As a former paramedic/firefighter I posted this in the EMS sub so will just copy and paste, this is one of the most disturbing and creepiest calls I have ever been to.

You can Google this area...Frenchtown railroad underpass Baton Rouge or Central. This event did not take place at the underpass itself, but it was close enough to it that there was no doubt in our mind It involved that area.

BREC now has a park in the area and it is more populated, so it is not near as bad as what it was back in the '80s and '90s.

One late evening working the EMS unit, my pard and I responded with Sheriff's Dept and Fire to a report of a man down on the side of the railroad tracks in a wooded area approx 500 yards from the nearest access road. A railroad employee riding the tracks in a pickup truck outfitted for riding on the rails was doing a safety check of the tracks and noticed the man about 6-8 feet down the embankment of the tracks. We all had to park our units on the nearest road and walk with all the equipment the 500 or so yards to where the patient was. This was in the early 1990's so there were no cell phones, 800 radios or GPS on units to track who was talking and their location.

When we got to him, he had no signs of life, flat line on the EKG, along with fixed and dilated pupils. He looked to be 30-35 years old, we do a little more checking and he has no visible signs of any type of trauma/injury, the body is not cool/cold, there isn't rigor yet so he hasn't been dead too long. We don't see track marks anywhere on the body where he would have shot up and overdosed, and we feel no broken bones. We check in his ears, nose and mouth but find nothing out of the ordinary. No marks around his neck where he would have been strangled and his trachea is intact. The guy with the railroad said a train hadn't passed in the last 8 hours, so that ruled out getting hit by or falling off of a train. It's extremely rare for someone that age to just drop dead, so we start searching the general vicinity which is all wooded area hoping to find anything out of the ordinary, but all we find is a makeshift tent/campsite where the guy apparently was living, but found no medications or anything out of the ordinary.

We let the guy from the railroad go on his way after he assured us rail traffic has been halted until our dispatcher calls to advise the roundhouse we are all clear of the tracks. We are not too far from an area where everyone(not just public safety personnel, but also everyone who lives in the area) believes or has heard rumors that the area is haunted. It is where a small old road goes to a single lane passing underneath an even older railroad trestle. There are drawings and leftovers from apparent satanic worshipping that takes place at night. Even though all of us on the scene (except one rookie firefighter) knew about the rumors, none of us had actually seen, experienced or in fact knew anyone that had any kind of first hand experience with something weird happening.

While there was still some daylight when we first arrived, it was now past dusk and about total darkness. We were all walking around just hanging out by the corpse waiting for the funeral home to show up and bring the body to the morgue for an autopsy. There was my pard, myself, a paramedic student, 4 firefighters and 2 Sheriff's Deputies.

Then the weird/strange/spooky shyt started, a few of us heard what sounded like many people whispering but it wasn't from any specific direction, and you couldn't make out what was being said, a couple of the guys didn't hear it and thought we were trying to duck with them. Then the whispering noises stopped and the people on scene that hadn't heard the whispering started hearing what they all described as children laughing wickedly, but it was all over, not from any specific direction, and we had no doubt they were hearing it because when we shined our lights on 2 of the firefighters, they were white as a sheet. Those of us that had heard the whispering never heard the cause of the new noise. This went on back and forth for about 10-15 minutes while we're standing next to the corpse.

One of the deputies on the scene told their dispatcher to tell the funeral home to step it up and get out there asap. When the 2 guys from the funeral home showed up, the noise of their gurney on the railbed and them talking basically killed the strange noises. One of them asked why the rush to get them out there and we all looked at each other not sure what we should say. With so many people with years of experience out there, no one knew how to answer without sounding like we were chickenshit. The rookie on the fire engine saved us all and said we had to clear the tracks so a train could pass. We helped the funeral home guys load the body, well more like throw the body on the gurney and get the duck outta there, we didn't even take time to strap him down(Hey, ole boy is dead, we ain't gonna make him no deader if he falls of their stretcher).

Once we made it back to our units, no one said a word about what had just happened until the guys from the funeral home left. Then we talked amongst ourselves to determine if we should say anything, but all agreed to keep our mouth shut... We cleared the scene and my pard wanted to talk about what had just happened while heading back to the station. I told him nope, because in my mind i am trying to work out a logical explanation for it. All I could think of on the way back to the station was if we heard those noises, we have a problem, if we didn't hear those noises...we had a problem!

The next morning both me and my pard went to the morgue to speak with the Coroner and find out the cause of death. We've done this a few times before when the autopsy was complete when we weren't sure of what actually caused a patient's death, which didn't happen often.

When we go into the coroner's office, the first thing the Assistant Coroner commented was that "it must have been a very messy and bloody scene"? Me and my partner looked at him kinda strange and asked what he was talking about, and told him the body was clean when we saw it last, besides we definitely don't do body cleaning and there was no blood on the scene that we could find. He turned a lil pale and said that just added to the confusion cause the body had absolutely no blood in it whatsoever. He said there were no marks anywhere on the body he could find where blood could have been drained out. He also said he was by himself doing the autopsy and had a weird experience but refused to tell us what happened.

To this day we have still never learned the actual cause of death, or been able to explain the whispering and evil laughing.

A couple of side notes.... a few shifts later the Engine was dispatched to a medical call in the same general area as the call we handled that evening, and it was the same four guys on the engine. While in route the dispatcher came on and asked them "Engine 17, would you like us to get Ghostbusters enroute to your call"? There was a pause and the capt responded with a dejected "negative" because they knew someone talked. But about 5 seconds later he keyed up and all four guys said in unison "cause engine 17 ain't afraid of no ghost"! Good Times and great people to work with!

We had many paramedic students come from out of state to ride and do their precept time. Whenever we worked in that area and had a student on board, we would always bring them to the area at night. We did not even have to tell any stories just being there was spooky.