Bridgewater is a production of iHeartRadio three D audio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey for full exposure, listen with headphones. Listener discretion advised. Oh my god, I'm getting tired of running through the woods away from monsters. Jeremy, how did you? I mean you just I don't know I did that? Did that really just happen? I guess yeah it did. Welcome to the club of people with evidence of the paranormal. This is unbelievable. It is a lot to take in. We've been dealing with it for a week now, and I don't think we've even begun to process it. I mean, those are those were thunderbirds, like real thunderbirds. I'm not sure about that. Actually, what do you mean? They were enormous birds who brought thunder and lightning with them. Thunderbirds are sacred protectors in Wampanog legend. They mostly attack creatures from the underworld or people who broke moral rules. It doesn't make sense that they'd attack us. Not to mention the face of one of them, it looked, well, it looked a little too human, didn't it. Maybe our shape shifter has a greater range than we thought. Impandulu the Pandulu the lightning bird from South African myth. That bird also creates lightning, but it's considered much more malevolent. Right. It's vampiric, isn't it, And it can disguise itself as human. Maybe it was in the middle of transformation or something, or maybe it was a thunderbird and it was simply trying to protect its domain. I don't know that's possible too. Yeah, maybe if it had a human mouth along with those claws, that could be our cow killer. Well, whatever it was, we better hope that it went back into the forest and not farther out looking for dinner. Okay, so we need to know how to take it down if we encounter it again. I'd say you did pretty well on that score. I mean, I can't believe it actually worked. I know, right, Holy shit, did I just do? Imagine? I think you did. Wow, that's amazing. What room exactly? Was that one for protection? Not banishment? I guess that's maybe the best way to protect against them. Well, it didn't get rid of all of them, so maybe one of these rooms Peyton gave me will do that. Oh wait, no, don't banish them all? What wouldn't you want to study it, show it to the world, prove that monsters actually exist. Peyton made it very clear that keeping the secrets of the phayrealm is vital. Think about the kind of chaos that would ensue if if people the phayrealm. You didn't tell her it hadn't come up yet, sop and I think that this all, all of this has been the work of the realm. That the Bridgewater Triangle is a gate from this world to theirs, and that that's where all of these creatures are coming from. WHOA, yeah, and look, not many people know this, so you cannot tell the other legend trippers. Okay, yeah, Mum's the word. So we've been working on closing the gate. And there's this whole deal that's been in place, I guess for centuries. That explains some of the missing people throughout the years. And it seems like with the old Bridgewater Gathering more or less now defunct, it's maybe up to us to fix it. That's what you're doing. You're not just doing research for your class. By the way, I am really a professor. It just happened to be a professor who's actually gotten in very over his head. Wow, you know, like an os goot, Indiana Jones. This isn't a movie, Okay, it's real life, is our lives? Look, I didn't mean so if there's anything you know that you're not telling us, you really need to what. No, I'm not hiding anything from you, guys. I wouldn't do that. I mean I want to help. I like to think I already have. She has. I think we're covered. You know as well as I how expansive all these legends are, how unreliable and vague they can be. I know your experts, but it seems like maybe we each have gaps in knowledge that the other ones can fill. Just let me help. She knows how to help. I can't hurt, and we would have been torn to shreds if she hadn't taught me that room. I guess. Okay, we should go over to the Hoskins and meet up with everyone else, Olivia said, she and Thomas. We're going to try and get Lee's old radio working. All right, let's see if the coast is clear. Stuck what I don't know? I can't can't. I can't get the door knob to turn that h happen? Can you everything is unlocked. I don't know what's Uh, do you want me to give it a try? Yeah? Sure, go for it. Yeah, let's up. Oh it feels like it's like here, let me help. It's like someone is pulling from the other side. What we're trapped? Oh my god, we're not through all the stations yet. We've been at this for forty five minutes and nothing. I don't know that we're ever going to find something. FM didn't have anything. But that doesn't mean am well, wow, you have the patience of a saint. Yeah, I kind of had to oh shit, right, sorry, Oh it's okay. How's your chest? Because you sound a little would you stop hovering? I'm okay, okay, okay. It's just if you're having anxiety about this whole thing, and I can handle it on my own. What with the shallow breathing tightness in the chest. Look, I have friends with anxiety, and I don't get anxious. It is understandable. I mean, we're trying to tune into the place where you were trapped, I know, and I just want to find it. You know you're safe here, right, Thomas, No, I'm not, but I'm not anxious. This It's been happening every couple of hours today. It's always something something what I don't belong here, Olivia, which is why I need to figure this out. Wait, go back, stop stop stuff there? That that that's the music, Nan and I heard when the house went nuts? What what station is this? Nine twelves? What? How's that possible? Hey? How's it going in here? Hey? Are you okay? Yeah? And Shelley? Yeah, picking up some food for all of us. I think she needed some time to herself. But we're you know, I don't know. I don't think that things are broken beyond repair. So good good, Yeah, but I'm sure she love to talk with you at some point tonight, So really i'd love that. Okay. So hi, Nana. I can't find any evidence that this particular station has ever been registered anywhere. Wait is that music? I know? Station nine twelve on AM radio? I mean no idea who owns the frequency or where the broadcast is coming from? Yeah? I thought all AM stations ended in zero? Yeah they do. So what this is