I will never forget when around this time of year, a few years ago, I grabbed the tube from Elephant & Castle. Not even a minute had passed as the train sped down the tunnel towards the next stop, when I felt someone staring at me, unblinkingly (don't ask me how, but I'm sure some people will know about this piercing phenomenon). I glanced up and all the people sitting opposite me were certainly not looking at me. I thought I was just being paranoid, when the person sitting directly in front of me moved his head slightly, and that is when I saw it on the window behind him!!!! The most horrific, ugly face you can imagine leering at me like something out of The Exorcist. I was mortified, and so shaken by this unworldly situation that I simply had to get off at the next stop. The station seemed deserted and I reached deep into my coat pocket and brought out my finest bottle of vintage Night Nurse, only to find that there wasn't a drop left. Suffering from a virus that used to be known as flu I had been slowly drinking it all day, and it dawned on me that the apparition that I saw on the window was none other than my own reflection. I breathed with relief then remembered that I was in a deathly quiet dark station called Lambeth North without a living soul in sight. Still, it could have been worse. It could have been Croydon.
~ a dark window will reflect like a mirror if the light is on in the room you are in = as the underground tunnels are not lit, but the train carriage is so you will see yourself in the windows; other trains will exhibit this when in a tunnel/traveling at nighttime
If TfL are willing to close ticket offices to reduce costs, how can they justify having multiple ghosts on duty at one station or continue to blatantly allow ghosts to dodge fares???
I can’t recommend enough the Channel 4 documentary “Ghosts on the Underground”. It’s a detailed, fairly sceptical and even-handed hour of interviews with Tube workers documenting their spooky experiences, narrated by Paul McGann. It’s on UA-cam for free too. One of the best paranormal things I’ve ever watched.
I remember when that first aired! Didn't they work out that a lot of places people feel unsettled there was a lot of background white noise caused by the shape and construction of the tunnels and stations? White noise is known to put people on edge and give you a sense of unease. Combine this with being alone and probably bored and/or tired and your mind starts to run away with itself.
I used to commute into the city from the far reaches of the Northern Line, and I am pretty certain that most of my travelling companions were not ghosts. This conclusion is based on the belief that ghosts are lost souls, and my suspicion that most of the denizens who alighted at Bank had already sold theirs.
I had to travel to RAF Swinderby as a newbie. It was 1981. I saw the people crazily rushing for their next connection in their nice suits, clutching briefcases. I too thought they've sold /lost their souls and swore I'd never let a job turn me into a mad lemming.
they can only pay with tickets of their age unfortunately. that's why so many flock to the Central Line! the twopenny tube is a great value for the apparition wanting to get across the big smoke.
I think you could do further episodes on this subject. There are purported to be many ghosts haunting the underground! I personally can feel the atmosphere of its history when I use the underground. It has a certain unworldly ambience - I love it!!
More importantly - if there are ghosts riding on the underground, do they have a valid ticket? If not, how can we deal with this? I propose a poster campaign: "If you couldn't dodge Death, then don't dodge your fare..."
I do know this one story of an invisible and elusive entity making recordings all over the London Underground. And less frequently along the banks of the Thames too, allegedly. Nobody has ever seen him or, for those who perhaps did, were unable to described what he looked like. At least, apparently none of them who lived to tell of the encounter. Indeed, it's commonly thought to be a male figure, given the tonal quality of his voice occasionally behing heard underneath those recordings, almost as if he was narrating them. Some even believe it's more than one entity, given that people increasingly discover such recordings on the youtubes. It always gives me the chills, just thinking about how something like that is still possible with today's technology and all...
I used to tune and repair pipe organs years ago.. We never got spooked so easily, but there is a certain place in St Paul's cathedral in London that all organ builders avoid at certain times, even to the point of taking the long way round to get to the relevant section. In all my years as an organ builder, this and one other place gives out a very strong feeling of fear.
I used to work on a chemical plant, with 24/7 operation. Few would go to warehouse at night, it was a spooky place, and had a reputation for being haunted. I have to confess though I do believe in spirits, I do not let them scare me. I was there on my forklift one night, and a plastic container went flying through the air from the corner and landed near me. I went over to where it came from, thinking a colleague had chucked it at me, possible Jamie who was a bit of a joker. No one was there. If there had been, I definitely would have seen them. I just carried on working.
