ghost train hunter run over by actual train

[spaminator]

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Ghost train hunter run over by actual train
By QMI Agency
Last Updated: August 28, 2010 2:56pm
A ghost hunter in North Carolina was walking along the supposedly haunted train tracks on a 100-metre long trestle when an oncoming train struck and killed him.
Twenty-nine-year-old Christopher Kaiser and a dozen other amateur ghost hunters were on the tracks early Friday morning hoping to have ghostly sightings of a train that derailed at the site 119 years ago. Instead a real train with three engines and one car turned the corner towards them.
Everyone except Kaiser were able to run away unscathed, reports the Columbia Daily Tribune in Missouri. Before being hit and falling 30 metres off the trestle and into the ravine below, Kaiser pushed a woman away from the train. She was airlifted to hospital but her condition is unknown. AOL News says that most of the ghost hunters are out-of-towners and some fled the scene because they were trespassing on railroad property.
On Aug. 27, 1891 a passenger train derailed off the trestle near Statesville, NC and sent 30 people to their deaths. Legend has it that every year on the crash's anniversary, the sounds of screaming passengers could be heard on the bridge.
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maybe he needed more training.

:lol:

 

[Ron in Regina]

Oh....the irony. Sort'a reminds me of this one: http://forums.canadiancontent.net/fun-jokes/95150-incredible-story.html

(Probably wasn't the same train...)

 

[karrie]

Legend has it that every year on the crash's anniversary, the sounds of screaming passengers could be heard on the bridge.

what a self fulfilling prophecy... 'if you come looking for a ghost train, you'll hear screaming... oh look, you're all screaming'.

 

[shadowshiv]

At least it sounds like he saved the life of one of his fellow Ghost-hunters by pushing her away at the last moment.

 

[spaminator]

At least it sounds like he saved the life of one of his fellow Ghost-hunters by pushing her away at the last moment.

i have to give him credit for that.:smile:

 

[Praxius]

i have to give him credit for that.:smile:

But they didn't say the condition she was in. for all we know she could be dead by now.

 

[Blackleaf]

How do you know it was an actual train he was run over by and not the ghost one?

 

[spaminator]

But they didn't say the condition she was in. for all we know she could be dead by now.

if i see any updated info, i'll post it.:smile:

How do you know it was an actual train he was run over by and not the ghost one?

if it had been the ghost one it would have passed right through them.:smile:

 

[The Old Medic]

That's what happens when stupid people ignore safety. The persons killed deserved what happened to them. They worked hard to put themselves in that situation, and they are 100% at fault for what happened.

The engineer of that train should sue the families of every person involved, for his emotional distress.

 

[TenPenny]

If they had been caught by the railroad police before the accident, they would have been arrested. With homeland security rules, the railroads are very fussy about trespassers when they catch them.