some kind of pirate radio? More likely magic radio? Now what we wait for a voice? See if Alden is still trying to call out? You said you thought that music was coming from the other side, not the liminal. So maybe there's another station that's tapped into the in between, or things are so thin between worlds that the other side is bleeding through and drowning everything else out. Ah, okay, so we're stuck magic, some kind of creature a run maybe, whatever it is. I don't think getting out of here is going to be easy. What the fuck? Why is it dark all of a sudden, and what's what the fuck? I'm a little more focused on the fact that everything seems to be moving. It's like we're looking through a fun house mirror. What the hell is that? I thought maybe it was old glass. No, that's definitely just what the outside looks like now, and that's not a way out either. Not the going outside is particularly appealing at the moment. Sh do you do you hear that it's music? I wonder if that's the same as that has to be right. I totally get what Olivia meant by wrong now. It doesn't really sound like music is supposed to. What are you guys talking about? The woman who lives here and she and her granddaughter heard music the other day when the house was shaking an earthquake, we don't think so if those incidents were the veil between worlds and Freetown force getting weaker on the other realm bleeding through, then and we might be inside the liminal now, oh god, Okay, okay, everybody, stay calm. We'll find our way out of this. Okay, She's right, she's right. Maybe we just need to wait it out. Eventually, whatever weird force was coming out of Freetown making everything quiet, it did retreat before, right, So it's it's almost like a tide that goes in and out. So where we just sit here and wait for it to go out again. Well, I don't know. I just think we need to keep our heads. Okay, what exactly did you do with that run? What? Everything was completely normal until you showed up, Vip, And I was the one who did the run. No, no, not that one, the one that she carved right before everything went to shit. I don't get while you're trusting her, Jeremy, you barely know, aren't. She was clearly stalking you. Oh who woa, whoa whoa. I'm just trying to help, And oh exactly do you think you're helping? You? Say? Peyton made a mistake with the ruin, but the moment you carved it, those things attacked us and then this happened. Look, I'm not I'm not trying to disturp your position here or anything. Excuse me. Look, I get it. You've been Jeremy's tea for a long time and you're used to being his right hand man. I'm not trying to take that from you. Who exactly do you think you are? Okay? Okay, okay, okay, why why don't we all this? Can? Can? Can we all just take a deep breath here? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a good idea. I'm just gonna, well, I can't get some fresh air, so I'm just gonna jesus, I'm so sorry. I've never seen rip and do anything like that before. It's okay, I mean we're in a tough spot. I get it. You know. I haven't been following you or anything, right, those those first few times we ran into each other. No, no, of course not obviously, and you've been a big house. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice to have someone around who gets this stuff and who I don't know. This is gonna sound strange to say at a time like this, but you've been a very calming presence. I'm not sure Vippin would agree. I'm not sure you would either. He's usually very easy going. I'm I'm sure he'll warm up to you. I think this. I mean, he's obviously pretty stressed about the whole situation, and you're not. No, I am definitely. I have a special personal interest in all of this, which is that my father. My father's Thomas Bradshaw. And I assume, given your hobbies, you're familiar with his name, right, Yeah, yeah, of course I am. Oh, holy shit, I had no idea. I'm I'm so sorry. No, no, it's actually actually okay, you don't need to be sorry. What do you mean? He's back, like alive and back. It turns out he was never dead at all. After all this time he was he was stuck in this in between space, a liminal that's that's what you guys called it, right right, and he was trapped there this whole time. And some kind of sacrifice to the fae and then Celeste, that's the old gathering leader, she did this ritual that brought him back, except it seems to have broken everything else. The monsters as I see it, the liminal is some kind of stop gap between our world and the other one, and without two people in there, it stops functioning, right And you think that's where we are right now. I think maybe maybe it's seeping out of its usual dimension. That's the fear of what will happen if we don't close the gate, that the Faye Realm will just come pouring into our world. It's happening again. I'm hearing myself talk and it sounds crazy. Well, okay, but that doesn't mean it's not true. I mean, I think of it this way. You just saved us from a pretty hitchcocky in situation by waving your hands, So that's not that absurd. Oh gosh, okay, So all these attacks, these monsters there here, we think because the gate is open, if we're in the liminal right now, or I guess if the liminal has come to us, do you think we could get into the Fay Realm. I don't know. My dad was in there for years and never figured out how to pass through. He tried, I don't know. I don't know what he could have tried. Did he know about the runs about magic? Well? I assume falling into a different dimension made him realize that magic was real. Yeah, but if he didn't know how to use it, maybe we could. Olivia did say that she thought the music wasn't coming from the liminal but from the other side, So maybe what happened to the music? Do you think the tie is going back out? I'm not. I'm not sure. What the hell what was that? I think there's something in that bad. Did you guys hear that? Yeah? The music stopped too. That can't be good, right, Oh, maybe it means that there's more distance between us and the other side. Maybe that that's not a bad thing, right? What there? Oh? Do you see something? You don't see? There? I don't see it. I don't see it. What is it? Are you serious? You can't see it? That's taking up an entire wall. Okay, Vippin, it's just calm down. What do you