Haunted Places in San Antonio
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Let's get into today's episode, which is over haunted places in San Antonio. So before we jump into discussing all of the scary places in San Antonio, Texas, I figured that we first should probably talk about the history of San Antonio, when it was created, how it was created, the Alamo, the Spanish conquistadors, the missionaries, everything, all of that.

wrapped in one and a good history lesson for your asses. So the Alamo is located in San Antonio? You didn't know that? Were you sleeping during history class? God dang! Anyway, all right. Well, with that being said, Dan, start it off for us and tell us about the history of San Antonio. All right. For us all to understand the history of San Antonio, Texas, we need to jump all the way back to the 1600s.

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code FURIES for 20% off your order and free gummies. All right, welcome back. During this time, the area that would become San Antonio was inhabited by various indigenous groups who lived along the San Antonio River.

In the late 1600s, Spain sent a bunch of explorers to that area of San Antonio for numerous reasons. Yeah, so at the time, Spain was expanding its influence. It was like, look, we got to conquer these areas at the New World. We want to just spread all of our influence and our religion over every place that we can get. And our seed.

Yeah, pretty much. So at the time, Spain already had a bunch of other forts and settlements in the area of San Antonio or Texas or like the surrounding areas. Well, not in San Antonio, but the surrounding areas. Now, at that time, France had a bunch of settlements in pretty much Louisiana.

And Spain heard about this and they're like, fuck, man, we got the French that are kind of like, you know, rolling up on our turf and we want to solidify our region.

So what Spain did is they ended up sending a bunch of, you know, extra people over to say, hey, let's establish more colonies. Let's establish more settlements. And let's and let's send some priests over to convert the natives to our religion. Now, at this same time, Spain also brought over a bunch of priests. Now, these priests were establishing missions in the area and converting the natives to their religion.

It was during this time that the Spanish stumbled upon a lush area near a river in present-day Texas. They decided to name this area San Antonio in honor of Saint Anthony.

Almost 30 years later in 1718, the Spanish were still in that area trying to convert the natives. They're like, where the fuck are all these people coming from? No, it's what would happen is like we were talking about earlier, the natives, they were migrating to different areas so they would get converted and then they would leave. Yeah, they were nomadic. Yeah.

So an individual in the area named Father Antonio de Olivares. Olives. Olivares. Olives. Excuse me. Now, Father Antonio was all about spreading the word of God. So much so, his ass ended up establishing a big ass mission called San Antonio de Valero. Not the gas station. Not the Valero gas station.

But instead, it is a big-ass fortress. And this fortress would later become known as the Alamo. Oh. Knowledge. Thirteen years later in 1731, the Spanish crown was still trying to hold their turf. However, they were having some issues. So the Spanish crown decided to take 16 families from the Canary Islands and send their asses thousands of miles away to San Antonio. That's far away. Yeah.

Now, these 16 families were promised land, resources, and a chance to build new lives in that area of San Antonio.

The Spanish crown figured that, hey, since we sent these 16 families over there to this area, that these 16 families would start fucking. They would pop. They would populate. I contacted. They would populate the area and pretty much solidify Spain's hold in that region. And guess what? They did. The families populated and it pretty much created a big area for Spain to be like, we hold this bitch down. Okay.

And that area started to be called New Spain. New Spain? New Spain. So for the next 100 or so years, a bunch of drama happened in that area of New Spain, which is where San Antonio was located. Eventually, in 1821, New Spain said, fuck the Spanish Empire and broke off from them. And this territory got a name change and became Mexico. Get down. And that's Cota.

Now, at this time, Mexico wasn't just an area on the map located below the United States. They owned a fuck ton of land. I mean, a fuck ton of land, including Texas. So around this time, a lot of settlers started moving to the area of Texas. And eventually, these settlers in Texas wanted to separate from Mexico and pretty much form their own country. Mexico was not having this.

And they pretty much told Texas, hey, you're not going to gain your independence from us. You're going to stay under our control. Which, by the way, the Alamo that's located in San Antonio, which is in Texas, that was once a missionary, like we mentioned earlier. And it was turned into a fortress. And a bunch of Texas soldiers ended up being stationed there and set that up as pretty much like a military base.

area with cannons and stuff. I mean, it was already a fortress, so it was a good place to be, I guess. Yeah. Made sense. So in 1836, Mexico got sick and tired of Texas continuing to ask for independence, so they decided to send a message. Mexico sent an army to the Alamo to take out the Texan soldiers that were stationed there.

