I’m a local and if you visit be careful a lot of illegal activities happen around there. Me and my 2 friends were about half way over the bridge and we got shot at and never been back since.
I like the clarity of the video... This is a different feeling at night. Another folklore was a home in the area that they called the Donkey Lady's home which had a door on the house without any stairs. There is also folklore of the Chinese Graveyard, the Bridge where it is pushed by children, and a few others that were hits back in the 80s when we'd go out there and freak each other out. Fun times!
The house is just down that abandoned road I was walking on in the beginning of the video. I bet the feel out there is way different at night. I actually have a video on the Loma Chinese Cemetery and the Railroad crossing too. Thank you for checking us out! hope you like our videos!
The place is scary at night. Especially how heavy the fog gets around the river under the right conditions. I've seen "people" in the fog. You could call it paradolia maybe mixed with exhaustion from 12 hours of factory work, but I did see it and it freaked me out a bit.
Was the Chinese cemetery the one with the red lantern? So many memories, Gillespie House, Midget Manor, and the midget village are all gone now. As are the '80s😢
@PeaceJourney... I can't remember but in the dark, down a dirt road, you couldn't turn around on... You had to reverse to get out of there, tombstones everywhere. 🤣 😆 🤣 ... Te-Te-Te-Te RUN...
@@bighenry6732 that sounds perfectly where we went, I didn't see a red lantern, but there was a dim moving red light we couldn't find the source of all summer one year. Could have been a prank, there were plenty back in those days, especially on Chambers road. Thank you for the trip down a memory lane that not many others know of nowadays. Have a great summer Henry
Back in 2014 a body was dumped across the street from the bridge. As recent as two years ago the family was still putting memorial decorations there. I used to drive by it every day on NY way to work at the Toyota Plant. On the walking trail on the other side of Applewhite road, I was walking one morning at him 7am, to try to photograph wildlife, and I heard a woman singing in the distance, coming from the direction of the woods, not up or down the trail. It was very weird but I kept walking, when I turned around to.co.backnto my car, the singing had stopped. That whole park is kinda creepy. I went back on the trails off that road once and went a the way to the end. You could see people had been partying there a d drinking. Lots of cans and bottles from recent to decades past in the woods around that road. I also saw remnants of a busted old TV set. The ones that used tonhave the faux wood laminate over the plastic. Like from the 80s. It's a great place to take pictures of deer and boar, some some interesting birds.
I had a cardinal sh*t on my truck at work daily for well over a year. I wonder what relative it was and what they were trying to tell me. Probably my crazy old aunt Edna. Great video!
My 8yo son and I hike this area all the time and one day while deep in the woods on the hiking trails he fell behind for literally a minute and when I noticed and turned around something ran behind him and went into the heavy brush and trees whatever it was it was really fast tall and was just a dark blur. When it hit the brush amd tree area it was really loud and all we Bouie here was branches breaking. We have been back since and now I carry a gun at all times but have never had an encounter like that just sometimes it’s really still and creepy almost as your being watched. That feeling of being stalked is exactly what I felt right before I saw whatever it was run behind my son
@@genestray1 there’s a lot of legend around this one, hard to say what’s true vs the legend. Makes me wish we kept our records a little better from way back when. It would be AWESOME to have even a little hard evidence of this story.
My great uncle & 2 friends crashed there car & died on that very bridge they were spending lost control hit a big rock flipped & landed in the Medina river below
I’m sorry for your family’s loss. If you ever come across any information you’d be willing to share please contact us. We try to keep a good file of documented cases data for places like this to help our research.
I just stumbled across your channel and subbed, just gunna say that the psb7 is easier for them to manipulate if the signal is weak but not dead. They seem to find it easier to edit the codes in carrier waves. Most find it on FM at 150 ms or less and some habe no issues with them on any setting. Definitely heard the crying of a women there though good stuff 👍
Nice video man! I first went to that location way back in 2007 with my ex girlfriend who was into paranormal and ghost hunting. The story is horrifying.. Now I don’t believe in ghost lol. But just the two of us walking on Donkey lady bridge.. I felt watched! It was duing the autumn but still warm in Texas then, I felt cold spot honestly. I also got a distant scent of cigarettes or burning matches. That place is really haunted.
I’ve always wanted to do these type of investigations at haunted areas. People always suggest the “ghost” tours but those are just cheap downtown tours. I would love to tag along to any of these around the San Antonio area. I’ve grown up with haunting practically all my life so I’ve always been attracted to the paranormal.
