The Moonville tunnel is some of the few remains of the mining community that was there. Now the railway tracks have disappeared, but it is said that the ghosts of those who died on the tracks are still there, warning everyone from the oncoming train.
Deep in the dense, shadowy space of Zaleski State Forest lies Moonville, an abandoned railway community, whose amazing stories and spectral residents remained, even though the living will leave.
While the city itself has long disappeared with the foundations of several buildings, the cemetery, as well as the railway tunnel from which ghost stories come from. His haunted heritage continues, gathered around the infamous Moonville tunnel – a passing passage, which still stimulates the imagination of those who dare to visit.
Moonville's birth and death
Founded in the mid -nineteenth century, Moonville was a modest mining community that revived thanks to the cutting of the railway through a complex landscape. Its location, distant and isolated, made it an ideal place to transport coal and clay, but threatening for the people who lived there. A petite group of houses, a multi -branch shop, post office and cemetery, where the heart of this petite settlement of several families.
However, Moonville was intended for an early grave. At the end of the 1940s, with the decline of the mining industry and the appearance of more available transport routes, the population of the city of Maleła. Ultimately, the last remains of the community disappeared in oblivion, leaving only whispers from its haunted past and the constant structure of the Moonville tunnel.
The Moonville Tunnel: Portal to the past
Today, the Moonville tunnel is one of the few physical reminders about the existence of the city. The Moonville tunnel was also used as a path of miners and their families walking along the tracks. It was along with trains from the East and the West on one track that caused many deaths over the years, some say that at least 27 deaths around the stations and tracks.
The traces that once wore freight trains through this lonely section of the forest were removed, leaving a hard-wearing path that winds through the trees, leading compelling seekers searching for lips. Graffiti means its old walls, and the darkness of the tunnel evokes the promise of the unknown.
But not only the history of the tunnel attracts guests – they are ghosts that supposedly persecute its shadowy depths.
Moonville tunnel ghosts
From the slow 1800, the nineteenth century stories about ghostly meetings in the Moonville tunnel and were passed around for generations. The most known of these spectral observations is the Latin MAN. Described as a high figure, nearly eight feet of height, with a long white beard and glowing eyes, it is said that the lighthouse appears from the darkness of Luminous Lantern. Dressed in filthy overalls and a miner's hat, releases a terrifying scream, which echoes through the tunnel, sending chills in the spikes of those who hear it.
Legend has it that the lantern was a ham, which met a macabre end under the train wheels. He fell asleep around 1859. According to some sources at work. Some say he drank and just slept on the tracks. It was a storm night and he woke up when the sound of the train left the magazine. Setting on the tracks, he fell and died.
There is an article in a newspaper from Mcarthur Democrat of March 31 in 1959. He says: “Brazman on the railway Marietta & Cincinnati fell off the cars near the Cincinnati furnace, on Tuesday, March 29, 1859, and was fatally wounded when the wheels passing and sanding to the invertebrate mass of the majority of one of his legs. He was taken to the train to Hamden, and Wolf and Rannells doctors sent to amputation, but the bow of reliable energy was too great to try it. The man is probably dead. The accident resulted from the use of alcohol too freely. “
His spirit now wanders around the songs, always looking for a lantern he lost in his life, warning the intruders about the upcoming destruction when he tries to catch a train.
Spirit from Trainwrecks
There is also a story that a man is an engineer named Frank Lawhead, and sometimes called Theodore, who traveled along the track around 1880. Shipping forgot to tell him about the oncoming train and they collided. Both he and the fireman on board were killed.
“Cincinnati, Ohio, November 5. – Yesterday two freight trains ran together on the railway Marietta and Cincinnati, near Moonville, at the eastern end of the road. Engineer Frank Lawhead and fireman Charles Krick were killed, and six crews were injured, not deadly. It is said that the cause of the collision was the lack of a train dispatcher of the train notification trained with the Easternist about the order to the train to the West to escape in time. “
– Chicago Tribune – Saturday, November 6,
His spirit persecutes bags and tunnel, and apparently he was noticed by other engineers traveling on the route, they said that they were holding a lighthouse in their hands, still trying to stop the trains. It is said that these observations happened until the 1980s, as long as the railway line ended and the paths were removed.
Lavender lave
Another haunting character is Lavender Lady, an older woman, whose presence is often accompanied by a frail smell of lavender. Sometimes his name is Mary Shea. According to local knowledge, she collected lavender near the tracks when the train pulled her. Others say she was looking for her fiancé, who worked on the railway line when the train hit her and died.
When this happened, it was rarely mentioned, some refer to this around 1905. Visitors to the tunnel reported that they see her ghostly figure, dressed in elderly -fashioned clothing, moving faster in the fog, odorous lavender.
Bully on the tunnel
There is also the story of the Spirit Baldie Keeton. They say he was a Moonville resident and a mean drunk who liked to fight, he often doesn't hug his opponent. One day he was thrown out of the living room and found dead on songs, many believed that it was a murder. Legend says that he throws pebbles from the tunnel, staring at you.
It seems that this legend is newer and is not as often said as others. History Rogue They often tell mothers to their children, telling them not to hold on after shadowy Rogue He would get them.
In addition to these apparitions, there are stories about shapeless ghosts – a release that flicker just out of view – and an concealed being, which throws the pebbles at sufficiently brave enough to enter the tunnel. These amusing but disturbing meetings make visitors question the reality of what they have experienced.
Pilgrimage to paranormal
Despite the chilling chilling renog, Moonville became a popular place for ghost hunters and intrigued paranormal. Wandering along Raccoon Creek to the tunnel offers a tranquil, though amazing journey through nature, where the border between the living and the dead seems to blur.
In recent years, local efforts have worked on the preservation of Moonville's history and mysticism. Trips with a guide, walks with ghosts and Halloween events invite you to explore the tunnel and the surrounding area, offering a view of the haunted heritage of the city.
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