The Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast
Welcome to The Sonic Hitchhiker podcast !
This podcast is dedicated to all things strange , mysterious, unusual and out of the ordinary.
Billy Shadow is your host for this program .
Billy has traveled all over the United States and has led an interesting life .
His time in the ghettos , visiting prisoners , serving in the military , traveling the country while living in a bus , working as an electrical contractor for high profile celebrities, playing in bands ,
writing and performing music and much more . He has first hand experience in cult organizations and has had several supernatural encounters.
Because of his life , he brings a unique take to the subjects that will be discussed on this podcast .
Now based out of Atlanta , Ga
The Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast
The Black Car at Seven Churches Will Make Your Skin Crawl
Billy Shadow welcomes his middle son Isaac Johnson to share unexplored paranormal experiences from their home state of Georgia. Father and son dive into frightening encounters at some of the South's most notoriously haunted locations, examining the mysterious forces that continue to draw thrill-seekers to abandoned churches, remote cemeteries, and haunted bridges.
• Isaac recalls exploring "The Seven Churches," where he and friends encountered a phantom "black car" that only some witnesses could see
• The group's terrifying experience at Cell City cemetery, where chains crossed in X-patterns supposedly kept evil spirits trapped
• Billy shares his childhood adventure sneaking into a mausoleum at America's Cemetery with a friend
• Discussion of the Windsor Hotel's reputation for paranormal activity, particularly on its restricted top floor
• The dark history of Lee Bell Bridge, where a murdered cheerleader's spirit allegedly disables cars of visitors
• Near the bridge, Isaac's family experienced their vehicle mysteriously failing to start after hearing about the location's haunted reputation
• Father and son bond over their favorite horror films, including The Conjuring, Sinister and The Blackwell Ghost
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Welcome to the Sonic Hitchhiker podcast dedicated to all things strange, mysterious and just plain out of the ordinary. Your guide on this audio odyssey is Billy Shadow. Billy's travels and experiences have led him to witness exorcisms, cult mind control events, ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. It is because of his interest in these experiences that this podcast was created. And now your host, billy Shadow.
Speaker 2:Hello, my friends, welcome to another episode of the Sonic Hitchhiker podcast. Today, as I always say, we have a special guest, and they all are not a bad way, but today we have my middle son, isaac Johnson Joshua Isaac Johnson to be precise, but he goes by Isaac, and so today we have him on the podcast. He's going to be telling us some stories that he and I have not talked about. What he's going to be talking about, so this ought to be very interesting and, without further ado, let me introduce my son, isaac Johnson. Go ahead, Isaac, tell us a little bit about yourself all the way from Albany, georgia.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, isaac Johnson. I'm 30 years old, married with a two-year-old daughter, daisy Ray, and what I do for work I'm a special operations manager for Whistle Express Do programming, timing, help, underperforming sites. I've been given the opportunity to go to a lot of cool places within my job, so it's been a lot of fun. I've been doing that for a few years and recently we started a training facility in Malden, south Carolina, which is really cool because we bring people in and train them anything and everything to do with the car wash industry, so pretty awesome. And it's in malden, south carolina, and we themed it, uh, from the show mandalorian, so whenever you complete the course, you become a maudalorian, so pretty cool I love that show.
Speaker 2:You like that show, david mandalorian? Have you ever seen it? You're a sci-fi guy, aren't you?
Speaker 4:yeah, I mean, I do, I do like it, my son likes it, it's a uh, it's, it's actually a good, I like that. Um, the plan works, it's uh, you know, get copyright infringements, no, no but people still understand that yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that's a cool idea that they yeah we do, uh, we give awards and stuff.
Speaker 3:So we have three different type of awards too. It's, uh, the krogo award, uh, which there could be some copyright issues going on there. But we have a krogu award, which is somebody who's new and willing to learn and apply it, and then we have the you say the grogu award award.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now, who came up with? Who came up with the mandalorian for the who's? A big fan. My boss, your boss, is a big fan of the show.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so, um, he's he, he loves, uh, ideas like that, like he's all the time trying to come up with some unique way to make something fun. So that's his way of incorporating what he likes, which is Mandalorian. So, but yeah, going back to the awards, we got a Grogu award, mando award, and then we got the Skywalker award, and Skywalker is somebody who's willing to give as many, not as much knowledge as they have to the team while they're there getting the course completed. So pretty cool.
Speaker 2:That's pretty cool that you have a serious business, but yet you're throwing a little playfulness in there with the whole Mandalorian thing, trying to create culture.
Speaker 2:No, I like that. That's cool. Yeah, levi, your youngest brother and my son, obviously he and I have watched all of those episodes of that show. Mandalorian is a really good show if you're into sci-fi or if you're into westerns, by the way, because that show is kind of a reminds me of a western, the way the first Star Wars really the first Star Wars was kind of a western themed, if you think about it in a way. But this one, the Mandalorian here we are promoting the Mandalorian, but it's a way. But this one, the Mandalorian, here we are promoting the Mandalorian. But it's a great show and it's right. But it, yeah, it has even the Western music to it, has like the whistling and all like they did in the old West, old Western movies. It's really cool. Anyway, I think that's cool.
