The Halloween Episode: Munger Road

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode Curious City investigates the origins of the Munger Road haunting. Like any good ghost story, there are several versions of the Munger Road tale, but the ghost story goes something like this: A school bus full of kids was crossing over the train tracks and it stalled. Before the driver could get the bus off the tracks, a train came along and hit the bus. No one bus survived the accident. The legend says the ghosts of the children are still there, and claims that if you drive your car onto the tracks and put it in neutral and sprinkle some baby powder on your car bumper, allegedly, the children are going to push your car off the tracks to safety. And small handprints will appear in the baby powder.

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0:00.0	A quick warning before we get started with today's episode.
0:03.9	You're about to hear a story that talks about how people have tried to experience a haunting
0:07.7	by driving their car onto some train tracks and putting the car in park.
0:12.1	Please do not try to repeat this.
0:14.6	It's dangerous to park in the middle of a railroad crossing, and we don't want anyone to get hurt.
0:19.5	Okay, now on to our scary story.
0:25.4	Every Halloween, and in the days and even weeks leading up to it, candy goes flying off of
0:32.2	shelves, and the bravest among us fill our streaming queue with scary movies.
0:42.0	Some might even gather around a campfire out in the woods and tell a spooky tale.
0:43.6	Oh, a scary story.
0:46.6	Hoping to frighten an unwitting family member.
0:47.9	Yeah, my brother.
0:53.5	A house growing up in Chicago had this big, big old furnace. But when does a scary story become a fist-clenching, terror-inducing fright?
0:59.7	When the tale is purported to be true.
1:02.9	And, don't look now.
1:05.1	It's right behind you!
1:08.3	Wait, no.
1:10.4	But really.
1:14.3	Lots of, you know, like arms coming out of it and everything,
1:18.6	thence going to the different parts of the house.
1:21.2	And he, just to, you know, taunt me even further,
1:25.1	would tell me all the time that the furnace was going to come and get me.
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