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body with a lantern or light in his right hand. Floating towards us was a ghost made of a foggy mist.
Again I warned mother and Margaret not to move or say anything, no matter what happened. I wanted to see how close it would come, and I was even braver because I had two people with me who were frightened enough for all of us.
It continued slowly down the railroad track, building the suspense in Margaret and Mother, until it was about ten feet from us. At this point, Margaret could no longer contain her fright. She screamed, and it disappeared before she had finished. It seemed as though she frightened him.
According to the service station attendant, this man had been a lantern worker on the railroad and for some reason had gotten off the train to do something. The train had rolled over him cutting off his head. The ghost we saw did not show up without his head.
Maybe it was one of those ghosts whose sense of humor made him want to give us what we were looking for. In other words, if we wanted to see a ghost at the railroad crossing, then a very accommodating ghost filled in.
Some haunting ghosts are just psychic impressions left on the landscapes. The image continues to do a certain task, such as walking through a room. Without acknowledging you, they keep right on going, retracing the same path over and over again. They never vary their routines.
When they are repeating this behavior, a person could walk right through them. The ghostly apparitions would never acknowledge it. It appears they have no knowledge that the person is anywhere close. The person, on the other hand, would get a definite buzz, a little sweating, maybe a cold spot or two, but nothing that could injure him. Ghosts are not in the habit of hurting people. We hurt ourselves trying to get away from them.
These apparitions continue on their way as if nothing has happened because they are like reflections rather than a ghost who has a mind of its own. They have no will of their own. Like short movie reels, they replay the features over and over and allow a person to walk through their projections without interrupting the action.
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