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Speaker 1: You're a right Bradshaw? No, no, I'm not well. I'm
Speaker 1: about to make a day a little better. I just
Speaker 1: picked up the celest files from and this is really
Speaker 1: not a good time. Where are you hackamck? Why Hippen?
Speaker 1: Pippin was here this morning following up on the carvings
Speaker 1: and he called and I don't know something happened and
Speaker 1: he was attacked or no, that's really not you don't okay, okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's bad, Bippen, Bippen, bip been. I can't
Speaker 1: hear your buddy, I'm coming hang on. Are you okay?
Speaker 1: Oh whipping? Are you hurt? Are you? Oh God? Is
Speaker 1: it bad? Ah? No? No, no no, no, You're gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. Everything's gonna be fine. Do you think you
Speaker 1: can move? Yeah? I think so. Hello? Who's that? And hello?
Speaker 1: And Wippen? Uh did you see anything? You know? What
Speaker 1: attacked you? Lights? Lights? There were lights, someone's eyes. Hello?
Speaker 1: But we gotta we gotta get going good? What the hell,
Speaker 1: oh god, put your arms around my neck? What just
Speaker 1: do it? Look at me, buddy, who you gotta get movie,
Speaker 1: don't look over there, just look at me. Don't look
Speaker 1: Come on, hey, there you are and run Jeremy, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: what I'm doing it? Don't look at that thing? What?
Speaker 1: What thing? Is? He? Okay? Was he conscious when you
Speaker 1: got here? Yeah? He was? He he must have just
Speaker 1: passed out. Okay, all right, we'll come on. Let's get
Speaker 1: him to a hospital. And there's something yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: we gotta get him to the hospital. Did you notice
Speaker 1: any symbols on the trees and the clearing or were
Speaker 1: you looking for him? Yeah? I was a little bit
Speaker 1: focused on other things. Did you actually notice any carvings? Oh?
Speaker 1: You bet your ass. I did what I can out
Speaker 1: of at least seven scattered throughout the swamp. I didn't
Speaker 1: exactly stop and take pictures, but I think I could
Speaker 1: probably find them again. Off, I'll go back there once
Speaker 1: we know the boys. All right? No, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's wise. Uh. Don't you want to know
Speaker 1: what happened to him? I mean the answers might be
Speaker 1: in no symbols, but it isn't safe and so you can't.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, you just can't go back in there. Okay,
Speaker 1: you have to promise me that you won't go back, Jeremy.
Speaker 1: I have spent hundreds of hours in that swamp. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the other night you nearly broke your leg. Yes,
Speaker 1: and this time I'll be more prepared. Yeah, but there
Speaker 1: is no way to prepare for what's in there, Jeremy.
Speaker 1: What did you see? Nothing? I just nothing, Jeremy. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It doesn't make any sense. I don't There
Speaker 1: was a dog, a dog, yeah, and it was it
Speaker 1: was huge, Anne, it was bigger than it didn't make
Speaker 1: any sense, and its eyes. Excuse me? You brought in
Speaker 1: Mr Karna? Correct? Yeah, Hi, I'm Jeremy, Bradshawn. This is
Speaker 1: and Becker. How's he doing. He's going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: He lost some blood and has a mild concussion, but
Speaker 1: he's okay. Thank god. Were there any other injuries beyond
Speaker 1: the ones that were on his head other than the
Speaker 1: lacerations on his skull. He's in tip top shape. These
Speaker 1: types of injuries are rare but can be fatal. Your
Speaker 1: friend is lucky. What do you mean by these types
Speaker 1: of injuries? All attacks? What excuse me. Like I said, unusual,
Speaker 1: but not unheard of. Maybe he happened upon a nest
Speaker 1: or something birds can get territorial. It was an owl attack.
Speaker 1: Seen it before. I would recognize it anywhere. We're running
Speaker 1: some blood tests to check for infection, but we've given
Speaker 1: him a raby shot to be safe. It was an
Speaker 1: owl attack. Thank you, Thank you. Doctor. Does he live
Speaker 1: with anyone Bradshaw? Uh? Sorry, no, no, I don't think
Speaker 1: he does. Could someone keep an eye on him just
Speaker 1: for the next twenty four hours. What should we be
Speaker 1: looking for? Any confusion, dizziness, vomiting, if he has a
Speaker 1: hard time waking up, But just have him rest for
Speaker 1: the next day or so and he should be able
Speaker 1: to get back to things soon enough. Thank you doctor.
