From: st1dg@rosie.uh.edu (Wilkinson, Damon E.)
Subject: Re: Railroad track ghosts
Summary: Ghosts of children on school bus
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: railroad tracks, child ghosts, San Antonio
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 05:33:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.191628.27640@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Ingrid.Towey@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ingrid Towey) writes...
> 
>I'm afraid this is my last post to this group.  Keep up the 
>good work.  Special thanks for the Lyric Theater stories.  
>Happy haunting!
> 
>As my farewell, I thought I would post a story I remember from 
>San Antonio.  This story was often written up in the 
>newspapers on Halloween when I was a kid, and I thought I'd 
>share it with the rest of the group.  The story might even be 
>an urban legend, although my husband and I have only heard it 
>attached to one particular area in San Antonio.
> 
>There's a spot on the outskirts of San Antonio where a 
>railroad track runs in the middle of nowhere.  In fact, no 
>trains go over those tracks any more, but the tracks are still 
>there.  If you go and park your car on those tracks and put it 
>in neutral, your car will slowly move off the tracks *uphill*, 
>until your car is completely off the tracks.  If you put baby 
>powder on the back of your car, outlines of tiny handprints 
>will appear in the powder as if *someone* pushed the car.
> 
>Apparently, a bus of school children stalled on the tracks 
>quite a few years ago, and was hit by a train.  Many of the 
>children died, but their spirits remain to rescue cars left on 
>the now abandoned tracks.
> 
>(No, I've never been to this spot.)
> 
>Ingrid Towey
>Native Texan and immigrant to NC
> 
>P.S. The whole time I have read this newsgroup (since its 
>inception), I have wondered in the back of my mind if _some_ 
>ghost stories might really be the activities of demons.  To me 
>the existence of demons is as likely as the existence of 
>ghosts.  An exorcism or a deliverance might be the most 
>appropriate course of action in cases of particularly
>malevolent ghosts.
> 
> 
> 
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I'd just like to add that I have heard this story before -
I was born and raised in San Antonio - I just about had a cardiac when I saw
this story - This is verbatim as I remember it -
I lived on the North side of town - and everything that is posted
is the same as I heard in middle/ High schoo - especially the
part about being pushed uphill.  The baby powder, a of it.  I am sorry
to say that i never sent to the site - always got sidetracked -
However, I did have several buddies, who didn't know each other,
tel me that they had been there - 
Although I always felt that they just wanted to take dates out there
to spookthem. :-)
There used to be a bunch of different storiesabout paces
laces
places in San Antonio -
among them were the fat farm, the goat lady, and my persoal favorite -
Midget Mansion - I went up to the Mansion mysed -
myself - a wooded area that was bout 5-10 acres in the middle of 
some apratment complexes - by the NOrthwest 14 for anyone who has ever been there -
been there - 
devil worshipers, high schooll kids from al over the city -
you get the picture - I got chased by police from there once,
and swear that another time saw a figure in a brown robe just
standing there watching me when I bailed off of a trail from some other
people - real creepy place.

So, is anyone out there aware of paces in Houston? That's wehre I am 
now -  Also, if anyone out there knows stories about good
ol San Antonio, I'd love to see them - you may mention something
that triggers my memory like this post did - I had totally forgotten
about the train tracks -

Damon
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