Local Legends: Magnolia Creek Lane Traditional Cache
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Local Legends: Magnolia Creek Lane
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Excerpts taken from the book "Weird Florida".
Magnolia Creek Lane: Several miles from Montverde, on the West side of Lake Apopka, is a narrow road that accommodates only one car at a time. It is partially paved and goes through a heavily wooded area (although there ARE homes back there, so PLEASE be respectful, THANKS)
According to legend, the road is haunted by two hundred passengers who had been killed in a major train wreck. While the road does appear to be built on an old railroad bed, the only documented railroad ran slightly North of this location. We have found no proof that a train wreck ever occurred anywhere near this road, and even if it had, its doubtful that it would have been a passenger train. STILL, such details rarely discourage the legend tellers, and many insist that very strange noises come from these woods.
(I checked the TOPO maps and you can clearly see a RR line went through this GZ, so the author is mistaken. Whooooo!)
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GHOSTLY NOISES IN THE WOODS: Magnolia Creek Lane is where all kinds of horrible things happened in the 1890s, which accounts for all the stories I heard from people, who told me about frightening noises back in the woods along this road. I went there, but there's alot of new houses there now, so its not as wild as it used to be, but it still has a thick forest of oaks. - "Brian"
WRECKED SOULS STILL HAUNT THE WOODS: The Magnolia Creek Road is where a railroad used to be. This is way back when there were steam engines, so I don't really know what year it was; anyway, there was a big train wreck that happened on this railroad that killed two hundred people. It was the biggest train wreck in Florida, and their souls still haunt the wooded areas where the rails used to be. I think you can find something about the wreck in the Winter Garden Train Museum. - "big potato"
YOU CAN HEAR SCREAMS: There's a creek that runs to Lake Apopka, and that's where that train wreck happened. Along this creek you can hear screams. I went back in there years ago with a buddy, and you can hear loud screams in the woods, but when you try to get near them, they move farther away. They say its the screams of the train crew that died, but it could be the sound that is being reflected from someplace else, because there is a big lake near there and doesn't water carry sound? - "shooter"
SHADOWS OF PEOPLE WALKING THE ROAD: My cousin went to Montverde Academy and heard about this road that runs off 455 that used to be a railroad bed; they say if you go down there at night, you can hear ghostly sounds and see eerie shadows of people walking the road. I don't know for sure about this, because I never went there, so it is just what I heard. - "Michele19"
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