The Locomotive Ghost

Muteau presents the mysterious traveler. This is the mysterious traveler. Invite you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

So settle back, get a good rip on your nerves and be comfortable. If you can, for in a few moments, you're going to meet a coast. The strangest fathom that you ever heard of. But first, I want you to be my guest on a little train ride.

We're running at 60 miles an hour on open track in the dead of night. Now we thunder through a sleeping village. Then beyond it, we plunge into the waiting mouth of a tunnel. We race through the tunnel and into the open again, over a trestle and horn into the night.

A little world of our own brushing forward, a symbol of power and speed and life. Yes, trains do have a life of their own. As you'll see in the unusual ghost story that I call...

The Locomotive Ghost. My story starts some years ago in a hilly region of western Pennsylvania. It's almost midnight and two men laden down with several handbags. are moving cautiously over the rough ground beneath a railroad trestle.

They come to a spot beneath one end of it, and they're in the darkness. They stop and turn on a flashlight. Alright, we can sit down and rest now. Yeah. Sure, this is the right spot.

Of course, I'm sure. This is a loading spurt. It branches off at a mine entrance. Main lines over there, about a hundred yards away. How long do you think we'll have to wait? Five or ten minutes.