From: Bcrtvdsgns@aol.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: The Crossett light mystery
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:47 PM
This may enlighten those curious about the mystery of the Crossett light.
As a young boy my father told me of an unfortunate accident that happened behind our house about a mile down the dirt road. He told me that when he was a young boy about 12 yrs old he had gone down to the railroad tracks to see the Red Ball Express come through as he did almost daily but on this day when he went to the tracks he noticed that as the train came closer the engineer was blowing his horn continuously and almost frantically, to his surprise he could see a body laying on the tracks and as the train got closer to the body, the horn blew a shrill whistle of danger but the man never moved. So as the legend has it, yes it is true that an older black gentleman either fell asleep, passed out or perhaps he was already dead, no one knows but what we do know is that he did not move off the tracks as the Red Ball Express continued on its path, so perhaps that is why he wanders up and down the tracks. The railroad tracks are no longer there and the Red Ball Express will not be seen but if your one of the fortunate ones you may see the light that the older gentleman carries, the question is? is he looking for his lost head or is he warning those that approach the train tracks of the once impending danger that caused his demise.
I have read all the Crossett light sightings and the Gurdon light sightings and I felt that it is my duty to shed some light on the strange and eerie lights.
I know this to be the truth because my father was called to be a witness for Union Pacific Railroad that owned the Red Ball Express at the time, because of a lawsuit that was filed by the family of the deceased man.
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