Speaker 2:I'm very proud of my son here, isaac, because he's very accomplished in the business that he's in and he's really moved up the chain to become a prominent have, a prominent position in the business. So very proud of that, always, always proud of your children when they, when you see them being successful and you, you know, you, you, even though you may not have had a lot to do with it, you feel like, you feel proud, that you can say your son is doing very well and he has a great family and, cute as a button, my granddaughter Daisy and his wife, who she said, don't be talking negative about her, we won't be, we're not going to do that you never talk negative about the wife, trust me.
Speaker 2:I've been married 26 years so I know do never, never talk uh negative about the wife for the record, he said a lot of negative stuff about his wife yesterday when we were on the phone together now you cannot prove that, I will go to my deathbed saying that you are telling a fib, and but you know, like I always say, she knows what you said you will go to your deathbed yes, but back to your story about you. Uh, you're haunting I like how you're changing the subject, david I wasn't born yesterday.
Speaker 2:I was born on a day, but it was not yesterday well, uh, I say everyone knows that listens to this show that we talk about, not not exclusively, but we do talk about stories that have to do with the supernatural, the paranormal, that type of theme throughout the show.
Speaker 2:By the way, our next episode, hopefully, we'll have on a friend of mine, sean, who is a really talented musician and he's in a really good band called Hot Flash and they are very popular around Atlanta and they play out quite often. But he's going to come on and we're going to actually talk. Speaking of changing the theme up a little bit, we're going to be talking about how the mind and the body coordinate together when it comes to working out and how your mental state when you're exercising has really a lot more to do with what you're doing than your physical. I mean, they go together, but anyway, so we're going to be talking about that. But back to Isaac, our guest. Do you have a particular story you want to start with Isaac, like a uh, maybe a ghost or a supernatural story or anything that's unusual that you want to talk about?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have a few stories, um, but just to kind of give you a background of how we got to that place. Uh, you know, me and my friends, we liked it. We always enjoyed going to local haunted places, uh just around town. If we could. Sometimes we would travel about an hour radius uh from where we lived. Uh, we would just Google what's the closest haunted place to us and then we would go there just hoping that we'd find something. Uh, you know we'd read the myths online and just go there to really see if we could find, you know, and experience those things. So, uh, really enjoyed doing that. Um, but yeah, I'll start with uh with one of them.
Speaker 3:It's called the seven churches. Uh, it's actually a dirt road that's off hard up road in Albany, georgia Years ago, since it's been overgrown, even demolished. There were actually four churches on the main path, but you had to veer off onto the other dirt roads to get to the other three. To my knowledge, I don't believe any of our friends have ever went to the other three. I could be wrong on that, but anyway. But there's several stories on the internet explaining things and experiences that you might have during your visits there. Um, it was, uh. Also, they had a famous graveyard leading out to the main main church that you see, on the first uh set of churches. It was actually called, uh, stone gardens, which is locals called it adam's family grave road.
Speaker 3:Uh, it was, like I said, located on a road right before you get to the main church. So, and it's a, not a place you're supposed to go, it's actually, uh, a restricted area. Um, it became private property. Uh, but sometimes I don't do, we don't do this anymore, so there's no law involved here. But if the gate was open and you know, then you were able to access the road. So that was the way we got down there.
Speaker 3:But some stories I'll give you a few stories about it, some things that people say you might experience. One of the main ones would be they actually had a Bible inside the first church and the story goes that if you try to remove it from the pulpit and walk it towards the exit of the building, it would get heavier and you couldn't get the Bible out of the church. So that was one story I've had. I've heard people say that they've, you know, tried doing that, and some people I feel like we're not telling the truth and they're like oh, it got heavier and I don't really know if that's true for some of the people that I've heard it from, but, um, we didn't see any bible or anything like that when we went. Uh, on the times that we did so well, we didn't, we didn't see anything the the inside of the building.
Speaker 3:I mean, it was in pretty rough condition. It wasn't like a active church or anything like that. So it was pretty rough. By the time that we started going out there, I think they were already.
Speaker 4:And you did that. Yeah, we went out there at night.
Speaker 3:You always got to go to the haunted places at night.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know that's what I was going to say In the daytime. It wouldn't be as fun, but did you feel anything in there? I mean, it definitely was creepy.
Speaker 3:Just from reading the stories on the Internet, you know you get a vibe before you get out there, so you're already kind of amped up to experience something. But no, we, we didn't see anything. And we walked around the graveyard. There's a graveyard off to the side of the main church, so you can, you can walk around there too, Uh, but we didn't, we didn't hear anything those times that we went, but we definitely psyched ourselves out because we thought we heard something and we just, you know, got spooked and took off, you know, towards the vehicles, like like most do whenever they get in that situation. So, um, but another story is is sometimes people experience a woman walking down the road, uh, the dirt road, uh, in a white gown. Um, they always say that you'll see her in the distance, just kind of walking back and forth, and the closer you get she disappears. So and then, yeah, in the same there's multiple stories.
