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Thanks for posting the information on the Donkey Lady Bridge. I went out there and took some videos and pictures.

The video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0kYa5VKCKU

The pictures set can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22255577@N07/sets/72157607031195309/

I'm new to San Antonio but came across some stories on the internet regarding haunted places. I read your page and headed out there one lazy weekend.

Thanks again.

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Donkey Lady Bridge Location

Pictures & Images of the Donkey Lady Bridge on November 17th 2004


Thank you to the other David Polanco (Alienanchovies) for the ride and the efforts to take these pictures even after the flood. As you can see in the pictures above, the Donkey Lady Bridge is flooded. So much so we were not able to take pictures of the bridge on this day.

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anonymous - October 08th, 2006 Where is this at? I just moved to the SA area, and I have never heard of this legend.

alienanchovies - October 09th, 2006 hey didnt we come across some weird ass people out there also dude you need to post about that tottaly awesome cemetery

anonymous - October 15th, 2006 How come noone ever says where its at? TEll US

david - October 17th, 2006 I have added the location to the entry above. If anyone else has any information please let us know by commenting below.

anonymous - October 18th, 2006 I always thought that there were two differing stories. One is of the Chinese graveyard, where a 7 foot tall Chinese woman killed the people who ridiculed her. And then a story of an unfortunate half woman/half donkey who roamed that bridge. When I was younger, there was a phone number that we would call, and it would be hooves clacking and someone braying like a donkey. It only fed fuel to that tale. I enjoyed your entries!

anonymous - October 23rd, 2006 the way i heard it was the woman had a pet donkey who she loved very much and she was tryin to save the donkey from the fire and she got melted to it. so she is half donkey half woman hence the name "donkey lady". where did the chinese part come in? i never heard that before.

anonymous - November 11th, 2006 hey david, im from del rio as well, get back at me at xxx2hot2rezistxx@aol.com, my class is 03, thanks.

anonymous - November 12th, 2006 How you doing do you know the exact locatio of the chinese graveyard in San Antonio. I heard it's on Mission rd. but i still can't find it do you know how to get there i heard the adress is 10751 mission rd. is that so get back at me at jcruz@grandecom.com or myspace.com/jcsuperfast.

anonymous - December 30th, 2006 hey, i heard many different storys and versions of the donkey lady story, and i am highly interested. i was wondering if anyone knew the exact number to call for that "donkey noise" thing. ive located a few numbers, but so far they've all been duds. if anyone has any info, please contact me at cristianna92@yahoo.com or myspace.com/crisscrossed_bandgeek.

anonymous - January 25th, 2007 I remember getting a bunch of beer and parking outside the fence with a bunch of friends and just watching to see if would see any midgets running around on the property some would say they say someone running from tree to tree as if to be playing a game with us. Great memories. Carlos

anonymous - March 20th, 2007 We've been out to the DOnkey Lady Bridge plenty of times before. We've had some crazy ass experiences in the woods and on the bridge at night. This was all before Toyota came about though. We were out there maybe two weeks ago and saw some crazy stuff. The Chinese Graveyard is located on Zarzamora street on the way out to the Donkey lady Bridge. The original name of the cemetary is the reason why they call it the Chinese Graveyard. Cant think of it for the life of me but yeah. A friend of mine has a picture of a gremlin that was there. I say was because the damn thing followed me home. I know, it sounds funny and fake, but believe you me, it's not. There is a cemetary by the DLB, in the woods though. A friend of mine has been there a few times. We used to meet up with this sheriff many years ago when I was in high school and he woulld tell us about all the dead bodies they've found and that the Mafia has thrwn out there. Pretty cool place though. Well if theres any other way that I can be of assistance get at me at jro2783@yahoo.com or myspace.com/jro2783 Happy Hauntings...

