"Boo--A Spook Will Get You or At Least Someone in Your Wallet"
It looks like McDonough and Henry County have hit a new low. There was another paranormal investigative team back in McDonough saying that there are ghosts from the train wreck of June 23, 1900, that are still plaguing the city. Strange that all the longtime residents of the town have had no problems with ghosts until a few years ago. The problem with a lot of what was said in the report is laughable. They don't realize that most of those buildings they were inside of were not there in 1900. Most of them at that time were made of wood and they have been torn down and rebuilt in the early part of the 20th century. There were also two large fires on the south side of the square area in 1903 and 1910 that destroyed much of the existing structures that had to be rebuilt. If people would take the time to look at the county site for the buildings in the area of town they will find some of them weren't even there then. Another thing not thought about was the fact that the new courthouse was finished in 1897. The old courthouse stood where the square is today. They sold it and it was torn down for the bricks. Now, it was barely cleaned up when the train wrecked. The square was not developed yet, but the lot was empty. Bunn's Funeral Home and Carmichael's Funeral Home prepared the bodies from the wreck and put them in boxes and those boxes were also filled with ice to keep those corpses cold until they were removed. The one big laugh of the show is the guy who owns the old bank on Macon Street and has a restaurant there now. He said there was a funeral home upstairs. Wrong building and wrong time. There was no funeral home there. And those men talking to a doll made it even more laughable. The thing that bothers so many people about this is that there are some well-educated people, well thought of people and generally good at heart people who believe all this is really happening. The investigation team said they couldn't film from the trestle because of a city ordinance. It isn't a city ordinance it is a Rail Road Law that they are trespassing on their property. They went there anyway and filmed. Most that are watching this unfold are knowing what is happening. They are preying upon people for money. They are using those who died in that accident to make a buck for McDonough. That doesn't look good either morally or anything else. One thing about it though it seems every year around Halloween this pops up and it is making McDonough and Henry County look foolish once again.
The Staff
Cheesy.
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