Many of his neighbors bestowed upon him the affectionate nickname the Goatman.. And sure enough, my friend was like, oh yeah, that person was my next-door neighbor when we were growing up, and were friends. Shortly afterwards, so the stories go, a family was passing over the bridge at night and encountered the old man, or at least his apparition, standing in front of them, a goats head tucked under each arm. The Hickory Creek Baptist Church was organized in 1855, and by 1856, there were several buildings including a school and a saloon. This change was enacted to correct a glaring problem that had arisen when the bridge transitioned from carrying horses to carrying cars. Id like to go through a timeline of the Goatmans Bridge legend as its now known. There are many Denton ghosts Denton County itself was formed in 1846, and the first attempt at settling the county seat was Pinckneyville (named for the Texas governor). On March 4, 2022, a reddit user who I will call Bob (not his real name) posted 23 links to a video and/or a playlist containing a video that he claims contains the real story behind the Goatmans Bridge. The Old Alton Bridge's nickname, Goatman's Bridge, originated from at least two eerie local legends. All rights reserved. Best Tales of Texas Ghosts by Docia Schultz Williams was published in 1998 and has plenty of stories of ghosts in the Dallas area, but no mention of Denton County or the Old Alton Bridge at all. Road 2181), Denton, Texas. All there is is one single piece of information on the about page which is that he joined YouTube on July 15, 2022. Other legends circulating about the demon focus on his name. Texas Hill Country. Dallas Observer's The Morning After Brunch, virtual remembrance and fundraising event. But Old Alton Bridge, the Goatman's Bridge, remains still open to foot traffic. Notably, the article mentions neither Oscar Washburn nor a disappearance in 1967. Half a century after the bridge was built, an African-American man named Oscar Washburn settled with his family near the bridge. The bridge is located about seven miles south of Denton. Travelers to the Old Alton Bridge, built in 1884 as a busy thoroughfare, have long reported frightening encounters and ghostly experiences with supernatural creatures that have made it a legendary spot for Texas ghost hunters and a topic for numerous books. I bet youre excited to find out what happened next! Some people have seen a half-man, half-goat figure, similar to a satyr; this odd account of after-death transformation (if this is indeed the Goatman) bears some semblance to the tale of the Donkey Lady Bridge or La Llorona. The site also tells this story about a possible historical Goat Man: In some research we found that in the late 1800s there was a man that reportedly lived out near the bridge, who owned several goats. From tragic and riveting tales of murder to the somewhat vague stories of a ghostly goatherder, its sure to give you the chills if you ever visit heading out there after dark probably isnt advisable, in any case! If history is the self-congratulatory narrative of a community written by its victorious elite, then our ghosts will often problematize and haunt such tidy romanticisms of back in the day. "It's like all urban legends because there are actually legends similar to it all over the country," Ghosts of Denton tour guide Shelly Tucker told Discover Denton. I really get into it in this one! [1] Despite evidence to the contrary, stories of Goatman's existence continued to circulate, especially among local students. There are many spirits calling this place home, but . Ghost Adventures first premiered in 2008 and has aired over 250 episodes, including specials. While some bridges are inhabited by pesky creatures such trolls, the Old Alton Bridge harbors a monster of a much darker nature. There is little remaining of the old townsite today, except for the Hickory Creek Baptist Church and the old Alton Cemetery, which contains graves that date back to 1852. According to this story, a black goat farmer by the name of Oscar Washburn and his family moved into a home located just north of the Old Alton Bridge. And luckily for us, the video description was a wall of text almost 900 words long. However, it wasnt so well-known for a long time. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July 1988 and closed to vehicle traffic in 2001. Ghost Adventures anchors Travel Channels Ghostober event with all-new frightening specials. Some believe the Goatman remains dormant for years at a time and awakes only to hunt for prey. To me, one of the funniest parts of this story is that the witness went on Mumsnet to share her story. There have been four known lynching events of white people in Denton County since its founding, and the reason for white lynchings was typically horse theft. In a panic, the Klansman returned to the Washburn residence, and killed his family in cold blood. Peering over into the water, his murderers saw a rope, but not his body. Supposedly the video series was going to answer everything, but it never happened, and you cant watch the video this description went with, since it was deleted the day after it was posted, having garnered 39 views when it was archived by the wayback machine. And both are popular urban legends, so if someone in 2010 wanted to make up this story, they probably were the type of person who was familiar with the moth man legend, so this might be a little Easter egg put in there.I was lucky enough to stumble upon a website called factschology.com, which had an article describing the deep dive that the podcast Myths, Mysteries, and Monsters went on to try to confirm this story. Passing over any bridge as antiquated and creaky as the Old Alton, its normal to feel a little unsettled. Placentia Police Department It isn't clear whether this woman or the debt had anything to do with his disappearance. And its not lost on me that theres a connection between the two legends: both involve a animal man hybrid as well as a bridge. The legends and mysteries of Goatman's Bridge (including the infamous story of a goatman roaming the forest in search of those who killed his family) and the reports of abandon cars and missing persons make this place one of the most sought-after locations for those in the paranormal field. November 15th 1967: police discover an abandoned car beside Old Alton Bridge, five miles south of Denton, Texas. With vehicle traffic removed, the bridge became an important link connecting the Elm Fork and Pilot Knoll Hiking and Equestrian Trails. Though it is called the Old Alton Bridge the community of Alton had already dispersed by 1884. The original video was called The First Goatmans Bridge Video Ever Uploaded on Youtube 2011 YouTube.. Around 2:30 p.m, his son in-law drove off to Home Depot to pick up supplies. A rash of mysterious disappearances are becoming alarmingly routine on a chilling stretch of road that is known by locals as "the Goatman's bridge." There use to be a goatmans road in baytown txits now a road that goes by a big golf course and subdivison..my how things have changed over the years Frank Lakeman Member 1 #4 Its original purpose was to carry horses and automobiles across the river. Donations are accepted but not expected; the site remains free-access to all. On July 25, 2008, someone who Im going to call Leland (not his real name) posted a 2-minute youtube video telling the story of the Old Alton Bridge. Turn right at Lillian Miller Pkwy and go 0.8 miles, where the road becomes Farm to Market Rd 2181/Teasley Ln, continue 3.2 miles, and turn right at Old Alton Rd. Copyright 2008 - An honest businessman, his goat raising business was a success. For all I know, since they knew each other, they could have worked on the video together, but I dont really have evidence of that so cant and wont speculate. There has been no activity on Harrod's bank accounts or credit cards since he went missing. The investigation led to some terrifying moments for the crew. A rash of mysterious disappearances are becoming alarmingly routine on a chilling stretch of road that is known by locals as the Goatmans bridge., It sounds like the first comment was on July 2, 2010, on randomconnections.com. According to their reports, the Goatman stands eight feet tall, with the chest and arms of a man, the hindquarters and hooved feet of a goat, and a frightening goats head complete with huge curled horns and glowing eyes. He had lent this woman $86,000 over about nine months. I think he deleted it previously and then recreated it and then deleted it again. theYear=theYear+1900 A rash of mysterious disappearances are becoming alarmingly routine on a chilling stretch of road that is known by locals as \"the Goatman's bridge.\"\r\rConstructed in 1884, the bridge connected Lewisville to Alton. Earning his living raising goats, he was soon called the Goatman by the locals. Well, thats it. So who knows maybe this series will appear on his channel, Ill try to keep an eye on it and I will update you if there is any movement there. The comment also said that the car was a Mustang, because of course it was, and it says that there were lots of people that reported other missing persons linked to the Goatmans bridge and the Goat man with no additional detail. 