Hostile. So for 13 straight days, Mexican forces battled the Texans that were pretty much in the Alamo until the walls were finally scaled by the Mexican army. They came in and they cut down all those dirty Texans. Take that. Kill them all. Except a few. I'm from Virginia. Let me know. A few of them scurried away. I'm from Texas. Long live the Alamo. Or that's not the that's not the battle cry. What's the battle cry?

I don't fucking know. I don't even know where the Alamo was. That's when he was battle cry. So a few of those Texans survived. They scurried away. They started spreading the news. The news of, hey, this very small Texas force, these soldiers from Texas, were able to hold off Santa Ana's army 13 days. This pretty much...

turned a lot of Texans into post 9-11 Americans. They were extremely patriotic. They were like, look, we want to sign up to become a part of Texas military so we can fight against the Mexicans and gain our independence. Damn. Yeah. And that's what happened. Was your ancestor coming out right there? No. We got to fight them. Take them down.

So that's when the Texan forces regrouped, went back into battle, winning the Battle of San Jacinto. This victory secured Texas independence from Mexico. And for the next nine years, Texas faced challenges such as financial instability and threats from Mexico. Yeah. And due to this instability and Mexico down there saying, hey, we're going to come up there and mess you up, Texas. Texas was like, look, we want stability. We want safety for our citizens.

So in 1845, Texas decided to become a part of the United States. Following that, Texas grew rapidly, especially the city of San Antonio. This was due to the arrival of the railroad in 1877, which turned the city into a commercial hub. Then in the early 1900s, the city continued to modernize.

The San Antonio Riverwalk, which was initially a flood control project, ended up evolving into a famous staple for the city. Then in 1928, the San Antonio Zoo opened up, and it was one of the first zoos in the United States to feature cageless exhibits. They just let those animals run around like crazy, killing people and stuff. Ah, the wildlife experience.

Following that, military bases like Kelly Field and Lackland Air Force Base pretty much turned the city into a crucial military center. Then many years later, and even to this day, San Antonio, Texas is still a city that is developing and growing. It has a rich history that is very unique, and many people from all over the world come to visit this place, especially the Alamo or the Riverwalk. Guess I gotta go visit the Alamo. It is...

Underwhelming, might I say. Really? It is in the middle of the city. There's huge buildings all around and you're like, Alamo's here? I expected it to be like out in a field. That's what I thought it was. It's a little ass building in the middle of a big ass city. Yeah. And then they got these military reenactors standing out there in full cosplay costumes. Cosplay. Anyway. Sharingan.

Jesus. So what many people do not talk about is the haunted places located inside of this city of San Antonio. And that is what our episode is over today. We are going to discuss some of these haunted places and we're going to go visit them with a Ouija board. Now, before we get into that, we are going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. This episode is sponsored by Mood.

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First off, if you don't know where San Antonio is, just imagine the state of Texas, that big old country of itself. Then place your pointer finger directly in the middle of the state and go a little bit down to the southwest. And that is where San Antonio is located. And if that confused the hell out you, we'll provide a picture or you just Google it or DuckDuckGo or Bing, whatever you want to use. Yeah, but we'll pull up a picture. There you go. That's where it's located. See the highlighted area.

Now surrounding the city of San Antonio is Interstate 410, which is pretty much a giant circle. Well, a giant road that is a circle around the entire city. And we have a photograph that we can show you that we'll pull up and we'll post on Supercast for everyone to take a look at. And you can see the city and Interstate 410 surrounding it.

And to the northwest of the city of San Antonio and right off Interstate 410 is where this Devil's Den is located. And it's that red little pointer thing on the map. South of Leon Valley. Leon. Okay. I didn't know it was that far out. Yeah. I thought it was a little bit closer in. Yep. All right. What are these next pictures we have here?

Oh, that's just more zoomed in. Yeah, it's more zoomed in. As you can tell, the next picture shows Interstate 410 zoomed in. And then you see that blue check or that blue marker is where the Devil's Den is located at in that forest. And then the next photo is even more zoomed in. And you can actually see the eagle eye view of the Devil's Den. And if you look at the picture, it looks like a six cube shelf. It does.

