Where is sensabaugh tunnel

The second answer will depend on the first. Does our spreading of the stories add to the mystique and the power places, especially bad ones, can hold over us? Simply put, it never happened, not in any way shape or fashion. There was never a baby drowned in the pool nor was a baby ever killed inside or on the tunnel grounds. The part about Edward Sensabaugh is also untrue; he never chased a murderer and he certainly never killed his family. By all accounts, he was a friendly family man who was a good neighbor and a hard worker.

His family and descendants are alive and well and having spoken and interviewed his family at length, I can say the stories of him being a killer are absolutely false. The story about the woman is also untrue. Despite the legends of him being a murderer not being true, Ed Sensabaugh does have a strange connection to the tunnel his family gave its name to.

In the s and 60s, Ed, as stated really did live in the white house on the opposite side of the tunnel with his family. Ed had a particular talent, one his descendant Jack Sensabaugh described to a reporter for the Kingsport Times in Ed was a talented mimic and could replicate almost any animal sound with eerie accuracy.

Irritated, Ed vowed to put a stop to it. The sounds would carry directly into the tunnel and become amplified. Terrified out of their wits, the kids would make haste to carry themselves away from the tunnel and probably also needed a new pair of shorts. Kingsport Times, Most likely, the local parents knew that it was Ed and were probably having a good laugh at the expense of their kids as well.

Many paranormal blogs, sites and local investigation groups have often repeated these stories as absolute truth, posting recordings and pictures and even full blown experiences relating to the legends about the tunnel always linking them to the dead baby or woman or the evil ghost of Ed Sensabaugh. But if those stories were untrue, is it just psychology that has made the legend grow? What does that say about us as ghost hunters who have knowledge of a location beforehand going in hot to a place, collecting recordings and fitting the evidence to the established story?

In other words, could all the evidence collected be a worthless result of confirmation bias? Perhaps but in the case of Sensabaugh Tunnel, the story is still more complicated and sadly, tragic. As I said before, the tunnel was blasted into the side of a hill, cutting a V for the roadbed. One such immigrant was Colisco Francisco Anatonio. He arrived in in New York City and gradually over the course of the next twenty odd years moved many times until he finally settled in Clinchport, VA and began to work with the labor gangs for the C.

He later married a woman named Jenkins and had seven children with her, six boys and one girl Essin, Anatonio was one of the many Italian migrant workers, along with some Chinese men, who helped build Sensabaugh Tunnel. During the cutting of the roadbed and the blasting to make room for the construction there was an accident with dynamite. The horrific explosion killed seven of his closest friends, leaving a bloody mess of twisted bodies and wreckage. A popular habit of foreman during that time, was to bury killed construction crew alongside the construction site itself or perhaps, even inside it, to save money and time.

Migrant workers during the time were underpaid, worked in horrible conditions all just to survive and often times, their lives were cut brutally short and the world kept turning, uncaring and cold to their struggle. Could it be the case, that all the sweat and literal blood that went into the construction of the tunnel left behind some kind of eerie residue that under the right conditions flashes awake and alive with a frightening speed to lash out and refuse to be forgotten?

Is that what ghost hunters are hearing in the tunnel, layered with the emotional fear of teenagers scared silly and the determination of a man trying to drive them off? It very well could be. It could very well be the case that Sensabaugh Tunnel is itself insane with history and the sacrifice of humanity paid for in life itself for profit and the muddying effects of time and word of mouth. Many locals are still afraid of it and steer clear of it at night so naturally after spending six months studying it inside and out with my research team, digging through papers and books and stories of the family involved, talking to descendants and the populace, I went there with my group.

We spent night after night, in the freezing cold and the burning heat taking measurements, readings, recordings, trying to get to the bottom of the stories, the real source. We did record some interesting audio files but nothing that I could present as evidence to any theory or story.

Walking through the tunnel, there are no feelings, no fear, nothing jumps out and says boo. What I thought about when I walked through was the seven men who died building it for progress, to make white men richer while their migrant families lay in poverty.

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