The book 'Pioneers in Paradise' by V. N. "Bud" Phillips might explain
why so many people believe that the old Bristol Train Station on State
Street in Bristol, Tennessee is haunted. Apparently, 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.