Story has it that somewhere in San Antonio, Texas, there are haunted railroad tracks where a bunch of kids died on a school bus. The legend says if you park on the railroads, that the ghosts of the children push you over. Many people i know have been there and the say if you put baby powderon the trunk, you will find hand prints once the car has gotten to the other side.

Here are links relating to topic: http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa031201a.htm
http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/ghosts/hndprint.asp

I'm planning to go to San Antonio for a River rafting trip and wondering if anyone has heard of this story. This story has been around for a while but has been duplicated by others. There a set of railroad tracks that is outside of a neighberhood where all the streets are named after the kids that died. That one is not the original location. There is the real one that is located out in the middle of nowhere around fields. Supposedly, that one is the real one, or it might be just a "gravity hill".

One person's experience: San Antonio - Bexar - The train tracks -
"In the 20's a bus full of kids was struck by a train on the southwest side of town. I have been there, it is real if you put your car there in neutral something pushes your car over the tracks. Sometimes if you look you can see small hand prints people believe this to be the small children who died in that accident."

I remember seeing this on a programme where they investigated the car pushing. It turned out that the road to the tracks is on a very slight slope or something. They also put flour or fingerprint dust or something on the back of their car and hand prints appeared, except they were old handprints and not ones of ghostly kids.

I think that was it. It was a while ago when I saw it and my memory is notoriously unreliable..lol

Thanks Merc... yeah, there's a few places that claim to be the spot and that's what i'm trying to find out. There is a spot where there are railroad tracks that is by a "gravity hill" or a vortex.
As for the handprints, people are just fingerprinting themselves because the touch their trunks with their greasy hands and then later try to put baby powder and hands appear. Some of those investigators shouldn't be calling themselves investigators you know what i mean.

We have a few of those around here too. Crybaby bridge with railroad tracks. You are supposed to see the handprint, but instead of baby powder, the humidity of the evening is what brings the handprints back into visibility.

So I guess there's not much to it. I'll post picture from the "ALAMO". For a Fact, there are graves under where the new square is now that tourist meet out front. A lot of famous people died in the battle. I'll post pics if they're worthy.

If anyone knows anything different on the railroad tracks, plaese let me know.

Dude I went there lots of time whenever I go go to San Antonio. It is awesome but it's kind of ghetto because on weekends there is a huge line for it and there are "vatos", gangstas, and some trailer trash that hang out and get hammered and sit out near the tracks so it kind of kills the mood. I've been there on Week nights also and its cool because its empty. It's off of Military Road on Southside of San Antonio. You go down a while and the scenary at night just adds to the flavor because it gets isolated and there are hardly any lights but you'll see cemetaries and you'll see what I mean when you get there. I never did an experiment on it because I was with friends that were sensitive and were chickensh*t to get out and evaluate the environment and do measures (plus we were on vacation and nobody wanted to do anything that required thinking). Yea just turn off your vehicle (you have to get on the other side of the tracks to start out with or thats how everyone else does it) and put it in neutral. It will stand still and then you'll feel a nudge of the vehicle and its wierd because then you gain more speed once you go up hill and you'll feel a bigger nudge right before you hit the tracks, after that you start your engine and wave back(you wave because its respectful). They push you over because they don't want you to get hit by a train. We never put baby powder on the vehicle because we got lazy and my friend didn't want to get his car "dirty" but it was already dirty to begin with so I didn't understand that. The funny thing is that it's not going down a hill before you hit the tracks (well you do but there is a spot in between the hills that is pretty much flat, and thats the spot that you set up shot, so you don't actually gain speed and if it was on a hill the vehicle in neutral would roll one way or the other depending on what part of the hill you are on which it doesn't do). Its cool man you got to check it out. If you want just hold on the brakes to kill the momentum and take it off before going to neutral so you won't manipulate the movement. The interesting thing is that there was an article or two saying that the crash never existed. It confused the crap out of me because it contradicted the whole existance of the tracks (being so popular). Thats why I want to go on a dead night and experiment using measurements and actually stepping out of the vehicle and try to observe it fully from a scientific view if any possible. That way I can see how much of the ground does play a role in the force of the vehicle and blah blah blah......Thats another subject. Sorry for the long reply man but just got into it and went psycho on the keyboard. Good luck with it and make sure you don't bring a "party foul". We had one most of the time we did it and he totally was annoying and beyond stupidity.

I know everyone that goes on it does it again but I just feel bad because once we go over the tracks we do it again and again and again like it's a f-ing roller coaster/amusement park! I'm always like "man they're going to push us into the ditch if we keep annoying them or they will push us into a tree". But you got to do it more than once. Keep me updated on your trip of the ghost tracks and tell me what you think about them. Plus they got a lot of suppose haunted areas in San Antonio. The Alamo was suppose to be the most but the book I read might have been out of date. Who knows......All I know is that San Antonio is awesome place but the Spurs need to lose tonight in order to get a game seven series.

Hey Yawtza, thanks for the info. Here's a link talking anout how it does not exist but weird things happen. There's also an apparition in the photo they have.

Also, the area where the Alamo is, if you are standing out in front where eveyone hangs out a takes picture of the front of the alamo, that's where the cemetery is. I'll keep you posted.

Hell, yeah, but i hope Spurs won. I'm a Pacer's fan so i don't like Detroit because of our little scuffle and for all the mumbo jumbo press between Pacer vs. Pistons. Plus we're from Texas, so at least i hope Spurs win. Robert Horry was the man of the hour, saved their butts last game. Loved his dunk..serious hang time for an man.

We have the same tale here in Crossville, Tn. I think every town along the US has there own simular tale.

^that's funny!

I'm from san antonio! Yeah I've been there. It's not that grand. Interesting. but eh. I went on a weekday. nobady there but me and three of my friends. i think you're supposed to put baby powder on the back of your car. and when you've crossed the tracks, there are hand prints. i don't know. I didn't try it.



eep!!! NO! i can't take the suspence any longer! they have to win. Sunday's game was sooo close!

This story was debunked in one of the links that you posted in the first post. The streets are named after developers' children, not after accident victims. There has never been a bad school bus accident in San Antonio. The whole thing is an urban legend.

Yes, i know that. That's why I said that that spot, is NOT the right location. It is the name of the developers children and NOT the name of the children whom died If you went to those railroad tracks, then you have gone to the WRONG LOCATION. Those tracks are an urban legend, but the REAL tracks are somewhere on the outskirts where there are NO neighborhoods around it. It is just OUT IN THE OPEN.