Urban Legend: The protective ghosts of little children killed at a railway crossing push stalled cars off the tracks.
The Story:
This one is actually true. It's been talked about on many TV stations including an Los Angeles, California station by "The Earth Man" Garcia. It has to do with a school bus full of children that had stalled on some train tracks in San Antonio, Texas. A train was coming and was going too fast to stop in time to get the bus off the tracks. The bus was hit and all of the children died. It was a great tragedy. The tracks are located on a curve in the road but the tracks are on a small up-hill grade to both sides.
If you stop your car just on the tracks and put it in neutral, it will slowly start to roll over the little hill and down the other side.
A local Los Angeles, California station sent a crew there to check it out and it was done on tape, with a San Antonio sheriff present. The cars back end was cleaned off of any finger prints before the test was done and after it was done it was dusted for prints. Several small hand prints and finger prints showed up on the bumper, showing that the small hands of the ghost children were pushing the car to get it off the tracks.
There are also claims that this is nothing more than a gravity anomaly allowing a non-moving vehicle to move over a small up-grade. But no one can explain away the hand and finger prints.
Origins:
This is one legend that may possibly be true. We have received many, many e-mails verifying that this one is real.
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Re: Ghostly Kids Push You Off Train Tracks
I've seen a show about this before. There was once a truck who stopped on the tracks and it randomly started moving even when the drivers foot wasn't on the gas pedal. Those are some strong kids.

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Wow! 

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Re: Ghostly Kids Push You Off Train Tracks
How can ghosts have hand prints? 

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Re: Ghostly Kids Push You Off Train Tracks
I've seen that story years ago. That happened on Old Route 66. I drove my motorcycle right over that crossing back in the Summer of 99.
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