Perkasie Tunnel Ghost Train - Perkasie, PA

The Perkasie railroad tunnel in Perkasie, PA apparently handles more than just your average train passing through. The tunnel was constructed from 1853 through 1858 to bridge the railroad gap between Fort Washington, PA and Bethlehem, PA. 

Perkasie Railway Tunnel circa 1912

Perkasie Tunnel Today

In it's early days the tunnel handled two tracks and was a very narrow squeeze for trains.  As the story goes, long ago during the steam era in the 1940's, an engineer stuck his head out of the side of the locomotive at the wrong time.  He was decapitated by a passing train.

It is said that late at night,if you travel to the north side of the tunnel and hold your ear to the rail and wait long enough, you can hear a train coming.  The longer you wait, the louder the sound will get as the ghost train approaches, manned by the headless engineer.  Legend has it that you start running toward the south side of the tunnel to try and out run the train.  If you don't make it to the end of tunnel before the train reaches you, the engineer will cut off your head!  This could be quite the challenge since the tunnel is a half mile long!

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Weston, West Virginia - A Ghost Train Haunts Flinderation Tunnel

A long time ago near Weston, West Virginia B & O railroad workers were working on tracks inside of tunnel #2, otherwise known as Flinderation tunnel.  A train traveling at a much too high of speed came roaring through the tunnel catching the workers off guard.  One of the workers managed to escape into a cutout escape hollow.   The other two workers were mutilated and chopped to pieces as the train ran over them.

Flinderation Tunnel, Weston, West Virginia

To this day on occasion it is said that you can see a light appear in a fog at the end of the tunnel followed buy a huge gust of wind as if it were a train that went blowing by.  Other folks have witnessed various plasma orbs floating through the tunnel as well as hearing voices in the tunnel when no body is around.

 

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