Technically you can’t. The park is closed from dusk to dawn, and they have signs posted of the $500 fine for trespassing…not to mention the obvious safety issues…So after dark at your own risk.
Around 11-12 yea dont it’s hella scarier. Went all the way to the dirt path and man the energy was as if my soul was leaving my body due to fear adrenaline crazy experience
@@southernslipping4225 it’s was recorded on the Tasman stereo recorder that was over by the little GoPro. I had 4 other recorders rolling at the same time too. That’s part of what makes this interesting. That one recorder captured it really clearly, and the other recorders that weren’t on the bridge captured it, but it was way more quiet and there was a lot more wind noise.
Heres my thing. Any place that claims to be haunted, and still has birds singing during the day is not haunted. Birds are the most skittish animals in the world, and they are not scared then you have no reason to be scared. I am from San Antonio btw. The toyota plant is literally down the street from it
There’s actually a lot of folklore (at least with Choctaw natives) around birds and spirits. In my culture we believe cardinals represent close loved ones. When you see cardinals close to you, it is one of them checking on you. Birds really aren’t skittish because they have flight as an escape mechanism. I think everyone’s experience with birds is relative. If you go crashing through places like a drunk bull, everything will run away…but if you go in calm and with peace, your experience in nature will be very different….the same could be said for hauntings too, just because a place is haunted doesn’t mean it’s scary. Thank you for the comment, I hope you enjoy our content!
@@ghostgeeks First off may I say thank you for bringing attention San Antonio, I was born in San Antonio, I am Mexican-American, I have slept on and fished on Donkey Lady Bridge as a dare. If you are down to go with me, I think you just are just a Ryan to my Shane. Lets explore haunted places around together as one that believe ins ghost, and you who don't believes in ghost. There is a bunch of haunted places that we could stay at in Texas as a believer and non-believer. I don't believe and you believe. I am willing to everything that challenges the story/myth
@@darthwolf1999 there were a couple of time the sounds over the spirit box sounded really weird, like there was a surge in power or distortion in whatever was coming through.
@@ghostgeeks when I did my one of my investigation my sb7 had a surge and it didn't go through frequency at just buzzed like something was trying to use its energy
Same! My family use to say that about Cardinals, too. We had three different Cardinals that would tap on my grandma's back room window. My grandpa passed away in that room 4yrs before I was born.
I was there in 2019. I went with 7other people and we must’ve been there for a little bit over an hour and we waited a long time to see if something creepy would happen and nothing happened. When you go, it’s actually a very calm place. There’s no creepy vibes. It was so boring that my friends started telling scary stories, while we were sitting on the rail thingy of the bridge and then one got bored and decided to see if it can provoke whatever ghost or spirit that may be around and nothing happened. This was around 3am. It was really boring and a waste of my time. people really do over do this silly story about the donkey lady bridge. If y’all wanna go, then go but don’t be scared cuz nothings going to happen. Just prepare to be bored. Now one place i went that was really creepy was San Pedro park. I went with a total of 6people and one of my friends doesn’t believe in ghost and man once we were close to exiting the park she got kinda crazy and started to say dumb stuff to the ghost and I kid you not, white fog came out of no where and it smelled like donkey 💩. We freaked out and left. If you do research, people actually used donkey poop to cover up the smell of dead bodies because they would murder Indians and bury them.
Should definitely walk down the old abandoned road! There’s a cool old abandoned house about 1/4 mile or so down the way. It’s nothing crazy, but the house is really old (if it’s still standing)
@@ghostgeeksI didn’t see the house. I should check it out. Have you been to San Pedro park? It’s actually haunted. I had a pretty creepy experience . I went around 3 or 4am
@@ziggyflame6988if you go down the bridge and to the trail to the right there’s a garage house that has a fence around it where the donkey lady used to live went last night and some other locals told us about the house so we all went to go see it and we were not disappointed almost immediately being by the house we heard screaming twice and children talking at one point then walking back around 12 at night and heard whistling
Nope, I heard it multiple times only captured it that brief moment. The only editing that was done was volume. The sounds wasn’t very loud and the wind noise was causing issues with the mics
@@southernslipping4225 are you saying the sounds, sounded like peacocks? If so I’ll have to go pull some audio of them and compare! Also, do you know if anyone has seen peacocks in this area? We have a group up in the DFW area near us and they have been described as a scream or crying sound….I’ve just never heard them myself.
