Amateur NC ghost hunter looking for 'ghost train' hit and killed by real train

WISTV ^ | Aug 27, 2010 | Jeff Rivenbark

[The Comedian]

STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) - A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning.

The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.

Robin Chapman, a spokesperson for Norfolk-Southern Railroad, said the eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars.

The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck a man on the trestle, Chapman said.

[The Comedian]

Are you ready to believe this?

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Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
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[Chuzzlewit]

social darwinism...

[warpsmith]

I lived in NC a long time. That state ghost story is very well-known (and a little spooky).

[mlo]

This should qualify for a Darwin Award.

[Hodar]

Since when do real trains use Phantom whistles?

[earlJam]

Sounds like a road-runner cartoon.

[mbarker12474]

Who do you think this guy voted for?

[The Comedian]

Who ya gonna ping?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[GreenAccord]

My first reaction was;

‘How is a guy who can’t hear a REAL train comin’ round the bend going to find a ghost one?’

[ClearCase_guy]

a trestle over Boston Creek

"Don't cross the streams!"

[bigredkitty1]

Never heard of it. Care to give this Texan the Cliff Notes’ version?

[The_Media_never_lie]

‘How is a guy who can’t hear a REAL train comin’ round the bend going to find a ghost one?’

Maybe he heard his train coming and was a predeterminist.

[hope_dies_last]

My grandfather used to say, “I ain’t scared uh-no-ghosts... it’s the living you gotta watch out for...”

[The Comedian]

I lived in NC a long time. That state ghost story is very well-known (and a little spooky).

Are there any stories of haunted electrical outlets? How about haunted guns?

How many lives must these haunted things take before we call the Ghostbusters?

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[Chi-townChief]

“Mystery Train ... smokin’ down the track ...”

[ozzymandus]

Sort of like that “Ghost Hunters” TV show where some idiots sit around in the dark in some old building until they get scared and run around like the Three Stooges. Funny the first time, but ridiculous after that.

[WOBBLY BOB]

bet he never saw it coming...

[Julia H.]

So the “ghost train” died? How tragic.

[The Comedian]

a trestle over Boston Creek
"Don't cross the streams!"

Flawless segue sir, flawless.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[RobRoy]

It’s best to leave ghost hunting to the “professionals”.

;)

[chrisser]

This might be the story.

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/the_phantom_train_wreck.html

I’m from Ohio, so it’s just a guess using Google...

[Vendome]

Irony?

[RobRoy]

I guess this answers the age old question, “if a train is coming at you and you refuse to believe it is there, will it still kill you?

Yes.

[Hot Tabasco]

I was hoping it was the entire crew of “Ghost Hunters” from the Syfy channel........I hate that phony show

[RobRoy]

I see dead trains.

[a fool in paradise]

Who do you think this guy voted for?

Heck, he's trying to find it so he can get the passengers to vote in the next round.

[Always Independent]

Well the place might be haunted now.

Ghost Hunters isn’t the show where they get scared and run around like the three stooges LOL, its the show on the travel channel where they do that. On GH they get to see all the spooks but the viewer never gets to see them.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Will his ghost get hit by the ghost train?

[RckyRaCoCo]

Most of those so-called ghost hunter shows are garbage.

I belive the old show "Amazing Stories" had an episode about a ghost train...it was produced(?)by Speilberg...actually was pretty good.

[Dumpster Baby]

I was hoping it was the entire crew of “Ghost Hunters” from the Syfy channel........I hate that phony show

"Did you see THAT?!?" (no)
"Something just moved down there!" (no it didn't)
"A hand just touched my head!" (no it didn't)
"Do you hear THAT?!?" (no)

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Now he’ll be riding the ghost train forever.

[dead]

"Hey!...(GET OUT!) I just heard somebody whisper 'Get out!'"

[count-your-change]

Ghost Train? I thought he said Goat Train! Baaaad!

[Haiku Guy]

Next week, a bunch of ghost hunters will be out looking for the ghost of the guy who was killed looking for the ghost train.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

[paulycy]

Hunting ghost trains? He must have thought he was on the right track.

[RckyRaCoCo]

ping

[BelegStrongbow]

How discriminating of you. I’ve come to hate the entire SyFy channel. And yes, that includes ‘Eureka’.

[Mr. Lucky]

It would seem that he now has found the ghost train Unforunately, all tickets are one way.

[The Comedian]

Will his ghost get hit by the ghost train?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[GladesGuru]

What we have here is a case of a one track mind on the wrong track, at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

Would not just two, but three, wrongs make a right?

;-)

[RichInOC]

Last known photo of the victim:

[Niteranger68]

Now his friends can hunt for him.

[paulycy]

In retrospect, maybe he should have determined the schedule of the real trains FIRST, then checked for phantom rail sounds.

[lowbridge]

"Hey!...(GET OUT!) I just heard somebody whisper 'Get out!'"

Well, what do you expect from New Yorkers?

[RikaStrom]

I’ve come to hate the entire SyFy channel. And yes, that includes ‘Eureka’.

I really hate the direction they've taken that whole "mess with past, screw up the future" thing. UG

The only thing I watch on SyFy now is Haven.

[BelegStrongbow]

you’re welcome to it. :)

[Canedawg]

Thanks for that link.

“Some people say the phantom train appears each year in the early morning hours of August 27th and is wrecked before the eyes of any who watch for it.”

[martin_fierro]

Who ya gonna ping?

Oh, I have an idea or two.

[riri]

I believe it. Not the brightest bulbs in the pack seem to live in North Carolina.

Can not wait to get outta here and back to Arizona.

[GladesGuru]

Perhaps he should have begun to question when the person who told him about the “Ghost Train” also spoke of werewolves, virgins, and unicorns.