see? It's it's almost in the shape of a person, and it's moving. Oh god, it's it's it's coming off the wall. Oh hell, you really? I don't see it? No, I know. Okay, maybe it's a trick of the light. Are you okay? Well I heard that ship? Ship ship? Oh god, oh god, oh god? You see it? Now yeah, I see it has horns. I don't know. The whole thing has made a slow Oh god, and then run is that what? Yeah, that's that. That's a kind of yokai. Right, but don't they need bonfires? Apparently not? Okay? Okay, yoki yokai? Are there ways pipping? What? How do you repel a yokai? Beads? Beads? What? Soybeans? Thick and thick and drive away? Yoki? Oh german him? Yes, I got him, I got him, I got him. Go go get you see an as any beans. Just just I got you. I got you here harpendo being but just try it. Shit, just start bulting them go hey ah, oh god, holy shit, what the hell is that? Oh my god, zippin or live what? I don't know. I don't know, Jeremy, how are we hearing this? This? This this free have no idea, Jeremy and and Viippen. We're going to Freetown today. Maybe who's that? I don't know, but I think I know where they are. Jeremy. Whoa, whoa there, you're okay, You're okay? Now? H m hm is it gone for now? At least? Come on, come on, let's sit down. A whoa, thanks thanks for saving me with the beans. It was all fipping fast thinking with those beans. Whatever that thing was, it wasn't like an one or anendra I've read about, and I don't know how long it will stay away. Well at least we've got some more beans. Ah, did it hurt you? M Yeah, I think I think my wrist is broken, hipp and go see if there's an ice pack or frozen peas or anything. Yeah here, let me see, like if you I've broken my fair share of bones before. Yeah, hazard of the hobby. I guess. Oh yeah, this is definitely broken, but I think I can probably get some kind of a splint together here frozen tater talk. Oh sorry, Fhippen. Do you think you could try looking for a first aid kit, bandage's tongue depressor anything we used to stabilize his wrist? I thought I thought the birds were first time that you've ever seen a monster? Oh no, I guess I can say I've seen two, although I feel like I barely saw that, yo guy. So if those were your first monster attacks while all the broken bones, I'm very clumsy. Uh uh, thanks for holding onto me. I thought that thing was going to drag me into hell, I probably would have just taken you to the other side, right, the fay Realm. Yeah, well sixth one. Do you really think it's that bad over there? I don't know, but I can't say I'm particularly fond of the residents I've met. Oh, sure, but I mean they're just doing what they've been taught to do right, protecting their home, following the terms of the deal. God doesn't make it right. No, No, but I I don't know that we can blame a guard dog for biting an intruder? Is that? When you think those monsters were guard dogs? What else would they be? I don't know. I guess I hadn't really thought about who and what the fay Realm actually are. It's been a few encounters that were almost certainly puckwadgies, and I'd sort of assumed that those were the ones that have made the deal. Maybe or maybe the faith themselves haven't even come to this side yet. Well, I hope we never find out. But magic is real. You just did it, and that's that's incredible. We live our whole childhood's reading stories about magical worlds and superpowers, and then we grow up and find out that those things only exist in the realm of our imaginations. But here we are, you and me to otherwise normal people, and we've been let in on this amazing secret that basically no one else knows that all the stories are real, and that if we wanted to, we could probably learn all sorts of magic, learn how to visit those other worlds. Doesn't that excite you? Everything I've encounter in the past few weeks has been terrifying, and it feels more like a nightmare coming true than a fantasy. But what if that's not all there is to this? Come on, are you telling me that in all your years of teaching folklore you never once wish that all of it was real and you could be a part of it. Here some ace bandages, first aid kid, and a ruler. I figured that might work as a splint. Yeah, that's great, thank you. This is probably going to be unpleasant. Oh good, something new and different. Hey, we need to figure out how we're going to get out of here, right before that thing comes back or before something else comes through. Okay, what do we know about getting out of the fay realm? We shouldn't eat anything we shouldn't step into circles, we shouldn't follow music, check, check and check what else? Ah Oh, iron repels fairies, turning your clothes inside out right church bells. But okay, okay, okay, some of those things we can do, and some of them maybe we can fake. I think we've probably passed the always be polite to fairies stage of Hey, guys, what about salt. That's a thing to protect against all kinds of paranormal beans, right, I might as well add it to the list. It can't hurt. Okay, you finished patching him up, and I'll start to gather whatever supplies I think might be useful. Thanks. You know I have thought about it before, of course, the possibility of it all being real. It's actually, um ah sorry, it's actually why I got into folklore in the first place. I never I never told anyone this before. Now. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who wouldn't be surprised. But I started researching all sorts of things that when I was a teenager because I thought, um, I thought, maybe if I put the right pieces together, I could bring my dad back. I mean, I guess I thought some of it must be real. If there were so many people in the world. I believed in it, and I I even tried some spells and as a team I got into Wicca for a bit. I had a similar phase, did you. Yeah, And then I realized that he was dead and he was never coming back, and there was nothing I could do about it. And fuck now I realize, of course there was something I could have done. Oh, there's no way you could have known. All the research in the world wouldn't have led you to what's actually happening. I know, but I'm still I'm angry. I think I'm angry that magic is real and that this is what it's giving me. It's a life forty years without my father and monsters breaking my bones. And