RAILROAD GHOSTS

It is night. In the small town of Gurdon in Arkansas, USA, railroad workers see a strange yellow light hovering above the railroad tra k. The light see!s to !ove in ir les. The !en walk towards it. It disa""ears. Suddenly the light rea""ears behind the!. The !en are #rightened. They annot e$"lain the light. It !oves slowly down the tra k. They #ollow it. At a ertain "oint it !oves o## the tra k into a lo al graveyard. The terri#ied !en ontin%e to #ollow it. The light sto"s above a to!bstone. Then it disa""ears. The !en shine their tor hes on the to!bstone. They read the ins ri"tion. It !arks the grave o# a railroad worker alled &ill ' (lain. The !en re!e!ber his story. &ill ' (lain was a railroad #ore!an. One o# his !en, Lewis ' )ride, was giving hi! "roble!s. The !an wasn*t doing his +ob properly. He was negligent. ' (lain #ired hi!. ' )ride was a r%el violent !an. He t%rned on ' (lain and hit hi! with a shovel. ' (lain was badly in+%red b%t he !anaged to r%n away #ro! ' )ride along the railroad tra k. ' )ride hased ' (lain, a%ght hi! and !%rdered hi! brutally with a ha!!er. The law soon a%ght %" with ' )ride. They harged hi! with !%rder and he died by e$e %tion in ,ebr%ary -./0. 1ot long after, the strange yellow light started to a""ear at the "la e where ' (lain died. &as it ' (lain*s ghost2 3eo"le #ro! the town o# (rossett, also near Arkansas, saw a si!ilar light above their railroad tra k. They believe it is the ghost o# another railway!an. In the early 1900s a brake!an li!bed down #ro! his train +%st outside (rossett. He wanted to ins"e t the tra k. It was night so he had a la!" with hi!. He bent over to re"air so!ething. 4%st then, without warning, the train l%r hed forward, ran over the !an and de a"itated hi!. The !an*s horri#ied o!"anions arried his body on to the train. They o%ldn*t #ind his head. Today "eo"le say that the light o!es #ro! the dead !an*s lantern. Every night the headless brake!an walks down the tra k, looking #or his lost head. There are !any stories like these in the sleepy little towns in and aro%nd So%th (arolina, USA. Perhaps the best5known tells the story o# 4oe )aldwin. In -678, )aldwin was working as a brake!an on a train travelling thro%gh the town of Maco. D%ring the +o%rney, the train*s bo$ ar a!e loose. )aldwin knew that an e$"ress train was d%e very soon. He stood on the "lat#or! o# the bo$ ar and signalled with his lantern, trying to get the e$"ress train to sto". The driver didn*t see hi! in ti!e. In the horri#i rash that #ollowed, the e$"ress train de a"itated )aldwin. They never #o%nd his head. Perhaps the lights are a%sed by nat%ral "heno!ena like gases, !aybe !ineral de"osits or lo al at!os"heri onditions. However, i# yo% see any %ne$"lained lights by railroad tra ks, !any "eo"le in the South wo%ld advise yo% to go are#%lly.

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