Normally when we are discussing places with the name Devil or Demon or some other
form of minion of Satan, we are also discussing the missing in the woods.
Of course, it isn’t just vanishing in plain sight and into thin air that are fears of those
of us with the knowledge of what happens at places like these, the list is quite literally, endless.
Though dark, lonely, and desolate nighttime back country roads are a great setting for a
paranormal story or supernatural encounter, it doesn’t seem to happen often enough that
it comes to be known, specifically, as a mysterious place of possible doom and horror.
At least, that’s what most people think until a dreary little, pothole-filled,
and weed-infested road on the outskirts of Huntsville, Texas is mentioned.
Ask any local about demon’s Road and they will either have a lot to
say or will end the conversation quite abruptly.
As always though, it depends on what you
personally believe in and what your own experiences have been.
Let us know what you all think in the comments below after the video.
Demon’s road is a very narrow, somewhat unassuming, run-down and dilapidated road.
It’s a place most people drive right through
without even noticing and if you blink you could just miss it.
We are talking here about a road that literally isn't even on the map.
Its true name is “Bowden Road” but it didn’t get
its name for being a stretch of scenic vistas and rolling hills.
No, this is a place nightmares are made of, at least if you believe
what the people who have traveled on it and been changed forever because of it.
Even if you were to take away all of the stories of hauntings, ghouls, ghosts, fairies, and creeps,
this would not be a place where you would want to run out of gas or otherwise have car trouble.
To top it all off, this winding road twists and traverses directly through a very old
cemetery that was first established in the early 1800s called Martha’s Chapel Cemetery.
The gravestones themselves have definitely seen better days. It seems as though even the
loved ones of the deceased don’t dare and visit, at least not in the night.
The trees have branches that are twisted and gnarled; branches that seem to want to
reach right out and grab you, taking you into that place of “other” never to be seen again.
It’s almost like you can actually FEEL the evil dwelling within and around the entire area.
Martha’s Chapel Cemetery itself is said to be one
of if not the most haunted locations in all of Texas.
So, come and take a walk with us as we travel down the lonely stretch
of haunted backroads and see what we can find on the Demon’s Road of Texas.
The first story we came across is rather benign,
considering what we are used to covering here on this channel and it tells of a
little ghost boy who is said to have died when he was only 6 years old.
He rides along next to your car pedaling as fast as his little legs can go on his shiny,
but very old fashioned looking, red tricycle.
Because of the state of the cemetery and the road itself,
there’s no way to speed or even go semi-fast and this little haunting
specter boy takes full advantage of this fact whenever he sees a chance.
Even before a person sees where the noise is coming from, it’s said that
the clanking and dinging, and squeaking of the bicycle can be heard somewhere close by.
Even though he is allegedly mostly benevolent, his appearance tells a different story because
as soon as the witness sees his glowing, red eyes fear and panic overtake them- and rightfully so.
The thing with this young spirit, as with so many others,
he bases how he approaches you by looking into your heart.
If your heart is pure and full of love, he may simply ride alongside you
and see you out of the cemetery or off of the road and lead you to safety.
However, if your heart's not in the right place or if you are
there on the road with evil intentions or simply to cause mischief, look out!
The pure of heart always report the same encounter.
They claim to be driving along, usually creeped
out already by the general remoteness and creepiness of the area and road itself,
only to hear the tricycle and then catch just a glimpse of the little phantom boy.
He will then either vanish into thin air completely or
manufacture a thick blanket of fog to conceal him for the rest of the ride.
If your heart isn’t in the right place or if you’ve committed some sort of sin in the past,
even if nobody knows and even if you are truly remorseful, it doesn’t matter.
Vengeance must be had and the boy is known to attack you and your
vehicle right there on the spot or, if you are with someone pure of heart
who he doesn’t want to hurt or scare, and some say just for the hell of it as well,
he will allow you passage through the road unharmed only to come to you in your dreams and
torment you until you are dreading sleep every night due to his terrorizing your nightmares.
Most people don’t really care one way or another though how this ghost child appears. It seems to
be enough to scare the daylights out of anyone just to have a random, transparent child with
glowing red eyes and riding a creepy tricycle that reminds some people of something from a horror
movie, just appearing out of nowhere on an already creepy and allegedly haunted road or cemetery.
One other thing that is commonly reported from people who have
driven the road at night are the tiny, child-sized handprints found all over
the vehicle the next time the person has a chance to look in the daylight.
There is no backstory or other legend of who this boy is or where he came from.
There’s no spooky campfire story about his life or his death.
He just seems to be there, possibly stuck,
night after night, checking the kindness and love in people’s hearts.
The boy seems to be the most benevolent of all of the demons and spooks said to haunt this road.
Witnesses have come forward and have reported being chased by large,
glowing red and angry seeming orbs and attacked by shadow people.
While most people wouldn’t even consider driving down this road if they can avoid it because of
all of the eeriness and stories surrounding it, there are some brave or desperate souls who,
for one reason or another, find themselves having to walk it in the dead of night.
Legend has it, about the orbs anyway,
that the number of orbs coincides with the number of people in the vehicle.
If there are five people, there will be five orbs- one to torment each person there.
The vehicles themselves aren’t immune to attacks by these creatures either as
it’s said that oftentimes while someone is driving along and minding their own
business, they will suddenly stall and start violently rocking back and forth or shaking.
If the car doesn’t stall the occupants should think twice before rejoicing as
it’s reported that a moving vehicle will be slammed into and smashed with unseen force
and seemingly by unseen hands as well- to the extent that there is damage to the outside of
the vehicle such as dents, dings and flat tires with no real explanation.