@@livingdeadbtu no, because the owner lives in it and they don’t leave so we can’t guarantee a sterile investigation field. Makes it impossible to rule out voice bleeds, 3rd party activity and other non controllable sources of interference.
@ghostgeeks I have a shop there and work on the property a LOT!!!! I have seen some crazy stuff out there to include full apparitions in broad daylight, but I get where you're coming from. Thanks for the reply!
Yeah if you Google Applewhite Road and look at it on Google Maps and keep going south on the map, there's actually a little pin the little picture that says donkey lady Road and it's near the Medina River greenway. You'll see that on Google Maps too.
I think you got the information wrong...the woman killed her children near the river...and she comes back every night crying for her kids...l have lived in San Antonio all my life...in Spanish it's LA LIORONA...
I heard it more than what was in the video, but that's the only part that got captured on the recorder...it was faint and with the wind blowing so hard I'm glad I caught any of it at all!
The donkey lady bridge is located off W Jett Road on the south west side of San Antonio. The bridge and road has been abandoned and is no longer a public road. A simple search shows this as the location as well and numerous other accounts, videos and images from the location.
Actually if you look up Applewhite Road on Google Maps, it actually has a pin for the donkey lady Bridge, near Medina River Greenway. It's actually on Google maps.
Spirit boxes are worthless, clearly allowing music and random voices of live humans to leak through. If I were given one, I wouldn't even switch it on.
I couldn’t get any in my car radio or on the spirit box radio. It’s not a lie. I have dash cam footage of me running the scans of the radio from the car and not getting any radio stations to tune. Anything that comes across the waves is either so static filled you can’t make out what’s being said or it’s random sounds and cracks
I can attest to that. I took my kids when they were teenagers and my preteen cousin down there back in 2009 around Halloween time. It's generally in a radio dead spot. The farther out of town you got the less and less you heard anything out of any radio stations. There are no receivers out there.
I’m a local and if you visit be careful a lot of illegal activities happen around there. Me and my 2 friends were about half way over the bridge and we got shot at and never been back since.
How long ago was this ? Day or night ?
@@TheTexan99 it was around 2020 and it was about 3pm
No doubt! Plenty of signs back there showing some shady stuff happens.
Oh my goodness, I'm glad y'all are okay ❤
😮!
I like the clarity of the video... This is a different feeling at night. Another folklore was a home in the area that they called the Donkey Lady's home which had a door on the house without any stairs.
There is also folklore of the Chinese Graveyard, the Bridge where it is pushed by children, and a few others that were hits back in the 80s when we'd go out there and freak each other out. Fun times!
The house is just down that abandoned road I was walking on in the beginning of the video. I bet the feel out there is way different at night. I actually have a video on the Loma Chinese Cemetery and the Railroad crossing too. Thank you for checking us out! hope you like our videos!
The place is scary at night. Especially how heavy the fog gets around the river under the right conditions. I've seen "people" in the fog. You could call it paradolia maybe mixed with exhaustion from 12 hours of factory work, but I did see it and it freaked me out a bit.
Was the Chinese cemetery the one with the red lantern? So many memories, Gillespie House, Midget Manor, and the midget village are all gone now.
As are the '80s😢
@PeaceJourney... I can't remember but in the dark, down a dirt road, you couldn't turn around on... You had to reverse to get out of there, tombstones everywhere. 🤣 😆 🤣 ... Te-Te-Te-Te RUN...
@@bighenry6732 that sounds perfectly where we went, I didn't see a red lantern, but there was a dim moving red light we couldn't find the source of all summer one year.
Could have been a prank, there were plenty back in those days, especially on Chambers road. Thank you for the trip down a memory lane that not many others know of nowadays. Have a great summer Henry
The birds sound awesome
For the most part, it was really peaceful here...a little warmer with a hammock and I would have been a sleep!
