My boyfriend is kind of a girl when it comes to stuff like back roads, abandoned places, things like that. I think being scared is fun (I love an adrenaline rush), so I thought it would be fun to take him ghost hunting just to see how scared he gets as a way to get back at him for picking on me all the time. We had visited his aunt and uncle who live in New Haven, MO and somehow got on the subject of haunted places around New Haven and Washington. His uncle mentioned Enoch Knob Bridge that isn't too far from their house. By the time we left his aunt and uncle's house, it was too late to go out there, plus my mom was wanting me home.
So a few days later I brought it up and kinda talked him into checking it out (I was driving, so he didn't really get a choice on where we went). We got directions from a gas station but still managed to get lost. It was day time when we started on our way there, but by the time we actually found it, the sun was going down. The road the bridge is on is closed, so we parked by the gate and I was planning to walk down towards the bridge until Nate told me to wait in the car for a second. I grabbed my phone and started recording. He got half way out of the car and said he heard footsteps in the woods next to him. I said it was probably an animal but he swears it was something else. So ok, whatever. I get out of the car and stand by the gate. He starts whistling Twisted Nerve (if you watched American Horror Story, season 1, its the whistle Tate does while he's shooting up the school). All of a sudden we hear a crash sound down the road towards where the bridge is, then it sounds like someone running in the snow, like that crunching sound after the snow has frozen over). It sounded like it ran a few feet then stopped. It startled me but it scared the pants off of Nate. He jumped in the car and said, "LET'S GO!!!" So I get in the car and go to close my door then I dropped my keys in the floor, and it landed on the padding where the door closes so I lean over to pick them up then hear what sounded like someone slap, or maybe punch the back of my car. My first reaction was to look back there, but I didn't see anything. So I pick up my keys. I get the keys in the ignition and try backing out. My car gets stuck and it looks like Nate is about to cry. By now the all you can see is a pink stripe in the sky where the sun is almost gone. My check engine light comes on, so now I'm worried. We have cell phone signal, but how am I gonna explain to my parents why I'm out in the middle of no where, alone with my bf...
I pull forward a little bit, then back out just fine this time, probably just stuck in the snow. My check engine light stayed on the entire time we were on that road. The second we turn onto 185, it goes off.
After we calmed down, Nate said we should come back in the day time with a group of friends. I laughed and said, "Ok."
