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Posted: 19-04-2009 21:23 Post subject:

I was once going to work from Earls Court to Notting Hill. It was Winter and dark. The lights in the carriage had failed which was quite an odd experience in itself but more interesting was that the lights from the carriages in front and behind lit the underground and because our carriage was dark we could see everything really clearly. Somewhere between NHG ans High St Ken is a parking area where there's quite a few old carriages, some look ancient. I've heard they do walks of certain sections during off times, bet that would be interesting.

Posted: 20-04-2009 10:50 Post subject:

The famous ghost of the London Underground is that of actor William Terriss who was murdered outside the Adelphi Theatre in 1897. Some years ago his wandering shade spooked numerous employees in Covent Garden Underground Station - though what he's doing down there is anyone's guess (waiting to catch a ghost train?). Jack Hallam's 'Ghost of London' has a few more London Underground ghosts, I think, but I can't recall them off-hand - and today I've just learnt that Corinne Downes, wife of crypto-zoologist Jon Downes, is compiling a book on this very subject.

One can't help wonder whether Infrasound - low frequency sound that allegedly spooks people out - might be responsible for a great deal of the eeriness associated with the LU. Steve Parsons and Para.Science carried out a very useful study on this phenomenon in the subterranean tunnels of Mary King's Close in Edinburgh - they identified rumbling traffic and a big extractor fan were creating infrasound in that enclosed environment.

Posted: 22-04-2009 16:22 Post subject:

There is something very spooky about the LU's older stations that you don't get in the newer more modern concourses.

Being down there on an empty platform late at night isn't a particularly pleasant experience.

Posted: 10-05-2009 20:06 Post subject:

I've not been to london for a year, I hope I move back so I can see all these places again

Posted: 26-02-2011 22:43 Post subject: Elephant and Castle ghost photo

A thousand years has past since I last started a thread, therefore I...have...returned. (cue endless 'who the hell is that? comments). Anyway, the title says it all; I've been reading some rather anecdotal accounts of ghosts at the Elephant and Castle tube station. What attracted my interest were reports of photos having been taken. Anyone know anything at all about this or seen a copy?

Posted: 27-02-2011 00:09 Post subject:

Well I'm sure you will have Googled but in case you haven't...
http://www.ghost-story.co.uk/stories/londonundergoundghostselephant&castlestation.html

Posted: 27-02-2011 00:28 Post subject:

can anyone post up the photo?

Posted: 27-02-2011 13:33 Post subject:

I had a look yesterday and couldn't find a photo, but did find this, which refers to one:-

Posted: 28-02-2011 23:20 Post subject:

Nice link, that's some creepy stuffL

Posted: 01-03-2011 20:05 Post subject:

I'm never travelling on the Bakerloo line again!

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Posted: 04-03-2011 14:19 Post subject:

Same person. Her name's been spelled a lot of different ways over the years, and William Cowper's poem made "Boadicea" the preferred spelling through most of the 19th century. Modern scholarship prefers "Boudica."

Posted: 06-03-2011 19:43 Post subject:

No. Really? I'm sure no one could've ever have known that.

Especially anyone interested in history, London history, Roman history, watching National Geographic documentaries by American companies on London history, Roman history, Celtic history (not to be confused with various American social groups basing themselves on Irish surnames) and anyone even vaguely media aware with interest in the pre-Roman history of England.

Of course, as a representative of "modern scholarship" you got the Iceni leader's name wrong on purpose - it being (in the Latinate) Boudicca.