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

highland145

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Why would anyone be standing on a trestle?:\

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.
Christopher Kaiser, 29, died at the scene and two more people were injured, according to Iredell County Sheriff Phillip Redmond. Kaiser's body was found below the trestle down a steep incline, he said.
The injured patients were airlifted to a local hospital. Their condition was not immediately known.
"During the investigation, witnesses told deputies they were at the site in hopes of seeing a 'ghost train'," the Iredell County sheriff's office said in a press release.
The sheriff said the incident coincided with the anniversary of a train wreck that occurred at the same location in 1891. (Read a story about the original wreck)
Redmond said there were "12 people who were amateur ghost hunters caught on the trestle when the train rounded the bend" early Friday morning.
The train operators tried to stop the locomotives and warn the people on the trestle, Redmond said.
Most of the people on the trestle started running east and away from the train.
All of the victims were able to clear the trestle except for the fatal victim who was struck by a locomotive.
"All indications at this point are this is an accident," Redmond said.
The sheriff's office plans to talk with other witnesses to the accident who left the scene before deputies arrived.



http://www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=13055036







For you Marc Cohn fans.
Some trains they leave in the morning
Some leave in the afternoon
Some trains they leave here
Right on time
And some they just leave too soon
Way too soon
But I'm gonna keep on...
 

PricklyPete

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Darwin candidate for sure. I think I was watching a Hoarders show...or something similar when one of the persons on the show was a real life ghost hunter. I should rephrase that as a "housewife with too much time on her hands". She took this shit seriously though. Scary there are people like this...and the train probably did the gene pool a favor.
 

spidey07

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Problem now that he's a ghost he's going to run around haunting all his ghost hunting friends and yet they'll never hear or feel his presence. He's in his own personal hell now, I pity the fool.
 

highland145

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Problem now that he's a ghost he's going to run around haunting all his ghost hunting friends and yet they'll never hear or feel his presence. He's in his own personal hell now, I pity the fool.
One more reason for people to be on then track. He might have plenty of company soon.
 

xSauronx

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im from north carolina and would like to say this person is representative of a good portion of the population: people here are stupid

/i am not that stupid
 

PricklyPete

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im from north carolina and would like to say this person is representative of a good portion of the population: people here are stupid

/i am not that stupid

Having lived in SC for ~15 years...I'll confirm that it is not just NC, but also it southern neighbors.
 

NFS4

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I just saw this on the local WRAL news... I couldn't stop laughing. I mean, how dumb can you be?