Phantom Train

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It was terrifying because it was
like our.

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There were so many people to

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where it was like, are we all

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seeing this?

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Like, I mean, are like hearing
it because there’s no train.

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There was no train.

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You’re listening to River City

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Mystery Podcast, the show that

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Matt.

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Deig.

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Welcome to episode 10.

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Tonight’s episode, we’re going

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to be talking about something I

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don’t hear a whole lot about

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Phantom trains.

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I came across a strange article
dated March six, twenty twenty

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three, that reminded me of a
situation my sister Barbie had

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back in the nineties and had
completely forgotten about it.

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According to the Staffordshire

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Live news site, there’s a report

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that terrifying Ghost Train

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reported in Swadlincote by two

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police officers.

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The article goes on to say that

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the eerie sound of a ghost train

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running on a rail line that no

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longer exists in Swadlincote has

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been reported by two police

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officers.

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Police Constable Jo Stafford and
Whitney Holmes Small were left

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spooked after suddenly hearing
the loud rumble of a train as

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they were getting ready to go
out on patrol at Swadlincote

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police station in Civic Way.

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They said they heard the sound
of a locomotive getting closer

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to them as the leaves on the
nearby trees started to blow.

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Then they heard the sound of a

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train’s horn, even though there

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are no rail lines for miles

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around.

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Putting on their best detective
hats.

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They decided to make some
inquiries and were shocked and

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bemused by what they found.

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It turns out that a railway did

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indeed used to run to the back

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of the police station with the

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old Swadlincote railway station

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existing, where the fire station

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now sits.

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The officers discovered that the

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Midland Road bridge used to be

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the crossing over the tracks,

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with a tunnel long since blocked

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up and lower Midland Road was

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the walkway down to the

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platforms.

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The police spokesman said we
would love to hear if anyone

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else has any spooky experiences
on this phantom train, or know

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more about the long lost
station, and would welcome

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pictures or stories from those
who may have been alive when it

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was regularly used.

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Passenger trains stopped running

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through Swadlincote more than

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seventy years ago in nineteen

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forty seven.

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Now this story, like I said,

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reminded me of something that my

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sister Barbie had told me back

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in the nineties, and I’ve

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interviewed her to talk about

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what she experienced during a,

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some sort of a revival that she

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was attending at, I believe it

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was triple T, I think that was

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the organization.

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And I believe that was located
at Boonville, new Harmony and,

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um, highway forty one.

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So there’s that railroad
crossing right there by the

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where Bi-Lo used to be.

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And this is my interview with
Barbie.

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Uh, she’s standing outside, so
you hear some crickets and bugs

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chirping in the background.

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And as far as the timeline, I

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believe this would have happened

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around nineteen eighty nine,

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nineteen ninety.

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We’re not completely sure on
that.

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But that’s when she I think she

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thinks she was about eleven

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years old.

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So that would put that around
about that time frame.

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So this is my interview with
Barbie.

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Because I went to that triple A
thing, the triple A meeting out

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on forty one that I’m pretty
sure is where you turn at the

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forty one, you know, at the, um,
you know, where they built the

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Bi-Lo and all that.

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It’s not there anymore.

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But that railroad track behind

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there is whenever the when the

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preacher said, anyone who wants

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to get saved, come up here, bow

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your heads.

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And as soon as he did this, no
train.

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There was nothing went by
blowing a whistle and wind blew.

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You couldn’t hear the pastor and

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there was thousands of people

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there.

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So I wish we could find the
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because I remember coming home
and telling dad.

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And then I think it was like in
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So which was neat because, I
mean, there was just so many

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people who witnessed nothing,
you know what I mean?

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There was no train to where it
was like, what in the world?

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Everybody heard wind was
blowing, chairs blew over

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because people were standing and
everybody was on that field.

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So it was across from Bi-Lo.

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I’m pretty sure that’s where it
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If not, it was the outside.

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It was like outside revival
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So it was like Bethel Temple

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Crossroads, like all these big

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churches.

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So for me, I was, I think fifth
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And so it was tons of kids and,
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bunch of just different.

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I mean, people came from out of
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So as soon as the pastor started
talking about getting saved and

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asking God in your life is when
and telling people to come up

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front, people will pray for you,
or you can stay where you’re at

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and say this prayer.

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Choo choo and literally win.

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And I mean everybody’s mouth.

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I mean, I mean, it wasn’t, it
was terrifying because it was

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like our there were so many
people to where it was like, are

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we all seeing this?

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Like, I mean, are like hearing
it because there’s no train.

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There was no train like the, the
stoplight didn’t across the

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road, you know, like, obviously
there’s the stoplight to where

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the, the bar comes down.

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It didn’t come down.

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It was crazy, crazy.

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I was probably maybe eleven.

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And I mean, it was so exciting
being that young.

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And then like, if, if, if it
would have just been us, no one

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would have believed it.

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But I mean, with so many people,

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you just couldn’t deny what just

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happened.

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Do you know what I mean?

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Like it was just shock and awe
and it was and it and it really

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teetered the whole night because
after that, I mean, obviously it

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lasted as long as the treatment
lasts maybe two, three minutes.

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And, and everyone after that,
the excitement, it was like,

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what just happened?

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You know, you can’t calm kids,
kids down after that, you know,

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I mean, we, we shortly left.

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So I necessarily don’t think

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anyone ever went up or they ever

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finished that prayer, which I

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mean, if that was the goal of,

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you know, the devil, I mean, it

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worked because I mean, it just I

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mean, it they they didn’t

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finish.

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I mean, it was just I remember
the pastor was talking about I

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mean, the kid, I mean, people
were just so astounded by it.

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I mean, like, I remember I was

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talking like our, we over the

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youth pastor was I was in fifth

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grade.

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I was with April and, uh, and,
or my friend April.

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And I remember like he kept
telling everybody, be quiet.

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It was like, come on.

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I remember like laughing like,

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dude, imaginary train just went

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by.

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You’d be quiet, you know what I
mean?

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Like, kind of joking around

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about like, come on, like, like

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we’re not going to talk about

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it.

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Like, and everybody just kept
checking like, even like on the

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way I got picked up and I
remember just being that

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excited, even talking about on
the way home like it still was.

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It definitely like people picked
the chairs up, everyone like who

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was closer to the front, like
they moved back.

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So I mean, it was just like this

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chaos for the whole time it was

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going on.

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So it was almost like there were
so many people that to where in

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youth to where people were just
trying to find the kids if they

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walked away or some people, some
people ran up to the front to

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see, you know, I mean, we, I was
in the back and I still felt the

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wind and it was just as loud as
it would have been a train.

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And us sitting in a field next
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I’ve never had any experiences
with a phantom train or anything

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along those lines, and I haven’t
really heard a whole lot about

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that whole phenomenon.

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I did a little research and

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found that there are some famous

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instances of phantom trains, for

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instance, the Lincoln’s Funeral

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Train.

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Apparently it’s said to run
regularly from Washington, D.C.

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to Springfield, Illinois, around
the time of the anniversary of

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Abraham Lincoln’s death.

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And apparently it stops,
watches, and clocks in

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surrounding areas as it passes.

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And there are apparently other
various stories across the, the

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world actually, um, regarding
these phantom trains.

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So I don’t know what to think of
this.

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Um, have you ever had any
experience with a phantom train?

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If you have, or if you actually
attended that revival back in

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the early nineties.

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Feel free to jump on, um, my
discord at RiverCityMystery.com/Discord

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and feel
free to share your story.

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Thank you for joining me for

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this episode of River City

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Mystery.

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Until next time, take care.