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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
If I'd been living there as a teenager, I would have spent a lot of time on that road with adventurous friends looking for ghosts. As it was, we spent a lot of our nights roaming along certain railroad tracks in the woods of a nearby city looking for the "Suffolk Light"; a local legend about a railroad worker who supposedly lost his head and went about at night with a lantern to look for it.
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Sounds like the Hookerman, usually seen just south of Flanders near Bartley (only a few miles from Shades of Death Rd., on the opposite side of Schooley's Mountain*). Ours only lost an arm. The tracks in that area go through a locale named "Ironia" that supplied bog iron to the colonies and for the Revolutionary War, and stories of mysterious lights in the area go back to the native Americans, pre-dating the railroad, so many people suspect it may be ball lightning or a piezo-electric effect.
* Schooley's mountain has its own "ghost" history, but this was most definitely a fraud -- and pretty funny, as long as you weren't one of the ones who fell for it!
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