Are there any “new” sightings of ghosts on the London Underground?
No, although I was watching a programme on TV a few months back which talked about ghosts on the underground. One expert had a theory that some of the ‘ghost sightings’ and ‘feelings of fear’ attributed to the supernatural were actually caused by the effects of very low frequency vibrations (from trains, machinery, etc) on the human senses. As for ‘historic’ ghost sightings, I can’t think of many. I don’t know if anyone has seen the male ghost at Covent Garden station who some say is the actor William Terris, murdered outside the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre nearby in 1897. Nor do I know if the ghostly screaming is still heard at Bethnal Green station, supposedly an echo of a disaster in 1943 when many people died from crushing during a stampede into the station when it was being used as an air raid shelter.
There is a newly witnessed lost train which has been heard rumbling around the Circle Line at night – it sounds like a steam loco, Victorian. Loud crashing noises have been heard and screaming. So far no one has actually seen the train, only heard it. London UndergrounD at Baker Street said they heard something in the tunnels very late at night and again early in the morning, but were uncertain what it was, except that one member of staff thought it might have been a steam train – he is an older member of staff. Some staff at Regent’s Park station on the Bakerloo Line have been scared witless by the sounds of howling coming from the tunnels. Sometime a moaning sound and whispering. Really strange and errie.
