CHILDREN OF THE TRACKS

Tale from Travis T.

"I live in San Antonio, Texas, and just outside town sits a set of railroad tracks that have long been the focal point of a late-night local legend.

People come from far and wide to drive onto the tracks and place their cars in neutral in the dead of the night. After a short time their cars will be miraculously pushed off the tracks without any explanation. Many years ago a gruesome event took place at the very crossing where this occurs, and people say that it is because of this that the phenomenon now exsists.

A bus full of schoolchildren who were on their way home from a class outing had stalled on the tracks. It was late, and the kids had fallen asleep, so their teacher, a nun, was trying to restart the bus without waking them. Suddenly she heard a train coming. Its light was off, so she hadn't noticed it from a farther distance. She knew she didn't have time to wake the children to evacuate them, so she gave one last-ditch effort toward starting the bus. She failed.

The bus was ripped in half by the speeding train. The driver's area was thrown from the tracks, with only the nun inside. She was unhurt and witnessed the horror that followed. The train tore asunder the remaining section of the bus with the children entrusted to her care still inside. All of the kids died.

Weeks later, still wrought with immense grief, the nun decided to take her own life. She parked her car on the tracks where the accident had taken place. As a train approached in the distance, the nun began hearing the voices of children. The voices grew louder and louder, and then she felt her car begin to move. Just before the train struck, her car was pushed from the tracks and out of harms way by some unseen force. She leaped out of the car in amazement, only to see children's handprints covering her vehicle. Her kids had returned and saved her.

Since that day the mysterious moving of cars has taken place. My friends and I have made more late-night trips out to these tracks than I can even count, always with similar results-our car gets pushed off the tracks. I've heard that if you sprinkle baby powder on your car's bumper, after your car is pushed out of harm's way, you will see handprints appear on it, just as the nun did many years ago. (We've never tried this baby powder trick ourselves-it's not something we usually travel around with.)

The children who died on these tracks return time and again to make sure that no one suffers the same grisly fate they did at this very spot. Still, it's probably not the best idea to trust that these ghost kids will push your car from the tracks, especially if you happen to be staring down an oncoming locomotive!" -Travis T.

Personal recomendation from Ghosthunter626: There is a movie called "Fingerprints" which is based on this story, I thought it was good (although it has a different ending)