Although it's easy to point at the ghost hunters and call them idiots they were ghost enthusiasts not railway enthusiasts. They probably thought the train bridge, being from the 1850s was out of service or that a train wouldn't be along at 2am but as the saying goes "Anytime is train time"
Ghost Hunter 1: prepping equipment Ghost Hunter 2: sees CSX freight train Look guys! It’s the ghost train! Ghost Hunter 3: Wait, this incident occurred over 100 years ago, wouldn’t this be a steam train like the legend says? Ghost Hunter 2: No this has to be it! Ghost Hunters 1 & 3: see train Oh shi-
You missed out on what is probably the most chilling fact of this wreck. The wreck killed 23 people, including the engineer and fireman. It was discovered that spikes had been removed from the rails leading up to the bridge. Making this a clear act of intentional train wrecking. Over the next weeks and months, the papers reported a few other incidents of potential tampering at the site, including one on December 24, 1892 in which additional ties were placed on the rails. An extra freight train, running ahead of the scheduled passenger train, managed to knock them off the tracks without derailing the train or serious incident. Several people were detained and interrogated, but eventually released. In 1897, two men who were already in the state penitentiary were convicted of alleged confessions to other inmates of causing the wreck. However their confessions where not satisfactory and contradicted evidence.
The person(s) who caused this wreck were never found.
I have one story from Indonesia about one of its 'Cursed' Engines. And when I say Cursed, I mean those engines really brings bad luck to the Railway. I'll cover one engine for a start here.
BB30127 (No. 27 for short), is one of the many PJKA BB301 class and was once an engine who pull the express service from Bandung to Jakarta regurlaly (mostly known as the Parahyangan train) and was one of the unique BB301s back then as She was given a different livery than the rest of Her classmates.
But this is where Her career goes downhill.
Around the mid 1970s, 27's Driver was having an arguement with the Fireman (now mostly prefered as the Assistant Driver) which resulted in the Fireman being killed after the Driver forced the Fireman's head into the exhaust fan. Later, the Driver decided to end His life just like that not long after the Fireman was killed.
From that day on, strange things began to happen around and inside no. 27. Such as a silhouette of a Girl can be seen on the engine room (no the fireman isn't really a girl, this is just how it is mostly in Indonesia) and the present of 'another Crew' inside the cab was noticed by Her crew while working. Not only the Crew that had this weird experience, the Technician who would check the engine all over had some fright when the engine room door suddenly slam shut by its own.
More weird things began to happened when this Engine was moved from Bandung to Sidotopo in 1985. She would roll of on Her own more often here. She ran away from a cement factory for a couple of km before someone at Indro Station spotted Her, jumps into Her cab, and put on the brakes. but it doesn't end there. 27 was idling at Sidotopo Shed when Her brakes came off by itself and She began to roll off on Her own before came into a stop after hitting several houses. This Engine went missing once and make the whole crew at the Shed horrified. A search was conducted on several stations to locate where did the engine had gone to. 27 was found at Benteng station, not really that far from Sidotopo. The people who worked at the station think that 27 was there to assist shunting duties. After that, She was brought back home.
But wait, it doesn't end there. She ran away again from Solo and came to a halt after hitting the buffer stop at a siding at Palur Station. Some workers at Sidotopo believed that this Engine has a supernatural power and would oftenly held a ritual to make whatever sits inside 27 go away. While some workers who didn't believed in supernatural tought this all happened because mistakes were made.
after 10 years at Sidotopo with Her spooky tales, She was finally moved to Madiun in 1995 aswell as ending the 'curse' that had been following Her. She was decomissioned later in 2005. And currently, She sat at the Yogya works, never to be moved again.
Its funny how a single Locomotive can bring such havocs to the Railway.
