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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

210: The Boys On the Tracks

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The mysterious death of two Arkansas boys in 1987 has left a trail of chaos for all those involved.

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0:00.0

This Sunday were lied from the home of smart energy use three Akasha drive and Dave Davo peck them off to a

0:05.8

Flour batch cooking next week's meals off night nutmeg and now the washing machines on then straight into the

0:12.3

hiding. Please see for the home side thanks to the hard price electricity Brim British gas full-time Davos saved it all for Sunday now

0:20.6

We can enjoy the football get half price electricity every Sunday with British gas peak safe

0:25.5

Sunday's 11 to 4 ends 24th of September season sees apply smart meter required

0:31.0

Are you ready for a monzo business bank account Mike from Bluewater plumbing was needs to get paid quickly

0:36.9

Especially when I have five or six plumbing jobs in a day

0:39.1

I first used a payment link feature in my monzo business account. I was impressed how quick and easy it was at the end of each job

0:44.6

I'll just create a payment link send it to the customer and get paid then and there

0:48.3

I can also track all of my payments to my get paid tab if you're ready for a monzo business account apply today

0:54.0

Just search monzo business season sees apply only sole traders or limited company directors in the UK

1:00.6

The boys on the tracks. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib and this is ghost town

1:21.1

Around 4 a.m. on August 23rd at 1987 the crew on board a 75 car

1:26.4

6,000-ton union pacific freight train more than a mile long and traveling at a rate more than 50 miles per hour

1:33.5

Notice two blurry figures on the tracks as they sped north from Bryant headed to Little Rock as they quickly got closer

1:40.7

Engineer Steven Schroyer and others noticed that these figures were human and that they weren't moving two people

1:46.7

Lying parallel across the tracks may be covered with the tarp. Maybe not their arms lay by their sides

1:53.0

The train no doubt made sounds and vibrations as it approached

1:56.1

But still the two people were unmoving and quiet

1:59.0

Shroyer immediately sounded the trains horn and began an emergency stop in an interview

2:03.7

Shroyer says from the time that we had placed the train into an emergency position and laid down on the horn

2:09.0

I would estimate about three to five seconds to impact and that may not sound like a very long period of time

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