It’s been said the vehicle ends up looking as though it had been in some sort of semi-major
accident only it wasn’t. It’s just the entities on the road trying to protect their territory.
Or at least, that’s one theory.
There is a demonic-looking beast that roams this graveyard who appears to the living as
an abnormally tall, reptilian humanoid but who is also described as being very pale in appearance.
This demon has no face except for his wide open
mouth full of fangs that greatly resemble large pins or needles.
It’s favorite pastime when it comes to tormenting the living is to jump out,
unexpectedly of course, directly in the path of moving cars driving along the road.
The fear that accompanies a sighting of this beast is said to be akin to what is
consistently described when people are explaining how they felt during a BEK
encounter or other unknown and possibly demonic entities in that it is primal and all-consuming.
The demon is said to be unbearable to look at due to its grotesqueness and terrifying visage.
It’s also alleged some people who lay an eye on this beast,
even if only for a second, go insane and are never the same or right in the head again.
One resident local to the area who claims to have had the extreme displeasure in encountering this
evil entity put it like this, “It’s almost like glimpsing the fires of creation, the pit of hell,
and a vast dimension where the laws of physics are used by elder gods as toilet paper.”
This pale reptilian doesn’t own a corner of the market on this road
though and if you dare to venture down it, for whatever reason, you could encounter
any number of satan’s minions or otherworldly beasts and creatures.
Other entities said to enjoy making a pastime out of jumping out from the woods and in
front of moving vehicles are hooded dwarves, hellhounds, and far too many others to name.
Here is an encounter in the words of a witness named Robert R,
“It's not bull me and my friends went down there we did not see anything when we first went
but we videotaped the experience when we went back over the videotape a red figure ran out in front
of my car right before we entered the cemetery oh and it's not faceless like some people say
it has yellow eyes it looked right at us as it ran across the road in front of my car!!”
So, if you get through a trip down this road and make it through the phantom children,
reptilian humanoids, hell hounds, and fae you aren’t out of the woods yet, pun intended.
It’s said that if you drive down this road you run a very high risk of not only encountering
something while there, but gaining an attachment which you take home with you.
Once these entities, usually the ghosts and shadow people but not always, they stay,
haunt and torment you every second you are awake but also while you
sleep as they are well known to cause quite lucid nightmares.
An example of this is a woman who claimed she and her husband were visiting a grave in the cemetery
when they looked over and saw a strange-looking man just kind of wandering around aimlessly.
It was a bit creepy, according to this witness, to see someone
behaving strangely in such an eerie and creepy, allegedly haunted place as it is.
However, at first, she didn’t think much more of it. In fact, she had all but forgotten
about the strange and seemingly lost man in the cemetery until a few days later.
Our witness said she was at home and taking a shower when she felt
as though she weren’t alone in the bathroom.
She knew though that she was alone in the house and no matter how hard she tried,
she simply couldn’t shake the feeling of someone watching her.
Finally, her fear got the better of her and she looked out of the
shower curtain and into her bathroom and saw that
strange creepy and mysterious man lurking in the shadows in the corner of the room.
The woman let out a loud and terrified scream and as she did the spirit,
or whatever he was, vanished into a puff of smoke which just as quickly disappeared.
It was as though it were never there to begin with.
She went on to have many encounters like this with this entity and he still haunts her to this day.
Another unfortunate victim who for one reason or another decided or had to take a ride down
this isolated and evil road brought something even worse home with her.
She reported feeling relieved to have gotten off of the road and home without any incident.
That same night though as she lay in her bed to go to sleep, she woke in a state of what most would
call “sleep paralysis” and was being strangled by a shadow being right there in her own bed.
Our witness was sure she had somehow picked the creature up while passing
through Demon's Road and was at a loss at how to get rid of it.
She had never had any issues or encounters before this night but it was the start of
years of torment and abuse at the phantom and ghostly hands of this shadow person.
The creature comes in the dead of night, randomly and without any warning,
and disappears into thin air after strangling the woman almost to the point of unconsciousness.
Explanations range from the usual satanic panic and tales
of cults and ritual sacrifice to the dark lord himself but nobody
really knows for sure what it is about this place that brings out this evil.
The road is so undistinguished and featureless it’s hard to believe
it could also be so terrifying and sinister.
As far as anyone knows and at least according to the local legends,
there has never been any death or real bloodshed associated with the road or cemetery.
Many believe that hauntings and being attacked and caught off guard by not only the
above-mentioned entities but a plethora of others we may very well bring to you in a
part two someday soon are enough to keep too many people from traveling down it.
Thrill seekers, drunk teenagers, those looking for a lover’s lane type place,
and really, any unfortunate soul who for whatever reason has to take this
road as part of their route to somewhere at any given time are playing with fire.
Some believe, with all of the horror, hauntings, strange and unexplained activity, and phenomenon,
along with the terrifying beings and creatures, it’s bound to happen that someone ends up hurt
enough that perhaps they will end up buried in Martha’s Chapel Cemetery because of it.
Of course, that is, if they don’t first lose their minds.
Is there something about the land that’s cursed or doomed?
Is there some secret history either unknown today or kept
that way by the locals that they aren’t giving up for some reason?
Why and how is it that such a random and, despite its general and overall
creepiness, a beacon of sorts for this mysterious and frightening phenomenon?
Just as with most things involving the supernatural, paranormal, and otherworldly,
we may never have the answers to the many questions that seem to loom over
this tiny spot which wasn't even important enough to be marked on the area’s maps.
That doesn’t ever mean though that we will stop searching.
So, what do you guys think happened to these victims of demon Road?
Be sure to let us know in the comments down below!
But please keep it friendly and respectful!
And I'll see you guys in the next video!