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Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

The Ghost Train of Bintaro

Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

Horror Stories

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A tragic railway in Jakarta becomes the center of eerie hauntings and chilling ghost stories. This episode explores the accidents that cursed the tracks, the legends of restless spirits, and one passenger’s terrifying encounter with a ghost train.
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0:00.0

So it's December of 2003, and an electric train mysteriously comes to life. By the way,

0:06.9

this happened in Indonesia. It leaves the station, travels at 65 miles per hour, and it makes its

0:13.2

normal stops. But the doors kept closing before any of the passengers that were waiting to get on

0:19.0

could actually enter the train.

0:26.1

And still, during one of these stops, a railway employee actually was able to jump in,

0:31.0

and the door shut, and he went up to the driver's compartment, but it wouldn't open.

0:41.0

The employee could tell already that there was nobody inside, and yet the train kept going. It left the hills in Java and went into the Jakarta suburbs of Indonesia. And although it eventually did stop, it actually

0:46.2

stopped on a hill in the city center, no one was hurt, but people were scared. Railway officials

0:52.7

stated that the train was simply on an unscheduled journey,

0:56.6

but it was happening because of technological problems. But the people in Jakarta, well,

1:02.3

they did not believe this. You see, they had their reasons to believe that this may have

1:08.4

been a haunting. It wasn't their first time dealing with the ghost train.

1:14.7

In this episode, I'm going to talk to you about the Vintaro Rail Incident.

1:19.1

It was a tragic accident that marked the city of Jakarta forever,

1:22.5

and one of the reasons why they thought about this incident,

1:25.4

the one I just told you about, to be something paranormal.

1:30.0

My name is Edwin, and here's a horror story.

1:38.1

You see, Jakarta has a railway that has been used for a very, very long time, and along with it come ghost stories.

1:46.1

And it makes sense, the railroad has seen some tragic accidents, but I'll tell you about these

1:50.3

first and then go into some of the ghost stories.

1:53.2

Bintaro is a district in the heart of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital city.

1:57.8

It sits on the Jakarta-Korda-Anyar Keydall Railway. This part of the line has been electric

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