Ghosts, strange powers, a simple reason, what`s going on??.........

[classic33]

My god, that looks un-inviting!!

Needs a bit of work doing on it, mostly the Eastern end, now blocked up. You'd be just short of the airshaft when your lights would go out.

 

[speccy1]

Needs a bit of work doing on it, mostly the Eastern end, now blocked up. You'd be just short of the airshaft when your lights would go out.

That is even spookier than my story!! Even though my guard was up, like with this one, if my lights went out too I would cr*p myself, LOL!

 

[classic33]

That is even spookier than my story!! Even though my guard was up, like with this one, if my lights went out too I would cr*p myself, LOL!

Get a recording of a small steam locomotive approaching, for when they do go out. If your not on your own.

 

[speccy1]

Mystery solved this morning, it is my light that blocks it!!

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Can anybody explain this one?

I use my hardtail mtb for my daily commute, and I use my "old" things to kit it out with. Cut a long story short, a couple of months ago I put my old Cateye magnetic bike computer on it (I only use the Garmin for my road rides).

Mods......I didn`t think of this as a "general cycling" post, it`s just slightly related Sorry if I`m wrong.

Anyway, I ride home along an old railway which includes two longish tunnels, the first one is meant to be as haunted as haunted gets. I`m not one to believe in all this supernatural stuff, but what is happening every day on the way home is making my hair stand on end

Every single time I cross the threshold of this supposedly haunted tunnel, my bike computer stops registering and just reads zero, bearing in mind it`s magnetic, and aren`t these strange "powers" supposed to be detected by magnetic detectors? As soon as I leave the other end I get my speed back, wtf??

Can anybody come up with a logical reason for this? I`ve never been taken in by all this stuff but this is seriously odd!!

Does it tend to happen when you stop to check it?

 

[speccy1]

Does it tend to happen when you stop to check it?

 

[Globalti]

I was going to suggest that it might be a high-tension cable buried under the floor of the tunnel. Remember how much interference you used to get on AM when driving your car under power lines?

 

[Paulus]

As above, I was going to suggest a power cable, you did say that the tunnel is lit.

 

[classic33]

Mystery solved this morning, it is my light that blocks it!!

Why only that one & not the second one?

 

[speccy1]

I did find myself automatically putting the lights on even though the tunnel is lit, think I have been doing that on autopilot. I only tend to do this on the tunnel in question because it`s curved and you can`t see the other end, so no natural light to compliment the electric lights (which are pitiful, to be honest).

The other tunnel has never caused a problem because it`s dead straight, and I just point and aim for the other end, no need for extra light from me because if it`s sunny the daylight reflects off the walls

 

[swee'pea99]

Actually Speccy it's not so odd, there's a similar phenomenon in Sweden that happens to cars, here....

Made me laugh, but typically, when I sent it to my daughter, currently away at university, she texted back about how funny she found it....when she was at primary school. Withering, kids...

 

[classic33]

I did find myself automatically putting the lights on even though the tunnel is lit, think I have been doing that on autopilot. I only tend to do this on the tunnel in question because it`s curved and you can`t see the other end, so no natural light to compliment the electric lights (which are pitiful, to be honest).

The other tunnel has never caused a problem because it`s dead straight, and I just point and aim for the other end, no need for extra light from me because if it`s sunny the daylight reflects off the walls

And if the lights(battery powered) go out just short of half way in?

 

[fossyant]

Mystery solved this morning, it is my light that blocks it!!

Darn it.....

We have a Stupid Strava segment through a canal tunel near me. It's unlit and needs a light as you'll clip the barriers and end up in the drink. The fastest is 6 seconds for the 200m tunnel - about 70 mph. Think I did about 40 through it today in 10 seconds. Whose GPS gets the signal the longest.

 

[speccy1]

And if the lights(battery powered) go out just short of half way in?

I agree, that is odd...................

 

[classic33]

That is even spookier than my story!! Even though my guard was up, like with this one, if my lights went out too I would cr*p myself, LOL!

What do you think the "strange orange goo" at the closed end is.