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“Good plan, but the whole thing’s gonna be boring parts”, I said. We get at least ten minutes of film, and I’ll edit out the boring parts. As we walked along the rusted railroad toward the bridge, Chris spoke up: “So, we walk to the middle of the bridge, Dan you film some there, then walk to the other side of the bridge, then come back. In some odd way it felt like the night wanted to show us something. “We need a cold, clear night like this, I don’t even think we need a light for the camera.”īut for some reason the moonlight piercing the cold air was more eerie than total darkness, the way the light trickled through the pine trees to the bare ground. “Ahhh it’s cold!” Jenna shouted as soon as we opened the car door. After what seemed like forever we finally saw moonlight shimmering on water, and parked in a marina near the bridge. Even basic shapes I can’t make out if the sun is down or the lights are dim.

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Thank God for the full moon, I thought to myself we hadn’t seen a streetlight for miles and I have pretty bad night blindness. This was the part of Catawba County most people didn’t think about-a dark corner of the map. We took the north road farther and farther out of town until only pine trees and cornfields surrounded us. One week later on a full moon, we grabbed a camera and a two-liter of Mountain Dew and headed for the bridge. Chris, our editor, was all for going with me, and our friend Jenna wanted to go just to see something happen firsthand. One day I decided it’d be fun to go to that bridge and film it for our school newscast, hopefully to put the dumb story to rest. “Genevieve” was a classic story every freshman at our high school heard, and I thought it was just stupid. Apparently if you walk across the bridge on a full moon, you’ll see her. When her controlling mother found out and wouldn’t let her see the girl anymore, she hung herself from the bridge. The story goes that Genevieve, a wealthy girl who went to our high school in the 60’s, used to secretly meet her female lover at the bridge on moonlit nights. The bridge is even older than the lake, and as with all old things people perpetuate rumors about the bridge being haunted by a ghost of some kind. The North Trestle is an old, outdated railroad bridge that towers high over a narrow part of North Lake, a winding river valley flooded by a dam over sixty years ago. That’s probably one of the reasons I decided to visit the North Trestle. Nevertheless I loved horror movies and supernatural subjects because I thought they were fascinating, even from a scientific standpoint, and I think on some subconscious level I wanted to discover something so unbelievable as a ghost. By the age of five I didn’t believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy.

“Hocus Pocus”, he said, “An illusion created by errors of the human mind”. At a young age my father, a doctor, told me that everything outside the physical realm is a myth after I had a nightmare about demons. I’ve always been a skeptical, logical person-a critical thinker. Note: This story is a true, unembellished personal experience that occurred on December 9th, 2010.

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