can I tell you something I've never told anyone? Yeah, I lied. I do remember a little bit about when I went missing as a kid. Really, I think I was somewhere else, somewhere else. I don't know if I was in the same place your dad was. It doesn't sound like it. Wherever I was, it was beautiful. It looked like Freetown forest, but better, brighter. Everything smelled better, tasted better, felt better. I mean, maybe I wandered off and ate some drugged up mushrooms or something. But whatever happened, I've been trying to figure it out ever since, trying to recapture it. I mean, if I'm honest, do you think I'm just totally off my rocker? Well, if you are, I am, I get it a little. I mean when I did that run, I don't know if I can describe this, but it felt what I felt. It felt incredible. I don't know how to describe anyway. I think I would definitely want to feel that again, and that it scares me. What doesn't have to be scary? I mean, if doing magic felt good and protected you, how can it be bad? Here? Keep that on as long as you can. Look. I get being angry and scared, But everything we've ever been taught about magic tells us that it doesn't need to be bad, right, I mean, in every legend, there's always light magic and dark magic. It's about the user, not the magic itself. Well, do you think we could use magic to get out of here? I don't just mean here, I mean the whole deal. The Faye Court are famously not very generous negotiators. Well, what if the deal wasn't broken? But changed. What if I don't know, merge the world somehow. You mean, let them Faye realms seep out into ours, Let magic exist here. The Faye use it to keep their gate closed, and we use it to keep our gate closed, and no one has to sit in the liminal. Why would the fay realm ever go for something like that? What if the gates were closed but not locked, accessible to those who knew, able to pass through from one world to the next. Wouldn't you want to see it if you could the other side. I don't know if I trust it. I haven't seen any magic that's led me to believe that it's a stable or positive force. It just saved our lives. It brought your dad back. Yeah, but it took him away first, but it brought him back. And on top of that, you now have more time together than you ever would have if he'd stayed an age normally. You have your whole lives to get to know each other, for him to know his grandkids and great grandkids. What a gift that is. I didn't know you were such a glass half full person. I don't need to be a glass half full person because the glass is magic fair enough. But you might actually have a point. Maybe there is a way to make all of this work for us, for the other side to be an ally not an enemy. My thoughts exactly. Well, first things first have to figure out how to get out of here, yeah and fast. I don't get it. Are you sure it's unlocked? I know how to unlock my own front door. I'm still not getting anything from the station. Maybe whatever was going on is over, or something much worse happened. Let me try. It feels like, yeah, like someone's pulling from the other side, right, Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy, Hippen. What was that? Was that coming from inside the house? Jeremy, Jeremy, All right, that's it. I'm breaking it down. God, thank fuck Jeremy, Dad, Hippen, Who are you? Oh? Um, Hi? What the hell happened? We all? Are you guys doing here? We heard you screaming on the radio. Watch Alden's radio. We could hear shouting at and something about bean. That's what we used to get rid of the only but what uh it's a kind of malevolent spirit in Japanese lore. That's what broke Jeremy's hand. Let me see, I'm fine. I shit you were able to tune into the limit only. Huh, you really did it? I guess. So is that where you guys were. Uh, I don't know. Uh, we're not completely sure. We got chased by these birds what and then and then we hid inside the house. We got trapped. There was this um music like before. Oh yeah, we heard that on the radio. Yeah. I think there were other worlds there. There was like spreading out of Freetown again. But I don't know. Everything looks I think it looks really normal now. I mean, I haven't gotten any more strange broadcasts. So are you really okay? Yeah? Yeah, I am a little beaten up, But okay, wherever? And why's your sweaterans? We had to hum better? Question? Who is this great? Sorry? This is that's weight breaking news. A body was just discovered by police and Freetown State Forest, a popular hiking and camping destination. The body was discovered earlier this afternoon, and the identity of the victim and the exact cause of death is unknown at this time. The police have stated that due to recent attacks, they are taking this as a matter of public safety and we'll be closing down the park until further notice, especially since they have already ruled out natural causes based on the state of the body. Whether this hiker was murdered or attacked remains to be seen. This episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren Shippin and directed by Brendan Patrick Hughes Assistant director Sarah Klein. Sound designed by Vincent de Johnny Rima Ilkali, Josh Thin, and Trevor Young, with music by Chad Lawson, starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan Tudik as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen Sony as Vipenkrana, Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista, Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Trisha Helper as the Legend Tripper, Stephen Guarino as Doctor Edwards Nandamisu Dembe as Peyton Blake, Hilary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Nicki McCauley as Celeste Then, Victoria Grace as Katie Franks, with additional voice acting by Greta Gould, Shelby Young, Adam O'Byrne, Monte, Markham, Charlie Bergman, and Teren Westbrook. Executive producers Aaron Manki, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippin, Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Josh Thane and Trevor Young. Bridgewater was created by me Aaron Mankey and is a diduction of Grim and Mild and I Heeart three D Audio. Learn more about the show over at Grimm Andmild dot com, slash Bridgewater and find more podcasts from iHeartRadio on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, and as always, thanks for listening.

