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Ashtabula OH/ Hammond IN
Season 1 · Episode 2

Ashtabula OH/ Hammond IN

Small Town Secrets · Fred Knoop

April 9, 201948m 42s

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Show Notes

The Ashtabula train disaster has many names, the Ashtabula bridge disaster, the Ashtubla Horror or the Ashtabula river railroad disaster. Which ever name you choose they all refer to a terrible derailment that occured in Ashtubla Ohio on December 29, 1876.


www.deadohio.com/AshTrain.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtabula_River_railroad_disaster#cite_note-25

WikiPedia article about Amasa Stone


During the last months of the first world war, on June 22, 1918 a horrific accident occured near Hammond Indiana. The 26 cars of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were holding the performers and other circus workers as it chugged ahead to Hammond where the circus had a show. 


the-line-up.com/showmens-rest

WikiPedia article about Hammond Circus Train Wreck


Local Headlines


www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-speaks-out-on-seizing-artifacts-from-indiana-home-staggering-discovery-of-human-bones/

www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/investigation-underway-after-more-skeletal-remains-found-in-robeson-county/1819798651

www.necn.com/news/new-england/Victorian-Era-Ghost-Spotted-at-Wilmington-Market-Basket-507670481.html


Listener Stories

www.legendsofamerica.com/we-stevelong/

www.prairieghosts.com/oh-elmo.html

fringeparanormal.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/the-legend-of-the-elmore-ghost-rider/



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