Goatman’s Bridge Series: Sources and Episode List

Here’re the sources I used in the Goatman’s Bridge series. (The individual episode pages linked below may contain some additional sources.)

Check out the whole series:

• The Trickster and the Goatman (Goatman’s Bridge Series)
• I went to Goatman’s Bridge (Goatman’s Bridge Series)
• This Way to the Goatman (Goatman’s Bridge Series)
• Death at the Goatman’s Bridge (Goatman’s Bridge Series)
• Who is the Goatman? (Goatman’s Bridge Series)
• “I Seen the Devil” (Goatman’s Bridge Series)
• Satanic Rituals at the Bridge (Goatman’s Bridge Series)
• Rewriting Urban Legends (Goatman’s Bridge Series)
• Folk News and the Haunted Old Alton Bridge (Goatman’s Bridge Series)

Sources consulted RE: Goatman’s Bridge Series

Books consulted: 

• The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen (2001)
• Legends of Texas Volume II: Pirates’ Gold and Other Tales by J. Frank Dobie (1975)
• Tales of Old-Time Texas by J. Frank Dobie (1955)
• Best Tales of Texas Ghosts by Docia Schultz William (1995)
• The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories by Alan Brown (2012)
• Haunted Texas: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Lone Star State by Alan Brown (2008)
• Haunted Plano, Texas by Mary Jacobs (2018)
• The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand
• Encyclopedia of Monsters by Daniel Cohen
• Where the Footprints End: High Strangeness and the Bigfoot Phenomenon Volume I: Folklore by Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner

Websites and articles consulted: 

• http://www.historyofbridges.com/facts-about-bridges/pratt-truss/ 
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/pratt-truss 
• https://www.totalsoftwater.com/2015/02/water-table-falls/
• https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542517/m1/1/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542517/m1/5/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abutment
• https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x864dccb9ff3e525b%3A0x427c899463ab2996!3m1!7e115!5sGoogle%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&hl=en&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipPh_cTXSUG69zbAbFGZkRo6XXPER_0mfH1fFFa5&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT1q-Vwsr2AhU9jokEHXUSD6IQ9fkHKAF6BAgBECY
• https://dentoncountyhistoryandculture.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/a-historic-haunt-old-alton-bridge/
• https://www.yelp.com/biz/old-alton-bridge-denton
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Alton_Bridge 
• https://www.discoverdenton.com/listing/old-alton-bridge/764/
• https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/buzzfeed-supernatural-investigators-visit-denton-bridge-to-see-if-its-really-haunted-by-a-half-goat-half-demon-10051546
• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/tx-alton/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170401150304/http://sites.google.com/site/trailsofdentoncounty/Home/the-trails-of-highland-village/elm-fork-trail—old-alton-bridge/old-alton-bridge 
• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/gh-lallorona/
• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/tx-alton/ 
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170401150304/http://sites.google.com/site/trailsofdentoncounty/Home/the-trails-of-highland-village/elm-fork-trail—old-alton-bridge/old-alton-bridge 
• https://dentoncountyhistoryandculture.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/a-historic-haunt-old-alton-bridge/ 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Alton_Bridge 
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/goatmans-bridge 
• https://www.ghostsofdenton.com/blog/old-alton-bridge 
• https://wedentondoit.com/blog/2013/10/18/back-in-the-day-goatmans-bridge 
• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/tx-alton/ 
• https://texashillcountry.com/goatman-bridge-history-hauntings-denton-alton-bridge/   
• Images: https://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q5=%22Goatman%27s%20Bridge%22&t5=dc_subject&searchType=advanced 
• https://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=old+alton+bridge&t=fulltext&sort=&fq= 
• Retrospect, Winter 2009: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542410/m1/2/?q=old%20alton%20bridge 
• A Guide to the Research and Documentation of Local Texas Bridges: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1222743/m1/5/?q=old%20alton%20bridge 
• Retrospect, July, August, September, 2003 : https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542517/m1/5/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22 
• Retrospect, Spring and Summer 2012: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542490/m1/3/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 28, 2012: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255897/m1/1/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• Retrospect, Spring 2010: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542485/m1/2/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 2009: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145732/m1/6/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 28, 2006: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145373/m1/5/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• Texas Highways, Volume 52 Number 11, November 2005 Page: 26: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth838481/m1/30/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• Texas Highways, Volume 52 Number 11, November 2005 Page: 23: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth838481/m1/27/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• Texas Highways, Volume 52 Number 11, November 2005 Page: 25: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth838481/m1/29/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• Texas Highways, Volume 52 Number 11, November 2005 Page: 27: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth838481/m1/31/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• On The Record, Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 2011 Page: 29 of 44: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth209156/m1/29/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• Goatmansbridge.com (defunct): 
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20100101000000*/goatmansbridge.com   
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20100617152737/http://www.goatmansbridge.com/ 
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20100922141701/http://goatmansbridge.com/Paranormal-activity.html 
• “Paranormal investigators not afraid to scare up some ghosts” 10:49 PM CDT on Saturday, October 28, 2006 By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News https://web.archive.org/web/20100619005059/http://www.goatmansbridge.com/DallasNewspage.html 
• North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 2015 Page: 1 of 8: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth861503/m1/1/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22 
• North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 2015 Page: 5 of 8: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth861503/m1/5/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• http://www.texasescapes.com/CentralTexasTownsNorth/Alton-Texas.htm
• https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/alton-tx-denton-county
• https://starlocalmedia.com/lakecitiessun/old-alton-bridge-a-legend-in-denton-county/article_32390a5e-5bb8-11e4-859b-fb074b8b933f.html
• https://cw33.com/news/dfw-ghost-stories-does-the-goatman-haunt-old-alton-bridge/
• Texas Parks & Wildlife, Volume 78, Number 3, April 2020 Page: 8: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1364370/m1/8/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22
• https://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2017-10-27/day-trips-old-alton-bridge-denton/ 
• Drone shots of the bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMOttet8pQU 
• https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542490/m1/3/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22 
• The Tall Grass West Of Town: Racial Violence In Denton County During The Rise Of The Second Ku Klux Klan by Micah Carlson Crittenden, which was a University of North Texas masters thesis published in May 2020: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703339/m2/1/high_res_d/CRITTENDEN-THESIS-2020.pdf 
• “Removing the Danger in a Business Way”: The History and Memory of Quakertown, Denton, Texas, by Chelsea Stallings, masters thesis at the University of North Texas in 2015: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804840/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf 
• https://omeka.library.unt.edu/s/black-denton/page/kkk

