Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and ’50s towed their own haunted railroad. These “ghost trains” represented the peak of pop-up dark ...

On June 9, 1979, a fire engulfed the Ghost Train ride at Sydney’s Luna Park, trapping 35 riders inside. Seven people died, including a father and his two young sons, and four schoolboys on their first ...

Even as the ride came to an end, a creepy figure continued the scare. The moment the train stopped, the boy wasted no time — he bolted away at full speed, leaving the ghosts, and his dignity, behind.