Bridgewater is a production of iHeartRadio three D audio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey for full exposure, listen with headphones. Listener discretion advised. Oh my god, I'm getting tired of running through the woods away from monsters. Jeremy, how did you? I mean you just I don't know I did that? Did that really just happen? I guess yeah it did. Welcome to the club of people with evidence of the paranormal. This is unbelievable. It is a lot to take in. We've been dealing with it for a week now, and I don't think we've even begun to process it. I mean, those are those were thunderbirds, like real thunderbirds. I'm not sure about that. Actually, what do you mean? They were enormous birds who brought thunder and lightning with them. Thunderbirds are sacred protectors in Wampanog legend. They mostly attack creatures from the underworld or people who broke moral rules. It doesn't make sense that they'd attack us. Not to mention the face of one of them, it looked, well, it looked a little too human, didn't it. Maybe our shape shifter has a greater range than we thought. Impandulu the Pandulu the lightning bird from South African myth. That bird also creates lightning, but it's considered much more malevolent. Right. It's vampiric, isn't it, And it can disguise itself as human. Maybe it was in the middle of transformation or something, or maybe it was a thunderbird and it was simply trying to protect its domain. I don't know that's possible too. Yeah, maybe if it had a human mouth along with those claws, that could be our cow killer. Well, whatever it was, we better hope that it went back into the forest and not farther out looking for dinner. Okay, so we need to know how to take it down if we encounter it again. I'd say you did pretty well on that score. I mean, I can't believe it actually worked. I know, right, Holy shit, did I just do? Imagine? I think you did. Wow, that's amazing. What room exactly? Was that one for protection? Not banishment? I guess that's maybe the best way to protect against them. Well, it didn't get rid of all of them, so maybe one of these rooms Peyton gave me will do that. Oh wait, no, don't banish them all? What wouldn't you want to study it, show it to the world, prove that monsters actually exist. Peyton made it very clear that keeping the secrets of the phayrealm is vital. Think about the kind of chaos that would ensue if if people the phayrealm. You didn't tell her it hadn't come up yet, sop and I think that this all, all of this has been the work of the realm. That the Bridgewater Triangle is a gate from this world to theirs, and that that's where all of these creatures are coming from. WHOA, yeah, and look, not many people know this, so you cannot tell the other legend trippers. Okay, yeah, Mum's the word. So we've been working on closing the gate. And there's this whole deal that's been in place, I guess for centuries. That explains some of the missing people throughout the years. And it seems like with the old Bridgewater Gathering more or less now defunct, it's maybe up to us to fix it. That's what you're doing. You're not just doing research for your class. By the way, I am really a professor. It just happened to be a professor who's actually gotten in very over his head. Wow, you know, like an os goot, Indiana Jones. This isn't a movie, Okay, it's real life, is our lives? Look, I didn't mean so if there's anything you know that you're not telling us, you really need to what. No, I'm not hiding anything from you, guys. I wouldn't do that. I mean I want to help. I like to think I already have. She has. I think we're covered. You know as well as I how expansive all these legends are, how unreliable and vague they can be. I know your experts, but it seems like maybe we each have gaps in knowledge that the other ones can fill. Just let me help. She knows how to help. I can't hurt, and we would have been torn to shreds if she hadn't taught me that room. I guess. Okay, we should go over to the Hoskins and meet up with everyone else, Olivia said, she and Thomas. We're going to try and get Lee's old radio working. All right, let's see if the coast is clear. Stuck what I don't know? I can't can't. I can't get the door knob to turn that h happen? Can you everything is unlocked. I don't know what's Uh, do you want me to give it a try? Yeah? Sure, go for it. Yeah, let's up. Oh it feels like it's like here, let me help. It's like someone is pulling from the other side. What we're trapped? Oh my god, we're not through all the stations yet. We've been at this for forty five minutes and nothing. I don't know that we're ever going to find something. FM didn't have anything. But that doesn't mean am well, wow, you have the patience of a saint. Yeah, I kind of had to oh shit, right, sorry, Oh it's okay. How's your chest? Because you sound a little would you stop hovering? I'm okay, okay, okay. It's just if you're having anxiety about this whole thing, and I can handle it on my own. What with the shallow breathing tightness in the chest. Look, I have friends with anxiety, and I don't get anxious. It is understandable. I mean, we're trying to tune into the place where you were trapped, I know, and I just want to find it. You know you're safe here, right, Thomas, No, I'm not, but I'm not anxious. This It's been happening every couple of hours today. It's always something something what I don't belong here, Olivia, which is why I need to figure this out. Wait, go back, stop stop stuff there? That that that's the music, Nan and I heard when the house went nuts? What what station is this? Nine twelves? What? How's that possible? Hey? How's it going in here? Hey? Are you okay? Yeah? And Shelley? Yeah, picking up some food for all of us. I think she needed some time to herself. But we're you know, I don't know. I don't think that things are broken beyond repair. So good good, Yeah, but I'm sure she love to talk with you at some point tonight, So really i'd love that. Okay. So hi, Nana. I can't find any evidence that this particular station has ever been registered anywhere. Wait is that music? I know? Station nine twelve on AM radio? I mean no idea who owns the frequency or where the broadcast is coming from? Yeah? I thought all AM stations ended in zero? Yeah they do. So what this is