Screaming Tunnel in Niagara Falls
There is a tunnel under the old
railroad tracks just to the west of the Queen Elizabeth Way in
Niagara Falls. It passes under a railway bed close to Warner Road,
not far from Sand Plant Hill.It is known locally as the Screaming
Tunnel.
A path wanders through the tunnel and then up to an empty
field on the hill. But the field was not always empty.
The tunnel allowed farm animals to pass
safely beneath the busy tracks while draining fields of excess water.
But it also has a darker side. According to local folklore, the
tunnel is haunted by the ghost of a girl who escaped a burning farm
only to perish within its walls.
One night the farmhouse caught fire,
and the young daughter caught fire on her way out of the house. The
tunnel, often being filled with a small creek running through it, was
where she ran to try and put it out.
Screaming in agony trying to
douse the flames, she died in the tunnel beneath the rail line.
Anyone that dares strike a match in the
tunnel under the tracks will hear the agonized death screams of the
burning girl, and a ghostly wind will instantly blow out the match.
Most who know of this tunnel remember
it as Christopher Walken’s temporary place of refuge in the 1983
feature film Dead Zone, but to some, this tunnel represents a varying
story of fire and death.
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