Speaker 1: We've got it from here. It's a fucking owl. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've heard that one before. I have lived here in
Speaker 1: my whole life, and I have never known anyone to
Speaker 1: be genuinely attacked by a goddamn ow. If that is
Speaker 1: what the doctor said, it was, well, doctor say a
Speaker 1: lot of things, yeah, usually things that are right. It
Speaker 1: is the most rational explanation. All right, come on, let's
Speaker 1: do whatever paperwork we need to do. To bring that
Speaker 1: boy home. I told you, and I really don't know
Speaker 1: what I saw. When you said there was a giant
Speaker 1: black dog red eyes. You know what that sounds like.
Speaker 1: It sounds like my eyes were playing tricks on me. Okay,
Speaker 1: you said you didn't see anything. Yeah, but but that
Speaker 1: thing was so fast? What do you mean that thing?
Speaker 1: Back when I first joined the force, there were reports
Speaker 1: reports of a giant black dog with red eyes terrorizing
Speaker 1: locals and a man had his horses ripped into. Well,
Speaker 1: that explains it, then, yeah, okay, yeah, thank you. No
Speaker 1: explains why I would hallucinate a black dog with red eyes.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that I overheard my dad talking about that
Speaker 1: case when I was a kid, or oh, I don't.
Speaker 1: I came across any of my research and something just
Speaker 1: stuck in my head. You know, all the reading I've
Speaker 1: been doing, and the adrenaline of worrying about VIPPING and
Speaker 1: my exhaustion, and it's all just cause my brain to
Speaker 1: glitch out. Do you honestly believe that? Of course I do.
Speaker 1: The doctor said it was an owl attack, and that
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. I don't know what I was thinking earlier.
Speaker 1: I completely overreacted. No, you were finally thinking straight. Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: you saw something your books and your research couldn't explain,
Speaker 1: and that's where you're wrong. My books and my research
Speaker 1: they do explain this. This is exactly what all of
Speaker 1: it is about. People creating stories to justify things. Our
Speaker 1: brains they're just imperfect. And I saw a shadow or
Speaker 1: or a fox or I don't know what, and my
Speaker 1: mind just turned it in to this monster. I feel foolish.
Speaker 1: I it was a it was an owl, and I
Speaker 1: really thought it really looked bad and vip and he
Speaker 1: was limp a lot all over his face and it
Speaker 1: was my fault. Just fear, just that's all. It was
Speaker 1: fear and adrenaline. Those are the real monsters. Why don't
Speaker 1: we go ask Vippen what the real monsters are? Hey, Hippin,
Speaker 1: here's some tea, Thank you. How are you feeling? Ah,
Speaker 1: like I got attacked by an owl? Catch is a
Speaker 1: completely ridiculous thing to say. All the good news is
Speaker 1: he gonna be okay. Yeah, And you shouldn't feel too ridiculous, because,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, the doctor said that this isn't
Speaker 1: the first time she's seen something like this. I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I just I just feel stupid? Are you
Speaker 1: and me both? Wait? What do you have to feel
Speaker 1: stupid about? Did you see the owl? No? It um,
Speaker 1: it just it moved too fast. I think I heard
Speaker 1: it though there was something? Well? Uh, what am I
Speaker 1: trying to say? It felt like something was following me
Speaker 1: through the swamp. I know that's not true, it can't
Speaker 1: be true. But what what did you see? I didn't
Speaker 1: see anything at first? I just heard it. There was something.
Speaker 1: It was just rustling at first, always right behind me.
Speaker 1: But I would turn around and and and there would
Speaker 1: be nothing. But but there was a voice, a voice.
Speaker 1: Did you recognize it? No, No, it wasn't. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not sure it was a human voice. I mean like
Speaker 1: I have sometimes a cat crying from far away. It
Speaker 1: sounds like a baby, yeah, sort of, except this was close.