anonymous - April 09th, 2007 4 years ago my best friend and i heard the story of donkey lady bridge through his sister. So we decided to check it out for ourselves. We decided to take a video camera, digital camera, walki talki's, and 2 other friends along with us. Once we crossed the first bridge on applewhite road we all got the odd feeling that we shouldn't be there. Some call it nerves, but for me it was something more. We pulled onto the bridge, turned the lights off, and yelled "donkey lady" 3 times. ( what his sister told us to do) Within seconds we heard what sounding like hooves running through he water and then dead silence. It was pitch black so we all coudn't see very well, but we heard a loud thud against the the back of my car. I threw the lights on and kicked the car in reverse to get off the bridge and stoped on the curve that is about 50 feet infront of the bridge. Then there on the side of the road we saw litterally a donkey figure glaring at us. I reversed again and turned around and speed the hell outta there. Never have i ever been back to the bridge and still get chills when i think about that night. We had the whole thing on tape where you can hear the loud thud hitting the outside of my car, to seeing two beady eyes from the side of the bridge. I am a firm believer that something not natural is out there.

anonymous - June 06th, 2007 wherer are the exact locations to the chinese cemetary can you please tell me you can tell me at veronica2010star@yahoo.com

anonymous - June 30th, 2007 im so gonna go visit it, now that i know where it's located. thanks for the info

anonymous - August 31st, 2007 I didn't believe this story. I always thought that it was someone on some good stuff.. we went a little over a week ago. gives me chills just thinking about it. we were going up and down the street honking because the bridge entrance has been closed off. Two sets of red eyes popped out of no where. and we saw two dogs. my mom said theres a name for them but its in spanish and my brother refers to them as the "hounds of hell" after that, the windows fogged up to the point where we couldnt see anything. we had the wipers on because it was getting fogged from the outside.. then it looked like someone was standing in front of the car and threw a huge rock at the car. we wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, but actually came back up the street to find we had gotten a flat. the tire was completely ripped apart. we found some ppl sitting over the bridge entrance and they were telling us that at exactly midnight you hear rustling noise and foot steps and ppl yelling. I swear, I kept hearing like a car trying to turn on, like the sound of a starter.. and then we heard foot steps right behind us like coming to us. we hopped into the car and took off.. i have it all recorded on video if you think im BSing you:|

david - August 31st, 2007 That would be awesome if you could get me the video. From there I can put it on the web for everyone to see. Let me know what you think. Anyone else?

anonymous - September 01st, 2007 Love your website.. I have lived in SA for nearly 30 yrs.. I'm from Eagle Pass originally.. Excellent work

anonymous - September 03rd, 2007 Yeah, where's the video? Sorry, I won't believe any of it until I see video evidence!

anonymous - September 10th, 2007 ahh yes i remember the donkey lady !!! i was more scared of the weeping woman or la yorona ( hope i spelled it roght) but yeah the whole storie of the chinese graveyard from what i heard was the graveyard itself had a burial ground containing chinese immigrants moving to the U S. supossitly their plane crash near the area and of course all passengers passed in a burning wreckage ,none of the victims had identifications on them so basically there in unmarked graves hidden in the cemetery. when you enter the cemetary park in the middle ( NOTE THE CEMETERY ITSELF IS ONLY A BLOCK BIG) turn you car off and flick your lights three times 9 of course shut your lights off they you can see the the sprits walking throught the garveyard but yeah last itme i went there was a big iron fence shut ... and a sign which read " ALL TRESSPASSERS WILL BE SHOT" and " NO SATANIC RITUALS ALLOWED" i guess its a case of " never mind the ghosts beware of owner" but yeah HEH ! myspace.com/vulcan777

anonymous - September 10th, 2007 oh yeah ^^^^^^^^^^^^ its " flick your lights three times" not " flick your light three time 9"

anonymous - October 14th, 2007 JUST LAST NIGHT MY FRIENDS AND I CALLED THE NUMBER THAT SUPPOSABLY BELONGS TO THE DONKEY LADY :l IT WAS PRETTY SCARY I HEARD UGLY WALES AND HER HOOVES ON THE BRIDGE.. I DIDNT WANT TO BELIEVE IT AT ALL. ALTHOUGHT I DO WISH MY FRIEND GAVE ME THE NUMBER

david - October 14th, 2007 Thats really interesting, I never heard of a number. You need to see if you can get that for us. If so email me at david [at] aeonity.com

anonymous - October 17th, 2007 I haven't tried this number in a very, very long time: 225-LADY. I swear that it used to work (i.e. the sound of hooves clopping, then a braying moan. Ahhh, the memories).