Nice. So like we said, half a mile from Interstate 410 is a wooded area, and inside that wooded area, there are a lot of hiking trails, biking paths, and a large concrete structure that is covered in graffiti and is called the Devil's Den. That looks like a six-cube shelf. Not much is known about the origins of this building. Some speculate that it used to be a building to hold grain. Others say that it was a church that had been abandoned, but no one really knows.

But we looked into it and what we do know is that it is a big ass concrete structure with odd openings at the top of it and odd openings at the bottom of it. It sits on sort of like these legs and it's big. And that's what she said. And it is covered with a wide array of graffiti such as curse words,

Certain symbols of the occult, maybe. A few pentagrams. There's even a gnome. A Wu-Tang symbol. Yeah. A gnome? Like a... Not like an actual gnome, but like somebody spray-painted one on there. Oh. Maybe it's a duende. Maybe. Maybe it's Yaya-Rona. I thought that was just a woman. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe a short woman. Maybe. Maybe.

As we decided to look deeper into the history of this building, we learned that in 1999 and 2003, the city of San Antonio wanted to develop a 50 mile linear creekway park system. So the city ended up purchasing multiple properties in that area, which included the property that the Devil's Den is located on. Eventually, San Antonio improved biking and hiking trails near the Devil's Den and opened it up to the public. Now, on the surface, the site doesn't seem that spooky.

It's just a large concrete building in the middle of a forest. However, what occurred there in 1996 made people believe that the building is not just a simple concrete building covered with artwork, aka graffiti, but actually it's an altar for demon worshippers to sacrifice people at. Oh, okay.

So way back in November of 1996, two local high school students, Eric Anderson and Christian Maldonado, ended up going missing. A month later, on December 1st, 1996, it was discovered that the boys had been murdered at the den and their bodies were tossed in the nearby field, left to decompose.

Now, news of these murders ended up making headlines all around the United States and rumors began to circulate of the boys being a part of pretty much a satanic ritual or a part of like a human sacrifice by local satanic people. Also, the media began reporting that occult items and ritualistic materials were found with the bodies of the boys at the devil's den.

However, later on, police ended up stating that they didn't find anything except the bodies. Hmm. Suspicious. So for several years, the murders of Eric and Christian went unsolved until finally a tip was called in, which led the police to Bastrop, Texas, where an individual named Roger Martinez was living. Roger was a fellow student of Eric and Christian, and after the boys had been murdered, he ended up leaving the area and moving to Bastrop.

Roger was arrested, tried, found guilty of the murders, and sentenced to two life sentences. Now, after the case had been solved, a lot of people in the area started to make an effort to improve the area around Devil's Den, trying to make it less creepy and more inviting for people wanting to hike around and stuff.

A bunch of local girl and boy scout groups were sent out there to clean up litter and debris. However, 13 of those children ended up going missing while at the den. Just kidding, that didn't happen.

That didn't actually happen? No, that didn't happen. That part didn't happen. The two kids were murdered, but the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were not missing. I was like, what a task to give these little Girl and Boy Scout troops. Go clean up a murder site. Yeah, here's a murder site. Go clean it up. Go pick up the ritual weapons and such. They did send Girl and Boy Scouts out there to clean up, but they didn't go missing. It's kind of messed up. Okay, then, yeah.

Oh, man. So seriously, though, since the murders, the concrete ruins of Devil's Den have been a host to countless ceremonies of black magic, actual real satanic rituals, and curious ghost hunters. And that right there is our first haunted place in San Antonio. Which we are going to visit after we talk about these next two. That's right. Now, before we get into that, we are going to take a quick break. This is our last one, so don't go nowhere.

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Alright, so let's talk about... Do what? Cereal quiller. Oh my god. Alright, so let's talk about our next haunted place in San Antonio. That's called the Devil's Bridge. Now, if you look up the Devil's Bridge, you'll find out that there are many of these bridges. Except most of them are over the Seys. Oi, we got them all over here in Europe. Serap. We build our bridges by rocks and stuff.