Back in 2014 a body was dumped across the street from the bridge. As recent as two years ago the family was still putting memorial decorations there. I used to drive by it every day on NY way to work at the Toyota Plant. On the walking trail on the other side of Applewhite road, I was walking one morning at him 7am, to try to photograph wildlife, and I heard a woman singing in the distance, coming from the direction of the woods, not up or down the trail. It was very weird but I kept walking, when I turned around to.co.backnto my car, the singing had stopped. That whole park is kinda creepy. I went back on the trails off that road once and went a the way to the end. You could see people had been partying there a d drinking. Lots of cans and bottles from recent to decades past in the woods around that road. I also saw remnants of a busted old TV set. The ones that used tonhave the faux wood laminate over the plastic. Like from the 80s. It's a great place to take pictures of deer and boar, some some interesting birds.
Wow didn’t know about the body dump. The legend may have new trauma that’s causing a haunting bs the legend being a real haunt.
I had a cardinal sh*t on my truck at work daily for well over a year. I wonder what relative it was and what they were trying to tell me. Probably my crazy old aunt Edna. Great video!
@@trogdor1979 I think we all have that one relative lol
It probably was a young feral hog that ran across. I do a lot of hog hunting and usually the small ones are pretty quiet
Yeah I’m pretty sure it was a hog. I was just surprised at how quiet it ran through all the brush.
It's a great place to take in wildlife. You just have to go at sun up before people get there with their bikes and cell phones playing music.
Wow! This is awesome!
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing. This is an awesome video.
Glad you enjoyed it! and thank you for visiting us!
That could have been a sasquatch running on all fours. They are in San Antonio in several parts.
Im a local too, do this tour at night…. You’ll see more than you call stomach
For those that don't know what was captured @ 16:23 of possibly the crying lady.
Heard a pop & a cry 😮
My 8yo son and I hike this area all the time and one day while deep in the woods on the hiking trails he fell behind for literally a minute and when I noticed and turned around something ran behind him and went into the heavy brush and trees whatever it was it was really fast tall and was just a dark blur. When it hit the brush amd tree area it was really loud and all we Bouie here was branches breaking. We have been back since and now I carry a gun at all times but have never had an encounter like that just sometimes it’s really still and creepy almost as your being watched. That feeling of being stalked is exactly what I felt right before I saw whatever it was run behind my son
Lol. Grew up with these stories. Donkey lady was said to live in. Helotes in an old house off scenic loop. Also at zuehl rd on the east side.
@@genestray1 there’s a lot of legend around this one, hard to say what’s true vs the legend. Makes me wish we kept our records a little better from way back when. It would be AWESOME to have even a little hard evidence of this story.
My great uncle & 2 friends crashed there car & died on that very bridge they were spending lost control hit a big rock flipped & landed in the Medina river below
I’m sorry for your family’s loss. If you ever come across any information you’d be willing to share please contact us. We try to keep a good file of documented cases data for places like this to help our research.
I'll be in the comments for a little bit if there is anything you see or hear I might have missed!
Awesome 👍
Thanks for the comment!
I just stumbled across your channel and subbed, just gunna say that the psb7 is easier for them to manipulate if the signal is weak but not dead. They seem to find it easier to edit the codes in carrier waves. Most find it on FM at 150 ms or less and some habe no issues with them on any setting. Definitely heard the crying of a women there though good stuff 👍
Thank you for the sub! Glad to have you here!
Nice video man! I first went to that location way back in 2007 with my ex girlfriend who was into paranormal and ghost hunting. The story is horrifying.. Now I don’t believe in ghost lol. But just the two of us walking on Donkey lady bridge.. I felt watched! It was duing the autumn but still warm in Texas then, I felt cold spot honestly. I also got a distant scent of cigarettes or burning matches. That place is really haunted.
There's a haunted house not to far from there
I remember when that bridge was open only one vehicle can pass through there.
I’ve always wanted to do these type of investigations at haunted areas. People always suggest the “ghost” tours but those are just cheap downtown tours. I would love to tag along to any of these around the San Antonio area. I’ve grown up with haunting practically all my life so I’ve always been attracted to the paranormal.
Go at night probably get more action
Technically you can’t. The park is closed from dusk to dawn, and they have signs posted of the $500 fine for trespassing…not to mention the obvious safety issues…So after dark at your own risk.
Around 11-12 yea dont it’s hella scarier. Went all the way to the dirt path and man the energy was as if my soul was leaving my body due to fear adrenaline crazy experience
I have heard the crying lady it is something you NEVER want to hear twice in your lifetime it will leave you frozen and paralyzed. Evil crying
It was definitely an Erie crying, real pain in those sighs. And the way it floated in the air was even creepier.
That area is part of a natural park area. Be aware of feral hogs, bobcats and coyote. There is a large bobcat that wanders in that area.