714-993-8164. To this day no one knows exactly how Oscar was able to evade the mobs wrath, but legend holds that the name Goatmans Bridge came about to honor him. Built by the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, the 145-foot long bridge would serve area travelers for more than a century. The Denton County location is notoriously haunted by the spirit of Oscar Washburn, or "Goatman," who was believed to be a former . And what you guess it, both videos were posted on July 17 and there have been no new videos since then, which seems to be a pattern for Bob. I tried to PM him on reddit on 4/4/22, but he doesnt accept private messages. Take I-35E S/US-77 S to exit 463 and merge into the I-35 Frontage Rd. These tales are obviously old, as the bridge has been closed to vehicle traffic since 2001. I dont know whether that has anything to do with my series here, since Bob had deleted his YouTube video impulsively as well, but if youre listening to this, Bob, hello! My paranormal experiences became a local sensation in Denton, TX and remained the most viewed videos for awhile , even after others began to upload their own experiences. And also, as far as Ive been able to tell, thats when the Goatman was given the name Oscar Washburn. Left to right: Jay Wasley, Zak Bagans, Billy Tolley, Aaron Goodwin. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. Halloween is upon STOP..GOINGTHERE..PEOPLE! Heeter was packing up her belongings at her home in Missouri in order to move in with Harrod in California, and he was preparing for her arrival and looking forward to it. Goatman's Bridge was built in 1884 to connect the towns of Alton and Denton. There is nothing on the channel. Most ghosts are given names because we need to feel like we can know them. Now, Im going to recap a bit of the story about the trickster elements that I originally told in the beginning of this series. Most who were brave enough to even make the 30 second journey to the bridge, would stand on it (and im dead serious) for a minute or two and would immediately leave, not even bothering with the well-traversed-in-the-daytime hiking trail to either side along the river. Apparently this commenter left a link a website, goatmansbridge.com which repeated the claim with no citation. However, descriptions differed on whether Goatman greater resembled a hairy humanoid or a human with the lower portion of a goat similar to the fauns of Greek mythology. In the meantime, Alton began to die as many of its businesses moved to the new county seat. However, this changed in 2001 when vehicle traffic was redirected to an adjacent, more contemporary concrete-and-steel bridge. And, the Goatman is evidently not alone. However, given the condition of remains, the deaths may more likely have been the result of passing trains. His living was raising and selling goats. This attempt was more successful. Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Authorities don't believe Harrod was harmed by a . The new bridge straightened out a sharp curve on both sides of the creek and provided additional travel lanes. We are born and bred in The His family doesn't believe he would have left without warning. The main highway bypasses it now, but the 135-year-old structure is still visible from the main road. The bridge also became an important junction connecting the Elm Fork hiking trail to the Pilot Knoll hiking and equestrian trails, reverting the bridge back to its original use of transporting horses and their riders. Finally, in May 1859, its post office doors closed forever. Whenever a sighting of this ghastly figure occurs, a string of mysterious disappearances is sure to follow. So, anyway, starting from this initial rumor that was immortalized in the form of a YouTube video, the new version of the legend started to spread widely. [7], This article is about the Maryland creature. A similar tale to Washburns predates the building of the bridge, in which a group of cowboys lynched a goatherder called Jack Kendall. Harrod was last seen at his residence in the 500 block of Carnation Drive Placentia, California sometime between 11:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. on July 27, 2009. Liminal areas of crossing can be full of possibility and danger, present injustices are informed by past prejudices, and there are critters like snakes or gators down in the creek that younguns might outta be leery of. There is a Plano Goat Man legend dating to at least the 70s or 80s which she mentions in the book, but in the subsection about the Old Alton Bridge Goatman, theres no date given for when that legend began. Due to the great number of unexplained happenings at the Old Alton, the bridge has been the subject of a number of investigative paranormal shows. The location has already been featured on Ghost Adventures: Extra Pulses. This was completely opposite of what the area is like in the daytime. And in the trunk of her vehicle was her cold, bloodied, and decomposing body. Their luck with this second townsite was also short-lived; in 1850 they moved once more, to a location five miles from present-day Corinth. In August 