some kind of pirate radio? More likely magic radio? Now what we wait for a voice? See if Alden is still trying to call out? You said you thought that music was coming from the other side, not the liminal. So maybe there's another station that's tapped into the in between, or things are so thin between worlds that the other side is bleeding through and drowning everything else out. Ah, okay, so we're stuck magic, some kind of creature a run maybe, whatever it is. I don't think getting out of here is going to be easy. What the fuck? Why is it dark all of a sudden, and what's what the fuck? I'm a little more focused on the fact that everything seems to be moving. It's like we're looking through a fun house mirror. What the hell is that? I thought maybe it was old glass. No, that's definitely just what the outside looks like now, and that's not a way out either. Not the going outside is particularly appealing at the moment. Sh do you do you hear that it's music? I wonder if that's the same as that has to be right. I totally get what Olivia meant by wrong now. It doesn't really sound like music is supposed to. What are you guys talking about? The woman who lives here and she and her granddaughter heard music the other day when the house was shaking an earthquake, we don't think so if those incidents were the veil between worlds and Freetown force getting weaker on the other realm bleeding through, then and we might be inside the liminal now, oh god, Okay, okay, everybody, stay calm. We'll find our way out of this. Okay, She's right, she's right. Maybe we just need to wait it out. Eventually, whatever weird force was coming out of Freetown making everything quiet, it did retreat before, right, So it's it's almost like a tide that goes in and out. So where we just sit here and wait for it to go out again. Well, I don't know. I just think we need to keep our heads. Okay, what exactly did you do with that run? What? Everything was completely normal until you showed up, Vip, And I was the one who did the run. No, no, not that one, the one that she carved right before everything went to shit. I don't get while you're trusting her, Jeremy, you barely know, aren't. She was clearly stalking you. Oh who woa, whoa whoa. I'm just trying to help, And oh exactly do you think you're helping? You? Say? Peyton made a mistake with the ruin, but the moment you carved it, those things attacked us and then this happened. Look, I'm not I'm not trying to disturp your position here or anything. Excuse me. Look, I get it. You've been Jeremy's tea for a long time and you're used to being his right hand man. I'm not trying to take that from you. Who exactly do you think you are? Okay? Okay, okay, okay, why why don't we all this? Can? Can? Can we all just take a deep breath here? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a good idea. I'm just gonna, well, I can't get some fresh air, so I'm just gonna jesus, I'm so sorry. I've never seen rip and do anything like that before. It's okay, I mean we're in a tough spot. I get it. You know. I haven't been following you or anything, right, those those first few times we ran into each other. No, no, of course not obviously, and you've been a big house. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice to have someone around who gets this stuff and who I don't know. This is gonna sound strange to say at a time like this, but you've been a very calming presence. I'm not sure Vippin would agree. I'm not sure you would either. He's usually very easy going. I'm I'm sure he'll warm up to you. I think this. I mean, he's obviously pretty stressed about the whole situation, and you're not. No, I am definitely. I have a special personal interest in all of this, which is that my father. My father's Thomas Bradshaw. And I assume, given your hobbies, you're familiar with his name, right, Yeah, yeah, of course I am. Oh, holy shit, I had no idea. I'm I'm so sorry. No, no, it's actually actually okay, you don't need to be sorry. What do you mean? He's back, like alive and back. It turns out he was never dead at all. After all this time he was he was stuck in this in between space, a liminal that's that's what you guys called it, right right, and he was trapped there this whole time. And some kind of sacrifice to the fae and then Celeste, that's the old gathering leader, she did this ritual that brought him back, except it seems to have broken everything else. The monsters as I see it, the liminal is some kind of stop gap between our world and the other one, and without two people in there, it stops functioning, right And you think that's where we are right now. I think maybe maybe it's seeping out of its usual dimension. That's the fear of what will happen if we don't close the gate, that the Faye Realm will just come pouring into our world. It's happening again. I'm hearing myself talk and it sounds crazy. Well, okay, but that doesn't mean it's not true. I mean, I think of it this way. You just saved us from a pretty hitchcocky in situation by waving your hands, So that's not that absurd. Oh gosh, okay, So all these attacks, these monsters there here, we think because the gate is open, if we're in the liminal right now, or I guess if the liminal has come to us, do you think we could get into the Fay Realm. I don't know. My dad was in there for years and never figured out how to pass through. He tried, I don't know. I don't know what he could have tried. Did he know about the runs about magic? Well? I assume falling into a different dimension made him realize that magic was real. Yeah, but if he didn't know how to use it, maybe we could. Olivia did say that she thought the music wasn't coming from the liminal but from the other side, So maybe what happened to the music? Do you think the tie is going back out? I'm not. I'm not sure. What the hell what was that? I think there's something in that bad. Did you guys hear that? Yeah? The music stopped too. That can't be good, right, Oh, maybe it means that there's more distance between us and the other side. Maybe that that's not a bad thing, right? What there? Oh? Do you see something? You don't see? There? I don't see it. I don't see it. What is it? Are you serious? You can't see it? That's taking up an entire wall. Okay, Vippin, it's just calm down. What do you