The Pope Lick Monster: Trestle of the Damned

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.3 • 176 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Pope Lick Monster 🌉 Episode One: The Trestle of the Damned It starts with a bridge. A steel trestle stretching across a dark Kentucky valley—built for trains, not for people. And yet… people keep finding their way onto it. Late at night. Alone. Drawn there by something they can’t quite explain. For decades, the Pope Lick trestle has been the site of documented deaths—not random accidents, but eerily consistent incidents involving people who should have known better. Experienced outdoorsmen. Railroad workers. Law enforcement. All ending up on the tracks. All at the wrong moment. All claiming, in some form or another… That something called them there. 🧠 In This Episode: The history of the Pope Lick railroad trestle and its pattern of fatalities Eyewitness descriptions of a humanoid, horned creature The creature’s most disturbing ability: vocal mimicry Cases where victims were lured using voices of loved ones The phenomenon of psychological manipulation overriding survival instincts 🗣️ The Calling Voice Survivors describe it the same way: A voice in the dark. Familiar. Personal. Impossible. Calling your name. And even when you know something is wrong… You keep walking. 🎯 The Takeaway This isn’t just a creature that hunts. It’s a predator that understands us. And uses that understanding against us. 📱 Socials • Instagram: @thedevilwithinpod • Instagram: @idesofaprilpod • Instagram: @taboo_treasures • YouTube: Evio Creative Network • Website: eviocreative.com 🚨 Network Call to Action Explore the full Evio Creative Network: 🎧 The Devil Within — where folklore meets documented reality 🏛️ The Ides of April — history’s most pivotal moments 🎤 Finding Me with Josh Wolf — daily growth, in real time 🕯️ Taboo Treasures — the dark stories behind rare artifacts Follow, subscribe, and share your favorite episodes. 🔥 Final CTA If this story pulled you in—share it. Because the most dangerous transformations… Are the ones you don’t see coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	EVO
0:02.0	This series contains adult language and depictions of graphic violence.
0:10.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:16.0	Savannah Webster heard her boyfriend Josh Yost screaming her name as he plummeted 90 feet through the Kentucky darkness on August 23rd, 2016.
0:29.6	What she couldn't hear was the Norfolk Southern freight train that crushed Josh's body against the Poplick railroad trestle just seconds after
0:38.5	he pushed her to safety. The 911 call that followed would become one of the most disturbing
0:44.4	pieces of evidence in Jefferson County's files. Not because of Savannah's injuries or Josh's
0:51.0	death, but because of what emergency operators heard in those final moments.
0:58.3	It was coming for us. Josh had screamed into his phone, the thing with yellow eyes. It's been calling my name for hours.
1:06.7	I can't stop walking toward it. Emergency responders found Savannah alive with multiple fractures.
1:14.6	They found Josh scattered across 200 feet of railroad tracks.
1:18.6	But they couldn't explain why two college students had driven three hours
1:23.6	to climb onto a railroad trussle at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday night. The Jefferson County Sheriff's
1:31.1	Department classified it as a tragic trespassing accident. But locals who had lived near the
1:37.6	Pope Lake trestle for generations, they knew better. They recognized the pattern, the compulsive behavior,
1:46.1	the voices calling from darkness,
1:53.4	the inexplicable decision to climb on to active railroad tracks. Josh and Savannah had encountered the Pope Lick monster, joining a list of victims stretching back more than eight decades.
2:01.6	Welcome back to the devil within.
2:03.8	You're listening to the Pope Lick Monster, Episode 1,
2:08.1	The Tressel of the Damned.
2:10.4	That's right, we're back into some cryptids for a while.
2:13.3	And if you're fascinated by stories where folklore meets documented reality,
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