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It was a cold late winter night in the “Hygge Haus” but Jukebox The Ghost broke out acoustic versions of their new album and no one felt the chill.

TAPS takes on two incredible locations. The first stop is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where an 18th Century doctor walked the line between angel and devil. Later, the team visits an Alms House and Jail in Middletown, Connecticut.

At the home of Dr. Phillip Physick, the team learns that this medical innovator was one of the few doctors to stay in the city during the Yellow Fever epidemic of the 1780s. He revolutionized eye surgery and treatments of kidney stones. He treated dignitaries including Dolly Madison. He also, supposedly, snuck cadavers into his basement to dissect them for research purposes. Could the souls of these abused corpses be seeking revenge? Or is his ex-wife, Elizabeth, stalking the house from the grave?

Claims include full bodied apparitions, objects moving on their own, people walking up to the front door and disappearing and shadow figures. The client, Dell, is a descendant of Dr. Physick and says his wife is afraid to sleep at night because of all the activity.

She isn’t going to sleep any better after TAPS presents their results. They had a medical cart hurl toward an innocent cameraman, there were voices picked up on the recordings and each of the teams had noteworthy personal experiences. While Dell is unsettled, he feels relieved that his concerns are justified.

Meanwhile, In Middletown, two adjacent buildings from the 1850s have recently been renovated. The new tenants and business owners, however, are apprehensive about the ghosts sharing their property. The Alms House and Jail were part of an 1850’s federal government plan to provide housing and services for the poor. At one point, over 100 orphans were living in the attic of the Alms House while the insane were shackled in the basement. Hundreds died in the buildings.

Today, people see apparitions of children, black shadow figures and hear voices, footsteps and odd noises. The team was able to verify many of the claims. Most interesting is a voice recording of a child saying, “let’s play dress up”. The spirits are innocent, so the tenants have nothing to fear as they go about their business. Phew!
Aired: October 5, 2016

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1. Arlington (NJT station)
2. Babbitt (Erie Railroad station)
3. Babbitt (NYS&W station)
4. Belle Mead (NJT station)
5. Benson Street
6. Butler (NYS&W station)
7. Cary Station
8. Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal
9. Demarest (Erie Railroad station)
10. Exchange Place (PRR station)
11. Franklin Avenue (NCS station)
12. Great Meadows Railroad Station
13. Hawthorne (NYS&W station)
14. Heller Parkway (NCS station)
15. Hopewell Station
16. Lackawanna Terminal (Montclair, New Jersey)
17. Long-A-Coming Depot
18. Manhattan Transfer (PRR station)
19. Maywood Station Museum
20. North Hawthorne (NYS&W station)
21. North Pemberton Railroad Station
22. Ocean City 34th Street Station
23. Ocean City Tenth Street Station
24. Park Place (H&M station)
25. Passaic (Erie Railroad station)
26. Pennington Railroad Station
27. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Freight Station
28. Pompton Plains (Erie Railroad station)
29. Rio Grande Station (Rio Grande, New Jersey)
30. Roseville Avenue (NJT station)
31. Rowe Street (NJT station)
32. Summit Avenue (H&M station)
33. Susquehanna Transfer (NYS&W station)
34. Tenafly (Erie Railroad station)
35. Tuckahoe Station
36. Washington Railroad Station
37. Wortendyke (NYS&W station)

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_railway_stations_in_New_Jersey

Music: Blue_Skies,YouTube Audio Library

Ghost stations is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnhöfe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin’s U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin’s division during the Cold War. Since then, the term has come to be used to describe any disused station on an underground railway line, especially those actively passed through by passenger trains.

An abandoned (or disused) railway station is a building or structure which was constructed to serve as a railway station but has fallen into disuse. There are various circumstances when this may occur – a railway company may fall bankrupt, or the station may be closed due to the failure of economic activitiy such as insufficient passenger numbers, operational reasons such as the diversion or replacement of the line. In some instances, the railway line may continue in operation while the station is closed. Additionally, stations may sometimes be resited along the route of the line to new premises – examples of this include opening a replacement station nearer to the centre of population, or building a larger station on a less restricted site to cope with high passenger numbers.

Notable cases where railway stations have fallen into disuse include the Beeching Axe, a 1960s programme of mass closures of unprofitable railway lines by the British Government. The London Underground system is also noted for its list of closed stations. During the time of the Berlin Wall, a number of Berlin U-Bahn stations on West Berlin lines became “ghost stations” (Geisterbahnhöfe) because they were on lines which passed through East Berlin territory.

Railway stations and lines which fall into disuse may become overgrown. Some former railway lines are repurposed as managed nature reserves, trails or other tourist attractions – for example Hellfire Pass, the route of the former “Death Railway” in Thailand. Many former railways are converted into long-distance cycleways, such as large sections of the National Cycle Network in the United Kingdom. In rural areas, former railway station buildings are often converted into private residences. Examples include many of the stations on the closed Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway in England.

Architecturally and historically notable station buildings may present a problem if they are protected under building preservation laws but fall into disuse. Such buildings are often simply demolished (such as Broad Street railway station (London); a similar fate threatens Michigan Central Station), or they may be preserved as part of a heritage railway. Often, in order to be retained as commercially viable structures within an urban environment, or as part of an urban regeneration project, they may be repurposed for alternative activities. Promin