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 Posted 17th February 2007 07:39 IP   
Hi peeps
Found this quite interesting articles on the BBC website
Aldwych
This station was closed in 1994 (not because of ghosts) although it is still currently used for parties and trendy opening nights. However, the 'fluffers', people who clean the tunnels and stations, claim to have been scared by a figure who appears on the tracks at night. The ghost is that of an actress who believes she has not enjoyed her last curtain call, supposedly haunts the station. Aldywch used to be on the site of the old Royal Strand Theatre.
Bank
Workmen who were building Bank station in the last century roused the spirit of the so-called 'Black Nun'. The Nun's brother, Phillip Whitehead, was a cashier and was executed in 1811 for forgery. The Nun, Sarah, wearing black, waited for him outside the bank every evening for 40 years until she died. To this day, it said that she still searches for him along the platforms.
British Museum
A double whammy here - a ghost station and a ghost. British Museum station closed on the 25 September, 1933. There was a local myth that the station was haunted by the ghost of an Ancient Egyptian. Dressed in a loincloth and headdress, the figure would emerge late at night. The rumour grew so strong that a newspaper offered a reward to anyone who would spend the night there. No one attempted to do this!
The story takes a stranger turn after the closure of the station. The comedy thriller, Bulldog Jack, was made in 1935 which included a secret (fictitious) tunnel from the station to the Egyptian room at the Museum. The station in the film was called 'Bloomsbury', and in all likelihood was a stage set, but it was based on the ghost story of British Museum.
On the same night that the film was released, two women disappeared from the platform at Holborn - the next station along from where British Museum was. Marks were later found on the walls of the closed station. More sightings of the ghost were reported along with strange moanings from the walls of the tunnels. Eventually the story was hushed up as London Underground has always denied the existence of the tunnel from the station to the Egyptian Room.
However the lead character in Keith Lowe's novel Tunnel Vision resurrects the story to impress/scare his girlfriend with tales of tube horror.
He writes:
If you listen carefully when you're standing at the platform at Holborn, sometimes - just sometimes - you can hear the wailing of Egyptian voices floating down the tunnel towards you.
Covent Garden
A tall man in a frock coat, tall hat and gloves is said to be pacing the tunnels and has been seen since the 1950s. When he appeared in the staff rest room the staff demanded a transfer - no wonder they look so miserable.
The ghost is supposed to be actor William Terriss who was fatally stabbed near the Adelphi Theatre in the Strand in December 1897. Apparently William regularly visited a baker's shop which stood where today's Tube station was built.
Elephant and Castle
When this station is closed people say that you can hear the steps of an invisible runner, strange tappings and doors being thrown open. What follows is a genuine testimony from an h2g2 Researcher - a tube driver on the London Underground. He's actually seen the ghost but didn't appear to be all that impressed...
'Twas around six of the evening at a Bakerloo line Underground Station - about a week ago. I was in pursuit of my duties as an employee of London Underground (Northern Line - and I should apologise to all who are condemned to this line - not my fault Really. Heh! Heh!)
So I join the train at the terminus at Elephant and Castle and walk forward to the front of the train with a view to travelling with the driver. At this point the driver has not arrived so I put my bag down and move to the rear door to wait for him. While I am waiting a girl gets into the carraige - she walks straight through the carriage and I have to move aside making some muttered apology - I sort of have to do this since I was in uniform!
A minute or so later the driver turns up, and we move toward the front of the train. I notice that the girl is not in the carriage and this is a rather immediate cause for concern - she could not have left the train without passing me - I had full view of the carraige and platform at the time. My reaction was to inform the driver - the only place she could have gone was to have walked down the tunnel - not really what we want! The driver's response was unusual: 'Oh, her. We hear about her all the time - she's even been in the papers.'
Lovely - my first real ghost is a media celebrity, - and, it must be said, very, very boring indeed.
Farringdon
A 13-year-old trainee hat maker, Anne Naylor, was murdered in 1758 by her trainer and the trainer's daughter. People claim to hear her cries echoing down Farringdon Station. She has been nicknamed 'The Screaming Spectre'.
Highgate
In 1941 Highgate station was rebuilt to join an extension from the Northern Line. However, the project was abandoned and the cutting became overgrown. Nevertheless residents still claim to hear eerie sounds of trains going through the cutting.