see? It's it's almost in the shape of a person, and it's moving. Oh god, it's it's it's coming off the wall. Oh hell, you really? I don't see it? No, I know. Okay, maybe it's a trick of the light. Are you okay? Well I heard that ship? Ship ship? Oh god, oh god, oh god? You see it? Now yeah, I see it has horns. I don't know. The whole thing has made a slow Oh god, and then run is that what? Yeah, that's that. That's a kind of yokai. Right, but don't they need bonfires? Apparently not? Okay? Okay, yoki yokai? Are there ways pipping? What? How do you repel a yokai? Beads? Beads? What? Soybeans? Thick and thick and drive away? Yoki? Oh german him? Yes, I got him, I got him, I got him. Go go get you see an as any beans. Just just I got you. I got you here harpendo being but just try it. Shit, just start bulting them go hey ah, oh god, holy shit, what the hell is that? Oh my god, zippin or live what? I don't know. I don't know, Jeremy, how are we hearing this? This? This this free have no idea, Jeremy and and Viippen. We're going to Freetown today. Maybe who's that? I don't know, but I think I know where they are. Jeremy. Whoa, whoa there, you're okay, You're okay? Now? H m hm is it gone for now? At least? Come on, come on, let's sit down. A whoa, thanks thanks for saving me with the beans. It was all fipping fast thinking with those beans. Whatever that thing was, it wasn't like an one or anendra I've read about, and I don't know how long it will stay away. Well at least we've got some more beans. Ah, did it hurt you? M Yeah, I think I think my wrist is broken, hipp and go see if there's an ice pack or frozen peas or anything. Yeah here, let me see, like if you I've broken my fair share of bones before. Yeah, hazard of the hobby. I guess. Oh yeah, this is definitely broken, but I think I can probably get some kind of a splint together here frozen tater talk. Oh sorry, Fhippen. Do you think you could try looking for a first aid kit, bandage's tongue depressor anything we used to stabilize his wrist? I thought I thought the birds were first time that you've ever seen a monster? Oh no, I guess I can say I've seen two, although I feel like I barely saw that, yo guy. So if those were your first monster attacks while all the broken bones, I'm very clumsy. Uh uh, thanks for holding onto me. I thought that thing was going to drag me into hell, I probably would have just taken you to the other side, right, the fay Realm. Yeah, well sixth one. Do you really think it's that bad over there? I don't know, but I can't say I'm particularly fond of the residents I've met. Oh, sure, but I mean they're just doing what they've been taught to do right, protecting their home, following the terms of the deal. God doesn't make it right. No, No, but I I don't know that we can blame a guard dog for biting an intruder? Is that? When you think those monsters were guard dogs? What else would they be? I don't know. I guess I hadn't really thought about who and what the fay Realm actually are. It's been a few encounters that were almost certainly puckwadgies, and I'd sort of assumed that those were the ones that have made the deal. Maybe or maybe the faith themselves haven't even come to this side yet. Well, I hope we never find out. But magic is real. You just did it, and that's that's incredible. We live our whole childhood's reading stories about magical worlds and superpowers, and then we grow up and find out that those things only exist in the realm of our imaginations. But here we are, you and me to otherwise normal people, and we've been let in on this amazing secret that basically no one else knows that all the stories are real, and that if we wanted to, we could probably learn all sorts of magic, learn how to visit those other worlds. Doesn't that excite you? Everything I've encounter in the past few weeks has been terrifying, and it feels more like a nightmare coming true than a fantasy. But what if that's not all there is to this? Come on, are you telling me that in all your years of teaching folklore you never once wish that all of it was real and you could be a part of it. Here some ace bandages, first aid kid, and a ruler. I figured that might work as a splint. Yeah, that's great, thank you. This is probably going to be unpleasant. Oh good, something new and different. Hey, we need to figure out how we're going to get out of here, right before that thing comes back or before something else comes through. Okay, what do we know about getting out of the fay realm? We shouldn't eat anything we shouldn't step into circles, we shouldn't follow music, check, check and check what else? Ah Oh, iron repels fairies, turning your clothes inside out right church bells. But okay, okay, okay, some of those things we can do, and some of them maybe we can fake. I think we've probably passed the always be polite to fairies stage of Hey, guys, what about salt. That's a thing to protect against all kinds of paranormal beans, right, I might as well add it to the list. It can't hurt. Okay, you finished patching him up, and I'll start to gather whatever supplies I think might be useful. Thanks. You know I have thought about it before, of course, the possibility of it all being real. It's actually, um ah sorry, it's actually why I got into folklore in the first place. I never I never told anyone this before. Now. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who wouldn't be surprised. But I started researching all sorts of things that when I was a teenager because I thought, um, I thought, maybe if I put the right pieces together, I could bring my dad back. I mean, I guess I thought some of it must be real. If there were so many people in the world. I believed in it, and I I even tried some spells and as a team I got into Wicca for a bit. I had a similar phase, did you. Yeah, And then I realized that he was dead and he was never coming back, and there was nothing I could do about it. And fuck now I realize, of course there was something I could have done. Oh, there's no way you could have known. All the research in the world wouldn't have led you to what's actually happening. I know, but I'm still I'm angry. I think I'm angry that magic is real and that this is what it's giving me. It's a life forty years without my father and monsters breaking my bones. And