Ghost Trains & Haunted Railways | Moonville Tunnel, Silverpilen, and the Phantom Lines of History: Part 1

0:00 Speaker 1: Hello, dear listeners, and welcome aboard Spooky October. Please mind the gap between this world and the next. I'm your host, Amy, and tonight we're hopping on a train that doesn't believe in arrival times or mortal limits. We're talking haunted railways, locomotives that keep rolling long after their engineers have clocked out. Permanently. Grab your lanterns, your courage, and possibly some sage, because this episode is going off the rails.

0:27 Speaker 2: The Silver Train of Stockholm, Sweden.

0:30 Speaker 1: Stockholm's metro system, known for its art covered tunnels and spotless design, hides a darker story. Late night commuters in the nineteen seventies began reporting a mysterious train unlike any other, metallic silent, unnumbered and completely unstaffed. It gleamed silver instead of the usual green or red, and its lights flickered with a strange hum. Witnesses called it Silver Peelean, the silver Arrow. Some said it stopped for no Others swore they saw passengers inside, pale faced, unmoving, as though they'd been writing for decades.

1:07 Speaker 1: The legend grew from truth. Stockholm did have a few unpainted aluminum prototype trains in the nineteen sixties. One of them, Train C five number one three zero zero, was occasionally used for testing. Because it lacked normal markings and interior ads, it gave off an eerie, sterile vibe. Over time, tales of a ghost metro spread, and one urban myth claimed it carried lost souls to Kimling, a station, an abandoned, unfinished stop where only the dead get off. Sweden is known for punctuality and minimalism, but apparently not ghost control.

1:47 Speaker 1: A Stockholm transit worker once told Doggin's Nihater newspaper he entered an empty silver Peelan train parked for maintenance, only to hear faint, murmuring voices in the cars, though the doors were locked and power was off. He left immediately, and so would I.

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2:16 Speaker 2: Moonville Tunnel, Ohio, USA.

2:20 Speaker 1: Tucked deep in the Zeleski State Forest, lies the Moonville Tunnel, one of Ohio's eeriest relics of the nineteenth century railboom. The town of Moonville, once a mining community, disappeared in the early nineteen hundreds, leaving behind little more than gravestones, and this two hundred and fifty foot stone tunnel carved through the Appalachian Hills. In eighteen eighty, a brakeman was killed while walking the line through the tunnel, struck by an oncoming train as he tried to signal another.

2:51 Speaker 1: Ever since, hikers and ghost hunters have reported a lantern wielding figure who appears in the dark, waving frantically before vanishing into things. In nineteen eighty nine, a local resident named Mary Fouch reported seeing a man holding a dim lantern in the tunnel. He was there for a second, she said, then gone, I ran so fast, I probably broke a track record. Others have photographed strange mists and lights inside with no logical explanation. Paranormal groups like Haunted Ohio have recorded electronic voice phenomena EVPs near the tunnel, one of which allegedly whispered watched for the train.

3:32 Speaker 1: I'd argue that's excellent advice, Ghost or.

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3:44 Speaker 2: The L and N Ghost Train Kentucky, USA.

3:49 Speaker 1: The Louisville and Nashville Railroad was one of the South's most vital lines, but it's also the source of one of America's most chilling phantom train tales. Locals in ether Kentucky claim a full locomotive glowing faintly white thunders passed at midnight. The first report dates back to the nineteen twenties, when residents heard a train barreling down the tracks on a line that had been dismantled years before. In nineteen thirty two, a newspaper in Bowling Green reported that multiple witnesses, including a sheriff's deputy, saw a lighted engine pass through town without a sound.

4:28 Speaker 1: No steam, no smoke, no crew, the article read, and it vanished before our eyes. Some historians believe the haunting traces back to a fatal derailment in nineteen oh five near the same stretch of track, where an engineer named William H. Floyd was killed instantly when his engine overturned. Locals say his spirit still drives the route he never finished. Now that's workplace dedication. He's been on call for over a century.

