Just south of San Antonio, Texas, in an unremarkable neighborhood not far from the San Juan Mission is an intersection of roadway and railroad track that has become somewhat famous in the catalog of American ghost lore. The intersection, so the story goes, was the site of a tragic accident in which several school-aged children were killed - but their ghosts linger at the spot. And the curious from all over the country come to this section of railroad track to witness firsthand the paranormal phenomena they've heard takes place there. Read all about it.
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I feel it’s very tragic that some of the persons who know of this and have the ability have not released the spirits of these poor children, but come to relish their suffering.If I were close enough, I would do it myself. As it is, I will pray for them.
If this is a residual haunt there is nothing you could do anyway….. and its seems a bit pompous to think you could control the spirit world and set spirits free how do you know you can do that ? Why do people assume spirits are trapped. I do not think humans can free spirits
…children and adults, alike, love to play… if they were unhappy, would they participate in moving the car out of harm’s way? Malignant ghosts/hauntings should be sorted out. I don’t sense any cry for help here…
Don’t be trippin. It’s fake, there was no accident in San Antonio. It happened in Salk Lake City, Utah. And that place isn’t even haunted. Everything that happens on this railroad is an optical allusion.
About the children, I feel truly sorry that they were killed. There must be guardian angels but maybe this was all suddenly. I feel bad about the children, I can pray for them
Sometimes you wonder if people actually read the article. There is NO RECORD of any accident happening there. So don’t feel sorry for the spirits “trapped” there, because they are not there!
I to believe that many times the spirit lingers after a tradgedy, and I think that instead of making tourist attractions of them we should ALL be doing our bit to release them. But this San Antonio “tradgedy” is a myth and fully explained by simple physics and forensics.
Colleen,
There is a record of the accident, but it did not happen anywhere near there. It happened in Utah on Dec. 1 1938. 38 people were killed, including the bus driver. The children were all students at Jordan High School. Funny thing is, I grew up near there, and have NEVER heard of any sort of haunting near the railroad track. But I always wondered. . .
Second comment: If anyone checks there now, I believe they will find they have gone; I believe I was able to help them into the care of their angels last night. Glad now to have learned of them.
i believe in spirits..as i believe in somthing-i dunno what 2 call it- happens when someone gets killed in a place or anything other than killing,that involves pain and suffering..i believe that the event gets printed in the place,and can be repeated several times..accidents happen every where,all sorts of..hope any one can help these restless souls
Ummmm thats nice mary.. wonder what u released though because that whole tale is false. There never was any bus crash, and the names of the streets are because of a large donation made by a wealthly man in that area, so the streets were named after his children.
i went about to weeks ago. we caught what i beleave is ghots. we caught a face. and we caught vocies of a male and two childern. a girl and boy. the girl said get him off of me. the boy said were right here. we still have this recordings on a high frequancy recorder.
i feel sorry 4 the kids who died i pray 4 them and every lost soul in this world
Anyone know the exact location?
I would like the exact location ASAP we will be headed that way this next week March 9,2009
if anyone can help please email me.
Mary, you’re a snake oil salesbroad. Bask in your own “light”, you’re just an attention w h o r e
I’ve lived in San Antonio all my life and can honestly say this is just a legend and the picture can be because bodies have been dumped out there. I have research the supposed accident as well as many others and came across no such thing that has ever happened as long as our newspapers go back. many other cities and states have similar stories but as to scientific explanations, this is just a pull of gravity which somehow pulls the car over thr tracks. As to the streets being named for those children that supposedly died, they just happen to be the names of the children of the contractors who develpoed that neighborhood. So sorry to put a damper on this but it does make a great story.
tht is true…i lived in san antonio all my life and there is no newspaper article out there tht says “train crashes school bus, killing children”
Believe it or not but this is my experience at the Southern Railroad Tracks:
I went there several years ago with my brother and his fiancé at the time. My experience was very strange at the least. The road that leads up to the tracks looked straight and the tracks themselves are elevated on a hill abruptly dropping on the other side to a dead-end forcing you to turn immediately right or left. There were several people out there….all stopped their cars about 100 yards from the tracks and would put the car in neutral. I heard the sound of tires making contact with the asphalt as they rolled by eerily with no engines running time and time again. My brother thought it would be worth the while to put flour on the bumper of his car to try to pick up hand prints because the children are said to push the cars over the tracks.
We got in the car with me in the backseat and put it in neutral about 100 yards from the tracks. All of a sudden a push came from the back and the car quickly picked up speed. I couldn’t believe it. The car was pushed all the way over the tracks. When we came to a stop on the other side….no one in the car said a word for several seconds. I consider myself a skeptic and wanted a logical explanation for what just happened. We got out of the car and walked around back…honestly I expected to find nothing at all. What we did find were small indentations in the flour in the shape of small hands or at least that’s what they looked like. Many were missing the thumb print which was weird. I told my brother to get back in the car and we were going to park on the tracks and see if they could push us over without a head start just in case the reason we were pushed down the road was due to a downgrade or something. What happened next I have no explanation for.