Speaker 1: What was it saying? Ewa chew, chew. Isn't that it's
Speaker 1: probably just an animal? No, no, Jeremy, it didn't sound
Speaker 1: like an animal. You said it didn't sound human. I
Speaker 1: know what I said. Okay, why don't we let you
Speaker 1: rest up? Vipp and you're still concussed. We shouldn't be
Speaker 1: bothering you with all this. I'm fine, I'm fine. I
Speaker 1: I have a little bit of a headache, but but
Speaker 1: I'm thinking clearly. Okay, Well, but it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: you are. You've had a traumatizing day. No, you you
Speaker 1: I know what I saw, Hipping. You just said you
Speaker 1: heard something, and now you're saying you saw something. I
Speaker 1: was trying to tell you on the phone, but that's
Speaker 1: when something attacked me. An owl attack you sure and owl?
Speaker 1: Maybe I know not Maybe I'm sorry, Hipping, but we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be indulging in these fantasies. Hey, would you stop
Speaker 1: insulting the boy Bradshaw. I mean, if he's saying then
Speaker 1: he saw something, then he saw something. Hey, this really
Speaker 1: isn't any of your business. And well, you know you
Speaker 1: don't seem to be handling it very well in your
Speaker 1: own What if that's supposed to mean you're too blinded
Speaker 1: by your rationality to see what is right in front
Speaker 1: of you. I'm too blinded. You can't see past this
Speaker 1: absurd notion that there's something supernatural and how there is
Speaker 1: something supernatural in Hawka Mox whipping. Stop, No, everyone just
Speaker 1: shut up for one second. Light, Okay, there were orbs
Speaker 1: of light. What are you talking about? The voice it
Speaker 1: was whispering, and then out of the trees came these lights.
Speaker 1: Floating lights. Yes, yes, wait, how do you know they
Speaker 1: were floating? Jeremy, See this sounds exactly like what Daniel experienced.
Speaker 1: My mother said something about floating lights, and I told
Speaker 1: you that Vipen And she said that you and you
Speaker 1: used to talk about floating lights in the forest. Me.
Speaker 1: That wasn't me, No, that was your father on one
Speaker 1: of his patrols of Freetown Force. He said that there
Speaker 1: were strange lights that appeared. No way, my dad didn't
Speaker 1: believe in this crap. No, I've told you this before
Speaker 1: and I'll keep telling you. Yes he did. Your mother
Speaker 1: has it all backwards. I wasn't trying to convince him
Speaker 1: of something, honey, he was trying to convince me. And
Speaker 1: what did he say? The lights looked like about this big? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said the size of a basketball, and that there
Speaker 1: were three of them, yes, three of them. They were
Speaker 1: sitting in a triangle with two on top. Right. But
Speaker 1: he said that he saw him in Freetown forest, not
Speaker 1: in hock a mock swamp. Did you guys ever figure
Speaker 1: out what they were? Well, he thought that maybe something
Speaker 1: to do with puckages. But and I think you should go.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, Vippin needs to rest. I don't need you
Speaker 1: to speak for me. I'm fine, and you don't need
Speaker 1: to go. Thank you for your help. And I think
Speaker 1: you should go. Okay, Brad, But I'm really sorry that
Speaker 1: this stuff makes you feel uncomfortable. But I think we
Speaker 1: need to talk about it. We don't. You need to
Speaker 1: let it go. This has gotten completely out of hand.
Speaker 1: People are getting hurt and I'm not going to indulge
Speaker 1: it any longer. What are you saying. I'm saying that
Speaker 1: whatever this has been, this investigation, or whatever you're doing
Speaker 1: into my dad, it's over. No, we still don't have
Speaker 1: any answers, which is the same as it's always been.
Speaker 1: But my dad's badge didn't appear because of lights in
Speaker 1: the woods or because of some giant dog it washed up.
Speaker 1: How do you explain the lack of wear and tear
Speaker 1: on it? It doesn't matter, None of it matters. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't change anything. There is a rational explanation for it,
Speaker 1: regardless of whether we find it or not. I don't
Speaker 1: give up, Jeremy, Well, I am giving up. I'm giving
Speaker 1: up on this. What about the messages. Huh, how do
Speaker 1: you explain that what weird voicemails that you think are
Speaker 1: my dad? They're nothing, Anne, You can barely even tell
Speaker 1: that as a man at all. What if I could
Speaker 1: prove that it's Thomas? Sure? Cool? Yeah. If you can
Speaker 1: prove that my dad is sending you voicemails from beyond
Speaker 1: the grave, go for it. Good luck with that project.
