If you travel from San Antonio, Texas, to a nearby location, Mission San Juan, you may soon notice a railroad track just off the road, almost invisible and abandoned.
It is located at the intersection of two roads and is no different from any other railway track. Any casual visitor may not pay attention to him at all. But locals know many legends, stories and supernatural tales associated with this San Antonio railway. As with many other mysterious places where the inexplicable happens, this railway has its own dark and tragic history, full of suffering and blood.
Somewhere in the 1930s or 40s (information varies), a monstrous disaster occurred here. A school bus with children was crossing the tracks and got stuck on them in front of an oncoming train. The driver did everything he could to save as many children as possible. Nevertheless, the locomotive collided with the bus, broke it in half and ten children died. The bus driver himself was also killed.
Local residents tell different versions of this incident. Sometimes a nun is present instead of the driver, and everyone is killed except her, thrown out of the bus by a blow. But all the stories have one thing in common - a bus with children. It is believed that the move and the paths have absorbed the spirits of these children, who stayed here in order to make sure that no one else is hurt in this way.
It is said that all the cars that have since happened to get stuck at the level crossing mysteriously started rolling forward, as if something was pushing them. Sometimes children’s voices are heard near the paths, they see ghostly lights. There are also stories about a ghost train that passes over the level crossing and dissolves into thin air. There are also ghosts of the children themselves. Most often one of the children is seen holding a teddy bear and standing close to the paths.
Once a couple decided to check the rumors. They took a Lincoln Continental, which weighs two and a half tons, and deliberately stopped it on the tracks with the engine off. And the car began to move forward. Even the brake pedal pressed into the floor could not stop her until she left the tracks.
Everyone has the right to believe or not believe in it, but he can also come to this place and check on his own, if he is not afraid to incur the wrath of ghosts with his stupid trick or to be hit by an ordinary and far from ghost train. Another method of verification that visitors use is baby powder, which they sprinkle on their cars in order to see the prints of children's hands on it.
Matt De Welche, an archivist at the San Antonio State Library, tried in 2003 to figure out exactly what happened at the site. He says that there is no news of a bus accident at this crossing. As for the cars going off the rails, then, according to him, the usual slope of the surface is to blame.
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