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Phantom Train · River City Mystery - Investigating mysteries in southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and western Kentucky

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  Speaker: It was terrifying because it was like our.
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  Speaker: There were so many people to
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  Speaker: where it was like, are we all
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  Speaker: seeing this?
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  Speaker: Like, I mean, are like hearing it because there's no train.
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  Speaker: There was no train.
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  Speaker: You're listening to River City
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  Speaker: Mystery Podcast, the show that
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  Speaker: delves into the Evansville and
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  Speaker: surrounding Tri-State area's
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  Speaker: mysteries, including unsolved
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  Speaker: crimes, murders and
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  Speaker: disappearances.
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  Speaker: A show that isn't afraid to jump
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  Speaker: down the rabbit hole to
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  Speaker: investigate reports of local
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  Speaker: hauntings, sightings of UFOs and
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  Speaker: cryptids, among other paranormal
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  Speaker: phenomena.
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  Speaker: With your host, co-founder of
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  Speaker: the Humans of Evansville
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  Speaker: Facebook page.
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  Speaker: Law office worker by day.
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  Speaker: Insomniac.
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  Speaker: Researcher of the unknown.
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  Speaker: By night.
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  Speaker: Matt.
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  Speaker: Deig.
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  Speaker: Welcome to episode 10.
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  Speaker: Tonight's episode, we're going
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  Speaker: to be talking about something I
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  Speaker: don't hear a whole lot about
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  Speaker: Phantom trains.
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  Speaker: I came across a strange article dated March six, twenty twenty
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  Speaker: three, that reminded me of a situation my sister Barbie had
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  Speaker: back in the nineties and had completely forgotten about it.
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  Speaker: According to the Staffordshire
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  Speaker: Live news site, there's a report
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  Speaker: that terrifying Ghost Train
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  Speaker: reported in Swadlincote by two
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  Speaker: police officers.
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  Speaker: The article goes on to say that
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  Speaker: the eerie sound of a ghost train
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  Speaker: running on a rail line that no
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  Speaker: longer exists in Swadlincote has
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  Speaker: been reported by two police
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  Speaker: officers.
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  Speaker: Police Constable Jo Stafford and Whitney Holmes Small were left
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  Speaker: spooked after suddenly hearing the loud rumble of a train as
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  Speaker: they were getting ready to go out on patrol at Swadlincote
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  Speaker: police station in Civic Way.
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  Speaker: They said they heard the sound of a locomotive getting closer
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  Speaker: to them as the leaves on the nearby trees started to blow.
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  Speaker: Then they heard the sound of a
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  Speaker: train's horn, even though there
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  Speaker: are no rail lines for miles
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  Speaker: around.
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  Speaker: Putting on their best detective hats.
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  Speaker: They decided to make some inquiries and were shocked and
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  Speaker: bemused by what they found.
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  Speaker: It turns out that a railway did
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  Speaker: indeed used to run to the back
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  Speaker: of the police station with the
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  Speaker: old Swadlincote railway station
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  Speaker: existing, where the fire station
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  Speaker: now sits.
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  Speaker: The officers discovered that the
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  Speaker: Midland Road bridge used to be
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  Speaker: the crossing over the tracks,
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  Speaker: with a tunnel long since blocked
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  Speaker: up and lower Midland Road was
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  Speaker: the walkway down to the
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  Speaker: platforms.
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  Speaker: The police spokesman said we would love to hear if anyone
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  Speaker: else has any spooky experiences on this phantom train, or know
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  Speaker: more about the long lost station, and would welcome
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  Speaker: pictures or stories from those who may have been alive when it
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  Speaker: was regularly used.
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  Speaker: Passenger trains stopped running
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  Speaker: through Swadlincote more than
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  Speaker: seventy years ago in nineteen
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  Speaker: forty seven.
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  Speaker: Now this story, like I said,
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  Speaker: reminded me of something that my
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  Speaker: sister Barbie had told me back
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  Speaker: in the nineties, and I've
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  Speaker: interviewed her to talk about
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  Speaker: what she experienced during a,
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  Speaker: some sort of a revival that she
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  Speaker: was attending at, I believe it
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  Speaker: was triple T, I think that was
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  Speaker: the organization.
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  Speaker: And I believe that was located at Boonville, new Harmony and,
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  Speaker: um, highway forty one.
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  Speaker: So there's that railroad crossing right there by the
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  Speaker: where Bi-Lo used to be.
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  Speaker: And this is my interview with Barbie.
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  Speaker: Uh, she's standing outside, so you hear some crickets and bugs
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  Speaker: chirping in the background.
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  Speaker: And as far as the timeline, I
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  Speaker: believe this would have happened
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  Speaker: around nineteen eighty nine,
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  Speaker: nineteen ninety.
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  Speaker: We're not completely sure on that.
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  Speaker: But that's when she I think she
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  Speaker: thinks she was about eleven
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  Speaker: years old.
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  Speaker: So that would put that around about that time frame.
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  Speaker: So this is my interview with Barbie.
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  Speaker: Because I went to that triple A thing, the triple A meeting out
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  Speaker: on forty one that I'm pretty sure is where you turn at the
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  Speaker: forty one, you know, at the, um, you know, where they built the
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  Speaker: Bi-Lo and all that.
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  Speaker: It's not there anymore.
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  Speaker: But that railroad track behind
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  Speaker: there is whenever the when the
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  Speaker: preacher said, anyone who wants
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  Speaker: to get saved, come up here, bow
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  Speaker: your heads.
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  Speaker: And as soon as he did this, no train.
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  Speaker: There was nothing went by blowing a whistle and wind blew.
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  Speaker: You couldn't hear the pastor and
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  Speaker: there was thousands of people
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  Speaker: there.
