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Ghost Tracks - Surprising Stories of the Supernatural on Rails (Paperback)
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Ghost Tracks - Surprising Stories of the Supernatural on Rails (Paperback)
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List price R547
Loot Price R397
Discovery Miles 3 970
You Save R150 (27%)
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Readers will discover why railway men fear the number nine! ...why
a white horse is considered an ill omen ...and why, in a profession
where safety was a priority, often the supernatural was the only
way to explain why accidents happened. Some of these episodes,
which have now become folklore, can be explained as figments of
imagination or mischief, like the supposed curse that haunts the
bridges over Halifax Harbour. Others - like the 'hoodoo' on
Intercolonial Railway locomotive Number 239 - cannot be explained
away so easily, and readers will be left to make their own
determination. Few of these stories have been told before, and
never in such detail as Underwood probes the individuals involved,
the events as they unfolded, and the popular superstitions of the
era, to explain why such stories existed. The locomotive was to the
citizens of the 1800s and early 20th Century what the computer is
to people today - a symbol of the rapid and often impersonal
advance of science and technology - and ghost stories may exist
simply to give some substance to the belief that higher powers are
at work! These "ghosties and beasties" range from the monster that
shook the occupants of a boxcar on a remote siding, to the lonely
mother who sought the body of her dead son on the shores of Cape
Breton Island, to visits from the Devil in New Glasgow and the
spectre of death on "long black trains".
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