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gazzo10 The Blindwatchmaker
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 Posted: 20-08-2007 01:14 Post subject: london underground |
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| Kazza34 wrote: | | I went to the SPR's annual conference last year. Someone in the audience mentioned the fact that there has been very little academic research done in relation to infrasound and ghosts. |
Yes thats the issue, lack of scientific evaluation of alledged ghosts, apparitions, spectres, noises, whats going on cctv. its all very interesting stuff, but where on earth are the scientists? Mr. Tandy's input ito this episode was certainly a good input, but there was a lot more going on than his scientific analysis could assess. What about hallucinations, ultrasound, infrasound, stress, and the rest. if science wants to take seriously the unreality of the paranormal, then it needs to get real and rule it out, that means take no prisoners. |
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| Kasper44 Grey Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Total posts: 5 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-08-2007 15:57 Post subject: |
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| What about Steve Parson's work of Parascience at Edinburgh and the Cammell Laird Shipyard in Birkenhead? |
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| Posted: 09-11-2007 16:45 Post subject: |
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I had something stange happen to me back in the summer. I have a choice between central, circle or bakerloo to get to work, the quickest journey being southbound bakerloo to embankment and jump on the circle/district.
So i get off at embankment (2nd/3rd carriage) and go through a doorway, turn right, up a dozen steps and turn left up the single eescalator. So one morning I go through the doorway, right, up the steps turn left to go up the escalator but its not an escalator its a long thin passage.
naturally i think I have got off at the back of the train and gone through a different doorway so i go back down onto the platform and sure enough I chose the rignt one. By now everyone else has cleared and I go back up and I'm there for 20 seconds bewlidered, thinking i'm in a time slip or parallel universe.
Eventually I notice a bit of the wall thats boarded up, its the escalator, its being repaired, the long tunnel (which I have never noticed before) goes to the northern line and up to the circle.
I was very freaked out for a short while, and the underground is certainly the freakyest place to get freaked out. If there is a candidate for hauntings then the underground has to be no 1. |
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| Fats_Tuesday Great Old One Joined: 05 Sep 2001 Total posts: 518 Location: London Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-11-2007 14:29 Post subject: |
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| ChrisHBaker wrote: | I had something stange happen to me back in the summer. I have a choice between central, circle or bakerloo to get to work, the quickest journey being southbound bakerloo to embankment and jump on the circle/district.
So i get off at embankment (2nd/3rd carriage) and go through a doorway, turn right, up a dozen steps and turn left up the single eescalator. So one morning I go through the doorway, right, up the steps turn left to go up the escalator but its not an escalator its a long thin passage.
naturally i think I have got off at the back of the train and gone through a different doorway so i go back down onto the platform and sure enough I chose the rignt one. By now everyone else has cleared and I go back up and I'm there for 20 seconds bewlidered, thinking i'm in a time slip or parallel universe.
Eventually I notice a bit of the wall thats boarded up, its the escalator, its being repaired, the long tunnel (which I have never noticed before) goes to the northern line and up to the circle.
I was very freaked out for a short while, and the underground is certainly the freakyest place to get freaked out. If there is a candidate for hauntings then the underground has to be no 1. |
That long tunnel you went down has some really cool ornate green and cream tiling in it and has a display of historical facts and photos in it at the moment.
Embankment station has a really weird layout. |
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| Posted: 13-11-2007 17:42 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | That long tunnel you went down has some really cool ornate green and cream tiling in it and has a display of historical facts and photos in it at the moment.
Embankment station has a really weird layout. |
There are many places on the london underground that fascinate me, some because they're creepy and feel haunted, some because they are quite unique architecture.
I love the dummy houses on leinster gardens, I've never seen anything like it. |
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| Fats_Tuesday Great Old One Joined: 05 Sep 2001 Total posts: 518 Location: London Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-11-2007 11:36 Post subject: |
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Next time you're in Tottenham Court Road, after going though the barriers, instead of taking the escalators, turn left and take the stairs down. I find that particular route quite creepy, with loads of mysterious doors leading off and a strange water catchment system cobbled together on the wall with multiple drip trays and calcite formations where there's no doubt a fault or transition in the rock.
Anybody got any other suggestions of cool, creepy spots on the underground? |
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| millomite Dances with sheep Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Total posts: 196 Location: Close to a sheep near you Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-11-2007 16:46 Post subject: |
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Thanks ChrisHBaker what a great site!  I'll pass this on to my mates. |
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| colinbaker32 Great Old One Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Total posts: 223 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 05-04-2009 21:52 Post subject: |
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| can someone keep this thread going, it is cool |
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| H_James Ancient Cow (&)
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| Posted: 06-04-2009 20:57 Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the bump colin, it's interesting to read some of these... |
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McAvennie_ OBE Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Total posts: 2678 Location: Paris, France Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-04-2009 22:22 Post subject: |
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| Fats_Tuesday wrote: |
Anybody got any other suggestions of cool, creepy spots on the underground? |
i like between TCR and Holborn I think where you get a brief glimpse of the old British Museum station. You have to stare into the darkness just before Holborn and if you are lucky and the train slows then you can see the abandoned platform and even make out the words British Museum on the wall.
I used to work at Chancery Lane and always used to try and see it if I could, always kinda hoping to see a creepy figure stood on the platform. |
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| colinbaker32 Great Old One Joined: 19 Mar 2009 Total posts: 223 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 12-04-2009 21:50 Post subject: |
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McAvennie
is that on the eastbound or westbound? |
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| cheeky381 waxer of lyricals
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| Posted: 15-04-2009 12:54 Post subject: |
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I reckon that's Eastbound. Have tried to do this before but without success.
Damned Central line is only slow when I don't need it to be! |
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| McAvennie_ OBE Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Total posts: 2678 Location: Paris, France Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-04-2009 14:43 Post subject: |
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| colinbaker32 wrote: | McAvennie
is that on the eastbound or westbound? |
Yeh heading east. I used to get on at TCR and off at Chancery Lane so it is somewhere between there, I'm sure it is just about 30 seconds or so before arriving at Holborn.
Very hit and miss, sometimes you can see it if it is going slow enough, sometimes you can stare all you like and it doesn't seem to be there if the train is going too quick.
Something else I just read about yesterday that sounds quite interesting is the Greenwich Pedestrian Tunnel. I'd never heard of it but it looks quite creepy and worth a wander through if you are down that way ever. |
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| cheeky381 waxer of lyricals
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| Posted: 19-04-2009 20:04 Post subject: |
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I remember going through Greenwich pedestrian tunnel when I was a Sarf London schoolgirl aged between 8 and 11. It was on a school trip to the Cutty Sark (would have been mid to late 80's) and the entrance was just in front of it on the edge of the Thames. I remember it being damp, cold and miserable and quite concerned that the mighty Thames was a few feet above...
Is it still open and accessable? I haven't heard it mentioned for years and I live miles away from there now. Wouldn't mind seeing it through adult eyes now. |
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