Speaker 3:You can google it. There's uh the seven churches in albany, georgia. It's uh considered one of the most haunted places in georgia but have you ever seen?
Speaker 2:seen it on a TV?
Speaker 3:show or something where they talk about it Actually for a Halloween special years ago.
Speaker 3:I think it was like I want to say 2016 or 2015,. They had a segment on it 2015. They had a segment on it. But going to my story, so that's just giving you a little background of what goes on out there. But I'll start with my story.
Speaker 3:One night, a few of our friends hopped in two separate vehicles heading out there. Again, gate was open, so we had full access, so went out there, walked around, did everything that we could you know, based off the internet see what we could experience. And we weren't really getting anything. So we were like, all right, well, let's go ahead and pack up, let's get out of here. So we both we had two vehicles. I was in the front vehicle. It was me, aaron, and I want to say Lee Lee, who was actually on the podcast too. We were in the front and then we had our friends in the back in their vehicle, and there were three guys with them too. So we were following each other out of there.
Speaker 3:But then, as we were leaving, we see these headlights coming. Well, remember, it's restricted. So we kind of panicked and we thought it was a cop coming our way. So we got a little scared. So we're like, oh god, we're about to get messed up. So we pulled over to the side. But our friends behind us did not pull over. So we were like, what are they doing?
Speaker 3:And the car that was coming, it turned on that road to Stone Garden, which we called it Adams Family Grave Road, and whenever they turned down that road we just drove forward because we're like, okay, well, maybe that's another group. They were just trying to get us out of there and wait for us to leave so they can go to the churches. So when we started leaving, we looked down that dirt road and we didn't see no taillights. We didn't see anything. So we just were like, okay, they turn their lights off, they're just waiting for us to pass and we'll get out of here. So we ended up meeting towards the entrance of where the gate is and we asked our friends uh, that was in the car behind us like hey, did you guys see that car? Like it, we thought it was a cop and the weird thing is is they just kind of looked at us funny and was like, what car are you talking about? And they never saw any headlights, they didn't see anything. But we did. So we got chills obviously.
Speaker 3:Uh started like kind of what in the world just happened? Like there was a car, plain as day, coming our way. So we started Googling and as we were looking at the stories, things that you would experience out there, sure enough there's one that's called the black car and stories go that some people would see that car coming down and they would always turn down Adams family grave road. So, yeah, so that was whether or not somebody I don't know if they were behind us a certain way, who knows but the fact that they didn't even see headlights and we did like it was clear as day was pretty spooky and definitely was like okay, okay, I think we experienced something. So, out of all the years of going places and trying to see something, I I feel like we did that night. So really cool, yeah, but really cool well, that's.
Speaker 2:It was worth. It sounds like it was worth your, your efforts to try to see anything or feel something in that area. So, okay, well, that turned out that wasn't a fruitless venture, that you went on as far as trying to see something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we've been out there multiple times and, just like, I mentioned just nothing, so that was really cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know the next. Well, I don't know about whenever, at some point when I go to Albany, I think I'd like to go. Is it still there?
Speaker 3:It's all over the ground torn down, proper property. It's pretty aggressive now so you can't. I don't believe you can go out there, and if you do, they say the stories live on like even though they're not there anymore. If you look it up on Google, they still say that people that actually live out towards the area on Hard Up Road they say that you can still hear things that people say that they hear, and so they say the stories live on At some point on the podcast.
Speaker 2:David and I have discussed it before. We are in what? Maybe we'll do it, I don't know. Maybe we'll do it before Halloween or around Halloween. I think I want to find a place in the Atlanta area, maybe to start with, that's supposedly haunted or has some haunted folklore to it and go see if I feel anything or sense anything. That's something we're going to do eventually, something like what you and your friends were doing with the seven churches, just to see, except we'll do it legally we were young and dumb.
Speaker 4:Well, it was just last year, right.
Speaker 3:That was about 13 years ago, my friend. Wow, 13 years.
Speaker 4:Well, hey, we all we all grow up, you know, my friend. Wow, 13 years. Well, hey, we all grow up, you know. But I would be scared. I mean I would be scared if I saw headlights and your friend said they didn't see anything. I would piss my pants, to be honest with you. I'd be like, okay, this is weird. But I mean it is Albany. I mean, have you ever been to Valdosta?
