http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/two-missouri-girls-playing-ghost-train-game-die-when-train/article_205ca220-af06-11e1-b3dd-001a4bcf6878.html
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
5
June 2012
BY
KIM BELL
POPLAR
BLUFF, Mo. --
Five teens inside a Jeep were playing a game, based on ghost legends, when they
parked on railroad tracks just after midnight Tuesday morning.
"They
were playing a stupid game called 'Ghost Train,' and the object is to get
scared, kind of like telling stories on Halloween," said Butler County
Coroner Jim Akers. "The game was to park on the tracks, let the windows
fog up inside and let your mind play tricks on you."
But
the game took a deadly turn when a real Amtrak train approached and the driver
couldn't restart her vehicle, Akers said. Three of the teens got out safely,
but two girls in a panic couldn't unbuckle their seatbelts in time. [...]
