Appalachian Paranormal Research Team

Many fatalities are rumored to have happened on the train tracks in or around the tunnel and tressels crossing Raccoon Creek, with the latest being that of a 10 year old girl in 1985. More than

one ghost are rumored to haunt the area, mainly around the old tunnel. The spirits include that of a train conductor who was

is said to have been hit in or around the tunnel in the early 1900's, a miner who is said to have been struck by a train in the 1920's while walking home after a Mulberry Alexa Bags night of revelry in town (described as a large black man wearing miner's clothing), a young man in his twenties who was waiting for a train to pass one night and hit when half of the train became uncoupled.

Some people say that some nights you can see the conductor swinging his lantern in hopes of stopping the

train.

As you can see, the area has a horrific past.

Moonville was a small train town that sprung

up around the 1850's located around what is now known as the Zaleski National

Forest in Southern Ohio (about 15-20 miles west of Athens, Ohio.) Mulberry Women Purses The town itself was not very big (maybe a couple shops, one post

office, one schoolhouse etc.) and the population of the town never

reached anymore than 100 people. The last family left town in the mid to late 1940's and all that remains is the old train

tunnel and the Moonville Cemetery.

The tracks running through the tunnel were originally part Mulberry Factory Shop of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad (M In 1887, M became Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B and later merged with Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C and Western Maryland Railway (WR) to become Chessie System. CSX ran it's last train through Moonville Tunnel in August of 1985 and the tracks were pulled up in 1988.