Moonville is a ghost town in southeastern Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, United States. Little remains of this former mining community except a few foundations, a cemetery, and an abandoned railroad tunnel which is the subject of numerous ghost stories. History In the mid-1800s, the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad (M&C) was pushing through southeastern Ohio to reach Cincinnati. Along its route and in the more remote sections were the towns of Zaleski, Hope Furnace, Hope Furnace Station, Ingham Station, and Kings Station. Central to these small coal mining towns was also a small community mainly made up of two families, the Coes and Fergusons. It was called Moonville. Nearby, the railroad company built two trestles over the winding Raccoon Creek and gouged a tunnel, called Moonville Tunnel, through one high hill. Walking the tracks was incredibly dangerous, and was made even more hazardous by the trestles and tunnel. One trestle stood over Raccoon Creek less than away from the tunnel mouth. Over 21 people were killed on or near the tracks here. The last fatality was reportedly in 1978 when a 13-year-old girl fell off the trestle as a train passed over it. By the turn of the century, the coal mines slowly started to be used up and closed down. The last family left town in 1947; by then the town itself was abandoned. By the 1960s all the buildings were gone and there was little to mark the site, other than Moonville Cemetery, the tunnel, and foundation stones found near the tracks. Legends The legends of the Moonville Tunnel include several tales of ghosts that allegedly still haunt visitors to this day. The legends include four different ghosts: The Engineer, The Brakeman, The Lavender Lady, and The Bully. The Engineer The ghost of Theodore Lawhead, an engineer for the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad company began to haunt the tracks after his train collided head-on with an oncoming train in the 1880s. Visitors have seen a ghostly figure holding a lantern while walking alongside the track and through the tunnel. The Brakeman The Brakeman is believed to be the ghost of a drunken young man who was working on a train as a brakeman. The young man had consumed too much liquor one night and fell to sleep on the tracks. The Lavender Lady Visitors of the Moonville Tunnel have seen thin, elderly women walking alongside the trail. Shortly