• Hauntology Man, a thesis by UNT student  Adam Michael Wright: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157557/m1/13/?q=%22old%20alton%20bridge%22

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_Act
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation
• https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2019/01/10/how-secrets-of-the-old-denton-county-klan-were-discovered-by-four-unt-history-students/ 
• Uncovering St. John’s: https://omeka.library.unt.edu/s/stjohns/page/welcome
• https://www.dallasnews.com/news/watchdog/2018/02/16/a-lonely-watchdog-in-denton-suddenly-finds-new-allies-as-he-fights-to-update-a-dark-history/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Beautiful_movement
• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/777095.White_Lilacs 
• Additional source about Quakertown: http://www.dentonhistory.net/page32/Quaker.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dealey_Plaza
• https://www.texasobserver.org/troubled-times/
• https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-troubles 
• https://web-clear.unt.edu/course_projects/HIST2610/content/CaseStudy/TexasTroubles_old/CS4_texastroubles_list.htm 
• https://www.tsl.texas.gov/exhibits/civilwar/trouble.html 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton,_Texas 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_Confederate_Soldier_Monument 
• https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/denton-county-courthouse-confederate-monument-moving-inside-to-town-square-museum/2607739/
• https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/08/16/denton-man-fight-confederate-monument/
• https://wedentondoit.com/blog/2013/10/18/back-in-the-day-goatmans-bridge
• https://factschology.com/mmm-podcast-articles/demon-goatmans-bridge-texas
• https://www.haunts.com/goatman’shauntedfarm 
• https://allcryptid.fandom.com/wiki/Goatman 
• https://livingbluetx.com/2020/11/what-happened-to-lermont-stower-jones/?cn-reloaded=1
• http://www.thedentonite.com/culture/parents-of-drowned-teenager-dissatisfied-with-investigation
• https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/virtual-fundraiser-to-honor-life-of-black-teen-who-died-under-unusual-circumstances-11992063
• https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703339/m2/1/high_res_d/CRITTENDEN-THESIS-2020.pdf
• https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/virtual-fundraiser-to-honor-life-of-black-teen-who-died-under-unusual-circumstances-11992063 
• http://www.thedentonite.com/culture/parents-of-drowned-teenager-dissatisfied-with-investigation 
• https://livingbluetx.com/2020/11/what-happened-to-lermont-stower-jones/?cn-reloaded=1 
• https://dentonrc.com/news/at-least-one-fled-old-alton-bridge-after-teen-s-disappearance/article_5434fe7b-53ac-502a-b694-68a020988c87.html 
• https://dentonrc.com/news/authorities-release-autopsy-of-teen-found-near-old-alton-bridge/article_de86e69b-5b24-5426-b056-f04aea40fed8.html 
• https://www.fox4news.com/news/officials-denton-teen-died-after-jumping-into-creek 
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195193576/lermont-charmale-stowers-jones 
• https://artandseek.org/calendar/event/106334/below-the-surface-justice-for-lermont-stowers-jones-virtual 
• https://www.crosstimbersgazette.com/2018/11/20/teens-body-recovered-from-hickory-creek/ 
• https://dentonrc.com/news/family-seeking-funds-for-private-investigation-into-a-denton-high-seniors-2018-death/article_0422aa8a-40b3-5b08-b271-13dae80e4cb6.html 
• https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/virtual-fundraiser-to-honor-life-of-black-teen-who-died-under-unusual-circumstances-11992063 
• Defunct: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-lermont-stowersjones 
• Defunct? https://justiceformont.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatman 
• https://sites.psu.edu/urbanlegends/2019/01/25/the-goatman/ 
• https://allcryptid.fandom.com/wiki/Goatman 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun
• https://hauntedauckland.com/site/goatman/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/DarknessPrevails/comments/bg7wbh/the_goatman_of_new_zealand/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman 
• https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4486761-What-did-we-see-last-night 
• https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Goatman