We like to put a little arch on the bottom of it. That's what they do. They put an arch at the bottom of it and they build them with stones. We don't do that around here. No, it's just metal. We kind of do a little bit, but metal and wood mostly. Anyway, so Texas, of course, has its own Devil's Bridge. And it's located in the southern part of San Antonio in the 2400 block of East Ashley Road.

Now we do have an image of a map that shows the location of this devil's bridge. And I want you to imagine San Antonio. Okay. You know how the devil's den is up in the Northwest part of San Antonio. Well, the devil's bridge is down in the Southeast part of San Antonio. That's right. So pretty much giant circle at the bottom, right? Part of it. If you go counterclockwise from devil's den and follow 410 around,

you'll eventually come around to Devil's Bridge. Yeah, and 410 is the interstate surrounding San Antonio. Now, as we scoured the interwebs for information about this bridge, which it was pretty limited on that, especially the actual history of the so-called Devil's Bridge. So we had to watch a few videos and we connected this bridge to be the one that is right near Berg's Mill community, what's left of Berg's Mill at least.

Now, to the south of the bridge, there is the San Juan Mission Trail. And if you walk along it, you end up crossing a bridge. Now, underneath it runs the San Antonio River. Then further south, there is the Mission San Juan, which was founded in 1731 by the Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order.

Which if you look up Mission San Juan, it is supposedly one of the top places to see ghosts in San Antonio, Texas. Yeah, I didn't know that. All those religious ghosts running around terrorizing people. Seek Jesus. Believe. You're a ghost. Now, to give a little bit of backstory about the name of the bridge, Devil's Bridge, it was actually given, you know, like we said earlier, to many bridges throughout history.

These bridges represented both technical and metaphorical achievements. Pretty much meaning, holy shit, that's a work of art. How the hell they do it? Oh, yeah. With that being said, though, sometimes these structures end up with a negative reputation to them. And why is that? Well, it's because these structures are associated with demonic stories on how they were built, a.k.a. the nicknames.

At the time most of these bridges were built, it was way too advanced for its time, just like how people question the pyramids. Perfectly, the pyramids are made. Satan built the pyramids. Aliens. Now, the way these bridges were built, no mortal man could have constructed them with the tools and knowledge that they had then. They said that only with the help of something otherworldly, maybe evil, maybe the devil himself.

Then again, they do have the opposite of that story in which the builders at the time went through such hardships building these bridges that it was like the devil was throwing obstacles in their way. Each time the builders would conquer an obstacle, another would be thrown at them till it was complete. And at the end, they said, oh, building this bridge, we have overcome the devil. We beaten him. That's some bitch.

Anyway, enough of that history stuff. The real reason for picking this bridge are the weird happenings that go on with this bridge. When you go to Devil's Bridge at night and try to shine a light down the bridge, it's like the darkness supposedly swallows up the light. Yeah, it's like something just absorbs the light and it just cuts off. Very interesting. That's what people say. Another thing that people say is that your batteries to your electronics, they end up draining really fast.

Phones, flashlights, cameras, dildos, all those. Boop! Can't use them anymore. Vibrators. Another thing they say is that if you take a big rock and you throw it off the bridge, you won't ever hear it land. It's as if something in the darkness catches the rock before it hits the bottom. So you got a demon that collects rocks under the bridge. Maybe he just doesn't like the splash. Very interesting.

So some have reported that you'll get an eerie feeling of dread and start to smell something like rotten eggs, you know, sulfur and probably someone farted or maybe there's a cryptid nearby. Who knows? But yeah. Now, speaking of some of those reports, we did happen to find some strange local stories that go along with this bridge. Now, one of the stories that we found involved a pastor. So this story states that a man claims that the Devil's Bridge is connected to the Spanish Inquisition.