can I tell you something I've never told anyone? Yeah, I lied. I do remember a little bit about when I went missing as a kid. Really, I think I was somewhere else, somewhere else. I don't know if I was in the same place your dad was. It doesn't sound like it. Wherever I was, it was beautiful. It looked like Freetown forest, but better, brighter. Everything smelled better, tasted better, felt better. I mean, maybe I wandered off and ate some drugged up mushrooms or something. But whatever happened, I've been trying to figure it out ever since, trying to recapture it. I mean, if I'm honest, do you think I'm just totally off my rocker? Well, if you are, I am, I get it a little. I mean when I did that run, I don't know if I can describe this, but it felt what I felt. It felt incredible. I don't know how to describe anyway. I think I would definitely want to feel that again, and that it scares me. What doesn't have to be scary? I mean, if doing magic felt good and protected you, how can it be bad? Here? Keep that on as long as you can. Look. I get being angry and scared, But everything we've ever been taught about magic tells us that it doesn't need to be bad, right, I mean, in every legend, there's always light magic and dark magic. It's about the user, not the magic itself. Well, do you think we could use magic to get out of here? I don't just mean here, I mean the whole deal. The Faye Court are famously not very generous negotiators. Well, what if the deal wasn't broken? But changed. What if I don't know, merge the world somehow. You mean, let them Faye realms seep out into ours, Let magic exist here. The Faye use it to keep their gate closed, and we use it to keep our gate closed, and no one has to sit in the liminal. Why would the fay realm ever go for something like that? What if the gates were closed but not locked, accessible to those who knew, able to pass through from one world to the next. Wouldn't you want to see it if you could the other side. I don't know if I trust it. I haven't seen any magic that's led me to believe that it's a stable or positive force. It just saved our lives. It brought your dad back. Yeah, but it took him away first, but it brought him back. And on top of that, you now have more time together than you ever would have if he'd stayed an age normally. You have your whole lives to get to know each other, for him to know his grandkids and great grandkids. What a gift that is. I didn't know you were such a glass half full person. I don't need to be a glass half full person because the glass is magic fair enough. But you might actually have a point. Maybe there is a way to make all of this work for us, for the other side to be an ally not an enemy. My thoughts exactly. Well, first things first have to figure out how to get out of here, yeah and fast. I don't get it. Are you sure it's unlocked? I know how to unlock my own front door. I'm still not getting anything from the station. Maybe whatever was going on is over, or something much worse happened. Let me try. It feels like, yeah, like someone's pulling from the other side, right, Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy, Hippen. What was that? Was that coming from inside the house? Jeremy, Jeremy, All right, that's it. I'm breaking it down. God, thank fuck Jeremy, Dad, Hippen, Who are you? Oh? Um, Hi? What the hell happened? We all? Are you guys doing here? We heard you screaming on the radio. Watch Alden's radio. We could hear shouting at and something about bean. That's what we used to get rid of the only but what uh it's a kind of malevolent spirit in Japanese lore. That's what broke Jeremy's hand. Let me see, I'm fine. I shit you were able to tune into the limit only. Huh, you really did it? I guess. So is that where you guys were. Uh, I don't know. Uh, we're not completely sure. We got chased by these birds what and then and then we hid inside the house. We got trapped. There was this um music like before. Oh yeah, we heard that on the radio. Yeah. I think there were other worlds there. There was like spreading out of Freetown again. But I don't know. Everything looks I think it looks really normal now. I mean, I haven't gotten any more strange broadcasts. So are you really okay? Yeah? Yeah, I am a little beaten up, But okay, wherever? And why's your sweaterans? We had to hum better? Question? Who is this great? Sorry? This is that's weight breaking news. A body was just discovered by police and Freetown State Forest, a popular hiking and camping destination. The body was discovered earlier this afternoon, and the identity of the victim and the exact cause of death is unknown at this time. The police have stated that due to recent attacks, they are taking this as a matter of public safety and we'll be closing down the park until further notice, especially since they have already ruled out natural causes based on the state of the body. Whether this hiker was murdered or attacked remains to be seen. This episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren Shippin and directed by Brendan Patrick Hughes Assistant director Sarah Klein. Sound designed by Vincent de Johnny Rima Ilkali, Josh Thin, and Trevor Young, with music by Chad Lawson, starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan Tudik as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen Sony as Vipenkrana, Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista, Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Trisha Helper as the Legend Tripper, Stephen Guarino as Doctor Edwards Nandamisu Dembe as Peyton Blake, Hilary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Nicki McCauley as Celeste Then, Victoria Grace as Katie Franks, with additional voice acting by Greta Gould, Shelby Young, Adam O'Byrne, Monte, Markham, Charlie Bergman, and Teren Westbrook. Executive producers Aaron Manki, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippin, Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Josh Thane and Trevor Young. Bridgewater was created by me Aaron Mankey and is a diduction of Grim and Mild and I Heeart three D Audio. Learn more about the show over at Grimm Andmild dot com, slash Bridgewater and find more podcasts from iHeartRadio on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows, and as always, thanks for listening.