Speaker 4:I've been to've have you ever been to Valdosta? There's a lot of probably got. I I grew up in Valdosta and I went. They had a haunted house at the uh, at the air force base, the Moody air force base, and it scared the crap out of me and I've not liked haunted houses since then. It was in like a old army tent it was, and it had nothing to do with like scary, spooky things out. But I I'm just not a I'm just not a scary type of person. You know I like to. I do not like things just coming out. My son does that every day. He can try, he hides and he I go hey, hey, where are you, where are you, buddy? He just scares the crap out, crap out of me. I'm not a person who I like to go to graves. I mean I have a place that we could probably go to, a very historic cemetery here in Atlanta, oakland Oakland Cemetery. I have a lot of family that's buried there so we could go over there and see if you feel anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been to the Oakland Cemetery. I have been there but not for a, you know, to see if it was haunted, but they actually had. There's a family there at the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. It's a big cemetery. It's really cool, very old. I don't know if it's the oldest, is it the oldest cemetery? Yeah, the oldest cemetery in Atlanta. But they actually have a family that loved music and they will allow once a year, I I think, the band to actually play on the graves and so I've been to that where that's like I want to say they had like candlelight and all. But it was actually pretty cool and the band was, uh, very alternative. Uh, it was a good band for the graveyard, put it that way, and that was a good. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:But obviously when you have people out there partying, it's not all. You don't get this haunted vibe. But yeah, there's some places. To me I find graveyards that are not so popular as the creepiest. Like if you go to an old, if you're traveling and I've done this and this I've done you travel at night and you see an old graveyard just in the middle of nowhere and maybe there's like 20 graves there with headstones. If you stop and get out. You just kind of I don't know To me. I always think about who could be there. I'll read the gravestones, things like that. That is interesting to me, but I've never really seen anything in a graveyard that would bother me. But so you had the seven churches experiences, the experiences, and then you had one where you actually saw a some headlights. That may have been the part of the black car legend that they talked about, so that's pretty cool yeah, do you have any other stories like that?
Speaker 3:I'm actually jumping ahead of what I had, but uh, it's a it it regards a graveyard, so it's relevant. Um, it's uh, so this place it's called cell city. Um, this was another graveyard that aaron found. I'm not really sure if it was deemed haunted, but it was a super creepy place. Way out in the country, about 45 minutes from where we live in Albany. I've been to Chelsea. That's a small town. Yeah, it's a really small town Pretty remote. Yep, it's in Georgia.
Speaker 2:In Georgia.
Speaker 3:But definitely I don't know where Aaron found this, but, like I said, he would take his friends sometimes and a few times I ended up going with him and during one of those times, one night, a few of our friends went there, trying to get obviously a good scare, as usual. And well, that night we actually kind of did. Because I want to also give the description of how you get out there. Like most creepy places it's down a long dirt road, go figure in the middle of nowhere. But when you get out there there's the church in the center and then you have two sides of the grave. So you got what we considered the good side. And then there was another side, on the opposite side of the church, which we always call that the bad side.
Speaker 3:The reason we call it the bad side was because on one side you had on the good side Sorry, I'm like good and bad, but anyway, on the good side you had it look normal for the most part, but there was one tombstone that there was this little girl's grave that they had like a dollhouse, for I guess she really enjoyed dolls and so I'm assuming her family built a dollhouse. So we we took a few pictures around there and we had, like I don't know if we had bugs going over the camera or whatever. What you know, you hear people say when they take pictures and you see orbs, those are signs of spirits, but anyway. And then, on the bad side, there were these tombstones that had chains in the form of an X over them. It was super creepy, so we always called that the bad side.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 3:We looked it up, I believe those Xs of chains. I can't remember who looked it up, but on the internet it was saying that it was a way to keep the bad spirits in and not allowing them to escape. So not sure if that was the purpose of there, but it definitely gave a creepy vibe, especially when you're out there at night and uh the chains were on the tombstones.
Speaker 3:So really creepy, um, but we went out there that night just doing the, you know, doing the normal walk around trying to see if we could hear anything, taking pictures, whatever, uh, but then as we went from the good side around trying to see if we could hear anything taking pictures, whatever, but then as we went from the good side and transitioned over to the bad side, we were sitting there all talking, we were trying to figure out what those chains were and all these things. And while we were sitting there discussing all that out of nowhere, all at one time we had about seven people out there and all at the same time we heard a loud like noise come behind, like pass through all of our ears. We just all like got chills, just stopped what we were doing and we just looked at each other and took off. It only took one guy to make the move and we all booked it to the truck and to the vehicles and hopped over flaps, did whatever we had to do to get inside that freaking car and slammed the door and just started booking it down that dirt road to get the heck out of there. So that was the experience we had out there.
Speaker 3:Um, that's the most like interactive thing that I believe that any of them's ever experienced. While going out there again, they've been out there more than I have, so that just happened to be one of the one of the times I went with them and it was. It was a super creepy. Don't know what that was. It could have been anything, there could have been who knows what. But we just thought like as we were sitting there talking about you know the chains and all these things out of nowhere, we just heard that loud whoosh sound just pass through all of our ears and we were just like what in the world was that? And just took off. So, but that's, that's the, that's uh that I have for cell city. Um, it's a cool place to go to. Uh, it's not, it's not a restricted area or anything like that. So, uh, we're actually uh, by and by the law, david, believe it or not.