• https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/04/supposed-maryland-goatman-observed-by.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatman_(urban_legend) 
• https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/maryland/goatman-md/ 
• https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-terrifying-goatman-who-haunts-maryland-4885f3814fca 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Lick_Monster 
• http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/wisconsin.htm
• https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/60089-goatmans-bridge-denton-tx-with-pics/page/2/#comments
• https://newworldexplorerssociety.blogspot.com/2021/09/eerie-erie-sheepman-of-waterford.html 
• https://thepennsylvaniarambler.com/2018/08/05/weirdness-in-waterford/
• https://monsterfuzzpodcast.com/2021/07/07/all-the-sightings-and-history-of-the-goatman/
• https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Waterford_Sheepman
• https://new-cryptozoology.fandom.com/wiki/Waterford_Sheepman
• https://www.eriereader.com/article/eerie-erie- 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Billy_Goats_Gruff 
• https://americanliterature.com/childrens-stories/the-three-billy-goats-gruff 
• https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Sheepsquatch
• http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/goatman/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Worth_Monster
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Nature_Center_and_Refuge
• https://starlocalmedia.com/planocourier/news/beware-of-the-goat-man/article_10f6b97c-613f-11e4-b3ec-27abec9a198f.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rock_Lake 
• https://paranormal-world.fandom.com/wiki/Grinning_Goatman_of_White_Rock_Lake
• https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/11/goat-man-panic-in-the-lone-star-state/ 
• http://weirdus.com/states/texas/bizarre_beasts/goatman_of_white_rock_lake/index.php 
• https://truehorrorstoriesoftexas.com/legend-of-the-lady-in-white-white-rock-lake-texas/ 
• https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/09/strange-paranormal-phenomena-at-white-rock-lake/ 
• https://dfwurbanwildlife.com/2013/10/28/chris-jacksons-dfw-urban-wildlife/journal-the-legend-of-goatmans-bridge/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic 
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/goatmans-bridge 
• https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/buzzfeed-supernatural-investigators-visit-denton-bridge-to-see-if-its-really-haunted-by-a-half-goat-half-demon-10051546 
• https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/halloween-no-treat-coveted-black-cats-article-1.851295 
• https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cat-o-nine-tales/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZfGlyLQnA
• https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=old%20alton%20bridge#lrd=0x864dccb9ff3e525b:0x427c899463ab2996 
• https://www.reddit.com/r/mrballen/comments/rqmjp6/you_should_do_a_video_on_goatmans_bridge_ive_been/
• https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/60089-goatmans-bridge-denton-tx-with-pics/
• https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan 
• https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/kkk-flyers-appear-north-texas-homes/ 
• https://www.mic.com/articles/87585/the-complete-list-of-american-cities-where-the-kkk-is-known-to-operate 
• https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2016-08-02/there-are-84-active-hate-groups-in-texas-the-most-of-any-state 
• https://www.splcenter.org/about-us/our-history/splc-history-1980s 
• https://www.chron.com/culture/tv/article/KKK-rumors-in-Denton-Texas-are-far-stranger-than-8391025.php 
• https://cw33.com/cw33/pic-makes-some-believe-theres-kkk-activity-in-denton/ 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIrnzzTmP0s
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100920155235/
• http://www.asup-inc.org/oldaltonbridgecase.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100617152737/
• http://www.goatmansbridge.com/
• http://www.randomconnections.com/paranormal-activity/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100920155235/
• http://www.asup-inc.org/oldaltonbridgecase.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100617152737/
• http://www.goatmansbridge.com/
• http://www.randomconnections.com/paranormal-activity/