anonymous - October 26th, 2007 that 225-LADY number used to be on in the 80's. there was that one and another for the Llorona. I know this, because i used to call them both from my grandma's house. of course my older sister would threaten me when i didn't want to change the tv channel from cartoons to whatever she wanted to watch, she would say she was going to call the donkey lady to come get me.... but they were definitely working number. the Donkey Lady number did 1 of 2 things, it was either the clack clack clack of hooves or it would be donkey noises. the Llorona would be someone crying, but not like a boo-hoo cry, it was a mono tone dull wailing type of cry. it was freaky! when we used to call them, it was when we used to live with my grandma, so that was probably about 1982, 1983. we only lived with her for a year or so. after that, i don't remember calling anymore....

anonymous - December 11th, 2007 so last night we went to check the bridge out. but nothing ever happened although it was pretty scary because it was late in the night.

anonymous - January 06th, 2008 to the legend i herd a lady was in a car accident and all of her fingers melted together and her head hung low so therefor she looked like a donkey or hores lady. thus the name Donkey Lady was born.

anonymous - January 06th, 2008 the legened i just wrote domn i forgot my name and age. so here i go. im Megan and im 10 years old

anonymous - January 13th, 2008 scary shi*. im only 17 and me n my friends went out there cuz we felt like getting scared...when we got there we saw the bridge crossed it..went down some dirt path[[all around there was trees]]and saw and heard absolutely nothing as we were walking back down the dirt path there was another direction to go left so we went left and about 45 seconds going in that path we smelled something horrible : like dead but a strong dead smell..so we kept walking and as we were walking we looked down and saw 3 huge blood splats that looked kinda fresh..OMG haha one of my friends said DONT RUN...DONT PANIC!ha and what did we do FUC*ING RAN LOL and as we were running it was like that smell was following us..idk it was some scary shit.......YOU GOTTA GO!

anonymous - January 30th, 2008 I don't believe any of you. It's funny how you all have seen something or called and heard something, yet none of you have any proof. No one can remember the numbers and the ones they claim to remember, don't work. And someone posted about a video, yet they never showed it to anybody. You would think if someone had proof of something like that, they would want everyone to see it. Very suspicious to me.

anonymous - February 18th, 2008 Well i found ur take on the story pretty interesting. I grew up on Applewhite rd., and yes I too know all about that story...As a matter of fact, my fam still lives out there. If u want a better pic of the actuall bridge and not the river. I have a MySPace u can look at it there.....www.myspace.com/luv58 or carmen_pena58@hotmail.com.....It is in danger of being torn down due to the Toyota plant....the actuall bridge is no longer in use anymore....

anonymous - March 09th, 2008 IVE BEEN THERE AND I DIDNT SEE ANYTHING ITS BULSHIT.. I WAS THERE FOR LIKE 3 HOURS WHILE MY SISTER AND BROTHER WERE DRINKKING AND SMOKING WE TALK SHIT AND IT WAS COMPLETLY DAR ITS ALL BULSHIT

david - March 09th, 2008 Try again, anonymous - March 09th, 2008. It would probably be a good idea to go out there NON intoxicated, so your senses are not impaired.

anonymous - March 20th, 2008 So...what's the DONKEY LADY PHONE NUMBER????

