that they did in news.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's what that one is.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_06: Uh I don't I don't think I'll go down there because this is really like the bridge.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_06: Where's Kristen?
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_06: Kristen has better feelings than I do.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_06: I know, but if she's right above me.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_06: Hey Kristen.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_06: Kristen Jones.
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  SPEAKER_06: Hold on.
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  SPEAKER_06: Hey Richard.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, ma'am.
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  SPEAKER_06: I'm right below you.
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  SPEAKER_06: Do you mind asking Kristen if she feels anything?
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_04: I feel something in this spot.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay, where are you exactly?
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_04: I'm right above you, probably.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_04: I feel very shaky and not and a little bit um hard of breathing a little bit, like pressure.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_06: Hey, you guys should check out this spider.
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  SPEAKER_06: Um wow.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_06: See this massive spider?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_06: You see it?
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_06: Y'all are way closer to the spider than I would want to be.
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  SPEAKER_06: Well, this is about as far as I can go in the rush.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, the spider history.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_06: Should I not be going down here?
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  SPEAKER_06: So I'm all the way at the very bottom.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_06: Kristen, was that you?
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_06: Someone just walked over me.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah?
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_06: Did someone just walk across the room?
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, there was a cyclist.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, okay.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_06: It was really loud.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_06: I'm surprised.
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  SPEAKER_06: Not that heavy.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: We're not stopping our feet.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_06: So, guys, there's also uh some string and hanging from the string is like a piece of pink.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_06: It looks like a piece of a bone.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_06: Well, this place would really give me the creeps at night.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_06: Richard, are you guys hot up there?
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_06: You need to hold anything?
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_06: Um, I had to sit down.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_06: You still shaky?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, but mo some of it's me, but there was an area where I felt more shaky and the heat, you know, bothers me.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_06: Incoming cyclists.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_06: Hey.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_06: Oh poison ivy.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_06: There's poison ivy.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_06: We were here for the ghost stories.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_06: No, no, we're just filming right here for the goat man's bridge.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean, there's not a whole lot if if you're trying to do some of that kind of there's not a whole lot past that portal tree, anyways, but once you get past it, poison ivy just starts closing in.
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  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_06: What kind of tree did you say?
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_02: Portal tree.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_06: What's a portal tree?
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's where they summon demons through.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_02: It'll be obvious when we see it.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: I'll walk down.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_06: Here, if you ever want to share any stories, uh I've got stories.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my gosh.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_06: Are you local?
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_06: Are you from here?
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_02: I'm from Dallas.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's enough.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, that's my trail.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_02: I'd like the Missouri area.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_06: So I was scared to come down here, but actually feel it feels okay.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_06: Is it daytime's okay?
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, daytime.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_02: The first time I came down here five or six years ago, I was actually lurking and I came down this road, like, wow, look at that old bridge.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_02: And I said, Wow, look at the trails around the bridge.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna have to go down there.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_02: So a couple years went by and uh I saw uh videos of people come out here on their bike.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_02: Nothing else just coming out on the bike.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_02: I saw a route that a guy took from uh Lewisville.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, oh, that'd be perfect.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_02: So I came down here, I came across the bridge.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: I I've never been creeped out at all by the bridge, but mind you, I didn't know anything about the history.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: I came down the trail and I got to that bridge, I'm gonna get a trail.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, whoa, I would start getting heebies.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_02: Over there.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I don't know what the hell this is, but I don't like it.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_02: And I turned around and went the other way.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_02: So I went down the path on the other side, the other side of the creek on the other side of the bridge.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_02: It comes through the woods and kind of comes out in the clearing and tees off the same thing.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_02: Whoa, what is this all about?
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_02: So then like the next day or two, I started looking up stories about the goat man's bridge.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_02: And and really after I knew what it was, I wasn't really creeped out anymore.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_06: Can you take us to that turtle tree?
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_06: And we're recording, is that okay with you?
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, fine.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: So uh I'm out on Halloween night and I had been seeing all these uh videos and all the stuff was happening in those two places and under the bridge.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_06: I went under the bridge, yeah, I felt like there was something next to the bridge, but I went down there and I couldn't see anything.
• 10:29
  unknown: Yeah.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, so what I did hear that he maybe guards the bridge or portal to hell is what I'm I did read.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_06: Is this not it?
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_06: How many times would you say you've been through this twice?
