As promised I am about to tell you some ghost stories from my ghost books and from other sources. This will be the subjects for many posts to come, and this one I will take from the “Ghost Stories of Delaware County.”
It is the story of Boone’s Tunnel and it is particularly of interest because tunnels themselves can be pretty spooky places anyway. I wouldn’t want to hang around one alone in the dark for too long. The picture of the tunnel, in Darby, PA, has a caption that says, “although it is easily accessible…” -this right there is basically telling us to go ahead and go in- “it is ill-advised that ghost hunters enter it, it is private property and the tracks contain live Amtrack lines.”
Private Property? Hasn’t stopped us much before. Although the live Amtrack lines is a bit of a problem. You might say you’ll move out of the way if a train comes, but then again you always read of people getting killed on tracks, dunk or not. Personally, though I’d be more afraid if the lines were inactive and abandoned. It’s spookier, as anything abandoned is. Kind of like the ghost train in Ghost Busters 2.
This particular tunnel is Boone’s tunnel, nicknamed “Mummy’s Tunnel.” Like I said before, this is one of those instances of deaths by train. In that very tunnel there was supposedly at least two deaths which may be the cause of the hauntings. I know if I tripped on some tracks and then found myself haunting a dirty old tunnel for eternity I’d be pretty pissed. And that might be what some of the ghostly energy in the tunnel is.
Another tunnel I know of is the destination for our next ghost hunting excursion. This one though is an inactive train tunnel in northern New Jersey, and is much spookier than Boone’s in Darby. What sets it apart from other haunted tunnels? This particular tunnel goes right under a cemetery. Yep, the tracks will lead directly under a grave yard.
Some people complain that grave yards are not usually haunted because it’s just the bodies there, the spirits are usually where they died. I beg to differ. I’m sure at least some of the spirits are wandering around their final resting places not knowing much of what is going on, and probably not too happy.
Besides, if these people are not so afraid of graveyards, why not camp out in the tunnel in North Jersey and see what happens?
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