Terror in the Tunnel: A Ghostly Watchman’s Tale

After the mangled body of the suicide had been picked up, the hand-car on which it was placed was run into the tunnel by one of the employees of the railroad, so as to hide the sickening sight from the passengers on passing trains. The police were informed of the occurrence, and a patrolman was detailed to watch the mangled mass of humanity until the dead wagon, which had been summoned, arrived and removed the body to the morgue. Its tardiness was the cause last night of a weird scene in one of the sidings of the tunnel. In the gloomy expanse sat a nervous trackman, who had provided himself with two torches while he watched the remains of the suicide, which lay all of a heap upon a hand-car near by. He became intensely frightened as time sped on. The next morning he was found in a condition of nervous prostration. He declares that during his vigil the severed head of the suicide opened its mouth several times as if about to speak. Once it stuck its tongue out at the lone watchman, and, contracting the muscles of its face, it endeavored to point to some object. What it was the terrified man cannot say. The eyes of the decapitated head opened and shut a hundred times during the night. At least this is what the watchman says.