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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: The Dog Suicide Bridge

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2013

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In the last 50 years over 600 dogs have jumped from the Overtun bridge, many not surviving the fall. What is leading these animals to jump, from 50 feet up, to their doom?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you've

0:05.9

listened to any of our new episodes, you're gonna notice that we're sounding a little

0:09.6

different in these ones. Yeah, there's a reason for that. There is. They've been remastered.

0:13.8

They have been remastered. Because they had a really annoying hum. Yeah, I mean a huge

0:18.6

thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this thing. Yes. You'll

0:23.2

also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before, and

0:28.2

you're re-listening now, the music and sound effects are gone. Yes, we've gone back to

0:33.4

straight audio. So, be warned. We sound a little different today than we do in what you're

0:37.7

about to listen to. Yeah. Bye. Bye.

0:58.7

Well, hello and welcome to Thinking Sideways, the podcast. I'm Steve. Devon. And we have another

1:10.4

unusual story for you this week. We do. We do. So, let's just go. This is does not fall in line

1:18.9

with any of the stories that we've talked about before. Okay. I kind of diverged a little bit.

1:25.1

Just bear with me through this. Dude, we have a format for a reason, you know.

1:29.2

We have a proof of process for a reason. Yeah. Our story starts in West Dunbartonshire,

1:35.3

Scotland, on the Overton House estate. It's a Victorian house was built in 1862. It's a large

1:45.1

stone mansion. It sits on a palatial 2000 acre estate. But the house is not actually the subject.

1:54.4

Of our story. Oh, I know. Near the house is the Overton Bridge, which was built in 1895

2:04.0

and spans the Overton Bird. Yeah, yeah. Bird is Scottish for stream. Everything was going along

2:11.5

perfectly fine. No strange activity whatsoever until the 1950s. Since the 1950s, over 50 dogs

2:24.0

have apparently committed suicide by jumping from the bridge and falling nearly 50 feet

2:31.6

to their deaths on the rocks below. See now. That's one a year. That's one a year that have

2:37.2

jumped and died. More have jumped and not died. I don't know what another 600 dogs have been

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