RAILROAD RUINS - The Truth about Moonville | Abandoned Ohio
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2019
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Today we visit several abandoned towns marked by decaying tunnels in southeastern Ohio.
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Special thanks to Rich Dahn for providing information and a picture of the Coe Family Home, as well as Charles Hausfeld for voicing the segment at 5:41.
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I've done a lot of research into Moonville myself with my love of trains and belief in the paranormal. One misconception about the railroad through Moonville was the signals. Most sources say that the line was unsignalled until 1981. Actually, the line had automatic block signals installed in 1925 and was dispatched by train orders from the stations along the route. In 1981, the route was updated and the signals switched to Centralized Traffic Control (Traffic Control System on Chessie System). In the 1980 and 1981 Chessie System timetables that I have that show the line before and after the updates, there is no mention of any special signal at the Moonville Tunnel.
That's really interesting and changes the story quite a bit. Send me those timetables if you can, I'd love to use them to make corrections to the video
@@theVHSvlog I have images of them in my video "Moonville: A Portal To The Past".
Too bad they didn't convert half of it into standard gauge heritage line.. (Or Narrow gauge for the matter!...)
They were finally able to get Moonville Tunnel on the National Register for Historic Places! And they're currently rebuilding bridges over Raccoon Creek and the trail should be continuous and complete by the end of the summer.
That's so exciting! I heard the application was 45 pages long. I can't wait to hike the whole trail and explore what other structures are hidden in the woods
I went there last night and the bridges were fixed! We didn't know kings tunnel was further or we probably would have kept walking
I've been to Moonville twice in my life. First was in October of 2014. The second in May of 2020. I can say that the land is very beautiful and calm, but the tunnel itself when your inside it you can't help but get a feeling of that your being watched by something, especially after a friend claimed that something hit her. Either way I would like to go back in the future, not alone though.
Been there many of times as a kid... As an adult took my wife camping at Lake Hope... A very beautiful area...
Mike, same here as well. Growing up in the area we spent a ton of time going to the same parks for things to do when we weren't in school.
I really enjoyed being out there and exploring the area before it was well known and the trestle was still intact. As well as some of the foundations of the structures.
I am happy that the area is being preserved now and has been cleaned up.
Great video. Twenty years ago my wife and I and our two kids hiked to the tunnel and checked it out. On our return trip back to the car a large tree fell across the trail right behind us and scared the complete shit out of us!
Great story! Glad you all made it out safe
Love the music. The piano is haunting.
Is that you on piano as well? 🎹✌🏽
thanks for the great video..Midnight at Moonville Fest is this weekend and I could not have found your video at a better time..
Great job on the research and video! I just explored The Moonville tunnel just by chance yesterday. It has a very old feel as if you are setting foot back in time.
Great video!
I love how much info you put into this. I Had no idea about a lot of this history. Although I do miss the look of the camcorders.
Thanks! Also they'll be back at some point. I've been travelling a lot lately and they weigh me down
As a local, I've never been here until tonight. We're about 20 minutes away and was looking up videos. Very informational, thank you!
I visited there just earlier. It was a fun walk. I did not feel uneasy at all.
Great rendition of Sufjan Stevens! And just great video in general
The last death was in 1986 when a 10-year-old girl was struck by a CSX train on the trestle that crossed Raccoon Creek. I believe CSX wanted to retain the line as a secondary but it was just too dangerous and too expensive to operate.
Customers along the line switched to trucking, too. The majority of traffic was just through freight.
I went to the Lake Hope area numerous times as a kid, I remember when the Chessie still ran freight on the line. Those trains would FLY down the track. We used to stay at a rental place on Wheelabout Rd. just east of Lake Hope off of Shea Rd., which turns into Hope-Moonville Rd. There used to be an abandoned clay mine right behind the old Hope school house which is now the Zaleski State Forest Backpack Trail Head. It's since been reclaimed. Once was at least a one track siding there, to the north of the mine on the other side of Raccoon Creek, and on the south side of Shea Rd. There probably was a rail siding to the west into the mine, before the track crossed the creek just before it crossed Wheelabout Rd.
If you go there in the summer, bring really good bug spray, the mosquitos are brutal...
As a B&O fan thanks for uploading this, It was after all America's original railroad
I love these
Glad to see you still uploading dude - your content is amazing
Thanks! I still have a ton of videos backlogged I just need time to edit
I love Moonville! I even named my (inflatable) boat "The Moonville"
Nice
Very good
Greetings from the Ohio Porters.🇺🇸 I heard about this today at my doctors office. He informed me of some details and I had to pull up the site since we love to Train Chase, etc. Good details! 🤩 I’m glad that it has been saved and can still be utilized in some means. We plan on going there in the near future…it’s on our list for summer of 2022. Thanks for all the info on Moonville. We will check out the other location east of there as well. 🥰🇺🇸✌️
Thanks for stopping by and have fun on your adventure!
Wow that's all I got to say is wow everything you said is what I already knew but you made it into a video and I give you much respect for that
Your a good researcher...totally interesting
Thanks Terri!
Grew up about an hour from moonville and we took a trip on halloween night. Climbed to the top of the tunnel and seen a flashlight coming down right where the railroad ran thru. The light vanished when it got close to us so we were pretty freaked out. Waited a few minutes and decided to leave. As we were leaving we took the path to the right instead of the creek. Made it about halfway down the path and something caught my eye. It was a single barefoot print in the mud.
I was just at that barn earlier today! I tried to go forward to the house there but it was to overgrown. I'm going back in the fall too
Awesome! The old Kings Coal farm (that whole area with the barn) has tons of unexplored buildings hidden in the brush. The ticks aren't worth going back in the summer so good call
@@theVHSvlog I surprisingly haven't found any ticks on me yet, but I'm covered in scratches from the thorns and my clothes are covered in those sticky green little balls
@@theVHSvlog did you check out the house and trailer nearby there?