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_06: Nothing just a bad feeling.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_02: But no, I've I've had loofling stuff happen.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_03: I'll tell you about it when we stop.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, thank you.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_06: Oh that well, that scared me.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_06: That one's like a warning tree, I think.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I I've seen a lot of uh YouTube videos on different subjects and it's all ice up and exaggerated.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_02: When I came out of town Halloween, it wasn't exaggerated.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_06: There's um money and uh should we kind of stay away from it or I wouldn't touch it.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_02: They say that uh I mean I I have people tell me all the time all that stuff's not real.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: You believe the Bible, don't you?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Well you read your Bible, you know that it is real and you just you don't you're not supposed to summon the spirits and the demons.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_02: But people do, and this is where they do it.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_02: But they say if you touch it the the the it'll detach itself to you.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_06: You haven't touched it, have you?
• 11:46
  unknown: No.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_06: So what happened on Halloween?
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_02: Came down here and it was it was just a zoo, a bunch of kids drinking and yelling and screaming and and uh came back, Ouija boards all over the bridge.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh what do you call those things?
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_03: Catballs and uh REM pods.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_02: Cat balls and REM pods, and they're going off all over the place.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_02: And it was kind of creepy because people were were summoning things.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_02: So I I go over to uh where I was sitting while y'all were up in the park lot, those benches on there that are all painted.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_02: And I got to talking to this these two couples, and they had a they had all of it.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_02: They had REM pods and cat and uh ovalness.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: There's two different two different kinds.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_02: Anyways, all four of them had different pieces of equipment.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_02: Spirit talkers.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_03: Spirit boxers.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_02: They all had different ones, and they said uh I I was talking to them for a while and they said, wherever you felt the most happening around here, I said, straight down this trail, just not very far.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_02: Not this one, this other trail.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go down there.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_02: Get down there, you start smelling really strong sulfur.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_04: That is so frightening.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_04: Sulfur is known for evil what's that?
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_04: Some um evil smell.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I had a backpack off because I had a bunch of I was gone all day.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_02: I had food and extra water stuff.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_02: You feel something bumping and you turn around or something there.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: We're standing there where it tees off and just to the left a little bit, and the two guys and this other guy that's a different story altogether, is uh they go off of this little tiny trail, and one of these girls was uh saying things, try to make spirits stays angry.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't remember exactly what she said, but but all of a sudden, I mean I'm standing like this, about this far apart.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_02: Actually, she's on my other side, and the other girl was here, and just out of the blue, she got knocked on her ass.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, what?
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: And so wow.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, I I've I've told people this, as long as you're making it up, you're lying.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_02: This really happened.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_02: She got knocked on her ass and she started yelling.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_02: So her husband and the other guy, the other two guys came out, and she so she opens up her her blouse and she had three scratch marks down her shoes.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_06: It was here?
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_02: No, it was on that other trail.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_06: Oh.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: And so that yeah, that's where I get that's where things are mostly creepy over there.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_06: Not so much here at the portal tree.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, but when there's people here doing stuff.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: So I've got electronic gears, they're uh they're bluetooth.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: Oh that is really cool.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's wireless electric.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm standing there and these these guys have these spirit boxes, and like I said, all four of them did.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_02: Four of the five.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's a different story.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_02: But they were they were all talking about me.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_06: Why?
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_02: I couldn't tell.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I was just observing, you know, and they were talking about me.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_02: And I said, Well, God who created all things is within me.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_02: I said, If he's with me, then he was against me.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: And so I never really got touched.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_02: But my gear started going crazy.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_02: They say, I don't know, they say that they drain batteries and stuff like that.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_02: My light went out, GPS had you went out, my taillight went out, and my phone was dead.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I said, Well, I guess it's time for me to go.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_02: I just didn't uh yeah, it's not that I didn't I wasn't scared, I was just like, nah, this is enough, I gotta go.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: So I left and I had to I had to get out of here before I could I couldn't use my phone, the app on my phone to readjust because it got my gears all out of whack.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_02: And so I had to sit there and manually get my gears back in order.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_06: Was that night time?
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was about two in the morning.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_06: You're not afraid to go cycling at two in the morning here.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_02: It's just uh well, Halloween night.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, Halloween night.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Halloween.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_02: Friday the 13th, Halloween is placed.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_06: Just packed.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I had to get completely away from here about a mile, just barely being able to ride my bike or my gear until I could stop and adjust them all up and ride home.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_02: But this other guy just appeared out of nowhere.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_02: We were on the bridge, and I I was sitting there just minding my business talking to the There's YouTubers everywhere.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_02: And so I was talking to these YouTubers and they were kind of doing a seance.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think I lined up in a whole bunch of YouTube videos that night.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_02: But I'm talking to these people and this group of uh look like college students from UNT came out, they were they were South Asian, Indian, uh Bangladesh, but somewhere probably India.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_02: But they came up and they were young, they were like 19, 20 years old.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: Two guys and two girls, and they said they said, Well, what is what was the deal out here?
