Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Moonville Tunnel stands in the wooded hills of southeastern Ohio, a surviving remnant of a vanished railway settlement and one of the state’s most enduring haunted places.Once part of a hard-working railroad line that carried people, coal, iron, timber, and industry through the isolated country of Vinton County, Moonville was never a large town. It was a small community shaped by the railway, sustained by labour, and eventually left behind when the world that created it moved on. Today, little remains but the tunnel, the old rail bed, the cemetery, and the stories.The most famous of those stories is the lantern.For generations, visitors and local storytellers have spoken of a mysterious light seen in or near the tunnel after dark. Some say it belongs to a brakeman killed on the line. Others connect it to an engineer, a railway worker, or one of the many figures drawn into Moonville’s dangerous history. Around the lantern legend are other unsettling traditions: the Lavender Lady, restless presences near the track, tales of railway deaths, and the lingering atmosphere of a place where work, danger, memory, and folklore have become inseparable.The Lantern of Moonville Tunnel explores the real history behind the haunting. It follows the rise of the railroad, the birth and decline of Moonville, the hazards of a single-track line through difficult country, the lives of the families who lived there, and the ghost stories that have kept the tunnel alive in public imagination long after the trains stopped running.Written as serious paranormal nonfiction, this book separates documented history from local legend without stripping the place of its mystery. It does not treat Moonville as a simple ghost story, but as a layered haunted landscape where industrial history, rural hardship, tragedy, folklore, and modern investigation all meet beneath one dark brick arch.For readers interested in haunted railways, forgotten towns, American ghost lore, and the strange survival of places abandoned by history, The Lantern of Moonville Tunnel offers a careful and atmospheric journey into one of Ohio’s most compelling lesser-known hauntings.