Speaker 2:Well, that reminds me when I was uh, I think about this story sometimes but I always forget to bring it up but when I was, I want to say, nine years old. You know, I've lived in so many places as a kid, it's hard to always keep up with the time stamps or whatever on your life. But so my buddy, I had a buddy, kurt Harbuck, who is now married to my sister, but he and I were really good buddies back then and we had our bikes. This was back when your parents would just say go, leave the house and you may just come back for dinner. They may not see you all day, you just take your bikes and you go.
Speaker 2:This was in Americus Georgia, in Americus Georgia I can't remember the name of the cemetery, but it's still there. Obviously it's a big cemetery, the biggest one in america's, and it's full of history, rich history, a lot of it civil war history. So it's just a lot going on in that. But they have these small mazalems where they have these little houses in the graveyard that have drawers inside that dead bodies were kept in, you know, buried in, and they just put them in these drawers. And Kurt and I one night got the idea to hop the fence because I think they kept it at night. They kept it closed. So we got our bikes. I think we either hopped the fence or there was an opening somewhere and we decided to go through the graveyard. And the thing about this is a typical horror movie atmosphere. It was not raining but it was dark. It got dark early. It was one of those. It was when it gets dark early, you know whatever. So it was around what, fall autumn something, something like that. But the wind was blowing. I remember that we have our little jackets and everything, so we hop the fence or we go through, I can't remember which. So we did, we walked through the graveyard, just trying to see. You know how it feels. And then we saw this mausoleum that had the door bent at the bottom, where it had like a crack big enough where you could actually go in there. There were leaves on the floor inside because it had not been well maintained, and so the so picture it's the moon shining pretty bright, the wind's blowing, and these two kids decide we're going to go into this mausoleum and we go through the, we squeeze through the bottom of the door that was bent and we go inside and there were all these drawers you know around. It wasn't huge, I would guess to say there's maybe 10, 15. It wasn't a lot, but they each had a plaque on them telling who was in this particular spot, and we didn't have a flashlight or anything. Like I said, the moon was shining bright so you could kind of see they had like little cracks. You could they coming through the little building there. But I remember we were in there just looking around and the winds blowing the leaves under the door.
Speaker 2:Now to this day we, I can say maybe a branch flew out of a tree or something. But we're sitting there reading the plaques and suddenly just a big bang happened on one of the. It sounded like it happened in one of the drawers, just like a huge bang. Now it could very well be just something on the outside that hit, but we were so scared that we fought each other to try to get out of that little crack, like we were pushing each other trying to get out from under that little crack in the door. And we did. We didn't even look to see if it was a branch or what.
Speaker 2:We were A picture two kids running through the graveyard trying to get back to your bicycles. Because I swore both of us did like we looked at each other when that bang happened. We looked at each other like oh my God, and so we were fighting each other to get out from under the crack of the door. But and then I'm sure there's a logical explanation for that. But, man, when you're inside that little mausoleum it already has a creepy vibe, winds blowing like in a typical movie, and then that big big. It was a big bang too, like boom, you know, right on the, and it sounded like it was in one of the drawers. I'm sure it wasn't, but it just it had enough of an impact that I'm sure if someone were outside the gate and they said, what are these two kids running through the graveyard? Or maybe they stopped, maybe they thought they saw a vision, yeah, probably.
Speaker 4:It's running through the graveyard we had our little windbreakers on.
Speaker 3:I'm sure it was quite a sight. It's running through a graveyard.
Speaker 2:But we got on our bikes and we we hauled butt out of there, man, we we never went back to that graveyard but, like I said, the wind was blowing. I'm sure it was something that just hit the side of the building, but it was enough to get these two kids, oh yeah you know, speaking of america's, have you uh looked up the windsor hotel?
Speaker 2:uh, yeah, as a matter of fact, your mom and I stayed in the winter hotel. Do you know that story? Yeah, we did ask her. Yeah, her and I stayed in the winter hotel because it was such an old hotel and they had restored it. They had just restored it, that's like a and we stayed in it.
Speaker 2:It's a very creepy looking room that we stayed into. It was a very nice hotel, by the way. It was for us back then. It was quite a thing to do because it was a little expensive. It just opened up and it's very historical?
Speaker 3:I don't, but it is a very elegant type of hotel. It's crazy because it almost reminds me of the shining hotel. Uh, it's got the same vibe to it, yeah no, I have not.
Speaker 4:That's actually.
Speaker 3:You stayed in it the uh most haunted places in georgia as well yeah, that's what.
Speaker 2:That's what they even said back then. But we stayed in it and the room was creepy and I can imagine if you're with someone it's not so bad, right. But if you're staying in that one of those rooms by yourself and you have this and you already have a tendency to think about, you know, hauntings and that type of if you have that mentality that I can see where you might be creeped out, because the rooms are very. They were nice but they were still antique-ish looking and they had this vibe about them. The whole hotel. It's very historic and, like you said, it's one of the most haunted places supposedly in that area.