He said way back in the 1700s, there was a pastor who had many people under him and all of the people that followed him were killed in the Inquisition. The Spanish came and slaughtered all of them. Now, the pastor, with all the guilt, you know, burdening him from all of his people being killed, he decided to take his own life and hung himself from a tree near the bridge.

which is never the thing to do. Suicide is never the answer. Now, some who walk along the bridge say that they can hear the sound of a creaking rope in the nearby trees. The creaking sounds like a rope swinging from the tree and the sounds of someone saying, pull it tighter. I couldn't resist it. No, but seriously though, all due respect, they do sometimes hear the sound of a rope

creaking as if someone's being hung or hung themselves which that's horrible i can think of the rope on the tree when you think of the ropes that people use to swing into the water you have one at camp yeah there was one at camp for a while i don't know if it's still there no some fat ass took it and broke it figures i'm sorry

Was it you? I broke. So my grandfather built one that was, um, actually it wasn't a rope. It was the, uh, zip line, zip line. And I got on it and I wrote it and it broke and it whiplashed me right across the back. I don't know what you're talking about that. Continuing on to the next story. All right. So another story is about a headless lady who likes to sneak up behind people at night. Weirdo.

Back in the year of 1965, there was a tragic car accident that involved the death of a 41-year-old woman, Victoria Ann Broussard. It happened on March 7th, 1965, around 12 a.m. Victoria was on her way home, riding in the car with her husband, Al. Al just left the shoe store that he worked at. And as they approached the Devil's Bridge, her husband, Al, didn't see the bridge railing at all and drove straight into it.

Victoria was fatally injured and rushed to the Baptist Memorial Hospital and was then pronounced dead at 12.30 a.m. Her husband, Al, survived the crash unharmed, meaning that the railing hit the passenger side. The patrolman that arrived on the scene quoted Mr. Broussard as saying he did not see the bridge. Broussard.

He did not see the bridge. The right front section of his car crashed head-on with the edge of the bridge's guardrail. That following Tuesday, Al's wife, Victoria, was buried at the San Fernando Cemetery No. 2. Her husband, son, and four sisters all are living still in San Antonio. And the ghost of Victoria stays on that highway.

Not highway. On the bridge. And the highway, too. She probably wanders around. They're like side by side right there. Okay. The road that's not really a highway. It's a road. Yeah. She probably wanders around the area. Yeah. Sneaking up behind people with no head. That's what I don't get, though. Why doesn't she have a head? It didn't say that she got decapitated. Maybe she just took it off. Maybe she got tired of it. She's like, you know what? Fuck having a head. The weight on her shoulders. It's tough sometimes.

Then another local story is told that the bridge was used by devil worshippers. It was back in the 1980s, the bridge was like a major attraction for rebellious teens and people who wanted to summon up demons and practice the dark arts. The man claimed that there would always be an animal carcass underneath the bridge that was cut up as if someone was using it for some kind of ritual.

We'll be the judge of that. That one, I feel like it was just like an old man complaining. These damn kids over here just going underneath this bridge, smoking that marijuana. That sighting spinach. Rafer madness. Lucifer's lettuce. Devil's grass. Yeah. All right. So let's talk about the next haunted spot that we have in San Antonio.

which is the legend of the old Applewhite Bridge, a.k.a. the Bridge of the Donkey Lady. That's right. The Donkey Lady. That's right. The Donkey Lady. So in San Antonio, Texas, along Applewhite Road, there is old Applewhite Bridge that has been closed off. Now, the history of the bridge, like the Devil's Bridge, isn't clear, of course, but the original part of it, they said, was built in the early 20th century.

It is a small rustic structure that crosses a stream just off of Applewhite Road. And according to the local legends, the bridge is haunted by an entity or ghost of a woman or possibly an actual being that is known as the Donkey Lady. Now, there are multiple ways this legend goes, and we'll go over each one that we ended up finding.

So the first story states that the donkey lady was a woman who lived outside of San Antonio a long, long time ago, possibly dating back to like the 1800s. She lived on a farm all by herself with some dog, with some donkeys. Okay. She lived on a farm all by herself with donkeys. Nothing weird about that. She didn't bother anyone, kept to herself. All of a sudden her house caught fire and she freaked out.

She ended up getting severely burned to the point her body was horribly disfigured and she ended up dying from those burns. Her spirit is said to linger near the bridge and people reported seeing a ghostly figure that resembles a woman and donkey mixed together. They would hear hoof beats and distant screams before seeing her though. You think she'll let us ride her? Maybe. Idiot. So that's the first story. Now there's another one.

And this story states that there was a family, pretty much a married couple with kids, and they had a farm that was near a stream. And this family owned a lot of animals, one of them, of course, being a donkey. Now, further down the road lived another family. This was a rich family with power, supposedly. And their kids decided to play along the stream.

