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Riders of the Storm +2 -

Anon hears the night train while fishing

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I Shared this in the last greentext thread, but might as well post it here, too
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>June 2008. Night fishing on Texas coast with my dad
>On a pier with a hotel on it. Had night fishing trips there for years at this point
>Very calm night waves low, moon very bright, possibly a full moon but I can't
remember clearly
>Time rolls around to 2am
>Somewhere in the distance, we both hear what sounds like the whistle of a steam locomotive
>Dad compares it to the train Astroworld used to have
>Drones on for 2-3 minutes before fading away
>Obviously not a normal train since diesels are ubiquitous
>Thought it could've come from the oil refineries, except they were too far away to hear anything that
clearly from them
>Remember that in 1900, the huge hurricane trapped a train and flooded its cars with storm surges, killing
everyone inside
>Local story is that you can hear the train in the dead of night, but only when another large storm will hit the
island soon
>Fast forward to September later that year
>Hurricane Ike makes landfall and fucks up the coastline. The hotel of that pier was totaled by the storm
and was later demolished
>Never heard any similar-sounding whistles again in future fishing trips
Something interesting to note is that both that 1900 storm and Ike were Category 4 hurricanes, and both
made landfall in September within close proximity to each other (Sept. 8th & Sept. 13th). I also tried looking
up other accounts of the ghost train, but I got nothing aside from my own foggy memories of summer camp
where I was first told about it. I did find articles talking about an actual train that got stuck and was flooded
such as this one here.
That island is known for a lot of local hauntings (including its railroad museum, funny enough), but this is
the only real inexplicable experience I had there.