“Legends say Indonesia’s Railways are plagued by dark echoes of the past that continue to haunt every now and then.. there’s stories of engines suffering from strokes of misfortune.. then.. there were those who had their crews kill each other in their own cabs! One engine had the unfortunate time to hear it’s crew arguing and the firemen screams as his head was burned, then BAM there was a gunshot and the driver’s body thudded to the ground.. ever since then this Poor Engine was plagued by terror, spirits and Bad luck who knows when she’d be finally free…”- Unnamed visiting engine
Really enjoyed hearing you talk about this story in particular! I live around the Carolina area and really glad to hear more talk of the Western North Carolina railroad. Very well done indeed, love these videos!
if one of the ghost hunters died on the bridge does that mean their ghost hunting friends can still talk to them? like with old tape recorders like on ghost adventures?
I heard on a side note another case where someone heard the crash, ran toward the bridge via the road and saw a conductor that had injuries asking for the time… person found out later it was a ghost
This is an interesting scenario where a ghost story caused actual deaths – normally people are more frightened of ghosts than more ordinary things, but in this case people weren't scared of what they thought was a ghost only for it to be a real train. Now might that train become a ghost train as well? Perhaps there will be two different ghost trains from 119 years apart, at the same time.
I work for the railroad that runs that line which goes through my home town and I've asked around about it and they've never seen it but they've heard the steam whistle in the middle of the night.
Ghost train
I know I pronounced "Bostian" incorrectly. Please forgive the silly Englishman for his silly Englishman mistakes
There's a thomas the tank engine episode that's based off from this
I think I heard a ghost train one night
You forgot to add "Sweet dreams children" 😨
Love hearing and learning about these ghost stories!
great ghost story 👻
Although it's easy to point at the ghost hunters and call them idiots they were ghost enthusiasts not railway enthusiasts. They probably thought the train bridge, being from the 1850s was out of service or that a train wouldn't be along at 2am but as the saying goes "Anytime is train time"
How about some gory or horrid stories about train crashes? Legit blood and guts on Halloween 🫁🫀☠️
A ghost story and a Darwin Award? You're spoiling us.
How about the Clayton Tunnel incident
🚂🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃👍👍
You should do a video on the ghost coal merchant on the Keighley and Worth Valley railway
Ghost Hunter 1: prepping equipment
Ghost Hunter 2: sees CSX freight train Look guys! It’s the ghost train!
Ghost Hunter 3: Wait, this incident occurred over 100 years ago, wouldn’t this be a steam train like the legend says?
Ghost Hunter 2: No this has to be it!
Ghost Hunters 1 & 3: see train Oh shi-
I live neer there and I found newspaper article about it but I haven’t heard about the 2010 incident
You missed out on what is probably the most chilling fact of this wreck. The wreck killed 23 people, including the engineer and fireman. It was discovered that spikes had been removed from the rails leading up to the bridge. Making this a clear act of intentional train wrecking. Over the next weeks and months, the papers reported a few other incidents of potential tampering at the site, including one on December 24, 1892 in which additional ties were placed on the rails. An extra freight train, running ahead of the scheduled passenger train, managed to knock them off the tracks without derailing the train or serious incident. Several people were detained and interrogated, but eventually released. In 1897, two men who were already in the state penitentiary were convicted of alleged confessions to other inmates of causing the wreck. However their confessions where not satisfactory and contradicted evidence.
The person(s) who caused this wreck were never found.
The bridge itself is completely haunted
Very interesting
amateur ghost hunters
if we can't find a ghost, we will become them
This story is very interesting, but I am Floored by your American accent at 1:45
I'm loving these spooky stories.
Oooh! We now have ghost train stories!
Those absolute doughnuts! Why would you stand on an operational railway line and assume the train coming is a ghost train?
Well done
I have one story from Indonesia about one of its 'Cursed' Engines. And when I say Cursed, I mean those engines really brings bad luck to the Railway. I'll cover one engine for a start here.
BB30127 (No. 27 for short), is one of the many PJKA BB301 class and was once an engine who pull the express service from Bandung to Jakarta regurlaly (mostly known as the Parahyangan train) and was one of the unique BB301s back then as She was given a different livery than the rest of Her classmates.
But this is where Her career goes downhill.
Around the mid 1970s, 27's Driver was having an arguement with the Fireman (now mostly prefered as the Assistant Driver) which resulted in the Fireman being killed after the Driver forced the Fireman's head into the exhaust fan. Later, the Driver decided to end His life just like that not long after the Fireman was killed.
