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Ghost Sightings
The
Railroad Ghost
I saw
a ghost in 1998 when I was working a graveyard security job over summer
vacation ( I am a teacher, and I work these temp jobs sometimes during
summer vacations ) I was making my rounds out at the Hunts cannery at
about 1:30 am. It was a dark calm night in late July. My rounds took me
way out along the perimeter of a huge parking lot, and I had to cross a
railroad track to check out the pumping station. I was returning from
the pump station and I was about to cross back over the tracks when I
heard a woman's voice to my right . The voice was coming from up the
tracks, and I looked in this direction. Suddenly I saw a woman wearing
a white dress walking towards me. She was counting each rail in the
track as she moved closer to me. She seemed very happy with a big smile
on her face. As she came nearer to me,
( about 15 feet away) she
looked up at me, and giggled. Then she said " Oh, no, I lost count!"
then she looked back down , and began to count rails again . I saw her
going down the tracks in the opposite direction from which she had
come, now once again counting " 1, 2, 3," and so on. When she got to
about thirty, her form began to fade, and when she was a little
further, all I could make out was a sort of mist that looked to be
luminescent. This glowing mist just hung there for about 5 minutes. I
stared in disbelief at this glowing mist. Suddenly, I began to realize
that I had seen a ghost. I went over to the platform above the tracks
to get a better view of the glowing mist. It began to fade away, and I
needed to get back on my rounds because I was on a tracking system
where I had to be in certain zones at a certain time interval. But the
strange thing is, I was not terrified during this entire incident. And
when I did finally realize that I had seen a ghost, I was more curious
than afraid.
R. David