Hi everyone. Welcome back to National Park After Dark. We have another trail tales for you guys today.

We do. We do. And, you know, I'm so excited to get into it because I have people are responding to my requests when I'm like, I want local lore. I want X, Y, Z. I want elevator stories.

I want this and that.

People are really responding to that.

And I think I have a little bit of everything in mine today.

So can I go first?

Yes, you can.

Okay.

My first story is titled Third Bridge, A Haunting in Colorado.

Hi, Cassie and Danielle. My name is Ethan, and I'm a longtime listener, first-time caller.

NPA has been a ground in comfort to me since the pandemic days of 2021 and has kept me company

on many road trips and adventures across the U.S. since then.

I'm so grateful to you for you both sharing yourself so openly and for the community

that you have cultivated. It's been wonderful, see the pod grow and evolve into the amazing

thing that it is today. Oh, that's so nice. An OG listener. Which, thank you so much.

Yes. We've said it before. We know we've been through a lot together.

We sure do.

To answer your call for local folklore, I want to tell you about the Denver area urban legend of a haunted bridge and the true story of my own paranormal experience there.

I've always been a lover of all things spooky, though I consider myself spiritually agnostic.

I value evidence and direct experience over dogma, yet even I can't fully explain what happened to me that night in 2012.

Located about 25 miles east of Denver in the rolling high plains of Colorado, there is an unassuming bridge along a barren stretch of

state highway. The bridge, which spans the long-dried up riverbed of the former Kiowa Creek,

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