anonymous - April 07th, 2008 that story posted april 9th 07 is bullshit thats the same story i hear EVERYBODY tell it's in a book or something,about her kicking the car and looking back and seeing a donkey.it's all bull i remember calling the donkey lady phone number when i was young anyone could pull that off.post a story of the traintracks and the schoolbus you know the one! or what about the two story house by the HEB on commerce i heard a man killed a lady in the window and a crowd of people and cops witnessed it they say u can still see them in the upstairs window.

anonymous - April 07th, 2008 you should post something about the marfa lights in marfa texas

anonymous - April 22nd, 2008 I heard that donkey lady roams the bridge trying to kill people that cross it and she can run up to 35mph.

anonymous - June 01st, 2008 what's her number?

anonymous - July 13th, 2008 i went there two days ago to see whats the big deal and found nothing(obviously)...i walked alone to the bridge and challenged her but nothing happened...keep in mind that all the lights were off, so yeah it was PRETTY DAMN DARK! one interesting thing that freaked me out at first were the insects that made those "clack” sounds...made me believe for a split second...i do recommend checking it out though...pretty awsome it is...

anonymous - July 17th, 2008 My family and I went there last month we did here something coming toward us.So we waited to see what it was. Whatever it was it stopped.It felt like we were being hunted or watched,for all I know it could have been a wildpig or something. We came to our senses and just walked back to the truck.Next time we will have some food or something!

anonymous - August 25th, 2008 Your face.

anonymous - August 30th, 2008 I could have sworn the bridge was paved over by the Toyota company. And i could never find the chinesse graveyard, it was always a friend of a friend that knew where it was. Now the abandoned insand aslym thats some scary sh*t

anonymous - August 31st, 2008 I have current video of the Donkey Lady Bridge that I took today. It's the location referenced by David on the Google map. I would list the URL but it won't let me post URLs in the comments. Go to YouTube and search for "Donkey Lady Bridge kotsu777" and it's listed as "The Donkey Lady Bridge of San Antonio". You can't miss it. The bridge is closed off by a guardrail but is plainly visible from the main road off Old Applewhite Road.

anonymous - August 31st, 2008 Oh, and I almost forgot: I snapped some pictures so you can see the area when it's not flooded. They're over at flickr.com. Do a search for "Donkey Lady Bridge San Antonio". I think they turned out pretty good.

anonymous - October 14th, 2008 I've been there a few times, but only driving by it. Always wanted to get off and walk around. I have been to the Chinese gravyard. Went there a few years ago. We parked and walked around. You diffenetly get the eerie vibe. The people is was with were scared so we left. But on our way out some people in black robes started running after our car. And yes this really happened, doesn't really mean it's haunted but it does give reason has to why that sign is up about rituals. I guess some people used to out there and conduct rituals of some sort.

anonymous - October 14th, 2008 I have been there a couple times. There is also something similar in helotes. My mother told me about that one... wouldn't recommend it from what I heard she carries an old style shotgun. anyway I remember from my youth the donkey lady number was 210-225-LADY. don't know if it works anymore but it used to be pretty scary at least to a 5 yr old in 1989.

anonymous - October 20th, 2008 is there another way to get a hold of donkey lady?

anonymous - October 26th, 2008 YOU HAVE 2 GET OFF AN WALK ON THE BRIDGE ITS THE SCARIEST !THE FIRST BRIDGE IS CREEPY AND B SHURE U SAY DONKEY LADY 3 TIMES /THE KEPP WALING FOWAR 4 ABOUT 5 MIN ,THEN TAKE THE TRAIL OFF 2 THE RIGHT FOR ANOTHER 3 MIN AN U GET 2 C YHE REAL DONKEY LADY BRIDGE MADE OF WOOD AN ITS SO CREEPY .SO GOOD LUCK AN HAVE FUN DUM dums

anonymous - October 30th, 2008 I love how a lot of people claim to have videos but none have been posted.

