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For as long as I can remember I've been fascinated by ghost stories, and stories that are referred to as "urban legends." I've heard many over the years, such as "Bloody Mary" and "The Ghostly Hitchhiker," but I've never heard the phrase used in conjunction with these particular tales. So, as embarrassing as it is to admit... "My name is Shiloh, and I donno what an urban legend is."

urban legend

n An apocryphal story involving incidents of the recent past, often including elements of humor and horror, that spreads quickly and is popularly believed to be true.

Aaahh...ok, now I get it! Sort of like faerie tales in different countries that are similar to one another, like The Dead Princess from Russia and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves from Germany! Except scarier. These are the type of ghost stories I wish we had around our area. It would have made our farming community much more interesting growing up to have had even just one. But supposedly, two of my ole alma maters are haunted, and I didn't even know it! Not exactly urban legends then, if not very many people know about the hauntings, but I guess it's something?

How about other bloggers out there? Are there stories of ghosts or the supernatural where you are?

Here's an urban legend that is actually true, one that originated in San Antonio, Texas.

Ghostly Kids Push You Off Train TracksUrban Legend: The protective ghosts of little children killed at a railway crossing push stalled cars off the tracks.

The Story: This one is actually true. It's been talked about on many tv stations including a Los Angeles, California station by "The Earth Man" Garcia. It has to do with a school bus full of children that had stalled on some train tracks in San Antonio, Texas. A train was coming and was going too fast to stop in time to get the bus off the tracks. The bus was hit and all of the children died. It was a great tragedy. The tracks are located on a curve in the road but the tracks are on a small up-hill grade to both sides.

If you stop your car just on the tracks and put it in neutral, it will slowly start to roll over the little hill and down the other side.

A local L.A. station sent a crew there to check it out and it was done on tape, with a San Antonio sheriff present. The car's back end was cleaned of any fingerprints before the test was done and after it was done it was dusted for prints. Several small hand prints and fingerprints showed up on the bumper, showing that the small hands of the ghost children were pushing the car to get it off the tracks.

There are also claims that this is nothing more than a gravity anomaly allowing a non-moving vehicle to move over a small up-grade. But no one can explain away the hand and fingerprints.

Talk about having lil guardian angels. *smiles* Though this came about from a horrible tragedy, I thought this was a cool story.

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