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_02: Why you know, someone told us we should come out here, but so I started telling them the lore and then what I think is the reality.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: And they just looked like this and they hauled ass, but there was this guy standing right behind him.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I I didn't notice him come up or anything.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_02: But he's the guy that followed us into the woods before the other four of us.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_02: So they were they were they just hauled out.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_02: But this guy, and he was in all these pictures, just kind of back in the background, just you know, peeking over people looking.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_02: And so then I watched the another few videos.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_02: They say the most dangerous thing out here if you're here just on a night where there's not a bunch of people, is you'll just run into random people in the middle of the woods with no lights, no nothing, you know.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_06: That's terrifying.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_02: And they they this one video they showed this guy, and I'm like, that's the guy.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_02: He kept trying to lure him off into the woods.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_06: What?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, come on down here.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, there's you know, that what is he they're like, no, we you know, we don't trust this guy.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_06: What does he look like?
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh he just looked like some random 30-year-old guy, dark hair, average field.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_06: Was he wearing all black?
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: Now, what do you know about the story?
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: What do you believe about the store?
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_06: There was the obviously the traumatic lynching, right, of the goat man, but then there's the lore that I've heard too that it goes older than that, where you have a demon protecting either the bridge or the portal.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_06: He's here protecting something or lives here.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: Seth, that seems more plausible to me, and I'll tell you why, because I did a lot of research too.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_02: And I've d I watched and read a lot of other people's research and kind of the same thing I did.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_06: There's no history of uh they can never find his name.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's what we were talking about.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_06: Right.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_05: There's no history.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_06: There is, but then some people you know weren't documented.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_02: But but or the the KKK leader, uh not supposed to stay his n say his name back there.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_02: Begins with S, ends with the E.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: But there's no history of him either.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, as far as anybody could find.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: I think that it w it's just an urban legend, that part of it.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_02: But the part about yeah, it after the about a god a lot older than that, and people coming out here and and having rituals, that's true.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_02: Because people still do come out here and have rituals.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you see some kind of offering in there now, there's usually candles and candle wax and stuff all am I safe to get close and just not touch it?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, you don't have anything nefarious in mind, so I'm thinking you're okay.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_02: The part about people coming out here and summoning things is true.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_05: I totally believe that.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_02: The part about the gold man, I don't think that is true.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_05: It was a great hiding spot in the past because it was, I'm sure, more grown over and you know, you could do things down here.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_06: So there's a lot of graffiti on the tree on the other side too.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_06: And there's a divot, like a something divots in the gut, too.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_06: Is it two trees or one?
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: It's it it looks like it used to be three, which is kind of a significant number.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_06: It uh perhaps lightning hit it.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_06: Um you see the like the Egyptian symbol for protection everywhere.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, they're all over the place.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_02: And I I will tell you this, there's certain YouTubers when they come out here, you see all this very fresh, very clean, because I think they do it.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_02: Oh but that's no.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_02: The other thing I was about to tell her that that's unbelievable about the about the goat man story is that you know they say his house burned down and burned his family, and they said his house is on the other side of the road.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I've been over there a couple times, and it's like nah, I really don't think this was his house because it's a concrete slab.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: A goat man in the 30s didn't didn't live on a concrete slab.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_02: Not many people did at all.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_02: Karen Zen at best.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: Probably boat art.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_02: And uh but people go over there and do stuff too.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_02: And it's kind of creepy over there at night when people have had big fires in the middle of it and a big Ouija board.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_02: Oh creepy.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like a human Ouija board.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's like you go out there and the people just move around.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_06: That is so scary.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_06: Absolutely not.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_02: You know, so you're not interested in going seeing what they say his house was that they do rituals also.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, I'll go look at it.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, is it?