Gotta get a "late" joke in :-)) My inclination about "footsteps" is one of two things 1) old wooden flooring shrinking in cold conditions. As one board moves the streess changes and other boards tend to follow. Same with old wooden doorf rames. 2) Could also be some drain somewhere getting unusually high causing some overflow until the level reduces. Many years ago when double deckers still had conductors, the late bus from Kirkcaldy to Burntisland was coming down the incline from Kinghorn. Its not hugely steep and theres a bus stop midway along. Its out of the built up areas so more used by daytime tourists visiting the beach. As the bus comes along a young lady is spotted waiting at the stop. The driver stops and the young lady gets on and goes up to the upper deck on the otherwise empty bus. The bus carries on and the conductor goes upstairs to collect the fare. Theres nobody there. Theres no way off the top deck other than back down the stairs.. Both the driver and conductor saw her get on and go upstairs. As far as Im aware, theres no other background as to who she was/might have been.
I don't believe in ghosts but I did have an odd experience at Finsbury Park once. It's my local station and I'm well used to how the trains on each line sound. I was waiting at the front end of the southbound Victoria line platform and heard a train coming in and saw its lights. The track curves before the platform and you hear the train and see its lights illuminating the track before you see the train. The sound and lights disappeared after a second or two and no train came into the platform. Most peculiar is all I can say.
"Without realising their fellow passenger is late more ways than one" is a brilliant bit of wordplay! I love the nonchalant "oh yeah, her" response you discussed too.
Other comments mentioned Ghosts on the Underground - one of my favourite documentaries. I'm fascinated that TfL is one of the few organisations in the world that records supernatural events, just because they have rules to maintain conditions and human safety. Anything inexplicable ends up in the supernatural folder.
I was a guard at the Elephant, on the Bakerloo Line. The only hauntings i encountered was the train crew supervisors (SM grade) chasing me out of the mess room to work a train!....... Our main mess room & locker room was high above the station near where the lift winding gear is. I spent many a night there but saw or heard nothing in my time there in the 1980s......
Enjoyed this video as Elephant & Castle was my nearest station when I lived in London. Been years since I traveled on the Tube but I loved it, it was the best way to travel round London.
Never been to the UK, but enjoy your channel both for your education about the UK in general & (as a transportation systems buff) about railways in the UK in particular. Hopefully I'll get to visit one day, as a native of Texas. If there's any station in my native region's transit system that's haunted, it'd be Cityplace Station - one of the few underground stations in Dallas/Fort Worth. The place is eerie waiting for late-night or early-morning Red, Blue, or Orange line trains. 🤔
“Hallo! Below there” and “Below there! Look out! For God’s sake, clear the way!” A suitable phrases for the UndergrounD but comes from a ghost story penned by Charles Dickens for publication for Christmas 1866. I watched the 1976 BBC adaption of “The Signal-Man” Thanks Jago for keeping our Spirits Up with spectral excursions on the tube.
As someone who worked for LU for years and encountered the famous ghost at Covent Garden and one at Waterloo Bakerloo. I also knew a cleaner who said he would talk to the ghosts at Wimbledon Park. A lot of the mysterious noises especially at night occur because of the myriad of tunnels and shafts. There was an engineer at disused Down Street who fled after hearing voices behind him at night but this came from the voices of people at street level that passed through the ventilation shafts.
I worked on LU for 13 years and never once had a sniff of a ghost. I guess it depends on your preconceived ideas about whether or not they actually exist.
I used to work at Upminster Station. One early morning I was there in a closed area on my own and away from anybody passing by outside when I heard a man's sighing voice say, 'Oh no.' It didn't come from outside. It was clear and definitely a sound from in the room. It seemed to come from next to me. I had no explanation for it and only ever heard that one time.
I have never seen that ghostly big cat that haunts many stations. We are warned of it so many times, but it is never seen. "mind the cat; mind the cat; stand clear of the claws".
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Great video. I love ghost stories, even when they're thoroughly preposterous, because there are more things in heaven and earth than we have even dreamed of.
What a fascinating story. Like you I’m a healthy skeptic when it comes to the supernatural but I still like ghost stories 😊. The last one you talked about seems a bit unusual as ghost stories go. Ghosts don’t usually have such a normal look but more ragged old clothes or they are half transparent… it makes me wonder where this myth/sighting comes from. And if the drivers say it’s an almost everyday occurrence it sure could use some looking in to. Has anyone tried to stand in her way? Talk to her? Stop her? Follow her inside the train? Does she appear at all times or just nights? So many questions 😊
it’s the ones that get you almost believing them lol you know they are fake but the fact you got so curious over something you know as untrue makes it much more curious
I intended to enter the Elephant & Castle underground station yesterday but it was closed due to disruptions or something. The whole Piccadilly line was messy. I have a love hate relationship with London and I enjoy leaving it as often and as long as I can but it does have a charm unlike any other city in the world. Unfortunately its full of people who are too stressed and unhappy and that makes it harder for me to enjoy being here.
