The old railway 10 system in Scott city Kansas was told to be haunted and I have the one true story. It was a dark night, the wind was blowing very slowly. The moon was slowly moving and you could hear a small howling in the distance. I was walking down the railway all by my self I did not believe in ghosts at all I thought the idea just seemed unlikely to have any kind of encounter with a paranormal entity. I was walking down the old tracks they were old there was cracks in the crossbars there was even pixies of track missing.
I started to smell something unusual I had never smelt this smell before except for one time. I am a hunter and this smell reminded me of an animal I came by that was rotting away and there was a smell of death and there was nothing that I could do about it. I just kept walking and the smell got worse. I noticed that the pleasant evening was leaving. There was a storm that had rolled in. The thunder was like a cannon. The flashes of light lit up every thing but only for a few seconds at a time.
The lightning was so bright and then I got a glimpse of something on the tracks I could not tell what it was. I walked closer the wind started to blow fare and faster. The lightning struck again this time I could see the figure. It was a dark old looking figure that was see through. I could not longer move I could feel he hairs on my back start going up as this thing started to walk closer to me. It left no foot prints. It was holding a lantern that had a green light in it. There was another flash of light and I could see his face or what was left. I could see his mouth hanging there as he came close and the more I seen the top of his head was missing but you could see a brain. The brain was beating in four four time.i could here a thump, thump as it got closer, it was finally over me. This figure had a face but had no scalp or eye balls and looked like some thing had run him over. His right leg was cut in half. There was a tag on his left shoe I could see that said the midnight rider. He said in a voice that sent chills up and down my spine " it is coming for you next".
He vanished out of thin air, my heart was no beating so fast I'm surprised I did not go into cardiac arrest. I kept on walking more nervous then before and I was wondering what I had just seen. The storm was getting worse and worse. I was now soaked head to toe in water, then I seen it. There was a light a blue light just like had seen before. I said to my self " I hope it's not that man again". The blue light turned green and I could now hear a grinding and squealing. It came closer and closer and got louder and louder. Than I could make out red wheels that seemed to be on fire. Than it hit me what I was seeing the phantom train. I could hear it's dark low whistle. Than it was on top of me it was passing through me. When it did I could see tons of ghosts in the train carts and then I looked to the right and I had seen a picture on the wall of the train. The picture read " The Midnight Rider". He tried to warn the train about the danger of the rail road because it had been tampered with. It was two late the train ran over him as he was trying to get the conductors attention.
Than I felt a sharp pain in my feet, head and ribs. There was a smell like I had smelled before and there was a glow that started to form into a body. It was the Midnight Rider he was know looking at me exempt this time he had his whole face and eyes. He said it is your time and I could feel the bones and flesh of my body slowly deteriorating away. Then there was nothing left but my mind. The Midnight Rider sat me down by him and we wrote of into the night in this train of despair. The last thing that was said to me by the Midnight Rider was " I told your time had come and next time you will get to tell some one. Then the train along with every one in disappeared including me, never to be heard from again.
The following year a kid was wondering the tracks on a cloudy night on Halloween and he claims to have seen the man who had died the year before holding a lantern saying your time is now. To this day the Midnight Rider and I find more helper and people to ride with us on this train that never ends. When I'll come back you will not know so don't go walking downtown the rail road tracks alone. Because you might stumble upon the Phantom Train.
