Moonville Tunnel
39.307273,-82.322445
It was all about the adventure of life for those who lived in Moonville. They came from near and far to work and play and live out their lives. Moonville was once scarcely known as little more than one more tiny mining and railway boom town among a hundred others in Southeastern Ohio. But for those who lived there, it was home.
There was never more than a hundred people living in the tiny town from 1856 to the 1940s. And by the early 1950s, the only things remaining was a few abandoned houses and a lonely stretch of railway between Marietta and Cincinnati.
Now the old roads are overgrown with poison and greenbriar. The sandstone foundations are nearly hidden beneath scrubby brush. It is hard to tell anybody was even here at all. The entire idea a town even existed there would, most likely, be buried in time along with those who lived and worked there if it wasn't for a few local legends still hanging around. And it would be those handful of ghost stories keeping Moonville very much alive and full of adventure for another hundred years.
A young brakeman, a woman crossing the tracks and a murdered man have all contributed to keeping Moonville from fading into oblivion. People have found themselves walking the same paths those from the sleepy town of Moonville once trod more than one-hundred and fifty years before. They come to see what these legends are all about - to find out if they can defy logic and touch a bit of the past.
