From: "dan tobin" (dantheliftman@hotmail.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: West Point Light
Date: Saturday, March 19, 2005 1:25 PM
I can personally attest that the Train Lights in West Point Va. is very real, and was seen by six of us.
My name is Dan. This all took place years and years ago when I was in high school in Newport News Va.
I was working as a bagger at a local grocery store, and six of us wanted to drive up to West Point after work, about 12 am on a friday night in early October. It was a very cool night, and I drove 3 girl cashiers, and my two buds up to the railroad tracks. We did'nt get there until after 1am.
I parked right after crossing the tracks to the right. The story was told to me that you walked about 300-400 yds down the tracks twards the long bend in the tracks and sit and wait. We had taken some beer from work so we started drinking part of the case of beer. We were there about 45-50 minutes when I saw a white light slowly turn on and then off way way down the tracks. ( seemed like 1-2 miles). The light almost looked like the size of a white lighting bug going off. Only myself and my girl friend saw it at first.
I immediatley shouted there it is................. Not really believing myself what I saw, and about 45 sec. later, the light came on, and came off again!, This time it was closer, but still wayt down the tracks. At this time EVERYONE ran over to me and stood bunched up all starring down the tracks.
The night was very clear and calm, no noise whatsoever, and than.................The light came on a 3rd time. This time it was very so close that the woods and trees glowed where the white light slowly turned on...............than turned off. EVERYONE at this time freaked. two of my buddies ran down off the tracks into a patch of hookbriers, and the girls ran back twards the car, I stood there in awe, never scared but just in awe. As I turned to run back, the light Glowed behind us right over my car !!! The entire intersection, railroad crooing, car, and road lit completely up like daytime!!! The guys that ran into the ditch full of briers really got cut up bad and saw the light from the woods too.
I was really concerned that we all HAD to run to my car where that light just was.......................Way too scary.girls freaking out and crying, the whole thing !!!
I was pissed off cause everyone got in except the guys in the woods.............they were way deep into the woods, I almost left them, but continued honking my horn and the girls SCREAMING out their names thru the car windows. Finally everyone got in and we all had a very long ride home. The funny thing about all of this once I looked back on this, that we really never went to school and bragged on what had happened, it was all kinda kept silent among the six of us.
That's my story, this took place back in 1975.
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