Amateur NC ghost hunter looking for 'ghost train' hit and killed by real train

WISTV ^ | Aug 27, 2010 | Jeff Rivenbark

[The Comedian]

STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) - A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning.

The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.

Robin Chapman, a spokesperson for Norfolk-Southern Railroad, said the eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars.

The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck a man on the trestle, Chapman said.

[RichInOC]

Last known photo of the victim:

[Niteranger68]

Now his friends can hunt for him.

[paulycy]

In retrospect, maybe he should have determined the schedule of the real trains FIRST, then checked for phantom rail sounds.

[lowbridge]

"Hey!...(GET OUT!) I just heard somebody whisper 'Get out!'"

Well, what do you expect from New Yorkers?

[RikaStrom]

I’ve come to hate the entire SyFy channel. And yes, that includes ‘Eureka’.

I really hate the direction they've taken that whole "mess with past, screw up the future" thing. UG

The only thing I watch on SyFy now is Haven.

[BelegStrongbow]

you’re welcome to it. :)

[Canedawg]

Thanks for that link.

“Some people say the phantom train appears each year in the early morning hours of August 27th and is wrecked before the eyes of any who watch for it.”

[martin_fierro]

Who ya gonna ping?

Oh, I have an idea or two.

[riri]

I believe it. Not the brightest bulbs in the pack seem to live in North Carolina.

Can not wait to get outta here and back to Arizona.

[GladesGuru]

Perhaps he should have begun to question when the person who told him about the “Ghost Train” also spoke of werewolves, virgins, and unicorns.

[paulycy]

Perhaps he should have begun to question when the person who told him about the “Ghost Train” also spoke of werewolves, virgins, and unicorns.

And a moderate, Christian, uniting Barack 0bama.

[Slings and Arrows]

Great investigative technique, but he's going to have a h*ll of a hard time publishing.

[a fool in paradise]

Great investigative technique, but he's going to have a h*ll of a hard time publishing.

He'll make a fortune as a ghost writer.

SOMEONE needs to write Obama's memoirs for him.

[GSWarrior]

[TheOldLady]

Please. No more zer0 memoirs.

[TheOldLady]

He can go all poltergeist on someone’s typewriter. Oh, what am I saying? What the heck is a typewriter? On someone’s computer.

[Slings and Arrows]

You’re knocking ‘em dead!

[mountainlion]

I haven’t seen Willie Green for a while, was it him?

[Lady Jag]

Reminder: The light at the end
of the tunnel is a train.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.