The DeWitt Perry Homestead

Texas · USA · School

Railway crossing lights nearby flash with no train there. Staff at the museum, interviewed in 2007, say they have never seen or heard anything.

The DeWitt Perry Homestead at Carrollton, Texas has a reputation that the people who work there do not share.

The report that circulates concerns the railway crossing nearby, where on some nights the lights flash with no train coming.

A correction filed in January 2007 is the reason this entry is worth keeping. After several interviews with the staff, nobody working at the museum had seen or heard anything strange at all.

That is a rare thing to find written down. Historic house museums have every incentive to encourage a ghost story, since it brings visitors in October, and the staff here simply declined to.

A crossing signal that activates without a train is a fault in the track circuit, and it is common enough that railways have a term for it.

The homestead is open as a museum.

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Hvor ligger The DeWitt Perry Homestead?

The DeWitt Perry Homestead ligger i Texas, USA.

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