The Strange one for me when I was 12(1995). I got on a train in the afternoon from Kings Cross station it was a really hot day the train was boiling hot so I went to the door between the carriages and the window was down. The train was busy but I remember thinking I picked the wrong carriage, as the carriage next to me was busy but not like mine. Just as the train left i turned away and then back. Opposite me was now a adult man leaning on the window just like me, enjoying the air. He said "its really hot in here" to which I responded yes. I looked away a little shy and turned back and he was gone. Now although there was nothing distinct about him he was not in the carriage, I looked away for seconds and could not see him anywhere. It unnerved me so much I waited to the next station and swapped carriages and never did see him again.
Enjoyed this interesting and informative post, thankyou! As for creepiness on the underground, any station you find yourself alone in is scary if you've seen American Werewolf In London... 😀
I find it particularly entertaining that, as the legend is related, one place "the girl on the train" is never seen is... on the train. She's seen going _into_ the train, but only by people who are outside, and when they go aboard to look for her, she isn't there. I suppose "the girl who approaches the train" doesn't really have a ring to it, though. :)
The movie Ghost has a section on the subway (New York?) involving the spectral hero meeting another very angry ghost. With the number of people that are murdered on the New York subway annually, you might expect the ghosts on the trains to be standing room only.
I do remember going into embankment station northbound bakerloo . I was the first in the station, early in the morning. When I got to the platform, there was a man already there sitting on a bench. As I walked past him just a few yards, I looked back at the dot matrix. He's wasn't there. 😮
William Terriss's ghost at Covent Garden was a famous one, he hasn't been seen much there recently though , I think the statiion getting busier and opening up on Sundays (prior to 1982 it used to close) has probably scared him away! At Elephant & Castle, I've changed between Northern and Bakerloo lines at low level a few times, but not (knowingly) encountered anything untoward, but there can be a first time!! I don't "celebrate" Halloween though , not nice at all!! 😢😮😊
Infrasound is the cause of a lot of the underground’s ghost stories IMHO. I remember seeing a test done on the Kennington loop some time ago, another ‘haunted’ section I believe.
This is why The Jam's "Down in the tube station at midnight" still has the power to chill. (It also has nice 1938 stock, probably, sound effects at the beginning)
I can attest to that. I remember returning to Charing Criss some 30 years ago late one evening and there was a busker playing Down in the Tube station at midnight somewhere in the tunnels there. The sounds echoed down onto the platforms and were eerie and somewhat scary.
I have been to Elephant and Castle before and I do admire the name that it came from. And there are plans to extend the Bakerloo Line from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham. And towards Bromley and/or Hayes taking over the Hayes Line from Lewisham that Southeastern currently operates on.
not on the underground (or anywhere near London), but the 16th century Bolling Hall in Bradford, which is open to the public one particular room has had a reputation for being haunted since the Civil War, and when I went in there I had a very strong feeling that there was someone stood right behind me - but there wasn't and for context, this was in broad daylight on a sunny day now I don't believe in ghosts, but there is definitely something very odd about that room, probably some kind of infrasonic phenomenon
Low level white noise is often attributed to these kind of things. You can't "hear" it in the normal sense, but feel it. Some places just have the perfect combination of factors that make them more likely to produce this phenomena. Parts of the underground have been shown to have this, usually the older bits as they didn't understand the science of acoustics quite as well as we do now.
I worked at Coutts bank as a Supervising Engineer for a few years . Now Jago this is one spooky place you should investigate. Under the building are tunnels that connect to the underground . Also the woman crossing Strand. Just an Idea but as you get into the History it deepens . Night engineers especially the older serving ones told me of some weird things going on . Thanks George
Some years ago when I was filming on the Tube, I was crossing between platforms at Liverpool St when I heard a very loud male cry. It sounded like a cry of fear/shock, and on reaching the Eastbound platform, I was expecting to see an incident of some kind, or at the very least, the man in question. Yet there wasn't anyone shouting or an incident - people were standing on the platform and it appeared that no one else had heard anything unusual. It was strange and surreal because I know what I heard, yet everything around me appeared to be "normal": no incident and no one in distress...
