Have we seen this one before? Apologies if so:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/933810/Ghost-train-caught-CCTV-rail-platform-proof-afterlife
I really can't imagine railway trains have an afterlife though.
It's a more likely explanation than an actual ghost, except someone like that would have been known to the other staff who worked in the area, wouldn't they?Or maybe an ex-employee who still had his old gear, but mentally unstable and unable to let go of his former occupation?
Sounds familiar...but my progress was again arrested by seeing a face hanging in mid-air.
It was horribly twisted and scarred, and the eyes blazed in a terrible and eerie way.
Several other people claimed to see on different occasions the twisted face, its head covered with a shock of white hair,
So about 2/3 weeks ago, me and my friend were doing the Monsal trail and we were sat in one of the tunnels having a cup of tea when a man walked past on his own whistling and kind of skipping.
He caught our attention so we watched him as he walked past us, and then all of a sudden he steered off and walked straight into the wall and just disappeared.
We were both so confused and we were in a tunnel so he physically couldn’t have gone anywhere!
Has anyone experienced anything similar?
When I was a kid some of the Monsal trail tunnels were accessible: dark, wet and potentially lethal - but if you really wanted to, and you had a torch and some guts, you could get through. Then they bricked them up properly, and for at least a couple of decades they were impenetrable. Now, as you'll know, they are accessible again - well lit and surfaced and somewhat sanitised, but still capable of being spooky.
Two weekends ago me and my partner were walking through Cressbrook Tunnel one late afternoon when, about half way along, I distinctly heard someone whistle close by - that short, sharp, two note whistle you use to get someone's attention, or to call a dog. I checked both directions - but we had the whole length of the tunnel, in both directions, to ourselves
I'm sure it was actually much further away than it seemed, and the apparent proximity was just the way sound travels in those places. But it added a nice bit of spookiness to the afternoon, and in the perfect setting.
Yup, we love going there! We had no spookiness though, sadly.Isn't it Scargy who's cycled that trail a few times?
Oooh can I post that on the facebook page? All anonymous of course.Re the Monsal Trail tunnels - I posted the following on the Trainyard Ghost? thread a couple of years ago:
Oooh can I post that on the facebook page? All anonymous of course.
Thank you, done!No problem.
I’ll relate my experience and see what you think.
Back in the early 90s I was rostered as a supervisor at Covent Garden. A new colleague was ‘seeing’ the last train away. All that was needed was the Green light.
The train sat there waiting. Eventually I asked him if he was gong to let it go? He replied he was looking for the little girls mother.
Watching on CCTV There’s no one there I replied. She’s here right next to me he said.
After convincing him to let the train go, he returns to the office and I showed him the CCTV tapes. You could see him standing there talking to someone.
But there’s no one there.
Flustered I explained to him he was not alone in seeing her. She originated from an incident in the 50s.
When a recently divorced mother had thrown herself and the little girl in front of a train killing both. The little girl asks staff if they can find her mummy. As I said we all saw her at some stage, perfectly formed with a small Teddy Bear clutched in her arms.
Also from that Facebook page -
The teddy bear detail makes me uneasy. Almost as though it's a caricature of what a child ghost 'ought' to look like.
The teddy bear detail makes me uneasy. Almost as though it's a caricature of what a child ghost 'ought' to look like.
I pulling up short of the boards, and then settled down pouring a nice warm cup of tea from my flask and tucking into some hot-cross buns my wife had kindly packed me. I noticed a light flicking outside so dropped the window to see a chap wandering around, assuming he was the blockman I called over to him to jump up in the warm cab away from the cold (Class 37’s are far from comfortable but the heaters are pretty good if they are working) as he climbed up I noticed he was wearing an old BR donkey jacket and one of the original issue BR high vis vests from the 1980’s which I thought was a little strange as no one had worn those for years and was carrying an original style bardic hand lamp.
After the deaths of 23 passengers, some of their bodies were brought to the nearby Hassocks Hotel, while others were taken to the portal above the northern entrance.
The tunnel, along with the portal is where most descriptions of paranormal activity took place.
Screams of agony and crunching metal have been heard in the tunnel, with numerous reports of ghostly activity in the portal.
There is even a ghost nicknamed 'Charlie', who has been reportedly sighted near the sealed off entrance by the ventilation shaft.
A haunted railway tunnel!
(Safe Sussex Live news site link)
Clayton Tunnel: The haunted railway tunnel near Brighton where 'screams can still be heard'
There's a detailed account of a horrific accident, then a mention of the ghosts -
If the story and haunting sound familiar, that's because Charles Dickens based The Signalman on the incident.
We'll need FULL details, please. No rush. Now will do.I have a friend who lives in a house right on top of the tunnel and she swears there are weird goings-on....
But would a graffiti artist be out in the middle of nowhere?It is also possible he was a trainspotter/enthusiast.
Or less likely, but possible, a grafitti writer.
It has not been unknown for graffiti writers to wear borrowed London Underground uniform to assist them in access to yards, though I am not sure about on Network Rail.
We'll need FULL details, please. No rush. Now will do.
Oh, that is spooky. Especially because, on a colliery railway, the signalling arrangements were often very primitive. When a string of wagons was set off down an incline, the signals used to announce its departure were a ball and a 'rapper'; the ball was on a chain, and would be raised or lowered as a visual signal, and the rapper was like a hammer that struck against metal as an audible signal. This ghost story seems to include a very accurate description of a 'rapper' in use."I was coming down beside the line to get to Burnopfield, when I was stopped by hearing several metallic clangs, just like those a
platelayer makes when laying or repairing rails.
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Several other people claimed to see on different occasions the twisted face, its head covered with a shock of white hair, and always the ghost's appearance on the colliery wagon-way was heralded by a number of clangs like a sledgehammer striking metal.
Yes. Anywhere there's a train.But would a graffiti artist be out in the middle of nowhere?
the signals used to announce its departure were a ball and a 'rapper';