EPISODE · May 20, 2026 · 7 MIN
The Man Who Painted the Bridge at Low Water
from The Deep Quiet — Fexingo Horror · host Fexingo
In the summer of 1989, a painter named Elias Voss set up his easel on the muddy bank of the Blackwood River every day at low tide. He painted the same thing: the rusted iron footbridge that connects the town of Stillwater to the abandoned quarry on the far side. But the water level in his paintings never matched the real river. One inch too high. Then two. Then the figure appeared—a girl in a yellow dress, standing mid-span, her face blurred. When the town council finally drained the river for bridge repairs, they found a child's skeleton tangled in the reeds beneath the center arch, a tattered yellow ribbon still knotted to a rib. Luna tells the story of what happens when an artist paints what he shouldn't be able to see, and why the bridge won't stay dry anymore. #TheDeepQuiet #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Stillwater #BlackwoodRiver #EliasVoss #Footbridge #LowTide #YellowDress #Painter #AbandonedQuarry #Summer1989 #GhostStory #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #Supernatural #ArtAndDeath #HauntedBridge Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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In the summer of 1989, a painter named Elias Voss set up his easel on the muddy bank of the Blackwood River every day at low tide. He painted the same thing: the rusted iron footbridge that connects the town of Stillwater to the abandoned quarry on the far side. But the water level in his paintings never matched the real river. One inch too high. Then two. Then the figure appeared—a girl in a yellow dress, standing mid-span, her face blurred. When the town council finally drained the river for bridge repairs, they found a child's skeleton tangled in the reeds beneath the center arch, a tattered yellow ribbon still knotted to a rib. Luna tells the story of what happens when an artist paints what he shouldn't be able to see, and why the bridge won't stay dry anymore. #TheDeepQuiet #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #Stillwater #BlackwoodRiver #EliasVoss #Footbridge #LowTide #YellowDress #Painter #AbandonedQuarry #Summer1989 #GhostStory #AtmosphericHorror #SlowBurn #Supernatural #ArtAndDeath #HauntedBridge Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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