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  Speaker: So I wish we could find the article that was in the paper,
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  Speaker: because I remember coming home and telling dad.
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  Speaker: And then I think it was like in that Sunday paper.
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  Speaker: So which was neat because, I mean, there was just so many
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  Speaker: people who witnessed nothing, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker: There was no train to where it was like, what in the world?
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  Speaker: Everybody heard wind was blowing, chairs blew over
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  Speaker: because people were standing and everybody was on that field.
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  Speaker: So it was across from Bi-Lo.
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  Speaker: I'm pretty sure that's where it was.
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  Speaker: If not, it was the outside.
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  Speaker: It was like outside revival almost.
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  Speaker: So it was like Bethel Temple
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  Speaker: Crossroads, like all these big
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  Speaker: churches.
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  Speaker: So for me, I was, I think fifth grade maybe.
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  Speaker: And so it was tons of kids and, um, like youth pastors and a
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  Speaker: bunch of just different.
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  Speaker: I mean, people came from out of town.
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  Speaker: So as soon as the pastor started talking about getting saved and
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  Speaker: asking God in your life is when and telling people to come up
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  Speaker: front, people will pray for you, or you can stay where you're at
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  Speaker: and say this prayer.
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  Speaker: Choo choo and literally win.
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  Speaker: And I mean everybody's mouth.
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  Speaker: I mean, I mean, it wasn't, it was terrifying because it was
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  Speaker: like our there were so many people to where it was like, are
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  Speaker: we all seeing this?
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  Speaker: Like, I mean, are like hearing it because there's no train.
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  Speaker: There was no train like the, the stoplight didn't across the
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  Speaker: road, you know, like, obviously there's the stoplight to where
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  Speaker: the, the bar comes down.
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  Speaker: It didn't come down.
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  Speaker: It was crazy, crazy.
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  Speaker: I was probably maybe eleven.
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  Speaker: And I mean, it was so exciting being that young.
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  Speaker: And then like, if, if, if it would have just been us, no one
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  Speaker: would have believed it.
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  Speaker: But I mean, with so many people,
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  Speaker: you just couldn't deny what just
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  Speaker: happened.
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  Speaker: Do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker: Like it was just shock and awe and it was and it and it really
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  Speaker: teetered the whole night because after that, I mean, obviously it
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  Speaker: lasted as long as the treatment lasts maybe two, three minutes.
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  Speaker: And, and everyone after that, the excitement, it was like,
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  Speaker: what just happened?
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  Speaker: You know, you can't calm kids, kids down after that, you know,
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  Speaker: I mean, we, we shortly left.
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  Speaker: So I necessarily don't think
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  Speaker: anyone ever went up or they ever
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  Speaker: finished that prayer, which I
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  Speaker: mean, if that was the goal of,
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  Speaker: you know, the devil, I mean, it
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  Speaker: worked because I mean, it just I
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  Speaker: mean, it they they didn't
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  Speaker: finish.
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  Speaker: I mean, it was just I remember the pastor was talking about I
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  Speaker: mean, the kid, I mean, people were just so astounded by it.
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  Speaker: I mean, like, I remember I was
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  Speaker: talking like our, we over the
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  Speaker: youth pastor was I was in fifth
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  Speaker: grade.
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  Speaker: I was with April and, uh, and, or my friend April.
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  Speaker: And I remember like he kept telling everybody, be quiet.
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  Speaker: It was like, come on.
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  Speaker: I remember like laughing like,
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  Speaker: dude, imaginary train just went
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  Speaker: by.
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  Speaker: You'd be quiet, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker: Like, kind of joking around
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  Speaker: about like, come on, like, like
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  Speaker: we're not going to talk about
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  Speaker: it.
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  Speaker: Like, and everybody just kept checking like, even like on the
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  Speaker: way I got picked up and I remember just being that
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  Speaker: excited, even talking about on the way home like it still was.
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  Speaker: It definitely like people picked the chairs up, everyone like who
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  Speaker: was closer to the front, like they moved back.
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  Speaker: So I mean, it was just like this
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  Speaker: chaos for the whole time it was
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  Speaker: going on.
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  Speaker: So it was almost like there were so many people that to where in
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  Speaker: youth to where people were just trying to find the kids if they
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  Speaker: walked away or some people, some people ran up to the front to
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  Speaker: see, you know, I mean, we, I was in the back and I still felt the
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  Speaker: wind and it was just as loud as it would have been a train.
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  Speaker: And us sitting in a field next to it.
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  Speaker: I've never had any experiences with a phantom train or anything
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  Speaker: along those lines, and I haven't really heard a whole lot about
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  Speaker: that whole phenomenon.
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  Speaker: I did a little research and
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  Speaker: found that there are some famous
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  Speaker: instances of phantom trains, for
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  Speaker: instance, the Lincoln's Funeral
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  Speaker: Train.
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  Speaker: Apparently it's said to run regularly from Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker: to Springfield, Illinois, around the time of the anniversary of
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  Speaker: Abraham Lincoln's death.
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  Speaker: And apparently it stops, watches, and clocks in
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  Speaker: surrounding areas as it passes.
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  Speaker: And there are apparently other various stories across the, the
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  Speaker: world actually, um, regarding these phantom trains.
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  Speaker: So I don't know what to think of this.
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  Speaker: Um, have you ever had any experience with a phantom train?
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  Speaker: If you have, or if you actually attended that revival back in
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  Speaker: the early nineties.
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  Speaker: Feel free to jump on, um, my discord at RiverCityMystery.com/Discord
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  Speaker: and feel free to share your story.
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  Speaker: Thank you for joining me for
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  Speaker: this episode of River City
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  Speaker: Mystery.
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  Speaker: Until next time, take care.