The Haunted San Antonio Railway Tracks

This ghost tale originates from San Antonio in Texas. The story goes that in the 1930s, a nun was driving a school bus of children home from a school trip. However, when the bus came to the railroad tracks, it stopped abruptly. The nun attempted to start the engine again, but nothing happened. Without warning, the blaring horn of a train came hurtling towards her, and before she could do anything, hit the bus head on, splitting it in half instantly. The nun was thrown through the windshield but miraculously survived. Unfortunately, the school children weren’t so lucky and they all died instantly.

A few weeks later, the nun had decided that she couldn’t go on in life, as she was guilt-ridden about losing the children. She made her way to the train tracks where the incident had happened, and waited in her car for the train to come.

While she waited, she began to hear familiar voices, but when she looked out her window she saw no-one. Then, her car began to move forwards as if it was being pushed. The nun’s car got off the tracks, just as the train came charging past, but when she got out of her car to see her saviour, she was met with nothing but the silence of the still night air.

The nun realised that she had been saved from her death by the children she had taken on the trip, and when she examined the back of her car, she discovered little handprints all over her rear window.

The children of the tracks continue to haunt the location, and are said to push drivers off the tracks to avoid them suffering the same fate.

I like this urban legend because it's spooky and sad but also a bit wholesome. Of course chidren dying is not wholesome but them going out of their way to stop others from sufferring the same fate is quite nice.