1938, masked Klansmen abducted Washburn and hung him from the bridge. The Denton newspaper at the time did an article on a car found abandoned on the bridge." He had no known medical conditions when he disappeared, although he did have some short-term memory problems like being unable to remember phone numbers. The KKK apparently kidnapped and killed Washburn by throwing him over the bridge. A rash of mysterious disappearances are becoming alarmingly routine on a chilling stretch of road that is known by locals as "the Goatman's bridge." Constructed in 1884, the bridge connected Lewisville to Alton. He never answered. The following is a description of the legend in her own words: There's a bridge in Denton, Texas called Goatman's Bridge. They were later released pending . More articles and blogs were being published online about the legendary Goatmans Bridge and they all said the same copy/pasted Legend along with some other ones mentioning of it being currently under surveillance by DAPS aka Denton Area Paranormal Society (never heard of or saw them the 1000s of days and nights I would spend obsessing over this place, but ok DAPS). He may have done that before 8/6, but thats just when I noticed it, while finalizing the script for this episode. I cannot fix what was done AGAIN. Its just a bizarre synchronicity, because Im only still in touch with two people who I went to high school with, and both of them grew up on the same street as this person. THE HISTORY of goatman's bridge: November 15th 1967: police discover an abandoned car beside Old Alton Bridge, five miles south of Denton, Texas. https://web.archive.org/web/20100920155235/http://www.asup-inc.org/oldaltonbridgecase.htm. A week and a half after he went missing, two of his children filed for conservatorship to get control of his assets. The legend goes that they then fitted a noose over his head and threw him over the side of the bridge but when they looked to see whether he was dead, his body had disappeared. Alton, now Cooper City, has long been abandoned. day! In the Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room episode on Thursday, the segment will be recapped with commentary from the crew. , and is forever indebted to the great work of the fine folks with the Denton County Historical Commission and local keepers of history like Mike Cochran and Laura Douglas at the Emily Fowler Library for their tireless work in helping preserve Dentons intriguing past. Some of the posts he commented on were about the Old Alton Bridge, Texas Hauntings, or similar topics. However, no goatman. The Ghost Adventures crew is in Denton, Texas, investigating Goatman's Bridge. In this version, an experiment on goats backfires and the scientist mutates into a half man, half goat creature who begins aggressively attacking cars in the vicinity of Beltsville, Maryland. Called the Old Alton Bridge, sometimes the Argyle bridge, and is better known amongst the locals as Goatmans Bridge, it was first built to carry horses but would later carry vehicles across the creek. But for this particular bridge, those feelings may be more grounded than not. The Sheriffs archives made no mention of the event. It was just me, my equipment, my dog and the Spirits.. who grew more accustomed to my energy presence the longer I spent out there and got to know what this place was, how beautiful it truly was at night, when the rest of the world just came looking for a quick jump-scare or half-man half goat/ghostly headlights/knock 3 times to summon the demon/goat hooves sounds/shadow figure etc (the Legend quickly began to spin and soon I would realize I set events in motion that nobody EVER couldve expected. The bridges architectural composition is known as a truss, a visually distinct structure of connected elements forming triangular units. A few years later, Washburn, having become known as a dependable and honest businessman and dubbed the "Goatman" by locals, displayed a sign on Alton Bridge reading "This way to the Goatman". Passing over any bridge as antiquated and creaky as the Old Alton, its normal to feel a little unsettled. Some say that the bridge was once the site of an execution, another of a lynching; others say that an old goat herder was murdered on this spot, while still others believe it is the earthbound spirits of those killed in the Sam Bass Texas Rangers shootout nearby. Nothing has been posted, there are no playlists, etc. Many who have crossed at night. One of the most famous local ghost stories though, and one of the more terrifying, is the legend of Goatman's Bridge. Stranger stories even include people having seen a creature that resembles a half-goat, half-man. People DID trickle in most nights sporadically, ever few hours or so. The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories by Alan