That’s why I often carry a cordless “hole puncher” lol you never know what might try and make you a meal!
Sounded like a voice that was added to the clip it was to clear
@@southernslipping4225 it’s was recorded on the Tasman stereo recorder that was over by the little GoPro. I had 4 other recorders rolling at the same time too. That’s part of what makes this interesting. That one recorder captured it really clearly, and the other recorders that weren’t on the bridge captured it, but it was way more quiet and there was a lot more wind noise.
There used to be a phone number you would call they said it was a donkey lady's phone number u call it and it sounded like a horse walking was weird
no. notld was shot in pennsylvania
Did anyone hear something on 13:37 after he laughs
Heres my thing. Any place that claims to be haunted, and still has birds singing during the day is not haunted. Birds are the most skittish animals in the world, and they are not scared then you have no reason to be scared. I am from San Antonio btw. The toyota plant is literally down the street from it
There’s actually a lot of folklore (at least with Choctaw natives) around birds and spirits. In my culture we believe cardinals represent close loved ones. When you see cardinals close to you, it is one of them checking on you.
Birds really aren’t skittish because they have flight as an escape mechanism. I think everyone’s experience with birds is relative. If you go crashing through places like a drunk bull, everything will run away…but if you go in calm and with peace, your experience in nature will be very different….the same could be said for hauntings too, just because a place is haunted doesn’t mean it’s scary.
Thank you for the comment, I hope you enjoy our content!
@@ghostgeeks First off may I say thank you for bringing attention San Antonio, I was born in San Antonio, I am Mexican-American, I have slept on and fished on Donkey Lady Bridge as a dare. If you are down to go with me, I think you just are just a Ryan to my Shane. Lets explore haunted places around together as one that believe ins ghost, and you who don't believes in ghost. There is a bunch of haunted places that we could stay at in Texas as a believer and non-believer. I don't believe and you believe. I am willing to everything that challenges the story/myth
I believe wildlife will only stop when it's a really evil presence nearby. That's your queue to go!
That was legit a woman crying! Dont think it was a set up! 😮
I'm just glad I had the better recorder out, you couldn't hear it on the cameras audio over the wind noise.
@@ghostgeeks That was an awesome capture!! I’m from Texas and I will definitely be visiting this place in San Antonio!
It's my first time here.
Welcome to the real GEEK squad!
What a bunch of baddies 💯
The audio got little glitchy
what do you mean by glitchy? was it the wind noise or something else?
@@ghostgeeks I don't remember what time stamp but it was after you asked a question it uses audio for it's energy
@@darthwolf1999 there were a couple of time the sounds over the spirit box sounded really weird, like there was a surge in power or distortion in whatever was coming through.
@@ghostgeeks when I did my one of my investigation my sb7 had a surge and it didn't go through frequency at just buzzed like something was trying to use its energy
Same! My family use to say that about Cardinals, too. We had three different Cardinals that would tap on my grandma's back room window. My grandpa passed away in that room 4yrs before I was born.
Right behind same line as your left ear
What is CAPRTURED?
The sound of what seemed to be a lady crying.
And something to make sure people are paying attention.
I was there in 2019. I went with 7other people and we must’ve been there for a little bit over an hour and we waited a long time to see if something creepy would happen and nothing happened. When you go, it’s actually a very calm place. There’s no creepy vibes. It was so boring that my friends started telling scary stories, while we were sitting on the rail thingy of the bridge and then one got bored and decided to see if it can provoke whatever ghost or spirit that may be around and nothing happened. This was around 3am. It was really boring and a waste of my time. people really do over do this silly story about the donkey lady bridge. If y’all wanna go, then go but don’t be scared cuz nothings going to happen. Just prepare to be bored. Now one place i went that was really creepy was San Pedro park. I went with a total of 6people and one of my friends doesn’t believe in ghost and man once we were close to exiting the park she got kinda crazy and started to say dumb stuff to the ghost and I kid you not, white fog came out of no where and it smelled like donkey 💩. We freaked out and left. If you do research, people actually used donkey poop to cover up the smell of dead bodies because they would murder Indians and bury them.
