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Report: Full-Time Minimum Wage Workers Can’t Afford Abandoned Train Car Haunted By Ghost Of Conductor Anywhere In US
Affordable haunted housing? Think again.
Americans who are employed full-time at the minimum wage cannot afford abandoned train cars haunted by ghosts of railroad employees anywhere in the US, according to a new report by the National Haunted Housing Alliance. Half of such workers can’t even afford a night at the old hotel near the cemetery.
“The financial hardship presents a unique problem for young workers,” says haunted housing expert Kiki Turner. “By being unable to afford even a rusty railcar with a telegraph that taps morse code when you’re trying to sleep, a generation is being denied the chance to build wealth, start families and traumatize their pets.”
The study confirms a trend that began decades ago. Turner recalls renting a houseboat in 1993: “The walls would bleed, and on full moons I’d see a pale hand reach out of the water as if beckoning me into the depths, but I could afford it with one full time service job. Barely.”
The price for a similar rental has more than tripled in the years since.
Families are stretched further still. In 2021 the average minimum wage worker in the US had to work ninety (!) hours to afford a haunted train…
