Screaming tunnel

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The Screaming Tunnel is a water and road passage below a railway line in Niagara Falls , Canada, where it haunt intended. The almost 5 m high and 38 m long tunnel crosses under the railway line opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1853 . The GWR was taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway in 1882 . Today, the Maple Leaf long-distance train operates between Toronto and New York .

The Screaming Tunnel was built in the early 1900s, other sources state that it was completed shortly before the First World War. Ghost seekers and followers of modern legends report that a match lit in a tunnel at night is immediately blown out by a gust of wind and a piercing scream is heard. According to legend, this is a girl from a farm in the south who was fatally burned in the tunnel. There are several versions of the exact circumstances of death, one of which says that the girl was set on fire by her own father. The Screaming Tunnel was a location in the film Dead Zone , in which Christopher Walken searches for the murderer of a girl using the "second face". It is considered "one of the most notorious places in this enchanted region" (ie Niagara region ).

The Bruce Trail long-distance hiking trail uses the tunnel in its section Niagara Falls - St. Catharines to pass under the railway line.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Katie Derosa: The Screaming Tunnel of Niagara: go if you dare . In: The St. Catherines Standard . June 14, 2007 ( scan ).
  2. ^ Anne M. de Fort-Menares: VIA Rail / Canadian National Railways Station. St. Catharines, Ontario. Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, accessed July 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Gail de Vos: What Happens Next? Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO , Santa Barbara (CA) 2012, ISBN 978-1-59884-633-1 , p. 53
  4. ^ John Robert Colombo: Ghost Stories of Canada . Hounslow, Toronto 2000, ISBN 0-88882-222-7 , pp. 112, 113
  5. ↑ Gordon J. Lynch, Diane Canwell, Jonathan Sutherland: Famous Ghosts and Haunted Places . Rosen, New York City 2012, ISBN 978-1-4488-5985-6 , p. 96
  6. ↑ Bruce trail caches: Niagara section. Bruce Trail Conservancy, accessed July 7, 2016 .

Coordinates: 43 ° 8 ′ 43.4 "  N , 79 ° 8 ′ 42.1"  W.

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