Railway Ghosts And Phantoms

Ghosts, witches, unexplained mysteries, and the supernatural -- these perennially popular themes are the basis for this fascinating Ghost Series. Each book relates the ghost stories from one region of Great Britain. The authors have had a life-long interest in the paranormal, and the tales they record here span the centuries, illuminating the dark corners of history, as well as the customs and beliefs of local people past and present. The books are all illustrated throughout with photographs, line-drawings, and archival material.

50 chilling true stories of haunted trains and ghostly workers from the steam locomotive era to the modern day Discover dozens of hauntings on railroads in 19 US states as well as in Canada and the UK, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, Nickel Plate Road, Pennsylvania Railroad, and many more. Haunted Rails tells the tale of a possessed caboose on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and a Civil War–era rebel ghost train; museum hauntings at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah and the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania; apparitions at Vancouver's Canadian Pacific Waterfront Station and Nashville's Union Station; and the haunted presidential trains of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Filled with ghost trains, spectral switchmen, and frightening facts, Haunted Rails is a spine-tingling ride to the other side that you don't want to miss. All aboard!

Signal boxes, railway stations, platelayers' huts and many more railway features unexpectedly jump from the pages of this entertaining and often chilling collection of ghost stories. Included are many incredible spook stories, some obtained from the railwaymen themselves and there is often the twist of the unexpected. To the unbeliever an open mind will help, but after dismissing the impossible we are left, however improbably, with the truth.

A collection of railway ghost stories by authors who include Dickens, Kipling, Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch and William F. Nolan. The stories are intermingled with short true accounts of reported railway hauntings from both sides of the Atlantic.

A collection thirteen ghost stories concerning an encounter with the phantom hitchhiker on roads, highways, and railroads.

A SECOND EDITION: More history at a more affordable price! America's Paradise disintegrated over the winter of 1894-95! Florida's Great Freeze of that season destroyed not only the State's record-setting orange crop, it wiped out as well all the ambitious dreams of many of the wealthiest individuals in the world. Learn of their stories as you journey aboard ORANGE BELT RAILWAY with two of America's renowned railroaders. Racing along at a top speed of nearly 6 mph, meet the men and women, dreamers who risked it all during the 1880's in to develop the wilderness of Orange County's western corridor. With stops at Sylvan Lake; Paola; Island Lake; Glen Ethel; Palm Springs; Forest City; Toronto; Lakeville; Clarcona; Crown Point; Winter Garden and Oakland, you will experience a history of this region never before told. "Multitudes," said resident Benjamin M. Robinson of the freeze, "abandoned their groves and homes, in some cases leaving tables set and beds unmade, and went away." CitrusLAND: Ghost Towns & Phantom Trains is their story!

A compelling collection of iconic ghost stories from all across Canada. Time and place are infused with ghosts and hauntings. From coast to coast to coast, Canada’s provinces and territories teem with the supernatural—phantoms obscured in the mists of time, spectres that delight in wreaking terror, and spirits destined to linger forever at the edge of the veil. Visit the far-flung corners of Canada to discover the folklore and legends behind: the ghost of a Newfoundland outlaw that leads blizzard-blind men to safety A poltergeist infestation that gleefully tortured an entire Nova Scotia family A fleet of phantom ships that haunt the coastline of New Brunswick the haggard spectre of a murderous witch in historic Quebec City Saskatchewan’s ghost-ridden military cadet academy an Alberta cabbie’s encounter with a silent shadow of a man in black the headless railway brakeman of Vancouver a moaning, man-shaped mist that haunts a Yukon cabin From east to west to way up north, bestselling author and renowned storyteller Barbara Smith traverses Canada’s provinces and territories to unearth more than 100 supernatural tales that careen between heartwarming, horrifying, sorrowful, and spine-chilling.