Meramec River
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Oct 18, 2026
RagnarHOST
Nope.
RagnarHOST
Near the Meramec River on the edges of Wildwood, Missouri, there is a small path tucked away among hills and oak trees.
RagnarHOST
It was originally built in 1860, over 100 years before Wildwood even existed.
RagnarHOST
Legend has it, a w- a website called Legend Has It, um-
MiguelGUEST
But moving on in life, um, probably, I don't know, I'd say, like, 24 years old and I'm dating a girl and we go down to the river, her and her little son and myself.
MiguelGUEST
We go to the Meramec River, and this is summertime again.
MiguelGUEST
We're out there camping for about two or three days and at this point in time, we, we were really fascinated with the show Finding Bigfoot.
MiguelGUEST
My ex-girlfriend would tell me these stories from an area called Summersville, Missouri.
MiguelGUEST
He, after the creature screamed, he took off and left the area." But that was the story she told me, and like I said, we were wa- uh, we were watching the show Finding Bigfoot, and there was a story from Willow Springs on Finding Bigfoot where a couple claims that they were out on their property and a juvenile fell out of an oak tree and hit the ground really hard, and looked at them, like completely shocked, and took off running.
MiguelGUEST
That was the story on the Finding Bigfoot episode.
MiguelGUEST
So when we were camping at the Meramec River, I said, "I'm gonna try a wood knock.
MiguelGUEST
I'm gonna try one of those wood knocks that the crazy people on Finding Bigfoot do," right? So I went to my Mercury Mountaineer, grabbed my Nike baseball bat out of there, and I went up to one of the big trees that was on the riverbank and I did a loud, powerful wood knock.
TylerHOST
This story is called The Shutter of the Dead.
TylerHOST
Before the county paved the upper trailhead and before the subdivisions of Wildwood crept toward the limestone bluffs, the path down the Meramec River was marked on 19th century survey plates as Lawler Ford Road.
TylerHOST
In the late 1860s, it had been a brutal gouged wagon track hacked through the ravines to haul quarry rock, white oak ties, and gravel down to the riverbank and the tracks of the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
TylerHOST
Over the next hundred years, the hollow accumulated the specific rotting history that a damp r- river timber breeds best.
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TylerHOST
So long before it became Zombie Road, before ghost hunters, before stories of spirits spread across the internet, this path served a very practical purpose.
TylerHOST
According to the local history, the route dates back to pathways used long before modern settlements of the area.
TylerHOST
Later it became an important transportation corridor connected to, to railroad access, movement along the Meramec River.
TylerHOST
During the Civil War era, the route saw significant use as just transportation and as industry expanded throughout the region.
Bill CooperHOST
Now, and I've been in the trout parks.
Bill CooperHOST
I first came to the, uh, Missouri Ozarks back in the early '70s as superintendent of Meramec Spring Park.
Bill CooperHOST
Stayed there for several years, and then I went to work for the state park system.
Bill CooperHOST
I was, uh, chief naturalist at Bennett Spring State Park for a while, and I've continued to fly fish, you know, everywhere from Alaskan Canada to the Yucatan, and absolutely love it.
Bill CooperHOST
But in the last few years here, I've been dealing with a number of young outfitters who particularly come to the Meramec and, and my region here in South Central Missouri, and I have discovered that [laughs] these young men are super, super sharp, and I have learned so much from them that otherwise I'd have probably never figured out or would've taken me light years to figure out.
Bill CooperHOST
And it's just been, you know, so inspiring and, and very educational for me just to hook up with these guys.
Bill CooperHOST
In fact, there's several of them that I s- I shuttle for 'em, you know? Uh-
Ash KelleyHOST
And we're talking about Billy again.
Ash KelleyHOST
Uh, his vacation home along the Meramec River in Sunset Hills.
Ash KelleyHOST
And by the time he'd married Ellie, the com- couple was residing at Allswell full time and spending time with Billy's son whenever possible.
Ash KelleyHOST
Elsa's death had been a tragic experience for the Lemp family, particularly given that her death was followed by speculation and, you know, the potential of foul play.
John MooreHOST
Um, he, um, borrowed a pistol from a coworker.
John MooreHOST
He was working as a roofer, and he went to the George Winter Park in Fenton, Missouri, uh, on the Missouri... on the, uh, Meramec River, looking for somebody to murder.
John MooreHOST
He found a young couple in a car, and, uh, he, uh, he, he murdered them in cold blood just to s- just for the experience of doing it.
John MooreHOST
Oh, my goodness.
Tim JonesHOST
... and then through St. Louis County.
Tim JonesHOST
And then they crossed the, uh, Meramec, and then they came around this bend, and all of a sudden there was this big, broad, flat valley with no hillsides to blast through, and somebody said, "Eureka, we found it."
Chris ArpsHOST
Mm-hmm.
Tim JonesHOST
And so that's apparently how my town got its name.
Jackson BurkettHOST
My jowls began to water.
Jackson BurkettHOST
We were drifting down the Meramec River on a quad engine pontoon boat he'd recently scored for what he called a steal.
Jackson BurkettHOST
[laughs] Hammered out his to just $12 a month.
Doug VaughnHOST
That is a good deal.