May 11th, 2008 by djb
One of the creepiest ghost tales we have heard here at Spectral Review is the witnessing of the “Lincoln Ghost Train”. The Lincoln funeral train made it’s way from Washington DC to Springfield, Illinois after the President was assassinated.
The story is that a “ghost train” is seen every year at the end of April during the anniversary of the original trip. The “ghost train” travels slowly, makes no noise, but witnesses tell of seeing a flag draped coffin surrounded by many mourners.
It’s personally creepy to your favorite Spectral Review editor because he commutes to the day job on an interstate that parallels the train tracks where Lincoln’s funeral train had traveled in 1865. To compound things the book Civil War Ghosts and Legends tells of a sighting near Albany, NY and quotes from Albany Evening Times which is the area in which your editor lives:
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December 1st, 2007 by djb
This is a story told by the late Benson Foley of San Francisco:
“In the summer of 1881 I met a man named James H. Conway, a resident of Franklin, Tennessee. He was visiting San Francisco for his health, deluded man, and brought me a note of introduction from Mr. Lawrence Barting. I had known Barting as a captain in the Federal army during the civil war. At its close he had settled in Franklin, and in time became, I had reason to think, somewhat prominent as a lawyer. Barting had always seemed to me an honorable and truthful man, and the warm friendship which he expressed in his note for Mr. Conway was to me sufficient evidence that the latter was in every way worthy of my confidence and esteem. At dinner one day Conway told me that it had been solemnly agreed between him and Barting that the one who died first should, if possible, communicate with the other from beyond the grave, in some unmistakable way - just how, they had left (wisely, it seemed to me) to be decided by the deceased, according to the opportunities that his altered circumstances might present.
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December 1st, 2007 by djb
“HALLOA! Below there!”
When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead of looking up to where I stood on the top of the steep cutting nearly over his head, he turned himself about, and looked down the Line. There was something remarkable in his manner of doing so, though I could not have said for my life what. But I know it was remarkable enough to attract my notice, even though his figure was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench, and mine was high above him, so steeped in the glow of an angry sunset, that I had shaded my eyes with my hand before I saw him at all.
“Halloa! Below!”
From looking down the Line, he turned himself about again, and, raising his eyes, saw my figure high above him.
“Is there any path by which I can come down and speak to you?”
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November 4th, 2007 by djb
The subject of ghosts continue to pervade the popular culture. Sometimes it gets annoying though! At least to some people in Nantucket. A man by the name Will Alexander gets the ghosts to pay his bills, well sorta.
Now entering his third season of summer ghost tours, Alexander has expanded the venture to include merchandise, a web site, and he even advertises for The Atlantic Paranormal Society haunting investigators, called TAPS, in his brochures. For Alexander, the business has allowed him to make a living doing what he loves.
The article in The Inquirer and Mirror details how Alexander’s enterprise has annoyed his neighbors and local Historic District Commission. They probably want all the “ghost action” to themselves.
October 31st, 2007 by djb
Here are some chilling ghost stories for your reading pleasure.
The Angry Couple.
This article contains two stories. The first “The Voice in the Water” and the second “The Ghost and the Traveling Salesman”.
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