We were on the tracks sitting still waiting for a push when all of a sudden we heard what sounded like several people climbing or running from the trunk over the top of the car and down the hood of the car…then a quick push and the car was pushed over the tracks. What would have caused that sound…I have no idea….no one climbed over the car because we would have seen them. What happens next is even stranger. I had seen an old 80’s Chevy pickup driving over the tracks several times without turning off his truck and putting it in neutral. This was strange because everyone else was experimenting with the area and who ever this was didn’t seem concerned about that.
These guys we met down there said they knew where the kids were buried so I asked if they would take us there. We arrived at a small private cemetery, which happened to be locked, so I walked up to the iron fence to look in. All of a sudden that pickup pulled behind our cars blocking us in and a man got out with a revolver in his right hand held down by his side. I couldn’t see his face because of our car lights but as he walked up he said “you’re in the wrong place aren’t you”. Terrified that this man might actually shoot us, we told him we were leaving. He said “that’s a good idea” and turned and got back in his truck and left. We left right after that…..but I still can’t help but wonder who the hell that man was and why he was patrolling the tracks and followed us to the cemetery. Whatever it is about that place….something doesn’t add up.
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Unfortunately, this whole story was debunked quite some time ago. If you do research on the story of the kids killed on the school but, this happened in the 1930s in SALT LAKE CITY. Nothing like this story has ever happened in San Antonia. The streets in the nearby subdivision which are supposedly named after the kids that were killed, were in fact named after the kids of the developer and others who worked on the project. Several years ago, the crossing was surveyed, and it was found that although the road APPEARS to go uphill, there is in fact a small grade going down to the tracks. This is not apparent to the human eye because of the way the surrounding area dips and curves. In other words, an optical illusion that can be proved scientifically. So, although an interesting urban legend, that’s all it is, an interesting story. Probably much more chance of finding a spirit at the Alamo.
Amazing! Kids who were killed in Salt Lake City were haunting train tracks in the wrong city, San Antonio! And a woman who doesn’t know there names and has possibly never visited either place was able to put them to rest! I wouldn’t believe it, but it’s on the internet, and of course the government won’t allow anything false to be written on the internet or shown on TV!
good story and well balanced. That type of writing keeps me coming back. So I would want to find out for sure if this accident involving a schoolbus full of children did infact take place. Got to be somwhere in the news.
“”They claimed the results showed that, despite an illusionary appearance of a level, or even slightly inclined road, the street surface was actually at a 2 degree declination as it approached the railroad track crossing.”
And of course the downward slope is causing the car to roll down hill. This occurs many many places in the country. There are many areas that have these “spook hill(s)” Sometimes there a magnetic situation behind the roll, but most of the time it’s purely optical (Looks uphill but is actually downhill). The rest of the people are fringe elements that almost invariably come out of the woodwork whenever you have a situation like this. The new age crystal ball people who are there to communicate with the cosmic energy and orbs that they say populate the place. Pure nonsense. Anyway keep up the good work, but check into the history to see if this event actually took place there to begin with. It probably doesn’t really matter but would be interesting if the even actually took place.
well took me about a minute to come up with this…
“While it is a great story it is not true. Well, some of it is true but the facts are a little off.
The story of an accident appeared in the December 12, 1938 issue of TIME magazine. The story reported that 23 children and a school bus driver lost their life in a train accident. The accident; however, did not take place in San Antonio, Texas. It happened on a snowy, foggy morning in Midvale, Utah on December 1, 1938. The bus did not stall on the tracks but was moving over the tracks after the driver came to a complete stop and looked for any trains. Not seeing a train (most likely due to the fog and snow) he proceeded across the tracks right into the path of an oncoming train.
How do we explain all the people that have experienced being pushed over the railroad tracks by invisible hands? It is an optical illusion; while the road appears to go uphill it is actually a downhill grade. This is very similar to what is known as a gravity hill and there are several located around the world.
Even though there have been several reports of people using powder on the back of their cars to capture the handprints of the ghost children this is also something that can be explained. Our hands contain oils and even after a handprint has faded the oils remain behind. A regular car wash does not remove the oil. When you put the powder on the back of your car the oil from our hands will bleed through the powder making it look like invisible hands were pushing the car.
This is a great example of an Urban Legend that was based on actual events but like most Urban Legends the details and location change depending on where you are. “
Bus crash in 1938 led to train laws
It was Dec. 1, 1938, when a school bus carrying 39 students to Jordan High School in Sandy met head-on with a 50-car freight train during a raging blizzard.
