Haunted Tunnels At least three of the 10 tunnels along the North Bend Rail Trail between Clarksburg and Parkersburg—originally part of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad—have ghostly reputations. In Flinderation Tunnel, the voices of the dead buried in the cemetery overhead can be heard. At the Silver Run Tunnel, engineers braked routinely for a woman in white on the tracks, who could never be found when they stopped—until one refused to brake, only to learn in Parkersburg that stations along the way had telegraphed ahead about a spectral woman on the cowcatcher. And the 1963 Eaton Tunnel is a replacement for a tunnel where more than a dozen died in rock falls and other incidents over its century of service. It was sealed after a collapse that trapped one worker, Buck Nichols, irretrievably. People passing through the replacement tunnel have reported the apparition of a man thought to be Mr. Nichols.
Flinderation Tunnel
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