The Haunted Railroad Crossing

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Back in the late 1930's or 1940's, a school bus full of children was making it's way down the road, toward the intersection, when it stalled on the railroad tracks. A speeding train crashed into the bus, killing 10 of the children and the bus driver. Since that dreadful accident many years ago, any car stopped near the tracks will be pushed by unseen hands across the track to safety. It is the spirits of the children, they say, who push the cars across the tracks to prevent a tragedy and fate like their own. Even today, cars line up at the haunted intersection to see of the legend is true. The driver stops the car some 20 to 30 yards from the tracks and puts their car in neutral gear. Some even turn off their engines. And sure enough, even though it appears that the railroad is on an upward grade, the car begins to roll forward. Slowly at first, then steadily gaining speed, seemingly of it's own accord and against gravity - up and over the tracks - every time. But that's not all. The second half of this legend is that if a light powder, like talcum or baby powder, is sprinkled over the car's trunk and rear bumper, tiny fingerprints and handprints will appear - the prints of the ghost children pushing the car. Many who have tried it swear that indeed they can see the evidence of small children's handprints in the powder. Creepy, isn't it? I got chill on top of chill writing this.