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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