The Bristol Train Station in Bristol, Virginia has seen a number of ghosts and it seems the last owner’s spirit continues the visit the building.V. N. “Bud” Phillips was the first to record a ghost story about the depot in his 2002 book Pioneers in Paradise: Legends and Stories from Bristol Tennessee/Virginia. Joseph Chalmers King, grandson of Reverend James King for whom King College is named after, fell in love with a girl. She was too young to marry him, and her family moved to California. Lovesick, he turned to drinking and would sway into the old train station for every southwestern train coming in just to see if his beloved was onboard; she never was. Joseph died at his sister’s house on 1880 and continued to appear in the form of a ghost when southwestern trains would stop at the depot. Only those who knew him in life knew they had seen a ghost in those days. When the newer train station was built in 1902, he still made appearances for southwestern trains, but over the years his appearance was more pronounced and out of place. He appeared wearing black pants, a white shirt, bow tie and a derby hat. Bud Phillips declares the last time this specter was seen was when the last train pulled into the station in 1969.In Phillips’ 2010 book Ghosts of Bristol: Haunting Tales from the Twin Cities, he reveals a ghastly ghost that also disappeared in the remote past. He says that in 1903, people started sighting the horrifying image of a bloody foot running down the tracks. Phillips records that this was the image of a foot from a man who lost the appendage in a railroading accident shortly before the depot opened. The foot made intermittent appearances until the owner passed away.In his book Haunts of Virginia's Blue Ridge Highlands, author Joe Tennis records accounts of ghostly noises from train station manager Brad McCroskey. Brad says that his first experience with the paranormal was on 11/28/2008 when he heard footsteps and coughing in the depot when he was alone. He said he searched the station, but found no one. Tennis purposes that the ghost is that of the last owner, Arthur Slaughter, who passed away in 2004. Since that night, phantom noises are almost commonplace in the depot and the elevator seems to have a life of its own. 