In tonight’s ghost story, we take a look at the ghost light of Cohoke, a ghost that was so punctual it annoyed the local towns police force
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https://www.wtvr.com/2014/10/25/holmberg-the-legend-of-the-ghost-light-of-cohoke-west-point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohoke_Light
https://colonialghosts.com/the-mysterious-cohoke-light-in-west-point-va/
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This would maybe be me if I get a railway of my own set up and it gets torn down for a highway
first (i think)
How about covering the 5AT Advanced Technology Steam Locomotive?
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I remember my class seeing something like this but instead of a train it was a japanese soldier Turns out that was just the janitor using a lamp
More than likely, people are just seeing a light from a train
I found that there's a siding track near Sweet Hall Rd Crossing, a railway crossing east of Cohoke Rd
The track seems disused now, which might explain why the light's apperances are rarer
Yeah the Confederate train story is total bogus it has been proven false
Reminds me of the old Maco ghost light from North Carolina, which appeared from around 1867 to 1977.
After the railroad removed the tracks through the town, the light disappeared just as abruptly as it appeared.
Something scary on a railway line looking its head? Well, obviously, this has to be Vyvyan from the Young Ones!
Unsolved mysteries had this in an episode. Murdered for men with his lantern
these stories are so common across the country and honestly annoying
"Shows up at the same time"
"Follows a path down the track"
This is literally just a train light and people are making a big deal out of it
One ghost train story comes from my hometown area. It is based on an actual event. On May 18th 1944 a northbound passenger train on the old Reading Railroad was passing through the town of Perkasie Pennsylvania on the Reading's Bethlehem branch. At the throttle was engineer Charles Krause as the train neared the tunnel it is believed that the engineer suffered a heart attack and collaped hanging outside the cab window. As the locomotive entered the tunnel Charles's head hit the tunnel abutment and he was decapitated. Then train continued all the way to Quakertown, the next stop before the fireman realized the situation and stopped the train. When the police and Railroad officials went back to scene of the accident they couldn't find the engineer's head. Since then it is said if you go into the tunnel at midnight and walk from the south portal to the north portal and put your ear to the track you will summon the ghost train with the headless engineer at the controls and he will chase you down. The only way to be safe is to make it out the south side of the tunnel. If you don't the engineer will run you down and cut off your head. WARNING. attempting this NOT recommended
Too Ghoulish to be true
The real horror was annoying tourists.
So, I went to Virginia this summer, but not Cohoke, Virginia (we went to the home of Washington and Jefferson), but if I were a local seeing trespassers on my property just to find a ghost I'd either, a) join them to find the light, or b) tell them to get off my lawn.
I find the idea that a gun can stop this ghost-light pretty funny
Why is there so many headless brakemen
Ghost Trains are a very interesting topic to discuss. Sometimes, I think Ghost Trains could be the modern method of carrying souls to the afterlife, or maybe Ghost Trains haunt railways that had tragic events take place. Maybe it's both. Ghost Trains, Ghost Ships, and even Ghost Planes as well have always been interesting concepts to me.
To put this out there, there was a railway that bore the name Norfolk Southern that existed from 1942 to 1982, upon merger with the N&W in 1982, the predecessor's name was kept. The ghost light along the railroad track is a common ghost story in the American South but what this video brings to me is that I don't recall ever hearing of it appearing in Cohoke, Virginia.
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There’s actually a really simple solution
Step 1: ghosts are not real, this is explainable
Step 2: literally walk down the side of the tracks and go see what it is
Step 3: ….. nope that’s it
In the US, road fatalities average 120 people per day. Shouldn't we be seeing a lot more ghosts on roadways?
I do like the idea that even in death railroaders are obsessively punctual. If anyone would assign a ghost a timetable it'd be a railroad.
OF COURSE Norfolk Southern is involved…