Paranormal record / 2011
February 2011. The eastern mouth of Box Tunnel, on the Great Western Main Line in Wiltshire. Four men in an ultrasonics gang were working by the track. They heard a woman moaning. The noise grew louder. They thought it a joke. Then one of them shone his torch up the hill. A woman in a nightdress stood there, looking down at them. She vanished before their eyes. When they reported it, they were told she had been seen before. By a group of six men. No one has ever named her, or them. The story survives in a single anonymous entry, and in every retelling since.
Box Tunnel runs 1.83 miles (2.95 km) through the hills between Bath and Chippenham, on the Great Western Main Line. It was built between December 1838 and June 1841 and opened on 30 June 1841. About 100 navvies died making it, mostly in blasting and from water coming in.