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I can't do that.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_06: No.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_06: I uh we've been out here for a while.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_06: Maybe we'll come back.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_02: You're seeing Sam and Coley.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_02: That's one of the actually that's one of the best videos about the place.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_02: Although uh a lot of these people come out and they don't really seem to know where things are happening, and they'll just be out of some random place.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_02: Well, there's nothing happening here.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_02: This must be BS.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: Stuff like that.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: But stuff happened over there where where I said the girl got knocked down and and then they were here and they were under the bridge, and they were over there at that slab, and she picked up somebody left something like there's an old shed over there, someone left a necklace hanging on it, and so this girl.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_02: So she takes it up, takes it home, and you know, some bad things happened to her.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_02: It was somebody's offering left or something.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_06: Maybe we'll come back.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_06: But this is we would have not found the portal tree without you, so that appreciate it.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, besides just like hearing things, uh it was one time, this about 20 years ago, me and my dog are laying in bed watching TV and uh the beds here and uh the bedroom doors over here and the TVs over here, and just all of a sudden, just bam, I just felt like the temperature dropped about thirty degrees.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: It was cold all of a sudden.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_02: At the same time, my dog was asleep and bam, she bounced up, hair on her back all standing up.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: She ran over the corner of the bed and was barking and snarling at something that I couldn't see.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_02: I know dogs see things.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_02: Dogs have like aware of uh more senses than people have.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: She's barking a snarl at something, and I'm kind of like, I wasn't really petrified, but I was I was kind of dumbfounded.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_02: She's barking at something coming around the bed and snapping at it, and then something something a hand on my thigh for a second, and then bam, and she calmed down and I was it cold?
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_06: The hand wasn't cold.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_02: No, it was just a hand.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's not far.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: You wanna come?
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_03: All right, we'll go.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_04: This is where I kind of felt like right around here.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_06: And the EMF is higher over here.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_06: Hey Kristen, there's a like a root log down there.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_06: He says don't sit on it.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_06: Just FYI.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_06: Sorry.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_06: You okay?
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_06: He's gonna take us to the other place.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just happy to look up.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_02: You know, people don't look up.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_02: I look up and there's some guy standing there.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_06: I think our our friend, um, she's swelling.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_06: She's feeling shaky and had to go sit down.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_06: She um she's very sensitive to stuff.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't know what the story is back here, but this is what this is like where a lot of stuff happened that happened this year.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, where I've seen it with my own eyes.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: In this area down here to the left, these cameras that capture energy, then they connect the dots and you see a figure.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_02: I I don't know.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_02: You get a lot you get you get a lot of people down here on the left in this area capturing figures down there.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: But if you have I think people are drawn to it because of why is that area so barren?
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, just because if you get any kind of rain, it fills up with water.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_06: I don't feel a bad presence or anything, and I think too, because I hear birds, I see nature, so it doesn't feel as scary as I thought it would feel.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_02: There are a lot of bobcats and coyotes and stuff down here also.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_02: Pretty much during the day.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_06: Have any of your experiences happened during the day or were they all at night?
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's the first time when I came out and I got really creeped out over there and right up here.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_02: That's where I got the uh I mean so strong you couldn't hurt them great.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: So there is one tree down there that says get out, and it's a pretty ominous warning.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_06: Do you ever feel like we shouldn't be in here?
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like I said, I've only only that first time I ever came out here and I had no idea of the history of the place.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: Right there by that legend thing where walking past it where it's got joking smell sober.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_02: It's the only time I've ever smelled it.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_02: People theorize there's scarce of little kids down here because like I said, feeling this, a lot of a lot of girls will feel like low pushes on the back like if this was a small child.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_06: So a lot of their pores are being pushed or or pulled.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: And that that wasn't like a little shit that knocked that girl on her ass and scratched her chest.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, the thing is, when she opened up her blouse like this, you could see the what like welts growing and the little dots of blood.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_06: I would not want to be here at night.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, just like everybody else says, it's the people that are off in the woods with no lights and nothing that are really the scariest.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_02: I've got a picture of this guy that I'm talking about on the bridge when I was talking, it's on somebody else's YouTube channel.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: I can find it and screenshot it.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_02: And then find the video where the same guy was harassing these people trying to drag them off into the woods.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_02: If you watch Sam and Colby when they came out here, this this girl that was with them, this is where this is where she got that happening too.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: And the and one of the guys, I can't remember which one's Sam or which one's Colby, but he felt like his backpack was on fire.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_02: He took it off, and it it it was right here too.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_02: So we're standing here, the three of us, I'm standing here, other girls standing here, other girls standing right there, and these three guys went down that trail somewhere.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_06: There is an end of a 12-gauge shotgun.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_06: Is that another one?