Speaker 3:I didn't have an experience given some, um, from what I've seen online, uh, they actually I don't know if this is true, but they blocked off, I want to say, like the top floor, to where you can't stay in any of the rooms on the top floor. Uh, yeah, I believe so. Um, I'd have to Google it, but I'm pretty positive it's on there. They, uh, they said the reason is because the people that stayed in those rooms on the top floor, um, some people experienced some pretty uh horrific sounds. They, they claim they've seen, you know, spirits walking down the halls. You hear footsteps, like all these type of things. So they just blocked off the top, uh floor altogether.
Speaker 2:So I'd love to stay in that. I'd love to go visit.
Speaker 3:Well, then again, that was on the internet, and that was from years ago, so maybe you can now and maybe you'll experience something maybe I'll check that out there's.
Speaker 2:I just want to go to some place where there is definitely some you know they've definitely people have definitely experienced paranormal activities in a certain area. Um, although you may get more than you bargain for, I don't know if you've ever seen that, or read the book, or seen the movie 1408 by stephen king, which is about a guy trying to see something and he finally does to his detriment, but that's a good one. Now I want to, I want to, I know you want to. I know you have this story too, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna wrangle you into it. Uh, speaking of america's georgia, this is America's Georgia. This is a little darker. This story is a little darker, and this one, actually, I've heard about since I was a child, especially when we lived in the America's Georgia area.
Speaker 2:There is a bridge that is famously haunted. It's called the three bridges, right, three bridges road, but they call it the lee bell bridge. And now I'm gonna let you tell the story of why they call it that and what happened. And this is a very dark subject, in my opinion, because it involves murder, um, which a lot of. They say a lot of haunted places that are haunted because of violence. A lot of violence is definitely, definitely holds a an atmosphere of paranormal activity, because a lot of people in this field and I've talked to some ghost hunters who say this Speaking of that, I want to get your friend and my friend, matt Matt's dead man I keep putting that shout out. He's a ghost hunter. I'd love to have him on, if someone could give a shout out to him.
Speaker 2:But yeah, there's people that say that when there is a violent murder, the more violent, the more haunted that area is, because there is a lack of if, especially if the murder was never completely solved. Supposedly there's a, there's a lingering spirit in those places. I'm obviously I can't confirm that, but that's what a lot of people that are into this type of um thing say. People that are into this type of thing say people that are into the paranormal and that investigate it for a living and do that type of thing. They they claim that the more violent the death, the more haunted the area can be, for whatever reason. Now, if you will, I'll let you tell the story of the lee bell, the three bridges road, the lee bell bridge in america's georgia, and people can also look this up online as well and tell the story. Do you mind telling it? Yeah?
Speaker 3:it's located in Americas, georgia, as mentioned, three Bridges Road. The story goes that there was a cheerleader that was being asked out by this guy over and over, but she turned him down every single time. And the guy was so frustrated that one night, during a football game where she was cheerleading at, he actually siphoned most of her gas out of her car. He followed her after the game until she ran out of gas that night and obviously he was telling her the whole time. So he he waited for the perfect moment, unfortunately, and actually took her to an abandoned building or abandoned house pretty close by and actually tied her to the tree and, I believe, stoned her to death so extremely brutal and then he took her body back to the bridge where she broke down at and dumped her body over into the creek. Now there's a ton of ghost stories that people say that they experience online while visiting those bridges road. There's actually three bridges, but the first two are connected, so it's an extremely long bridge in the middle of, again, in the middle of nowhere down this road. So, yeah, that's that's the background of what happened. I know there's more details online for that, but you can look it up. It's pretty horrific, but yeah, so there's.
Speaker 3:There's a few stories Surrounded that that incident that people say they experience. Uh, one of the stories is, if you drive out there late at night, typically around 12 o'clock, turn your car off, put your keys on the top of the roof, uh, with your windows down. If you wait a few minutes, um, and you go to reach up and grab the keys, they say that sometimes the keys will be repositioned to another spot or even to the whole other side of your vehicle, to the passenger seat on top of the vehicle. So that's one of the main stories that people have online, that they go out there and experience and others, or you might hear her moan, yelling for help with your vehicle off. But they and there's other things they say that they sometimes, if you, if you're out there long enough, you might, you know, see a vision of her, uh, somewhere. So those are, those are a few of the few of the stories, um, and again, there's there's multiple uh, if you look them up online.
Speaker 3:But, uh, my story for for this one would be one night, our family, you know, decided to take us out there to the bridge. It was, I believe it was, uh, our, our mom, uh, I believe, our uncle and a few other family members went out there with us it was me, erin, I believe, believe Brooke was with us too my sister and so went out there and they were going to try this, this, turning the vehicle off, putting the keys on top of the car truck. So when we got out there did that, my uncle put his keys up top, with the vehicle off. For a little while we didn't hear anything. Uh, I believe it was a little windy uh, that night. So obviously we you think you hear something, but not really anything. So he grabbed his keys from the top. They didn't move, um, um, nothing. So we were like, oh, all right, nothing's going on.