South Kensington
Now here's a sighting of a ghost train. A passenger from the last westbound tube saw a train pull into South Ken station in December 1928. An ear-piercing whistle broke through the night and the passenger spotted a ghostly figure in a reefer jacket and peaked cap hanging from the side of the engine. Both the man and the train then vanished into the tunnel never to be seen again.
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Stuart
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Posted 10th June 2007 18:19 IP
Hi Stuart...ask Sandy to let you have a look at her Ghosts on the Underground DVD. I think you will find it interesting!
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Posted 10th June 2007 21:27 IP
Hiya
I believe that I watched it some time ago either on Sky or some weird channel. Thus I have an interest in this subject.
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Posted 10th June 2007 23:13 IP
SNAP!!!!!!
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Posted 16th June 2007 11:18 IP
Hi hun
I've watched it now but haven't managed to watch the film as yet. It was fascinating - especially seeing as it was all done from an eyewitness point of view - not just hearsay and legend! Thank you so much. It was lovely seeing you when Paul and I were down last - and Dennis - well - what more can I say lol!!
BB, Sandy xx
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Posted 24th June 2007 14:11 IP
Hi, I dont know if you agree, but I have always found train stations in general a bit spooky. Not just the Underground in London, which I have travelled on many times,but even the 'ordinary' rail network stations above ground has some sort of weirdness about them, especially some of the older buildings which house the 'waiting rooms'.
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Posted 24th June 2007 14:16 IP
Silly me.....forgot to say how much we enjoyed our afternoon with you and Paul as well, even though he wanted to pinch the bigger slice of cake...meany!!!! Let us know when you are coming down again. Dennis is missing you already!! xx
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Posted 25th June 2007 15:11 IP
Well as it goes there were incidents on the railways and suicide is no stranger to any rail transport so it is possible that any station could potentially be haunted
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Posted 3rd February 2008 08:18 IP
I *ahem* 'found' a copy of 'Ghosts on the Underground' on Google Video and burnt it onto DVD. It's a very interesting program, that's for sure.
I definitely wouldn't say no if someone invited me to an investigation at Aldwych, or indeed any London Underground station!
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Posted 3rd February 2008 12:49 IP
Yeah i found a copy on ebay for £4, it should be arriving in a day or two  I want to go on that loop they talk about
In fact I want to go on a lot more I wonder if London undergroup has any track walkers vacant? after watching the youtube video taking notes there is so much for a budding ghost hunter to sink there teeth into.
One of the entrances to Bank station used to be the entrance to the adjacent Church Crypt the dead excavated in 1900 the ticket hall is now where the crypt used to be.
Kennington loop south London to enable trains to turn around and head north again, the tunnels 150 years old, the doors clung click thru the carriages are open happed a few times over the years, a man was killed in the loop was dragged in to the sidings.
Hyde park corner, booking hall area, escalators were on. Experiences of someone being close to you, one man saw a face, he left never to return.
In 1958 ten people died in a train collision on this part of the District Line track, both trains had left Becontree station minutes before
Embankment one of London’s busy connections in London, pages walk, gos under the Thames. Bruno Hauptmann picture taken at Bakerstreet station during a family’s day out in London
Grace church st King William street tunnel abandoned 1900 Forrest station. A translucent picture of a figure was taken, a medium later went to the point where the photograph was taken, He claimed to have made contact with the spirit of a man how died breaking up a fight during the construction of the tunnel
A train hit South Island place, some old guy 1950 hit by a train holding a tilly lamp
Bethnal green, children crying in the station at night was used as an air raid shelter during the war, 173 people were crushed to death in one of the worst civilian disasters of the ww2 146 were women and children.
Bakerloo line travailing North sometimes you can see someone sitting opposite you in the reflection of the window, and sitting beside you yet no one is there physically.
White chapel dead body train tunnel bricked up from London hospital to whitechaple carried nothing but dead bodies.
Farringdon screamer heard.
Covent Garden ghost is the most famous, he has been seen less and less of the ghost last sighting was in 1972, he walks the station, and was seen on the stairs towards the platform Some say he is the ghost of William Teriss who was stabbed to death in 1897
(Edited by Arrmand Adams)
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Posted 3rd February 2008 22:00 IP
Hiya guys I have tried to get several underground stations but because they still have live rails (for parking trains etc) they wont let groups in  xx
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Posted 21st June 2008 00:15 IP
Bah, there goes my cunning plan for an Invo at the British Museum Station then. *pouts*
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