From that day on, strange things began to happen around and inside no. 27. Such as a silhouette of a Girl can be seen on the engine room (no the fireman isn't really a girl, this is just how it is mostly in Indonesia) and the present of 'another Crew' inside the cab was noticed by Her crew while working. Not only the Crew that had this weird experience, the Technician who would check the engine all over had some fright when the engine room door suddenly slam shut by its own.
More weird things began to happened when this Engine was moved from Bandung to Sidotopo in 1985. She would roll of on Her own more often here. She ran away from a cement factory for a couple of km before someone at Indro Station spotted Her, jumps into Her cab, and put on the brakes. but it doesn't end there. 27 was idling at Sidotopo Shed when Her brakes came off by itself and She began to roll off on Her own before came into a stop after hitting several houses. This Engine went missing once and make the whole crew at the Shed horrified. A search was conducted on several stations to locate where did the engine had gone to. 27 was found at Benteng station, not really that far from Sidotopo. The people who worked at the station think that 27 was there to assist shunting duties. After that, She was brought back home.
But wait, it doesn't end there. She ran away again from Solo and came to a halt after hitting the buffer stop at a siding at Palur Station. Some workers at Sidotopo believed that this Engine has a supernatural power and would oftenly held a ritual to make whatever sits inside 27 go away. While some workers who didn't believed in supernatural tought this all happened because mistakes were made.
after 10 years at Sidotopo with Her spooky tales, She was finally moved to Madiun in 1995 aswell as ending the 'curse' that had been following Her. She was decomissioned later in 2005. And currently, She sat at the Yogya works, never to be moved again.
Its funny how a single Locomotive can bring such havocs to the Railway.
I’d love to hear you talk about Canadian Pacific RR 694, I think you’d enjoy that story
Ghost hunters get run over by assumed ghost train. Whoof x D
Huh, kinda disappointed that there was no Twilight Princess music in this one.
I wonder if this is where the thomas story came from 🤔
This story sounds familiar
Me, a ghost hunter hearing about those mentally blindfolded idiots:
“Bruh”
Spooky for sure. Mmmm
“And every year on the night of the accident, it plunges into the gap, shrieking like a lost soul”
Lol Timothy the ghost engine
“Legends say Indonesia’s Railways are plagued by dark echoes of the past that continue to haunt every now and then.. there’s stories of engines suffering from strokes of misfortune.. then.. there were those who had their crews kill each other in their own cabs! One engine had the unfortunate time to hear it’s crew arguing and the firemen screams as his head was burned, then BAM there was a gunshot and the driver’s body thudded to the ground.. ever since then this Poor Engine was plagued by terror, spirits and Bad luck who knows when she’d be finally free…”- Unnamed visiting engine
Really enjoyed hearing you talk about this story in particular! I live around the Carolina area and really glad to hear more talk of the Western North Carolina railroad. Very well done indeed, love these videos!
Is this one of the inspirations for the ghost train that fell from Sodor's bridge in the railroad series?
if one of the ghost hunters died on the bridge does that mean their ghost hunting friends can still talk to them? like with old tape recorders like on ghost adventures?
ghost hunters looking for old ghost train become ghosts themselves from new train.
I’m still curious what cause the accident.. well what cause the train to jump off the tracks
Timothy the not canon demon tank engine moment
I heard on a side note another case where someone heard the crash, ran toward the bridge via the road and saw a conductor that had injuries asking for the time… person found out later it was a ghost
I've just noticed it's the banjo kazooie music in the background, I've thought I've heard it somewhere before.
This is an interesting scenario where a ghost story caused actual deaths – normally people are more frightened of ghosts than more ordinary things, but in this case people weren't scared of what they thought was a ghost only for it to be a real train. Now might that train become a ghost train as well? Perhaps there will be two different ghost trains from 119 years apart, at the same time.
3 AM? Of course…
I work for the railroad that runs that line which goes through my home town and I've asked around about it and they've never seen it but they've heard the steam whistle in the middle of the night.
Now I love trains and ghosts but there is no worth in risking your life over them at all no not at all !
OH Wow This is interesting
Scary stuff. thanks ToT.