I saw some of that series being filmed, by chance from a train. Just a flash of a purple cloak and silver foil on the wire cage on the disused platform.
At 3:10 a horrific ghostly disembodied hand can be clearly seen twitching and writhing - no doubt waiting for it's next innocent victim! (*insert spooky Vincent Price laugh here*)
Thanks Jago ! I could well imagine said ghostly woman sitting down next to someone & then iterating : 'xcuse my bad mood luv, but l've only been waiting for this F-ing train for thirty six years !
On a completely different transit system on the other side of the Atlantic: Marta in Atlanta has a few ghosts. The camera systems on the trains only record if they see motion or a person, yet on the late night trains there are tons of recordings of absolutely nothing when the trains are running down the west peachtree subway. Its only a night time phenomenon, as even daytime low ridership trains will see a few cameras not recording. New Orleans also has weird rules about taxis at night due to ghosts hailing a cab only to disappear mid trip.
JAGO: In celebration of your nearly 200,000 subscribers….and my curiosity as a railroad/transit book collector…I would thoroughly enjoy a video about your reference library, your process, your favorite books, etc. (🍾🥂) And your ghost story reminded me of the 1959 KINGSTON TRIO hit “CHARLIE and the M.T.A.” (#15, BILLBOARD TOP 100, 1959) about a man who gets trapped on the Boston MTA because he doesn’t have change for the fare increase and has to “ride forever beneath the streets of Boston…he’s the man who never returned.”
Thank you ive been to just about every Tube Station in London as I lived in London for 29 years and was at school at Bow Road. Im surprised that ive never heard of ghosts at either Barking or Great Portland Street as I personally saw two suicides, one at each station.
we need a children's dark fantasy series about the ghosts of a 14th century Black Plague victim and of the victim of a 70s/80s Tube accident traveling around the Underground solving crimes and learning about London history
Ghosts are absolutely the best passengers. They don't argue, they don't ask stupid questions, they don't block the doors waiting for mates who'll be along sometime this week, they don't cause fights or swear at people or threaten anyone, they don't refuse to move from the wheelchair or luggage spaces when they're needed for those people or things, and they don't litter. OK, they might leave some ectoplasm behind but, given the state of the seats on most trains, it's not like anyone would notice that, is it?
I must admit that I miss read this as a 'hunting' and I had images from the days of the 'Empire' and elephants with howdahs etc, which in the locality of south central London would be a sight to behold?!
If there really were ghosts on the underground, TFL would have worked out how to charge them a penalty fare...
Perhaps that is why they haunt the platforms for so long , they are afraid of the fine if they leave .
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I will never forget when around this time of year, a few years ago, I grabbed the tube from Elephant & Castle. Not even a minute had passed as the train sped down the tunnel towards the next stop, when I felt someone staring at me, unblinkingly (don't ask me how, but I'm sure some people will know about this piercing phenomenon). I glanced up and all the people sitting opposite me were certainly not looking at me. I thought I was just being paranoid, when the person sitting directly in front of me moved his head slightly, and that is when I saw it on the window behind him!!!! The most horrific, ugly face you can imagine leering at me like something out of The Exorcist. I was mortified, and so shaken by this unworldly situation that I simply had to get off at the next stop. The station seemed deserted and I reached deep into my coat pocket and brought out my finest bottle of vintage Night Nurse, only to find that there wasn't a drop left. Suffering from a virus that used to be known as flu I had been slowly drinking it all day, and it dawned on me that the apparition that I saw on the window was none other than my own reflection. I breathed with relief then remembered that I was in a deathly quiet dark station called Lambeth North without a living soul in sight. Still, it could have been worse. It could have been Croydon.
Haha, brilliant!
The last line... brilliant lol. Nobody wants that.
It's worse than Detroit.
~ a dark window will reflect like a mirror if the light is on in the room you are in = as the underground tunnels are not lit, but the train carriage is so you will see yourself in the windows; other trains will exhibit this when in a tunnel/traveling at nighttime
You had me going in the first half 😂
Worked on the refurb at Elephant & Castle. Never saw or heard a ghost. But then with all the noise of the work they probably took a holiday
If TfL are willing to close ticket offices to reduce costs, how can they justify having multiple ghosts on duty at one station or continue to blatantly allow ghosts to dodge fares???