anonymous - November 01st, 2008 Look at the very top of this page. There's a link. ><

anonymous - November 19th, 2008 The donkey lady phone number was a valid number back in the 80's when San Antonio was under the 512 area code. It is no longer in use.

anonymous - November 29th, 2008 THE DONKEY LADY WAS REAL MY MOM USE TO KNOW HER IM 34 AN SHE USE TO BABYSIT ME WHEN I WAS ABOUT 3 YEARSOLD ALL I REMBER IS THAT SHE WAS REAL NICE MY MOM IS IN MAFIA AN THEY USE TO HAVE ALOT OF WEED PLANTS GROWING IN THE BACK OF HER FIELD WHEN THEY WOULD GO TO CHECK PLANTS SHE WOULD WATCH ME SHE HAD ONE WHITE EYE AN ONE RED EYE HER FACE WAS IN THE SHAPE OF A DONKEY SHE HAD SOME KIND OF BIRTH DEFECT AN SHE COULDNT TALK SO SHE MOANED SHE WAS FROM LAREDO MEXICO NEVER HAD A GOOD LIFE OR PARENTS AN NO KIND OF EDUCATION THATS WHY SHE COULDNT TALK SHE BUILT THAT HOUSE HER SELF AN USE TO COOK WITH FIRES OUTSID SHE HAD NO ELECTRICITY AN WOULD GIVE ME A BATH IN THE WATER BY HER HOUSE SHE WAS KIND OF LIKE AN INDIAN OR COWBOY LIVING IN WOULD WOULD KILL SQUIRREL FISH ANY WAY TO SURRVIVE HER DAD HAD RAPED HER AN THATS WHEN SHE TOOK OF ON HER OWN I HAD NEVER HEARD ANY OF THESE STORIES UNTILL MY KIDS TOLD ME ABOUT THEM I HAVE NO PICTURES BUT THE LAST TIME I SAW HER WAS WHEN I WAS LIKE 8 YEARS OLD KNOW THAT IVE READ ALL THIS SHIT IM GONNA GO OUT THERE GET OUT OF MY TRUCK AN SEE IF ITS TRUE AN IF SHE TRIES TO HURT ME IM GONNA TELL HER HEY DONT U REMBER ME YOU USE TO BABYSIT ME WHEN I WAS LITTLE SHE CALLED ME SUNSHINE AN THAT NAME HAS BEEN WITH ME EVERYSINCE

anonymous - January 24th, 2009 I've heard stories of the D.L. myself. May i add, that i actually know of a person still living (barely), who has had contact with her. The family will not tell his story out of embarrassment. But here goes. One night while playing pool at a nearby Applewhite bar, a patron came in wearing a hooded coat. Upon further inspection, they noticed a donkeys tail hangin down from inside the coat on this person. Immediately, the patrons yelled in spanish, el diablo and started chasing this patron around the bar and out the back door. The mysterious patron made a hoofing sound as it galloped out and into the darkness. I keep teasing this old man about his story, but he just looks back in awe that no one believes him. He has a sound mind, and has never done anything outside the law, and a solid family man. He is not known for telling lies, but this one is too much. Why he continues to tell it is unknown, unless it carries some weight.

anonymous - February 11th, 2009 i have the phone call on tape. i must have been about 7 or 8. it still scares the shit out of me.

david - February 11th, 2009 anonymous - February 11th, 2009 email it to me, and I will post it for the rest of us. david [at] aeonity [dot] com

anonymous - March 16th, 2009 3-13-09, my friends and I tried to find the Donkey Lady bridge, but becuase we didn't turn off of Apple White onto OLD Apple White (we were coming from the North) we missed the bridge. All I could figure was that it was torn down and Toyota had built a 4 laner bridge there insted. However , thanks to your google maps link, and your mention of W. Jett, we figured it out. Goole map's satalie image is old, so the NEW apple white isn't on it, but the road is digitally marked in. WE'll have to go out again and try to find the Real bridge- which is most likely closed. In the end we kept going down Apple white until it turned in to a dirt road which we KEPT going down. That road was pretty scary at night. Some friends of friends who were following us in thier car called us and swore up and down that they saw a woman in the woods there off that dirt road...we don't know if they were messing with us though. the road eventually ended at a gate marked as some ranch. WAY, WAY south of where Jett is. Also we've read different variations of stories. Never heard about her being Chinese. There's some interesting tetimonials in the "Wierd Texas" book.

