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The MTA workers were dumbfounded. So were the police. The only proof they had were the constant sound of the turnstiles rattling, of metro-card swipes. But nobody was ever seen around the station. It usually happened before the morning commute, sometimes hours after midnight, but always at a time when scarcely anybody was awake. The police believed it was the doing of a few elusive run-away kids. The more superstitious thought that spirits of those who had once lived in the city were entering and leaving the station. Nobody knew for sure. All they could do was listen to the jingle of the so called "turnstile melody".

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