Now, as the kids were playing along the stream, they found the other family's donkey drinking water by the stream. So, of course, kids, hey, there's a donkey. Let's go over there and, you know, mess with it. Well, went over there and messed with the donkey and they got bit. They end up running home and telling their parents who became furious with the people's donkey. The kids' parents ended up making their way down to the donkey farm.

which is what we're going to be calling it from now on. The donkey farm. And the rich family confronted the family about their donkey biting their kid. The donkey farm family was like, hey, you know, they must have been messing with their donkey to get bitten. So it's their own damn fault. And we aren't apologizing for it. Your little ass bratty kids deserve to be bit.

You know, I kind of agree with him on that. Yeah, you don't mess with the donkey. You mess with the bull, you get the horns. You mess with the donkey, you get the teeth. Now, the kid's parents, the rich kid's parents, were even more furious as they left the farm. And they were just like, you know what? We're going to show them to respect us. It was later that night, the rich kid's family went back, locked the donkey farm family into their farmhouse with their donkey, and decided to light the farmhouse on fire.

So to pretty much teach that family a lesson, they pretty much burned the family and the donkey alive inside of the house. Everyone ended up dying except the wife, who was severely burned and, of course, disfigured. She was able to escape the house and ran off into the woods. And supposedly, Coda just rolled off the couch. Coda just rolled off the couch. The couch right there. She couldn't see it. Coda was sitting on it and he was...

sleeping and just rolled right off just rolled right off he's awake now and he goes right back up all right so back to the donkey lady back to donkey lady she ends up running out into the woods her entire family's house caught on fire donkey inside burning alive her entire family burning alive she's burnt up to a crisp runs out into the field lives in the woods ever since then

haunting and pretty much chasing away anyone that shows up near the bridge or in the surrounding woods. Not really believable. With those type of burns, they'd get infected and you'd pretty much die. Yeah. So that's the second version of the story. The last version that we found is the story of a married couple that supposedly had an accident. The husband had started a fire randomly and the wife accidentally got badly burned.

This left her horribly disfigured and as she healed, her face began to droop down, her fingers fused together and left them looking burnt and dark. This in turn gave her hands the appearance of looking like hooves and with her looking like this, you know, disfigured and having hooves, it pretty much caused her to go insane because everybody's like, look, there's a donkey lady.

So she ended up leaving her husband and she started living out in the woods so that, you know, everyone would leave her alone. And if anyone came out there, she would just attack them with her hooves, which weren't really hooves. They were just fused fingers. Yeah. This one, though, they say that this story, if you go to Donkey Lady Bridge, the bridge of the Donkey Lady, that if you sit in your car and you call her name three times, honk your horn and then yell her name one more time,

you will hear the sound of hooves moving and the apparition of the donkey lady will appear. I think that's just a way to get the police to get called on you. The neighbors are like, yep, there it is. All right, Edna, pick up the phone. Call up the police. Let them know we got damn people down there at the donkey bridge. Sheriff, there's another dumbass down here honking and yelling donkey lady. Somebody's down here going, hee-haw again. But you know, the funny thing though is that area, they actually liked the donkey lady. Oh.

That during Halloween, I read this during Halloween from like October, I don't know, maybe October 31st or whatever to November 3rd. They have a phone number that you can call. It's they called it like the donkey lady hotline. You call up. Some people said they called up and they just are like pig, pig squealing. And then they hung up. I don't know. It's very weird. Yeah. It's a local number too. So it's even weirder. So there are additional strange happenings in the area besides this.

There have been multiple witness accounts that the donkey lady will pretty much jump on the hood of your vehicle, either leaving dents or a broken windshield. And there's actually been a local psychic medium who visited the area and reported that she sensed an overwhelming sense of dread in the area and warned that no one should visit after dark, which we're going to. With that being said, though, that made more people want to go at night.

which led to one instance where a carload of friends decided to go investigate. No, this is not, I'm not talking about us. They told a story that a donkey-like creature leapt onto the hood of their car, jumping and hitting the windshield. It then jumped off the hood and tried to angrily get into the car to hurt them. Let me in that car. Got any games? Now, another witness account stated that a father took his boys camping in the woods near the location of the stream, which is by the bridge, of course.