@@TravelwithAustin I honestly have no idea where that house is... I saw you posted it on Insta and I've seen pics online but some dude in a truck told me it burnt down
@@theVHSvlog it's maybe 500 feet further down the road past the path that goes into the woods
I’ve been to Moonville tunnel and King’s Hollow tunnel multiple times. they are both beautiful but hold an eerie feeling
Me Too! Got Lyme disease about the same area in the strip mine.
Hey! In Grafton, there’s an abandoned elementary school there! Can you possibly check it out? I saw it during my maneuverability practice!
I grew up in this area, it was always a neat party spot, especially around Halloween.
I’m here and plan on riding the trail at night there’s also a book out about all the ghost stories in the county I highly suggest this place , hocking hills is amazing but this trail is definitely a hidden gem
Just went there yesterday. I live in the plains Ohio, 20 mins from mineral
Going to the moonville festival this saturday
Just throwing into that comment that you got Lyme disease is a pretty cool thing. May God bless you on your explorations.
I recognize that instrumental in the end, what's it called? Amazing video btw I'm going to visit sometime soon, I hope your healthy and okay
Nevermind, I found it, Jaymes Young - Habits of My Heart. I couldn't sleep until I found it and I'm lucky I did. IDK how
@@MrHott-zf5fc It's actually a piano cover of Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois by Sufjan Stevens, but Jaymes Young samples it ua-cam.com/video/p_tcyQbfRo8/v-deo.html
Added to my like list, thanks
Was there last week. They are creating a path through it. You can park and walk the bridge right to it now, instead of walking through the woods.
Get better Buddy!
"Since the 1960's nothing remained, except the tunnels" ... Hard to square that with having to run out of the tunnel while a long off train horn(which was NOT that far away), was coming ... I got out of the tunnel and stood to the side as the train came through at what seemed 100 MPH ... very scarey, but gladdly, I wasn't caught "on", the tressel ... otherwise I don't know if I'd had run to the place(half way across), where I could stand(likely actually cower), on a little extension over Racoon Creek. This was, 1975(or maybe 1976), and the tracks were removed sometime afterward. I went to Hocking College(Hocking Technical College), 1972-1974, and had many field classes at this tressel ... Thank God, trains were rare ... our driver, always knew that if a train horn was heard, no matter how far off it was heard to be ... never cross the track, because the hills would mask the real distance ...
Imagine the 1940's and how frightful(exhilarating), seeing a big steam engine coming out of that tunnel at 50+mph ...
I wonder if someone knows the coordinates for King's Switch? I know there's probably nothing but I'd like to look around.
Wish you would have shown the inside of the shack. Its incredible that it's the last actual buidling to survive.
Part 2 coming soon! Delayed due to the state of the world right now :(
@@theVHSvlog oh don't we know it. Is this you confirming that you are going in it or no?
I know a few people in nearby Amesville who are part of a fairly deep rooted Moon family, so maybe?
I'd be extremely curious to see if anyone could come up with some documentation because I have found absolutely nothing
I’ve read that David Keeton was killed by a train in Moonville in 1886 and also haunts the tunnel, apparently throwing pebbles at people. Did you research show anything on this?
I didn't! I couldn't find to much on the ghost stories, I mainly researched the history
Bruh I went here and on me all my buddysnames was written on the wall in red and we almost died that night
Bro we tried going to see the tunnel but the road up there is insane, don’t recommend driving a big vehicle up there. The road is very narrow and some points w no guard rale.
I have a mid-sized SUV and it wasn't easy so good advice
Would a Honda Fit work
Interesting to learn about this ghost tunnel. Never been to Ohio, don't really leave Wisconsin too often. Do you know of any interesting Wisconsinite history?
It's interesting you mention that. I started making these videos 3 years ago at a time when I was stuck in Ohio. I got very curious about the history of odd places around the state and I tried to compile their stories into something watchable. It's crazy how much history there really is in the state. I'm sure if I could do the same for Wisconsin I'd find a hell of a lot
@@theVHSvlog I'm interested as to how you got stuck in Ohio.
@@revenantproxy9100 Haha stuck in Ohio is probably not the best way to say I was in community college and working a day job for a year and I got bored
@@theVHSvlog I get ya. The only local-ish history I know that's interesting enough to probably warrant research is the Posse Comitatus. They were a group in Tigerton who were said to be Nazis and tried to establish their own town within Tigerton. Apparently they were fairly successful for a time running things the way they wanted until the government came after them for tax evasion. As things escalated there were arrests and I believe I heard there was a shootout.
The Wellington Coe gravestone photo used in this video was taken from my Instagram account.
You're correct and I apologize. I obtained some images for this video from third party travel blogs. I never directly use images from people's Instagrams without crediting them. I have blurred the image from the video using UA-cam's Editor as I did not properly credit the source. The change will take 24-48 hours to go into effect. I will be more careful about this in the future.
@@theVHSvlog You have my permission to use the image. I support what you are doing. It was just strange to see it in there without being asked first. I know it happens all the time.
Those destroyed bridges are fixed now, btw! ^-^
That's huge! I have to go back there soon and hike
What’s the most haunted place you have ever been to
I'm not sure! I don't have many paranormal experiences and don't view these places as creepy. But when we went to Grand Prairie School we heard voices in the building. It was really weird since the school is surrounded by cornfields for several miles and there was nobody with us. That's the only time this has happened
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He's driving on the wrong side of the road!
huh
Sam and colby should come here at night
thank you for lyme disease
Haha jk... unless?
Good video but you talk to fast!