Qualla: Moonville https://qualla.com/moonville-ohio en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/moonville-ohio-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Moonville https://qualla.com/moonville-ohio Moonville: Introduction https://qualla.com/moonville-ohio/ Photo credit ChristopherM, CC BY 2.5. Moonville is gone, but the tunnel remains. The coal town that briefly existed beside the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad in mid-19th-century Vinton County was always a hardscrabble place. Only two families, the Coes and the Fergusons, anchored the early population. By 1947 the last family had left. By the 1960s the buildings were gone. What survives is a cemetery, a few foundation stones, and a railroad tunnel through a high hill - a curved stone-and-brick passage where the tracks bent into darkness. The tunnel and the death toll of those tracks are what people remember now, and the four named ghosts who are said to walk between them.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/moonville-ohio-wp/dnvr-moonville-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Moonville: Town That Almost Was https://qualla.com/moonville-ohio/ Photo credit Deerszn, CC BY 4.0. The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad pushed through southeast Ohio in the mid-1800s on its way to Cincinnati, seeding small stations and coal communities along the way - Zaleski, Hope Furnace, Hope Furnace Station, Ingham Station, Kings Station, and the cluster called Moonville. ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/moonville-ohio-wp/dnvr-moonville-town-that-almost-was.mp3 0:06 2 full Moonville: A Dangerous Way Home https://qualla.com/moonville-ohio/ Photo credit ChristopherM, CC BY 2.5. Walking the tracks was the only practical way to get anywhere from Moonville. The trestles and the tunnel made it deadly. One trestle stood within 50 yards of the tunnel mouth, leaving almost no escape if a train came around the curve. At least 21 people died on or near the Moonv...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/moonville-ohio-wp/dnvr-moonville-a-dangerous-way-home.mp3 0:06 3 full Moonville: Four Ghosts https://qualla.com/moonville-ohio/ Photo credit Swimbound, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Moonville Tunnel is one of the most-told ghost story sites in the Ohio Valley. Four named ghosts have specific stories attached to them. The Engineer is Theodore Lawhead, who died in a head-on train collision in the 1880s and is said to walk the tracks carrying a lantern. The...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/moonville-ohio-wp/dnvr-moonville-four-ghosts.mp3 0:06 4 full Moonville: Midnight at Moonville https://qualla.com/moonville-ohio/ Photo credit ChristopherM, CC BY 2.5. The railroad finally abandoned the line. Some 8 miles of track ran through the most isolated stretch between Parkersburg, West Virginia and St. Louis - dark, unsignaled, governed only by train orders. Workers hated the run. After the tracks were lifted, the right-of-way was prese...

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