Speaker 1: But until that happens, I think it's best that we
Speaker 1: go our separate ways before someone else gets hurt. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate you spending your Sunday afternoon helping an old
Speaker 1: woman out. Are you kidding? This is the most interesting
Speaker 1: thing I've done all week? Oh, then you need to
Speaker 1: get out more. Kid, seriously, creepy voicemails on both your
Speaker 1: home and cell phone, old police tapes. This is like
Speaker 1: one of those mysteries in a box you can subscribe to.
Speaker 1: What's a mystery in a box? Never mind? Um, how's
Speaker 1: it been doing. I talked to Jeremy this morning. He's
Speaker 1: doing just fine. Good. That's good. I'm glad he's okay.
Speaker 1: He's a nice guy. Yeah, yeah, he is. You should
Speaker 1: be hanging more with kids your own age. So are
Speaker 1: you trying to set me up on a plate, trying
Speaker 1: to prevent you from turning into me. There are worse
Speaker 1: things in the world. That's certainly true. But maybe right
Speaker 1: I'll text him see if you wants to hang out
Speaker 1: when he's feeling better. We just won't go hiking. No kidding,
Speaker 1: an owl attack, whould have thought? Mm hmm. I take
Speaker 1: it you don't buy that it was an owl. Uh. Look, kid,
Speaker 1: I know that you don't believe in the Bridgewater Triangle,
Speaker 1: so you've been around the block seeing stuff like I
Speaker 1: know I've gotten this speech before. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: you and your technology, you rely on it too much.
Speaker 1: You think it can tell you everything, but the answers
Speaker 1: aren't in there. Oh yeah, so you don't want me
Speaker 1: to keep preparing this audio? All right? Yeah, there's some
Speaker 1: answers in there, but it isn't the solution to everything.
Speaker 1: I know that. But just because there are some things
Speaker 1: that are hard to explain doesn't mean it's ghosts or monsters. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think I've cleaned up this audio as well as
Speaker 1: I can can I hear it? Yeah, and you need
Speaker 1: to help mm hmm, Lee, You are right, it isn't
Speaker 1: what it seems it's happening again and it will hold
Speaker 1: end this time one way or another. Nana, that's that's him,
Speaker 1: that's my Thomas. I are you sure i'd know that
Speaker 1: voice anywhere. Let's compare to the tapes. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: There up that one. Hold on, mom, Hey, Mom, just
Speaker 1: you can tell her that I'll have you back before dinner.
Speaker 1: What what what do you need? Our second, we interviewed
Speaker 1: several witnesses over a China farms after the commutilation of
Speaker 1: the horses measuring five feet for it just high. Despite
Speaker 1: being double reinforced, the northwest corner of defense has been
Speaker 1: up through Nana, it just went Sep. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: did you hear it? It's the same voice. It's Thomas.
Speaker 1: I don't know how, why, or what it means, but
Speaker 1: but that's Thomas's voice on my answering machine. Nana, that
Speaker 1: was Mom live. What is it? It's Ethan. He was
Speaker 1: out camping this weekend with his boy Scout troop in
Speaker 1: Freetown forest right. Yeah. Mom went to go pick him
Speaker 1: up this afternoon and Nana, he wasn't with his troop. Well,
Speaker 1: what do you mean? What are you? What are you saying? Ethan?
Speaker 1: Wasn't with his troop when they woke up, and they've
Speaker 1: been looking for him all day, and Live Nanny, He's Missing.
Speaker 1: Bridgewater was created by Aaron Manky and written and directed
Speaker 1: by Lauren Shippen, with executive producers Aaron Manky, Misha Collins,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alex Williams, supervising producer Trevor Young, editing
Speaker 1: and sound designed by Trevor Young and Matt Stillo, and
Speaker 1: music by Chad Lawson, starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Karen Sony as Vipen Corona,
Speaker 1: Laurie Allen as Nancy Collins, Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista,
Speaker 1: Victoria Grace as Katie, Frank's Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock,
Speaker 1: Hillary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Jonathan Joss as Joseph Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Samuel Marty as Ethan Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Kristin Bauer as Celeste, and Nathan Fillion as Thomas Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: with additional voice acting by brigand Snow, Andrew Nowak, Julia
Speaker 1: Mauritzawa Jarvis Johnson and Brielle Bresnan, Kristen Demcurio, James Oliva
Speaker 1: and Leron Amil. Learn more about the show over at
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