Old Alton Bridge — Attraction in Texas

Denton’s most famous spectre is a story handed down for generations with a few variations, and that’s the haunted Goatman’s Bridge. 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.

According to the most circulated version, an African-American entrepreneur named Oscar Washburn and his family tended a farmstead goat herd near the bridge that was renowned for quality meat, milk, cheeses and hides. When the popular businessman proudly hung a sign on the Old Alton Bridge directing “This way to the Goatman,” it infuriated local Ku Klux Klansmen who plotted violence. 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. But when the Night Riders stumbled down to the dark river’s edge to confirm their murderous handiwork, they were shocked to find only an inexplicably empty noose dangling over undisturbed waters.

The panicked Klansmen frantically searched the area unsuccessfully before rushing to Washburn’s shanty, setting it afire with the Goatman’s family shrieking inside, perhaps to bait a desperate rescue attempt by the vanished Oscar. Washburn was never seen again, they say, but a vengeful spirit has haunted the Old Alton Bridge ever since.

Local legend says if you knock on the steel bridge three times at midnight, or perhaps- turn off your car lights and honk three times in summons, then you dare a visitation from the vengeful Goatman that’s preceded by the stench of decaying flesh. Numerous reports tell of unholy glowing eyes that burn red from the darkness, eerie glimpses of a large snarling Goat-headed man-beast stomping in the wooded shadows, or a frightening apparition of a maniacal Satyr carrying the heads of goats or humans in his hands.

The terrifying encounters and reported vanishings have been so frequent as to warrant numerous investigations by paranormal groups. But like I said, there’s more than one version that attempts an explanation for a century of recurring frights and sights encountered at the bridge.

Some attribute the work of Satanists who opened a portal for a hellspawn demon, while others say the Goatman’s wife is eternally searching for her...

known as Goatman's Bridge, this iron truss bridge in Denton County, Texas connects the cities of Denton and Copper Canyon. Built in 1884, it's the oldest bridge of its kind in the county and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge is the subject of ghostlore stories about a vengeful ghost, and some say it's the gateway to the territory of a demonic force called the Goatman. The Goatman is said to have the chest and arms of a man, the hindquarters and hooved feet of a goat, and a goat's head with large horns and glowing eyes. Some legends say the Goatman sleeps under the bridge during the day and becomes more vicious if his name is spoken. Others say the bridge provides a gateway to Hell. The bridge is now open to hikers and nature lovers, and some say people visit from all over the country to try to summon the Goatman.

Kozija Ćuprija Also known as Goat's Bridge, this bridge was built by the Ottomans in the 16th century and is the only fully preserved Ottoman bridge that still spans the Miljacka River. It's made primarily of white marble and has one main arch and two round openings. The oldest written record of the bridge is from 1771, when Mula Mustafa Bašeškija noted that a stone wall was built from the bridge to Alifakovac. As for me I did went to the bridge where there was a lot of Pentagrams for the people who made sacrifices started to here Weird noises like real goat noises that got me freaked out and made me nauseous so I had obviously crossed the bridge but nothing happened I still knocked on the bridge and the handles and noises happened and saw something in the water that was moving and light flickering through the distance and went to the forest and has been really active lately since the moment I got there. I also checked under the bridge but no signs or anything I found just a bunch of graffiti and Pentagrams. I'm not sure if the legend is real about crossing the bridge and seeing goat man spirit haunting trying to summon the Boatman saying his...

DONT EVER WALK ON THIS BRIDGE. so a friend told me about this bridge. she told me about some really odd story about some goat dude or something. i thought its was cool but later when my friend and i went to our summer job and we had to do a set up at tx motor speedway and we where driving back, we where near the bridge.. we asked if we could go on the bridge, and her mom said yes. we get out and we are acting incredibly stupid. i already had a bad impression on this place because of all of the graffiti, but that was ok. we where jumping on the bridge messing around like teenagers do. my friend said I SPIT IN YOU GOAT MAN!! and she spit on the bridge in the middle. we both felt kinda light headed, and really heavy. i couldnt lift my self up anymore and i decided to sit down so did my friend when we sat down, we couldn't move. AT ALL. we where both facing the front of the bridge and we where on the middle. while sitting on the ground unable to move, we see this horned black man, rising from the end of the bridge. we was staring in our eyes. somehow he was able to make eye contact with us at the same time. we didnt know what to do we couldnt yell, or scream speak you name it. we couldnt do it. it all stopped when her mom yelled from the car and said: "girls lets go!" she was all the way in the parking lot past the woods. after she yelled that everything stopped. in the snap...