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Exactly what I was thinking ... unless there are special ghostly ticket machines that they can use.
Phantom economy?
they get in using a skeleton key
They tried to use the ghosts to staff the ticket offices but they kept giving prices in shillings
I can’t recommend enough the Channel 4 documentary “Ghosts on the Underground”. It’s a detailed, fairly sceptical and even-handed hour of interviews with Tube workers documenting their spooky experiences, narrated by Paul McGann. It’s on UA-cam for free too. One of the best paranormal things I’ve ever watched.
I remember when that first aired! Didn't they work out that a lot of places people feel unsettled there was a lot of background white noise caused by the shape and construction of the tunnels and stations? White noise is known to put people on edge and give you a sense of unease. Combine this with being alone and probably bored and/or tired and your mind starts to run away with itself.
Low frequency sound.
Is it this one?
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I love this one! Even though it is pretty sceptical and scientific, it still manages to capture that sense of unease that ghost stories do.
It’s available here on UA-cam.
Jago is the only man that can say only 100% true things about a ghost story and still make you want to you hear more.
I once dozed off on the platform. Awoke with all my belongings. Spooky.
1:33 He heard two taps on the door and wondered how a plumber could be so incompetent.
I hope he at least used flexible hoses of sufficient length to still allow the door to open.
Wow, you really had to faucet with that joke didn't you.
I used to commute into the city from the far reaches of the Northern Line, and I am pretty certain that most of my travelling companions were not ghosts.
This conclusion is based on the belief that ghosts are lost souls, and my suspicion that most of the denizens who alighted at Bank had already sold theirs.
I had to travel to RAF Swinderby as a newbie. It was 1981.
I saw the people crazily rushing for their next connection in their nice suits, clutching briefcases.
I too thought they've sold /lost their souls and swore I'd never let a job turn me into a mad lemming.
If a lot of departed souls still use the Tube, maybe TFL could issue them with Oyster cards, and keep the fares down! Another good 'un Jago!
they can only pay with tickets of their age unfortunately. that's why so many flock to the Central Line! the twopenny tube is a great value for the apparition wanting to get across the big smoke.
I think you could do further episodes on this subject. There are purported to be many ghosts haunting the underground! I personally can feel the atmosphere of its history when I use the underground. It has a certain unworldly ambience - I love it!!
More importantly - if there are ghosts riding on the underground, do they have a valid ticket? If not, how can we deal with this?
I propose a poster campaign: "If you couldn't dodge Death, then don't dodge your fare..."
Ticket inspectors vs unticketed spectres?
@@chrisamies2141ticket in-spectors?
Ghosts would obviously use contactless...
"You wouldn't steal a boat ride across the Styx..."
Ghosts are always alone on the underground as they have no body to go with.
Starts humming "Under Your Thumb" by Godley and Creme...
There are so many myths and legends of Ghosts on the Underground....It's a real spooky treasure trove down there!!
I do know this one story of an invisible and elusive entity making recordings all over the London Underground. And less frequently along the banks of the Thames too, allegedly. Nobody has ever seen him or, for those who perhaps did, were unable to described what he looked like. At least, apparently none of them who lived to tell of the encounter. Indeed, it's commonly thought to be a male figure, given the tonal quality of his voice occasionally behing heard underneath those recordings, almost as if he was narrating them. Some even believe it's more than one entity, given that people increasingly discover such recordings on the youtubes. It always gives me the chills, just thinking about how something like that is still possible with today's technology and all...
I used to tune and repair pipe organs years ago..
We never got spooked so easily, but there is a certain place in St Paul's cathedral in London that all organ builders avoid at certain times, even to the point of taking the long way round to get to the relevant section.
In all my years as an organ builder, this and one other place gives out a very strong feeling of fear.
Would love to hear more about this! Intriguing!
Whats the other place?
I used to work on a chemical plant, with 24/7 operation. Few would go to warehouse at night, it was a spooky place, and had a reputation for being haunted. I have to confess though I do believe in spirits, I do not let them scare me. I was there on my forklift one night, and a plastic container went flying through the air from the corner and landed near me. I went over to where it came from, thinking a colleague had chucked it at me, possible Jamie who was a bit of a joker. No one was there. If there had been, I definitely would have seen them. I just carried on working.
Please do tell Mr Wibble.
