The Diggerer

Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia is best known in history books as the site of John Brown’s armory raid, but the tiny town is rich in tales of the supernatural as well. One of the most dramatic is the legend of “Screaming Jenny”, whose spirit has appeared to many engineers and passengers at the local train station. Jenny is believed by many to be the ghost of a poor woman whose shabby clothes were caught aflame one frigid winter’s night as she heated her meager supper. Bursting through the door of her shack she fled toward the station, desperate for aid from the shocked witnesses gathered on the platform. In a mindless panic, she ran onto the tracks, her piercing shrieks blotting out the horrible grind of steel as the engineer failed to stop the train.