Speaker 3:So then he goes to try to crank his vehicle up.
Speaker 3:Nothing happened. His vehicle was just dead in the water, not doing nothing. So we all in the vehicle, panicked, panicked, didn't know like what was going on. We thought he was playing around with us. We were like, all right, stop playing with us. Like we were freaking out because we were young kids, so like we were scared to death. And uh, then, uh, her mom, uh, I believe, started freaking out a little bit about it because we were like what is going on. He was trying to crank his car up and nothing was happening. So after a few tries he finally gets it to crank and once he does that, we get the heck out of there like it was the craziest thing and I actually recently looked that up of other experience that people have out there, and one of them being that if you turn your vehicle off, even if you try the key trick or not, and you go to try to crank your vehicle back up, sometimes you'll have issues cranking it because she wants you to feel like she felt that night that the incident happened.
Speaker 2:Wow, you know, when I lived in america's georgia as a kid, I remember there was a uh, we were talking. I don't know if it was dad or someone was talking. There was a couple that didn't know that story that we were talking to, or someone was talking to in our group, I can't remember who, but they were a young couple. Again, I may be getting the details completely wrong, but I do know it was a couple and they had said that when they went across that bridge that he looked the guy driving the boyfriend, husband, whatever felt some weird thing and looked in his rearview mirror and saw a woman sitting in the back seat.
Speaker 2:For just a minute, for I mean a minute, a second you know, just that's when you look back and they were gone, but he said it freaked them out a lot, they and they didn't want it, they didn't want to go back over that bridge for whatever reason. So, yeah, there are some things, there are a lot of stories like that. Um, I've never had, you know, I've had some weird things happen that we've talked about. Um david and I and guest have talked about on previous episodes of the podcast, but that type of thing I can't say I've ever had that happen to me where I actually had a. I mean, I've seen ghosts. It's only one time I saw three, of course, when I was a kid, but other than that I've never really seen anything more extreme, like someone sitting in the back seat, sitting beside me or any of that, but that would definitely freak you out.
Speaker 2:Uh, if you got on that road and knew the story and that car wouldn't crank, or if you saw someone in the back seat I don't know which one is worse, probably seeing someone. I don't know either one because, yeah, especially when you know the story and the history of the place that you're in, that's well, that's creepy. Um, before we wrap it up and I really appreciate those stories, isaac, I lost you, didn't I? Or did I? No, there did I lose you? No, I see you, okay, okay, all right yeah, I'm sure you see me.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's fine. That's good, david, as long as I can see.
Speaker 3:Oh, you were looking at the hotel yeah oh, you did that I could show david what the hotel.
Speaker 2:We're looking at the winter hotel Hotel. You see that Windsor Hotel, david, oh, I definitely see it. I know this is audio only, but Isaac bought a picture of the hotel so we could look at it and his mom and I and I know people are thinking man, billy, you've got kids everywhere Because we talk like this, you know.
Speaker 4:And actually on our YouTube version, like that, we're going to put stream audio and we'll we'll have pictures of the the windsor hotel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, out there so yeah, we'll do that. But the windsor hotel see, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. We're looking at pictures of the windsor. If you get a chance uh, you listening, look up it's. It's one of supposedly one of the most haunted areas in haunted places in that area of America's Georgia. But it's a beautiful hotel. They restored it.
Speaker 2:I forget when Isaac's mom and I stayed in this as a treat. We stayed in it one night and it was beautiful but definitely had a vibe of you just felt like you were back in time and that's on purpose, because they they restored it, but they kept it to to the way. They kept to the true way it was back in the day. I don't even think they had tvs um, your mom could attest to that, maybe I can't remember. I don't even think they had tvs in the room, I think they just back then.
Speaker 2:Anyway, when we stayed there, they just tried to keep it as historical as possible, but it was a great experience there, um, so what I wanted to say is let's, I want to, before we leave, I want to lighten the mood up because this is something that I'd like to start doing with people, just because it's a fun topic for me and I talked to your brother when he was on here last time, aaron, um, and so what? What it was on on? Let's, let's see, let give me your top three favorite horror movies of all time. Oh, you, just you can. You know, I know there's a lot to choose from, but if you had to come up with three on off the top of your head, what are the three? I know david said his favorite horror movie is the goon that's a good movie I'm not gonna discredit that get involved with david.
Speaker 2:David doesn't know what I want um no, but not, not a horror movie, though he didn't say it was a horror movie. He just said he doesn't like anyways, but go ahead but uh, yeah, um three movies, let's see.
Speaker 3:Conjuring is definitely. Uh, gotta be on the top for probably one of the freakiest movies that I've seen. That movie makes my skin crawl. Uh, I barely. Oh well, I've actually watched that movie by myself um a few times, but it's creepy as all get out.