Should definitely walk down the old abandoned road! There’s a cool old abandoned house about 1/4 mile or so down the way. It’s nothing crazy, but the house is really old (if it’s still standing)
@@ghostgeeksI didn’t see the house. I should check it out. Have you been to San Pedro park? It’s actually haunted. I had a pretty creepy experience . I went around 3 or 4am
@@ziggyflame6988 no I haven’t! It’s on my list now! Thank you for the location recommendation.
@@ziggyflame6988if you go down the bridge and to the trail to the right there’s a garage house that has a fence around it where the donkey lady used to live went last night and some other locals told us about the house so we all went to go see it and we were not disappointed almost immediately being by the house we heard screaming twice and children talking at one point then walking back around 12 at night and heard whistling
Haven't been to San Pedro Park in ages.
Someone is behind you and to your left
Reminds me of The Witch from L4D .. hell nah dog
You edited the sound clip around 16:28 it got louder and made an crying effect nice try
Nope, I heard it multiple times only captured it that brief moment. The only editing that was done was volume. The sounds wasn’t very loud and the wind noise was causing issues with the mics
CAPRTURED?
Just making sure people are paying attention. Lol
Peacocks
@@southernslipping4225 are you saying the sounds, sounded like peacocks? If so I’ll have to go pull some audio of them and compare! Also, do you know if anyone has seen peacocks in this area? We have a group up in the DFW area near us and they have been described as a scream or crying sound….I’ve just never heard them myself.
We used to get high here all the time and search for that bishhhh
Wish they had a laugh icon!
Have you investigated Victorias black Swan inn?
@@livingdeadbtu no, because the owner lives in it and they don’t leave so we can’t guarantee a sterile investigation field. Makes it impossible to rule out voice bleeds, 3rd party activity and other non controllable sources of interference.
@ghostgeeks I have a shop there and work on the property a LOT!!!! I have seen some crazy stuff out there to include full apparitions in broad daylight, but I get where you're coming from. Thanks for the reply!
Please leave. It's too scary.
Watch out for poison snakes!!
That was actually in some of my commentary that was cut for length. It was just starting to get to “snake” season when I was here the first time.
I heard help
Where is it located I've always have heard about this but I never was able to find it??
@@187um-v1p w Jett road off of Applewhite road in far south San Antonio.
@@ghostgeeks k thanks
Yeah if you Google Applewhite Road and look at it on Google Maps and keep going south on the map, there's actually a little pin the little picture that says donkey lady Road and it's near the Medina River greenway. You'll see that on Google Maps too.
I think you got the information wrong...the woman killed her children near the river...and she comes back every night crying for her kids...l have lived in San Antonio all my life...in Spanish it's LA LIORONA...
That’s a different area out east of San Antonio.
Yeah you've got the story for La Llorona right, but donkey lady was supposed to be a woman that was severely disfigured in a fire and lived alone.
I think you got the wrong area for that information
@@alwayzOTM Google it.
16:23
I heard her boo hooing. 👍
I heard it more than what was in the video, but that's the only part that got captured on the recorder...it was faint and with the wind blowing so hard I'm glad I caught any of it at all!
@@ghostgeeks when I get back to Texas I would love to go with you.
Thats not the Donley lady Bridge...so fake...the Bridge is on mission road
The donkey lady bridge is located off W Jett Road on the south west side of San Antonio. The bridge and road has been abandoned and is no longer a public road. A simple search shows this as the location as well and numerous other accounts, videos and images from the location.
Actually if you look up Applewhite Road on Google Maps, it actually has a pin for the donkey lady Bridge, near Medina River Greenway. It's actually on Google maps.
Try goat man bridge I dare you
I don’t live far from there. I’ve been there a number of times.
BS
Spirit boxes are worthless, clearly allowing music and random voices of live humans to leak through. If I were given one, I wouldn't even switch it on.
I did not hear anyway cry 😂 he's such a bad liar.
Go to 16:23 and listen. If you can’t hear it then I guess you need to get better speakers.
Him saying the he couldnt get a radio station is a dam lie. Where he's at you can get stations 😂 fake
I couldn’t get any in my car radio or on the spirit box radio. It’s not a lie. I have dash cam footage of me running the scans of the radio from the car and not getting any radio stations to tune. Anything that comes across the waves is either so static filled you can’t make out what’s being said or it’s random sounds and cracks
I can attest to that. I took my kids when they were teenagers and my preteen cousin down there back in 2009 around Halloween time. It's generally in a radio dead spot. The farther out of town you got the less and less you heard anything out of any radio stations. There are no receivers out there.