That night, they heard some bone-chilling noises along with the leaves on the ground rustling from just outside their camp. The father got his boys together and they began to pack everything up. And he had all of them hop into his car to drive away, thinking that maybe there was a predator in the woods. Not a child predator. Well, maybe. Or maybe just a regular predator. Chris Hansen would know. We wouldn't.

And right before they were able to drive away, a horribly deformed creature jumped onto the car, shattering the windshield. And the father and the kids described the creature as having sunken eyes, burnt, melted, and saggy skin with hoof-like hands. Well, sounds exhilarating. So, uh, I'm rethinking. Can we take your truck? Why? Because of that? No. No donkey's gonna jump on my truck. I mean, your truck's higher, so it would have to jump higher. We'll just run over the donkey.

We could do that. Yeah. So before we go, there have been rumors of this being a Indian burial ground or Native American burial ground or what's the proper term? Natives? Indigenous people? I think it's indigenous people. Indigenous people are buried there and they haunt the area. Regardless...

We don't know, okay, but we're going to find out because those three locations are the ones that we are going to visit right now. So come along with us and experience this journey together. We'll see you there. We're going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship flying through the air. Sorry. Welcome. I am Aaron.

And I am Daniel-san. It is raining and we are at the donkey bridge. I don't even know where to look because I just got this light in my eye. Put it down there. Yeah, so it's down that way. I mean, obviously we can't go past it unless we want to break the law and then put it on there. But then, you know what? Sometimes you just got to live. Oh, living on the other side of the gate. I need light out here. I can't see a damn thing.

well that's just too damn bad all right well we're gonna see how well this goes where's that other light thing keep an eye on aaron make sure the donkey lady don't get them yet come on follow the donkey man the was that so we're not supposed to be out here so we're going to make this quick this is the donkey bridge this is where everybody says that they hear galloping footsteps you hear that i don't either come on we're investigating on the scene zach baggins he ain't got on us i don't even know where the dan's at

It is dark. Aaron and our cameraman are currently raining right now. All you hear is bugs. This is the donkey bridge. I don't hear any donkeys. I don't see any donkeys. It's so dark you can't really see anything. I can't even see Aaron and them ahead of me. That's insane how dark it is. You hear or see anything? Because I don't. Boom. Now that's some light right there, buddy. Jesus.

Dan's over here with his light trying to find the donkey. I'm gonna put it right on my belt buckle. All right. Come here donkey lady. Is there something standing in the middle of the bridge? Whoa. I see that too. What is that? I can't tell. Dude, it is definitely foggy. Well, not foggy, but I see like a greenish. Yeah, it's like a greenish glow. What is that? I don't know, but I see a red marker on the left right side, so. Oh, well, this is the donkey bridge. Dude, it is super dark out here.

I hear frogs, crickets. Little underwhelming. I mean, there's not much out here. Oh, it's just a tree marker. It's a tree marker, yeah. I don't even know if I can see it on the thing. Alright, well, that's thunder and lightning. Welcome to Donkey Bridge. Let's turn around so you can get a good view of it. Come on, Dan. Get in the shot. Turn that light off. Donkey Bridge conquered. On to Devil's Bridge, I guess. This is very underwhelming.

That actually kind of almost sounded like a little bit of galloping, but maybe that's what it is. It's just thunder. Yeah. Well, let's go to the Devil's Bridge. All right. We are at the Devil's Bridge. It is currently raining, and I guess let's walk it. No, I think we'll be fine. Let's walk on the bridge first, see what it's all about. So far, it's better than Donkey's Bridge. Yeah, this is it. Yeah. It's not as...

Police. Police, yeah. It's not as secluded as the donkey bridge but a lot more scarier in my opinion. It does stink. It does stink. Got a nice stank to it. And this is where supposedly if you throw a rock off on the side of it. Holy shit! Big drop? Oh, it's not big. It looked big. That's what she said. Alright, so this is down below and obviously you can see the bottom. So if you threw a rock you would hear something.

There's no dead carcasses or anything underneath. The legend of Devil's Bridge is just legend. You want me to go under? Very underwhelming. I would not go under. I mean, we still got to make it to Devil's... Same thing.

