Eerie and inexplicable things have a strange effect on us and they often manage to thoroughly drive our minds crazy in urge of something, anything, that could explain it to us. One such incident back in 2008 has quite baffled the skeptics, and gave hope to those who believe in afterlife, when the family of Charles E. Peck received several phone calls for 12 hours after he died in a train accident. And here are more details about the strange, but eerie, matter.
Charles E. Peck was a 49-year-old customer service agent who went to Los Angeles to attend an interview for a new job. While returning on September 12, 2008, he died in a collision between a freight train and the commuter train he was traveling in.
The accident occurred in California’s San Fernando Valley, when the engineer failed to stop at the red signal because he was texting on his phone. 135 people were injured and 25, among whom was Peck, died.Image Source: flickr
According to the preliminary investigation, the engineer who was running the train failed to notice the red signal and let the train move onto a single track over which a Union Pacific freight train was travelling in the opposite direction. The engineer was receiving and sending text massages to two teenagers, who said during the investigation that they befriended him to learn about his job. According to the established timeline of the events, the engineer sent his final text 22 seconds before impact with the freight train.
What is strange is that Peck had actually died on impact when the two trains collided and when the rescuers finally found his body the cell phone was nowhere to be found.Image source: 1,2
The calls his family received encouraged the rescuers to find where he could be by using its signal, which meant going through the wreckage of the first train again. They were able to locate his body an hour after the calls to his family stopped. However, as far as the investigators revealed, Puck’s phone was never found. How or why the phone calls occurred for so long and so many times after his death remains a mystery that probably would never be solved.