Is it the work of ghosts?  Is it a trick of lighting?  Is it the result of lightning strikes?  No one’s really sure why two status lights flickered to life on the Gamewell Alarm System in Mobile, Alabama’s, Central Fire Station.  After all, that console, built in 1925, hasn’t been used in 40 years and is part of a museum display at the moment.  Still, on Monday, when firefighters went into the station for their shift, the red number 10 light and the blue number 4 light were active despite the fact that the console is not even plugged into electricity.

The numbers correspond to locations in Mobile’s old fire alarm system.  “Because of lack of telephones and radios during that time, pull boxes were strategically placed on streetcorners,” says the fire department’s press release on the matter.  “When pulled, a signal was sent to Central, giving the location of the box and trucks were dispatched in a similar matter.”

I have to ask, did the dispatchers send trucks out to investigate the two old locations?  Maybe something was actually going on, and that was the ghost’s way of serving his old community and saving innocent lives from beyond the grave?

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