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5:06 Speaker 2: The Gunkodor station, West Bengal, India.

5:10 Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty seven, a railway worker at Begunkodor station in Perulia District reported seeing a woman in a white sari near the tracks. Days later, the station master and his family were found dead in their quarters. The cause officially a heart attack, but villagers claimed it was fright. Terrified railway staff abandoned the station, refusing to work night shifts. Trains were rerouted. For forty two years, Bagunkodor became India's most infamous ghost station. In two thousand and nine, the station reopened after local politician Mamata Banerjee challenged the superstition.

5:51 Speaker 1: A reporter from the Telegraph India rode the night train and found the place silent and overgrown. Locals told him they still heard a woman's voice called from the platform. We don't go there after dark, said one porter. She asks for a ticket, No one dares to give it. If a ghost wants to buy a ticket, I say sell it. That's good revenue.

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6:24 Speaker 2: The Gurden Light, Arkansas, USA.

6:28 Speaker 1: Near the small town of Gurdon, a mysterious blue, white light floats above the old railroad bed. The legend dates back to the nineteen thirties, when a railroad worker named Will McLain was allegedly murdered by a co worker during an argument over a lantern. Locals say his restless spirit still searches for his missing head, carrying his spectral light. The NBC show Unsolved Mysteries filmed the phenomenon in nineteen ninety four. Crews saw the light appear and hover eight to ten feet above the track.

7:00 Speaker 1: Scientists suggested pizzo electric effects from quartz crystals, but couldn't reproduce the light elsewhere. Dozens of witnesses over decades describe it the same way, flickering, color, shifting, and moving with intelligence. I'm not saying it's a ghost, but it's definitely not swamp gas doing choreography.

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7:31 Speaker 2: The phantom funeral train of Abraham Lincoln.

7:35 Speaker 1: When President Abraham Lincoln's body was carried from Washington, d c. To his hometown in Springfield, Illinois, in April eighteen sixty five, thousands lined the rails in mourning, but witnesses since then claimed the train still runs its route each April, right on time. Called the Lincoln Ghost Train, it's said to glide through Albany, Buffalo, and Springfield on moonlit nights. The engine is jet black, draped in crape and flowers, with an honor guard of spectral soldiers saluting silently. A nineteen twenties New York rail worker named Frank Geiger swore he saw it.

8:14 Speaker 1: It made no noise, but the air grew cold as it passed. The lights of my lantern went out. When I ReLit it, the tracks were frozen with frost. Newspapers in the late eighteen hundreds also recorded similar reports from night watchmen in upstate New York. Even in death, Honest Day runs on time. Imagine haunting Amtrak today. The delays alone would kill him all over again.

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8:49 Speaker 2: Blackpool's Cloggy Ghost Train, England.

8:53 Speaker 1: At Blackpool Pleasure Beach. The ghost Train ride opened in nineteen thirty, the world's first to use that name, but in the nineteen forties a worker nicknamed Cloggy maintained the ride until his death. Ever since, employees swear the attractions truly haunted. They hear his distinctive wooden clogs echoing down empty corridors, tools move on their own, lights flicker right before breakdowns. A security guard in the nineteen nineties told Lancashire Live that he locked up the ride one night, only to hear laughter inside when he opened the doors.

9:29 Speaker 1: No one there, but the ride had powered itself on. Investigators with Most Haunted filmed there in two thousand and four and claimed to record footsteps and a voice saying still working. So to be clear, it's a haunted ride, haunted by its haunted maintenance man. That's basically the British version of overtime.

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10:00 Speaker 1: So, dear passengers, we've reached our final stop, from Sweden's Ghost Metro to Kentucky's Phantom Freight. One thing's clear when it comes to trains. The schedule may end, but the stories keep rolling until next time. Keep your lanterns lit, your tickets handy, and remember, if you hear a train coming down an abandoned line, don't wait to wave run.

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