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_06: I'll say 12 gauge, right?
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_06: You guys?
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_02: And then really from here on it's nothing but wildlife.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_02: So it's not it's not really a a a giant area.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_02: I know if you come out here with a gun, you're you'll at night start firing, you'll get caught quick.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_02: The sheriff controls.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like during the Victorian era and up through the probably the first half of the 20th century, maybe a little later than that.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_02: Spiritualism was big and people were seeing medium uh playing Ouija and everything else.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I won't touch a Ouija board.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: But I will tell you something that's odd.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: I don't it's like me nothing, but it's just kind of odd.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_02: Most of the time there's trees falling across the trail right here.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_02: And then they'll come out and they'll move it like they do these.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_02: These I think were just drug up recently from there.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_02: About maybe 25% of the time when I come out here, it's open.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_02: And the rest of the time there's trees falling right here.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's always right here.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_06: Where are they falling from?
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_06: There's only so many trees, you know?
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_06: Unless someone's moving them.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of people come back here and there's all kind of activity because I'm not yeah, you have to keep in mind I'm not acting with scared boxes, paws, and falls, and all that stuff.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just riding my f but uh you have to be you have to be careful, there's a lot of copper heads out here.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_06: I'm just gonna step where you step.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's the one it's a big tree.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, it's got graffiti on it, yeah.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_06: Sure does.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, I didn't see it before.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, good.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_06: We're not welcome out here, right?
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_06: Someone's trying to I feel very much like it.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_06: We shouldn't be.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_02: Like an interloper.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_02: Get a picture of you instead of the get out tree.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_06: Richard, you wanna in?
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_06: Don't touch it though.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_02: There used to be uh Which way do we go from here?
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, this is a tree that fell down.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_02: It was right up here.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_02: One of these trees grew like this.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_02: Do you want to die?
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of these YouTubers with these cameras that were recorded little dots of energy orbs.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_02: A ton of activity right here, people were catching a lot of activity.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_06: I think at night would be absolutely terrifying.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_06: You're our protector, our guide through the spooky forest.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, it is beautiful, and maybe the demon protects it, or I don't know.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_06: But there are parts of it where it does feel like we're not really supposed to be.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_02: Were you talking about on Halloween?
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_02: Because I'm planning on coming back on Halloween because Halloween is on a Saturday night.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_06: I will think about it.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_06: I had a bad feeling not to come out at night, you know what I mean?
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_06: Hey, there's the vulture.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of vultures.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_06: Do you uh you said deer, deer, foxes, coyotes?
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_02: I've seen one deer.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_02: I've seen you never see foxes and coyotes at the same time.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_02: You'll see you'll see coyotes or you see foxes either one, but I've seen both in popcats.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_06: How are you feeling?
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_06: I don't have any muscles.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_06: You good?
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_06: All right.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_06: Thank you so much for hanging out with us.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_06: Well, that's where we'll leave you.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_06: This was one of our darkest ventures.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_06: And when we posted reels on social media, this place generated a lot of conversation.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_06: We'd like to thank our new friend Charles for joining us and sharing his experiences and insights about one of Texas's most infamous paranormal locations.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: And after spending our own time at Goatman's Bridge, we're left with more questions than answers.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe the stories are true, or maybe the real darkness comes from the people who gather there, performing rituals, searching for something they shouldn't be searching for.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_05: Whatever the truth is, one thing became very clear while we were there.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_05: Goatman's Bridge doesn't feel like an ordinary place.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_05: And whether that's the result of tragedy, fear, or something supernatural will let you decide.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_00: If you do visit for yourself, remember this.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the thing watching you from the darkness isn't some legendary creature from a campfire story.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's another person watching from the trees.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, that might be even more terrifying.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_06: Until next time, keep your eyes on the shadows, trust your instincts, and if you hear your name being called from somewhere deep in the woods, don't follow it.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_06: Goodbye for now.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_06: Stay curious and stay safe.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_06: This has been Hidden Creatures.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_06: Stories, fightings, and the search for what high people.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_06: These are the encounters as they happened, told by the people who lived through them.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_06: Whether they revealed the unknown or simply deepen the mystery.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_06: That's for you to decide.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_06: And if you've had a terrible experience you'd like to share on this podcast, email us at hiddencreaturespodcast at gmail.com.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_06: Until next time, stay safe and don't wander too far alone in the dark.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_06: We have plenty more thrilling stories to share with you.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_06: And maybe one day we'll share your story too.