I've done a lot of research into Moonville myself with my love of trains and belief in the paranormal. One misconception about the railroad through Moonville was the signals. Most sources say that the line was unsignalled until 1981. Actually, the line had automatic block signals installed in 1925 and was dispatched by train orders from the stations along the route. In 1981, the route was updated and the signals switched to Centralized Traffic Control (Traffic Control System on Chessie System). In the 1980 and 1981 Chessie System timetables that I have that show the line before and after the updates, there is no mention of any special signal at the Moonville Tunnel.

They were finally able to get Moonville Tunnel on the National Register for Historic Places! And they're currently rebuilding bridges over Raccoon Creek and the trail should be continuous and complete by the end of the summer.

I've been to Moonville twice in my life. First was in October of 2014. The second in May of 2020. I can say that the land is very beautiful and calm, but the tunnel itself when your inside it you can't help but get a feeling of that your being watched by something, especially after a friend claimed that something hit her. Either way I would like to go back in the future, not alone though.

Been there many of times as a kid... As an adult took my wife camping at Lake Hope... A very beautiful area...

I went to the Lake Hope area numerous times as a kid, I remember when the Chessie still ran freight on the line. Those trains would FLY down the track. We used to stay at a rental place on Wheelabout Rd. just east of Lake Hope off of Shea Rd., which turns into Hope-Moonville Rd. There used to be an abandoned clay mine right behind the old Hope school house which is now the Zaleski State Forest Backpack Trail Head. It's since been reclaimed. Once was at least a one track siding there, to the north of the mine on the other side of Raccoon Creek, and on the south side of Shea Rd. There probably was a rail siding to the west into the mine, before the track crossed the creek just before it crossed Wheelabout Rd. If you go there in the summer, bring really good bug spray, the mosquitos are brutal...

Great video. Twenty years ago my wife and I and our two kids hiked to the tunnel and checked it out. On our return trip back to the car a large tree fell across the trail right behind us and scared the complete shit out of us!

Love the music. The piano is haunting. Is that you on piano as well? 🎹✌🏽

I visited there just earlier. It was a fun walk. I did not feel uneasy at all.

Great job on the research and video! I just explored The Moonville tunnel just by chance yesterday. It has a very old feel as if you are setting foot back in time.

As a B&O fan thanks for uploading this, It was after all America's original railroad

As a local, I've never been here until tonight. We're about 20 minutes away and was looking up videos. Very informational, thank you!

Glad to see you still uploading dude - your content is amazing

The last death was in 1986 when a 10-year-old girl was struck by a CSX train on the trestle that crossed Raccoon Creek. I believe CSX wanted to retain the line as a secondary but it was just too dangerous and too expensive to operate.

I love these

I love Moonville! I even named my (inflatable) boat "The Moonville"

Me Too! Got Lyme disease about the same area in the strip mine.

Greetings from the Ohio Porters.🇺🇸 I heard about this today at my doctors office. He informed me of some details and I had to pull up the site since we love to Train Chase, etc. Good details! 🤩 I’m glad that it has been saved and can still be utilized in some means. We plan on going there in the near future…it’s on our list for summer of 2022. Thanks for all the info on Moonville. We will check out the other location east of there as well. 🥰🇺🇸✌️

I love how much info you put into this. I Had no idea about a lot of this history. Although I do miss the look of the camcorders.

Just went there yesterday. I live in the plains Ohio, 20 mins from mineral

I was just at that barn earlier today! I tried to go forward to the house there but it was to overgrown. I'm going back in the fall too

Great rendition of Sufjan Stevens! And just great video in general

Grew up about an hour from moonville and we took a trip on halloween night. Climbed to the top of the tunnel and seen a flashlight coming down right where the railroad ran thru. The light vanished when it got close to us so we were pretty freaked out. Waited a few minutes and decided to leave. As we were leaving we took the path to the right instead of the creek. Made it about halfway down the path and something caught my eye. It was a single barefoot print in the mud.

Just throwing into that comment that you got Lyme disease is a pretty cool thing. May God bless you on your explorations.

I’ve been to Moonville tunnel and King’s Hollow tunnel multiple times. they are both beautiful but hold an eerie feeling

Going to the moonville festival this saturday

thanks for the great video..Midnight at Moonville Fest is this weekend and I could not have found your video at a better time..

Great video!

Wow that's all I got to say is wow everything you said is what I already knew but you made it into a video and I give you much respect for that

Very good

I grew up in this area, it was always a neat party spot, especially around Halloween.

Your a good researcher...totally interesting

Hey! In Grafton, there’s an abandoned elementary school there! Can you possibly check it out? I saw it during my maneuverability practice!

I’m here and plan on riding the trail at night there’s also a book out about all the ghost stories in the county I highly suggest this place , hocking hills is amazing but this trail is definitely a hidden gem

"Since the 1960's nothing remained, except the tunnels" ... Hard to square that with having to run out of the tunnel while a long off train horn(which was NOT that far away), was coming ... I got out of the tunnel and stood to the side as the train came through at what seemed 100 MPH ... very scarey, but gladdly, I wasn't caught "on", the tressel ... otherwise I don't know if I'd had run to the place(half way across), where I could stand(likely actually cower), on a little extension over Racoon Creek. This was, 1975(or maybe 1976), and the tracks were removed sometime afterward. I went to Hocking College(Hocking Technical College), 1972-1974, and had many field classes at this tressel ... Thank God, trains were rare ... our driver, always knew that if a train horn was heard, no matter how far off it was heard to be ... never cross the track, because the hills would mask the real distance ... Imagine the 1940's and how frightful(exhilarating), seeing a big steam engine coming out of that tunnel at 50+mph ...

Was there last week. They are creating a path through it. You can park and walk the bridge right to it now, instead of walking through the woods.

Bruh I went here and on me all my buddysnames was written on the wall in red and we almost died that night

Wish you would have shown the inside of the shack. Its incredible that it's the last actual buidling to survive.

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I recognize that instrumental in the end, what's it called? Amazing video btw I'm going to visit sometime soon, I hope your healthy and okay

Get better Buddy!

Bro we tried going to see the tunnel but the road up there is insane, don’t recommend driving a big vehicle up there. The road is very narrow and some points w no guard rale.

I’ve read that David Keeton was killed by a train in Moonville in 1886 and also haunts the tunnel, apparently throwing pebbles at people. Did you research show anything on this?

I know a few people in nearby Amesville who are part of a fairly deep rooted Moon family, so maybe?

I wonder if someone knows the coordinates for King's Switch? I know there's probably nothing but I'd like to look around.

Those destroyed bridges are fixed now, btw! ^-^

The Wellington Coe gravestone photo used in this video was taken from my Instagram account.

Interesting to learn about this ghost tunnel. Never been to Ohio, don't really leave Wisconsin too often. Do you know of any interesting Wisconsinite history?

What’s the most haunted place you have ever been to

Sam and colby should come here at night

He's driving on the wrong side of the road!

huh

thank you for lyme disease

Good video but you talk to fast!