Brown, published in 2012, doesnt mention the Old Alton Bridge. Hed had the account since 2018, but the only other visible thing that hed posted was something on a World of Warcraft subreddit. Washburn posted a sign on the bridge which read this way to the Goatmans. This action angered members of the Klan, and on a fateful night in August of 1938, they drove their cars across the bridge with their headlights off, took Washburn from his home and family, and dragged him to the bridge. A rash of mysterious disappearances are becoming alarmingly routine on a chilling stretch of road that is known by locals as the Goatmans bridge., https://web.archive.org/web/20100617152737/http://www.goatmansbridge.com/, Weirdly, November 15th 1967 is exactly 1 month before the Silver Bridge collapsed in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Supposedly this was near the location of the bridge. Then he talks about his videos that he posted in 2009: I take issue with his claim that no legend at all existed, but I have been able to confirm that it seemed to be a much lesser known urban legend (for example, I lived there for years and had never heard of it), and the stories of hauntings seemed more scattershot. Others were totally unrelated, and just seemed to have a keyword that made it come up in a search. All my old favorite TV/YouTube Ghost Hunters are falling victim to this energy vortex!!. As a mentor once wisely advised, never let the facts of a story obscure the truths in the tale. I want to know what happened to my son." Treat has written about numerous local places and personalities at his Denton Haunts blog, and is forever indebted to the great work of the fine folks with the Denton County Historical Commission and local keepers of history like Mike Cochran and Laura Douglas at the Emily Fowler Library for their tireless work in helping preserve Dentons intriguing past. The bridge takes its name from the abandoned community of Alton, which between 1850 and 1856 was the seat of Denton County. (Goatmans Bridge Series), I Seen the Devil (Goatmans Bridge Series), Satanic Rituals at the Bridge (Goatmans Bridge Series). On the other hand, the book Haunted Plano, Texas by Mary Jacobs, which was published in 2018, has a whole section about the Old Alton Bridge, even though it isnt in Plano. Apparently, in 2010, there was a person who commented on a bunch of websites, basically anything that mentioned the bridge that year. On a dark night in the late 1930s, a lynch mob of Kluxers stormed Washburns shack and dragged the screaming Goatman to their noose waiting on the bridge, tightened the rope around the begging Oscars neck, then mercilessly flung him over the side. They reconnected by telephone after their spouses died and then met in person, and decided to get married only six days later. Both the dog and I heard and saw him, but he disappeared as he made a turn under some bushes and didnt emerge on the other side. Some reports describe the Goatman's fur as a deep, fiery red, while others describe his coloring as black as night, so black you can hardly see him as he moves through the edges of the trees. So, just to be clear: If you google this and find people mention the person who supposedly uploaded the video, that information is incorrect. The Klansman then fitted a noose over his head and pushed him over the side of the bridge. His wallet and keys disappeared with him, but he left behind his gold 1997 Toyota Camry and his eyeglasses. There are also some things that may differ between the final episode and this draft script. DO THE DENTON HOLIDAY LIGHTING FESTIVAL LIKE A PRO, THE MANY FACES OF DENTON'S FINE ARTS THEATER. I chatted him instead. That road is known by locals as "The Goatman's Bridge." What we started 12 years ago has gotten out of control. There are no definitive records of Washburn or Kendall, but as a Denton local said, that doesnt mean its not haunted.The bridge is seven miles south of Denton, if you ever get the urge to visit just keep your headlights on and dont knock on the bridge, unless you want to visit with the Goatman. that have haunted our fair city over the years, but a few stand out as truly haunting. Harrod had planned to put Heeter's name on some of his assets, including some of his properties, but he disappeared before he could do that. Later it accommodated automobiles as well. us, which seems the perfect opportunity to revisit one of Dentons most DISCLAIMER: Im providing this version of the script for accessibility purposes. On a dark night in the late 1930s, a lynch mob of Kluxers stormed Washburn's shack and dragged the screaming Goatman to their noose waiting on the bridge, tightened the rope around the begging Oscar's neck, then mercilessly flung him over the side. 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