An amateur ghost hunter, twenty-nine-year-old Christopher Kaiser, was struck and killed at 2:45 am on Friday by a Norfolk-Southern train that appeared out of nowhere.

Kaiser was part of a dozen or more amateur ghost hunters that was lured by the legend of the ghost train, also known as the Bostian Bridge Train Wreck, which occurred 119 years ago.

Kaiser and friends were walking a 300 foot train track in hopes of witnessing something paranormal.  Suddenly a train, running at the usual 35 to 40 mph, with three engines and one car appeared and they had to race 150 feet to safety.  All of them would escape except Kaiser and an unidentified woman whom Kaiser was able to push to safety landing 30 feet into a ravine.  The train engineer said he, “stopped as fast as he could.”

Legend has it that in 1891 a train derailed across the Bostian Bridge, plunged 90 feet and 30 out of the 100 passengers were killed.  Every year, it is said sounds of screeching wheels, screaming passengers and a crash can still be heard.  Occasional reports of railroad crossing arms dropping suddenly would also occur.

Though a popular site of ghost hunters, especially on its anniversary, there were no patrols present that night.

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