Is what? The Devil's Den. Devil's Den, yeah that's the main thing we gotta go to and we got a giant storm rolling in so we're gonna make it to the Devil's Den. Probably when it starts storming. Yeah. And get underneath it and do our summoning with the Ouija board. But until then... Go ahead. Alright, so this is Devil's Bridge. I mean obviously nothing too fancy, Duke's Theory, not coming. Now, we're heading out to go to Devil's Den. 30 minute drive. Right now you are? Yeah. Oh, cool.

What was that? Did you hear that? Do you hear that? Dude, that sounded like a coyote. Yeah, that is a coyote. Got coyotes on the trail. Things are going to be alright. Dan's packing. So am I. Don't turn that light on. Keep it off. I don't want to let it on my face. I can't see it. I can't see it without it. So we have to get on this trail and walk quite a ways to get to the Devil's Den. And when we're there...

We're going to break out with the Ouija board. But first, let's hope we get there. There's a giant storm rolling in. Should be interesting. I don't know what Dan's doing. Let's look. I should have wore boots, man. Don't get that on film. We don't want to get demonetized. Yeah. Kill your light. Do what?

Just be careful in there because a couple of nights ago someone was just murdered in this park. A couple of nights ago? A couple of nights ago? Someone was killed here in the park. They were shot and killed. And we have a bunch of homeless people that will pull out guns and knives on y'all. They don't care if you guys are armed, unarmed or whatever, but they will, they will assault y'all. Okay. So...

If you have any problems, the only people that are going to be out here are park police, but they take a while before you get out here. Okay. So if you do enter this park, I do say enter at your own risk. Please be careful. Right here, there's going to be a bridge about 20 yards out. I don't know if you can see it from here. And the deer. Yeah, there's a bridge over there. It's going to be about 20 yards out. They hang out under there, and they will try to get you to go under there. Please do not go under there. The old people? Yeah, they will try to get you to go under there. They'll try to rob you. They'll try to take your things. Since you guys do have expensive camera equipment, they will try to take your stuff.

Okay. Yeah, so please be careful when you guys go into this park. Okay. I appreciate you guys. No, I appreciate you. Yeah. Thank you guys. Be safe, peace. Good. You got it. You haven't loaded? The rack. I have no fucking idea how we get to this place. And the fact that we have to cross the bridge and he said there's a bunch of homeless people there. Okay. Honestly, uh...

Last year someone getting murdered, but someone getting shot fucking a couple days ago. That one's a little iffy there The fact that we just saw the homeless guy go right by us We'll just walk up here. We'll talk about it and everything keep the light off Keep the camera pretty much hidden until we get to the devil's den So yeah, it's hard to see but obviously from what the guy said go down here. There's a bridge We have to go across it

And the deer right there is literally not even bothered by us. You can turn the light on. Oh, I am. Okay, cut the, uh, cut the light off on it. Let's fucking go. Let's fucking go. Keep the light off. Keep the camera hidden. Keep that up. Dude. I don't know exactly where this den is at. Oh, that deer just scared the shit out of me. The fact that the deer...

is just chilling there all right so what happened is is that we i mean oh let's just give the debriefing in the car turn the light off let's brief in the car yeah so what occurred is that we just got rained on really hard we showed up of course you've seen the footage security guy warned us

Somebody got murdered here what a few days ago? Just a few days ago saying that the homeless people down here will lure you under the bridge, you know Stab you shoot you obviously the person that died what a couple days ago was shot then right after he told us that as you saw

A homeless guy just walked by with music playing of some like holy Jesus music. And he just walked right on past us and disappeared into the woods. No light, no nothing. He just, he had no light, nothing. He just walked right to the bridge there. No lights. And then just gone. Disappeared. So we walked down the bridge.

turned left and at that point we were like there's no way we could find the devil's den especially in it being this dark and the crazy homeless people ready to attack us yeah and the fact that that guy just heard where we were trying to go so now he knows not saying it was him but you know yeah he knows where we're gonna be so if something had happened

they could set up a trap in the future we will try to do it again um yes it is definitely on the list still we'll may go during the day place is just too hot right now yeah yeah especially like last year so we found out that last year someone was where they shot her in 2023 yeah someone was stabbed and murdered here but then you know not expecting that it just happened again again a few days ago let's start the car so we can see but anyways that's it