Haunted Rails by Matthew L. Swayne

Author:Matthew L. Swayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: haunted railroads;railroads;ghost train;ghost trains;railroad spirits;ghost;ghost stories;true ghost stories;true hauntings;railroad hauntings;matthew swayne;matthew l swayne;matt swayne;matt l swayne;matt l. swayne;paranormal;paranormal phenomenon
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2019-08-08T13:19:17+00:00

Union Station and the Ghost of Abigail

Nashville, Tennessee

If you stroll through the magnificent lobby and wander down the halls of the Union Station Hotel, gazing at the Italian marble, intricately carved wood, and cavernous ceilings, you can understand why someone might want to stay forever. And someone has.

According to guests and workers, along with folklorists and paranormal researchers, the Union Station Hotel has a visitor who checked in decades ago—and never left. They also think this long-term guest’s stay is directly related to the hotel’s past as a once-bustling railroad depot.

Believers suspect a few ghosts haunt the former Union Station, which was built in 1900 to become Music City’s most important railroad station. It became a hub where fans arrived to visit country music’s mecca, musicians departed for their national tours, and soldiers and sailors exchanged trains during the country’s conflicts. All that passion, fear, and excitement translated into haunted activity, according to paranormal believers. They call one of those ghosts Abigail.

According to several sources, Abigail is the ghost of a young woman who haunted the railroad station and continues to prowl the hotel. While she’s been seen in several spots around the hotel, she seems to like room 711 the most. Far from trying to exorcise that ghost, hotel staff say they try to make her feel right at home. The room has been decorated to suit her, according to hotel officials.

“It’s meant to kind of be an homage to her,” Kate Thompson, a sales and marketing director for the hotel, told a reporter from television station WKRN.

Hotel ghostlore states that Abigail was once the girlfriend of a soldier on his way to France to fight in World War II. She promised him that she would be right there, on the platform of Nashville’s busy train station, when he came back. Good to her word, Abigail stood on the platform waiting for her boyfriend when he was expected back from the war. But she received devastating news. Not long after her boyfriend sent her the word that he would be shipped back to the States, he was killed in action.

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