“NORTH CAROLINA: HAUNTED HOMES, EERIE ESTATES, BEDEVILED BUILDINGS, PARANORMAL PATHS” #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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IN THIS EPISODE: According to Haunted Rooms America, "When you look at North Carolina's geography, it almost seems as though it was made for paranormal stories. There are the mysterious mountains to the west and seemingly endless, creepy marshes in the east!"
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| 0:54.9 | Parental discretion is strongly advised. A passenger train in North Carolina said to be making up for lost time in the early hours of the morning |
| 1:13.6 | lurched off a 60 foot tall bridge and into the creek below |
| 1:18.0 | on August 27th 1891 |
| 1:21.2 | now every year on the anniversary of the wreck people swear the ghost train and its |
| 1:28.9 | long dead spectres can be seen on the tracks at Boston Bridge just outside Statesville. |
| 1:37.0 | At the bottom of the fall, seven train cars crashed into Third Creek. |
| 1:42.0 | A few of the passengers walked into Statesville for help. Others |
| 1:45.8 | crawled out of the wreckage, dazed, and confused, while some wandered around. Still others |
| 1:52.0 | sat on top of the train cars until help arrived. The 20 |
| 1:56.2 | dead passengers were laid out in the farmer's tobacco warehouse. Nearly 30 more |
| 2:01.3 | were injured. Some drowned in the creek as the waters rose. |
| 2:06.0 | It was the worst disaster in Irredell County's history at the time. |
| 2:11.0 | It's still second behind an influenza epidemic in 1918 in terms of lives lost according to a local newspaper. |
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