Unexplained and Strange Things seen in a Coal mine of Appalachia

I spent 33 years underground and of that 33 years 22 of it was in the coal industry and of that time I witnessed three events that still to this day I can't explain. So I'm going to share with you these three events. Now these strange things that I witnessed happened in a place over called Tackett Creek. A big mine had three mines in it, nine sections, 400 men operation and I witnessed some of some strange things. Now this is just an example map of what some of these big mines look like. This is blurred on purpose to protect the name of the Now I started my career at this mine when I was 18 years old, worked 17 years here and 15 of it was on the owl shift, the hoot owl shift we called it and this is the first one of one of my events right here. The voices. Now this is just a picture of a map section of what I witnessed and where it's located in the mines. A lot of people that's experienced with the mines knows what they're looking at but to yous that don't this is just an example what it looks like. The red is the belt line. Well the belts went off one night. We was up there working on a section up in the morning so I head down there and see if I can find out what's wrong with the belt, why it ain't running. Couldn't get a hold nobody on the phone. Went down there and the belt wasn't running but the main line wasn't running either. I said well what in the world is going on here. So I hollered on the phone but the phone was so weak nobody would answer it. Barely could talk back to the section. So I headed on down to the the power center there down here to the braddish. It's in a little concealed place and when I got out of the scoot and it was dead quiet and I started over towards the door I heard some voices. I said wait a minute I hear somebody. Well I listened but I couldn't understand a word they were saying. It was like foreign languages just a bunch of voices that I couldn't understand. I listened and listened it went on for about 20-30 seconds and then it just faded away. I said what in the world. So I said somebody's in there at that power center. Them belt men's bad to climb on top of. So I went on in there thought well they'd knocked the brake. Well there was the power center in there. Everything normal nobody around. There wasn't no back door in there to the belt line on the braddish there. It was this is only one way in one way out. Well that's strange. Well I checked the breaker and everything everything was okay on that just the main line went down. That still puzzles me. I don't know what the world that was. So I took my time back out of there but I never did hear that again to this day. I never heard that. Voices you know like strange strange voices. I've never heard of no no language of such. Well that was that was one of the occurrences. Now another one is the number one mine. This was called nine section. Now we had a layoff and the mines was fixing to shut down in about four months. So I was a low man on seniority. This was a union mine. So I got put off being a mechanic down to being a belt man. Well late one night I was down here on these old belt lines and I heard people talking about they've been seeing lights down this belt line. Well I didn't pay no attention to it. Night after night being an old mechanic I didn't like shoveling no way. But I done my job. Well one night I looked up there and there was a light coming down the belt line. There wasn't nobody in that mine. They was all on the section. I was the only belt man in the mines on that end. We was so short-handed and I watched that light and it just stopped and then it went over towards the rib and then it went into the rib. Just disappeared. I said what in the world that was a strange scary belt. So I run up there see where we went through a bratty store or they wasn't nothing there. He went into solid coal whatever that light was. Well that was a weird strange event. So that that's another occurrence and the most weirdest occurrence I ever had was a spirit. We went back in the old workings one night. I doubled back to go back in these old workings to help build some seals. Seal off an old section that they hadn't worked anymore. They were sealing it off to help the ventilation. Here's about what they looked like. Just sealing off old workings and I was helping the older guys. I was a young guy then and me and they was a crew of about four or five of us. So they was building the braddish we was supplying block to and we was cleaning up the area where they wanted to build the braddishes the seals. We was tearing out old cables and cleaning out and making and I just had an eerie feeling in there. Real eerie and we so we just kept working but I just cleaning up the area for the seals and I kept having eerie feelings like somebody was watching me. Like it just wasn't right and here these old workings here where they'd robbed back to a certain point. You could see all the old timbers here they'd set. It was a spooky place but there was just something brunt and right. So we's eating dinner here. We'd all been doubled back anyway so we's eating our hot lunch at the union. Claimed that the company had to provide for us. Wasn't much of a lump and they tell me about a guy that I told them the feelings I was having that this guy had got killed here working on a tailpiece right there where we're cleaning up at. He got covered up by cleaning on the tailpiece just about five six years ago. An old rock just falls out. This is about what it looks like. Old rock fall fell out in between the boats. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Well after dinner we went back to cleaning. They went back to building sealing these seals braddishes building and every time I'd go by this place I had the awful feeling like somebody was watching me. So we just kept on the rest of chill cleaning up getting stuff done. When we got ready to leave I had to go by one more time and I just happened to look over that way and I could have swore that there was an image of a man a worker an old miner standing there looking at me with his hands in his pocket and I tried to get my buddies to look at it and everything but before I could get him he he just seemed to fade away. Never seen him again. That was the most eeriest feeling I could swear that I seen what I seen. Nobody believed me but I don't tell nobody much about this. But there you go that's the strange things I've seen in my experience in the mine and I know some of yous out there old miners have seen some weird unexplainable stuff too. So I hope you enjoyed this old story. This is true I witnessed this myself. So I want to thank you all for watching and I'll see you next time.