Speaker 2:The woman on top of the cupboard is the worst part of me, but uh that's the one you know, isaac, or isaac uh levi, um, my youngest, your brother, uh, he wanted to. He said dad, can I watch a little bit of that movie? I said, yeah, you can watch some of it and as soon as he saw, that woman on the cupboard.
Speaker 2:He said I want to go to my room and play. That was good for him. I don't blame him, because in the theater that that scene I mean, I had popcorn that made me jump.
Speaker 3:I just uh, so the conjuring, um, I would say go ahead. Second movie is going to be the sinister. That's actually's actually top rated for one of the creepiest horror movies ever made, so that's always a good one. Ethan Hawke I just like how real he is in the movie because he reacts like most people would in those situations.
Speaker 3:So I think, it's a really good take on that, even with his voice, him trying to yell, and his voice is like kind of kind of fading away because he can't yell like he he wants to. So I really like that about that movie, along with a bunch of other things that happens, um, and then also this is kind of like a hidden gem, but the blackwell ghost yeah, it's more of a documentary yeah, it's a guy who films himself, if you're not familiar uh films himself.
Speaker 3:He stays in this uh place that's supposedly haunted and puts his camera up and I honestly thought for the short period of time that I saw it, uh, I thought it was real because I thought it looked so like documentary-ish. So I was like could this be real? And then you find out it was. It's not, but anyway, uh, still such a good movie, so I would say that's probably got to be in my top three. Knows the most top three.
Speaker 2:That's a good top three I agree with, especially with two of those I definitely. Darkness falls is another good one it's.
Speaker 3:It's an oldie, but a goodie. And that one unfortunately sticks with me because me and Aaron, when we were kids, we went to go see Grandma and Grandpa in Tennessee and y'all were watching that movie. We weren't allowed to watch it, but me and Aaron actually crawled out from it and we were hiding behind the couch while y'all were watching it.
Speaker 2:You were watching it.
Speaker 3:And saw a good bit of it, freaked the crap out of us and really and then had nightmares from then on, but but uh, you mentioned this actually on.
Speaker 2:The last one, I believe, was uh, sleepy hollow, right not that it was a scary, but you mentioned it, we because aaron and I we were talking about. He said well, you never let us watch scary movies when we were little, but I remember letting you guys watch that. We watched that a lot. Sleepy hollow was well, if you had, if you had a surround sound like we did, sleepy hollow was a great surround sound movie.
Speaker 3:And if you were a kid it's freaky because they cut people's heads off and all that. But I was saying that movie in particular because, if you remember, there was a time where we had sorry to put you out on this, but we had we had mouse traps under the couch. Yeah, yeah, the time that we were, um, we were watching the movie.
Speaker 3:We had mice, so do you remember the same time that it was a part of the scene where one of the heads got cut off? The rat trap went off at the same time. It scared the crap out of us.
Speaker 2:I don't remember that, but uh, that would be fun one thing that uh our daddy here used to do to us is after we watched a movie.
Speaker 3:He used to always make us go get tools out of the shed at night. You remember that you did?
Speaker 2:yeah, I think I did that on purpose I just wanted to see if you would go do it. But the shop was separated from the house. It was out and we we didn't live. It wasn't like in the country where there were no other houses around, but it was out, kind of in in a wooded area behind the house. So that shop was kind of creepy enough at night.
Speaker 2:So if I was an old, I would just want to see if one of you guys would actually go get a tool out very creepy, but that was a yeah little yeah, trick that he used to like to play on. You know, one movie that freaked me out a little bit and I always forget about it was the first the ring movie, the first one yeah they could be coming out of the tv forever, the only thing that I think, and that was here the ring is scary.
Speaker 2:Movie three well, they kind of, yeah, those movies kind of yeah, they kind of made that, they kind of made the original movies not as scary because they made it, they made fun of it so much. But yeah, well, they made it, they made fun of it so much. But yeah, well, I think we'll end it because we're almost we're close to the hour mark actually. So I want to thank my son, isaac, for being on the podcast today. We had a lot of fun talking about various subjects, mostly about some good ghost stories and movies, and I will say I want to say I'm I'm very, it's very. I'll say it again, it's very surreal to have a podcast and have your children now that are grown on it Even had Levi on there, who's just turned 11 recently. I had him on the last episode as well, in a little piece of it. But I'm very proud of all of my children. They've all made me proud and the older ones are all successful and on their own homes, have great families and as a father you can't ask for more than that and I love them all and I'm very happy that we had Isaac on the podcast today and, who knows, maybe they'll all make an appearance one day together. That would be cool. Even might get my daughter on here at some point if I could talk her into it. I don't know that she would do it, but that would be fun.
Speaker 2:And coming up next episode, hopefully, we'll have a musician. A local, very popular local musician, sean Blanket, will be on, giving us going a little bit different direction with the the, the way the mind and the body work together when it comes to exercise. And, who knows, he may have a ghost story to tell or have someone that he knows has one that he can tell us. So until then, this is Billy Shadow signing off on the Sonic Hitchhiker Podcast. We will come at you next time.
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