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Ghost Train
FOR YEARS, locals have looked to the Santa Cruz Mountains with a combination of awe and terror. For all the beauty of their redwood forests, the hills supposedly host a large percentage of Santa Cruz's satanic rituals, methamphetamine labs and murders. The numerous bodies found in the mountains suggest that, once again, there's often truth in legend.
At Felton's Roaring Camp Railroad, hikers recently found human remains, completely intact except for the pelvic region. Nobody knows for sure whether it was a man or a woman, but since last year's find, trains on night excursions keep stalling exactly where the body was found. And conductors have repeatedly seen a woman crossing the tracks, each time bringing the train to a screeching halt, only to find no one there.
Brookdale Lodge
BUILT IN 1923, the beautiful Brookdale Lodge nestled between Ben Lomond and Boulder Creek has had its share of frightening visitors. A getaway for the rich and famous throughout the 1940s, the lodge drew guests ranging from Joan "Mommy Dearest" Crawford and Rita Hayworth to President Herbert Hoover.
But "Sarah" is undoubtedly Brookdale's most famous guest. Sarah, a niece of the first lodge owner, drowned in the hotel's creek, which still flows through the dining room. According to guests, she began making ghostly appearances during the end of hotel's heyday.
After Sarah's premiere appearances, a series of tragedies struck the hotel. A fatal fire in 1952 was followed by disastrous floods in 1955, then another blaze. Visitors still report hearing voices calling to guests, glasses shattering by themselves, and big-band tunes echoing through empty rooms--and seeing a mysterious young girl wandering the halls in '40s fashions.
"The thing that has always impressed me is that this is nothing new," Phil Reader says. "Strange things have been going on since the beginning of Santa Cruz's written history."
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Ghost Train
FOR YEARS, locals have looked to the Santa Cruz Mountains with a combination of awe and terror. For all the beauty of their redwood forests, the hills supposedly host a large percentage of Santa Cruz's satanic rituals, methamphetamine labs and murders. The numerous bodies found in the mountains suggest that, once again, there's often truth in legend.
At Felton's Roaring Camp Railroad, hikers recently found human remains, completely intact except for the pelvic region. Nobody knows for sure whether it was a man or a woman, but since last year's find, trains on night excursions keep stalling exactly where the body was found. And conductors have repeatedly seen a woman crossing the tracks, each time bringing the train to a screeching halt, only to find no one there.
Brookdale Lodge
BUILT IN 1923, the beautiful Brookdale Lodge nestled between Ben Lomond and Boulder Creek has had its share of frightening visitors. A getaway for the rich and famous throughout the 1940s, the lodge drew guests ranging from Joan "Mommy Dearest" Crawford and Rita Hayworth to President Herbert Hoover.
But "Sarah" is undoubtedly Brookdale's most famous guest. Sarah, a niece of the first lodge owner, drowned in the hotel's creek, which still flows through the dining room. According to guests, she began making ghostly appearances during the end of hotel's heyday.
After Sarah's premiere appearances, a series of tragedies struck the hotel. A fatal fire in 1952 was followed by disastrous floods in 1955, then another blaze. Visitors still report hearing voices calling to guests, glasses shattering by themselves, and big-band tunes echoing through empty rooms--and seeing a mysterious young girl wandering the halls in '40s fashions.
"The thing that has always impressed me is that this is nothing new," Phil Reader says. "Strange things have been going on since the beginning of Santa Cruz's written history."
Spooky.
More scary stuff here
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Roywhitep5
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wow maybe those thirty people that we saw were ghosts(omg)
okay people so if you're driving in the hills and someone pops out of nowhere, dont bother stoping cuz its probably a ghost
okay people so if you're driving in the hills and someone pops out of nowhere, dont bother stoping cuz its probably a ghost
jrodhotrod
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Hey everyone just saying what's up. I haven't been to vocal lately. I've got a final in physical chem. tommorrow, yawn. I'm gonna try to make it down to SJ sometime this christmas break. Would any of you want to come up here and chill, and of course get in on some HWY 128 action?