anonymous - March 30th, 2009 fuck the donkey lady face is ugly! last time like 2 days ago i went and ma friend was with me i was hugin him cuz i was scared. he told me to wait cuz he had heard something he went to the bridge he looked down and he saw the donkey lady! he yelled my name i went to the bridge running i looked down the donkey lady was making some weird noice she was kind of sain help me please

anonymous - March 30th, 2009 the donkey ladys # is keep it 1

anonymous - April 02nd, 2009 hey ive called the donkey lady && it doesnt wrk.. any other numbers to call??? im going 2mrw with alot of myy friends and were gonna go check it out.. ilove scaryy shit!!! so any one if yew got tha numba hit meh up myy email is meaganjbr_05@yahoo.com

anonymous - April 13th, 2009 the donkey lady is not true i went to the bridge to see if any of this is true called her name 3 times killed the lights, nothing happend i even got out called it 3 more times while sitting on the hood and still nothing i dont believe

anonymous - May 16th, 2009 ._.

anonymous - May 31st, 2009 Hi David, my name is Jennifer. You linked to my old Haunted San Antonio site on your Midget Mansion page. I would like to clairfy a couple of things on your original posting of the Donkey Lady. She and the 7 foot tall chinese woman are not one in the same. The ghost of the seven foot tall Chinese woman is said to wander through Mission Park Cemetary on Military Drive. She is a tourmented soul who took her own life because she could not bear the constant teasing regarding her height. Her punishment for her suicide is to wander the cemetary. An interesting note to this story is that there is indeed a section of the Mission Park Cemetary that only has Chinese people buried in it. The Donkey Lady is the ghost of a woman who drowned her children in a creek, in the hopes that her lover would not leave her. The punishment for her sins is to wander the creek where she killed her children with the head of a donkey and the body of a beautiful woman. I remember calling her "number" in the late '80s. All you heard was the sound of a horse running. The number probably doesn't work because the area code in San Antonio at the time was 512.

anonymous - June 17th, 2009 I have gone to Donkey lady bridge recently. About 3 days ago it is now blocked off. it is way to dark to go out in there without any light i didnt see any DL. i did see some dogs though.

anonymous - June 17th, 2009 i went again in the moring to check out the bridge only thing that i saw that was actually interstine was the blood stains that have been there for a while. one thing i dont get watsup with doin

anonymous - June 17th, 2009 everything at night i mean i did give it a try at night but if she is really mad at ppl who go to her bridge then how come there isnt any stories about her in the morning or afternoon.

anonymous - June 22nd, 2009 i didnt know the donkey lady had a cell phone!

anonymous - June 22nd, 2009 I went to the donkey lady bridge just saturday during the day! nothing happened i saw nothing but i heard some strange noises being a wimp i did run a little but im 7 months prego so i kinda bounced not ran and it smelled like horrible like either something burning or dying and the weird thing was that the whole thing was bright but one spot where it was kinda dark for the day time and it was the only spot with flies and bugs by it.. it was pretty creepy but way too hott to stand outside forever so we left but as we walked back to the car i did test her to see if she was real or not but i got nothing.. im very interested in this tho! i also went to the chinese graveyard and the railroad tracks and some haunted bridges including the donkey lady.. i recently found out where "bexar TRO bridge" is and im going this week im so excited! if anyone has anything else to say about more scary places or even about the donkey lady hit me up on my myspace! i love to look into these things.. its crazy but o so fun! here is my myspace URL.... www.myspace.com/daddysangel06

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