The calamitous confluence occurred at a point not far from where the Sandy city offices now stand.
“The Flying Ute,” belonging to the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, heading north, was an hour late because of the snowstorm.
Farrold “Slim” Silcox, the 29-year-old driver of the school bus, stopped as required by law at the railroad crossing that then existed at 300 West and slightly north of 10600 South.
The blizzard was blinding. “Visibility was zero. I can’t remember a storm worse than that one,” said Andrus, who was a fifth-grader at the time and living in nearby Draper. But since Silcox had crossed these tracks daily at this time for the past three years and never encountered The Flying Ute, he proceeded across.
Traveling at 60 miles per hour, the train dragged the school bus almost half a mile before it could stop.
Twenty-five school kids died, plus Slim Silcox. It remains the worst railroad crossing tragedy in U.S. history.
After that, in addition to having to stop at all railroad crossings, the law required school bus drivers to open the door and their side window, and listen, before proceeding.
For a time, a “lookout” was also required — a student who would step off the bus and visually check down the tracks. Later, this practice was abandoned because it put the lookout in jeopardy.
But 71 years later, the “open door” policy is still in effect — even if, as Andrus suggests, it isn’t always strictly adhered to.
rest of the article…
“For many years, I have noted that most drivers don’t come to a full stop and only crack the door before slamming it shut again and pushing down on the accelerator to get back up to speed,” he said. “I’m sometimes tempted to tell them the story of the Jordan school bus accident but always chicken out because they would just think I am nuts and certainly wouldn’t believe that the law is a direct result of that accident.”
But for those “of the right age,” it will be something they’ll never forget.
“Just about everyone in the south end of the valley was affected personally,” recalled Andrus, who is 81 and now lives in Cedar City. “I knew three or four of the kids that were killed, even though they were several years older.”
Mostly, he remembers the relief he and his family felt that morning when his older brother, Tone, walked through the door.
Tone also drove school bus — and had to cross the tracks — and stopped at the high school.
Dismissed from Draper Elementary School — all the district’s classes were canceled — Andrus remembered, “I worried all the way home. When I arrived, I found my parents listening to the radio and worrying more intensely than me. Newscasts confirmed that the bus driver had blond hair and the accident happened within sight of the high school. We stewed about whether or not it was Tone, who had blond hair and had to cross the tracks three times, until he came to our house to reassure us. We were happy it was not Tone, but very sorry to hear that Slim Silcox had been killed. He topped beets for my father.
“It was a terrible thing,” he said. “Nobody wanted to ever see anything like that happen again.”
And so far, it hasn’t.
this story was checked out and no children were ever killed at this site. The site has a downhill slope, not visible to the human eye. This is just a hype. Sad hype.
There seems to be no evidence whatsoever that the school bus story is true. THAT don’t matter as long as people THINK it is true. In my opinion, they are manifesting a puka, one or more that really are there. It’s the result of several human minds thinking the same thing, it actually appears. It is one of the strangest things in all of the human abilities. It is said some puka’s live on long after those who made them have passed away.
This is not true. It’s just a good story. Where’s the proof this actually happened?
“Could it be that the expectations of all these people produce a kind of energy that results in the paranormal activity?”
Stephen you know that people can hype themselves up to believe in anything. There is the real world and then there is nonsense and what is going on down there is very likely nonsense. You need real facts when tring to solve mysteries of this world. Experiencing something that is truely mystical is much more profound and sepcial after you exhaust your reasoning capabilities and can not come up with a logical answer.
DEAR STEVEN, I HEARD THIS WAS A TRUE STORY BUT IT HAPPEN IN ILLNOIS??SOMEONE CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG,ID LIKE TO KNOW THE STATE THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
I KNOW THE NEUTRAL GEAR ON THE CARS THAT SEEM TO GO ON THIER OWN,IS A PHENOM,THAT ALSO HAPPENS IN A NEW HAMPSHIRE SPOT AS WELL,AS MY FAMILY DID IT ON A ROAD TRIP YEARS AGO,ITS REALLY A DECLINE IN THE HILL THAT APPEARS TO BE AN INCLINE.BACK THEN THEY PASSED IT OFF I THINK,AS A MAGNECTIC PHENOM.
Here is the truth:
The accident did not happened there.
The road is really a decline.
The screams are turkey noises.
The fingerprints are oldder in all the vehicles.
Sorry, its really disappointment.
its seems really scary and im only nine when i heard about it i wanted to go there so i told my mom and she said ive been there and my mom put powder and everything well anyways it still feels scary and i feel bad for those teens!
i wish i saw the time it happened and i wish i could ve saved them:(