Coal Mine Ghost

From: Timothy Ray Walker [twalker@mis.net]
Subject: ghost story
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My name is Timothy R Walker I am 29 years old and quite sane .I have been reading some of your stories and I must say some sound convincing other well not so convincing. I live in Eastern Kentucky. Like all of my family before I'm a coal miner the job is not as bad as people think and the pay is rather good. I know of a mine in a county called Harlan where a methane explosion killed 17 miners the bodies were never able to be reached so the mine was sealed. In the number 7 outtake shaft which connects to the sealed mine there have been numerous sightings as well as encounters with well were not sure what. but I myself saw a miner wearing a old carbide head lamp . Now we use battery powered head lights on our helmets carbide lights have been outdated since before I was born. I know of three people who have heard someone yell "fire in the hole" which means that you are going to blast . with primer cord and jell a.k.a. dynamite. It's said that if you go into the number 7 outake and listen you can hear them talking and laughing . My father who is deceased now has told me stories about the 17 miners who still in his opinion haunt the old mine. just thought you'd like to know . I myself don't believe in ghost but I believe in my own eyesight and I saw a man about 6'ft tall wearing overalls and a carbide mining lamp .