Gotta get a "late" joke in :-)) My inclination about "footsteps" is one of two things 1) old wooden flooring shrinking in cold conditions. As one board moves the streess changes and other boards tend to follow. Same with old wooden doorf rames. 2) Could also be some drain somewhere getting unusually high causing some overflow until the level reduces.
Many years ago when double deckers still had conductors, the late bus from Kirkcaldy to Burntisland was coming down the incline from Kinghorn. Its not hugely steep and theres a bus stop midway along. Its out of the built up areas so more used by daytime tourists visiting the beach. As the bus comes along a young lady is spotted waiting at the stop. The driver stops and the young lady gets on and goes up to the upper deck on the otherwise empty bus. The bus carries on and the conductor goes upstairs to collect the fare. Theres nobody there. Theres no way off the top deck other than back down the stairs.. Both the driver and conductor saw her get on and go upstairs. As far as Im aware, theres no other background as to who she was/might have been.
Maybe she moved to London and now travels on the Tube! 🚇 👻
ayyy good ol kirkcaldy
Hiding under a seat to evade the fare?!
I don't believe in ghosts but I did have an odd experience at Finsbury Park once. It's my local station and I'm well used to how the trains on each line sound. I was waiting at the front end of the southbound Victoria line platform and heard a train coming in and saw its lights. The track curves before the platform and you hear the train and see its lights illuminating the track before you see the train. The sound and lights disappeared after a second or two and no train came into the platform. Most peculiar is all I can say.
"Without realising their fellow passenger is late more ways than one" is a brilliant bit of wordplay! I love the nonchalant "oh yeah, her" response you discussed too.
Videos like this are why I love this time of year, especially the days leading up to Halloween
The scariest thing I've yet to encounter on the London Underground, but surely will very soon, is the amazing disappearing One-Day Travelcard!
Yup that will disappear from January 2024 on!
@@LittleKitty22Actually it's been reprived. Good news!!😊
I wonder if the demolition of the Shopping Centre outside and the accidental breakthrough to the Northern Line ticket hall disturbed anything?
Two underground stations joined together.
The elephant bit and the castle bit.
Other comments mentioned Ghosts on the Underground - one of my favourite documentaries. I'm fascinated that TfL is one of the few organisations in the world that records supernatural events, just because they have rules to maintain conditions and human safety. Anything inexplicable ends up in the supernatural folder.
I was a guard at the Elephant, on the Bakerloo Line. The only hauntings i encountered was the train crew supervisors (SM grade) chasing me out of the mess room to work a train!....... Our main mess room & locker room was high above the station near where the lift winding gear is. I spent many a night there but saw or heard nothing in my time there in the 1980s......
Enjoyed this video as Elephant & Castle was my nearest station when I lived in London. Been years since I traveled on the Tube but I loved it, it was the best way to travel round London.
There's one chap who roams the underground wearing only a pair of blue drawers but it turns out he's very much alive !!
i used to ride the tube at E&C all the time back in the 1980's and 90's and would regularly experience inexplicable happenings.
Never been to the UK, but enjoy your channel both for your education about the UK in general & (as a transportation systems buff) about railways in the UK in particular. Hopefully I'll get to visit one day, as a native of Texas.
If there's any station in my native region's transit system that's haunted, it'd be Cityplace Station - one of the few underground stations in Dallas/Fort Worth. The place is eerie waiting for late-night or early-morning Red, Blue, or Orange line trains. 🤔
"Late in more senses than one": just when I was beginning to think I was going to get through an entire Jago video without a pun ...
“Hallo! Below there” and
“Below there! Look out! For God’s sake, clear the way!”
A suitable phrases for the UndergrounD but comes from a ghost story penned by Charles Dickens for publication for Christmas 1866.
I watched the 1976 BBC adaption of “The Signal-Man”
Thanks Jago for keeping our Spirits Up with spectral excursions on the tube.
As someone who worked for LU for years and encountered the famous ghost at Covent Garden and one at Waterloo Bakerloo. I also knew a cleaner who said he would talk to the ghosts at Wimbledon Park. A lot of the mysterious noises especially at night occur because of the myriad of tunnels and shafts. There was an engineer at disused Down Street who fled after hearing voices behind him at night but this came from the voices of people at street level that passed through the ventilation shafts.
The ghost at Covent Garden is meant to be an actor who was stabbed to death, i think!
I worked on LU for 13 years and never once had a sniff of a ghost. I guess it depends on your preconceived ideas about whether or not they actually exist.
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I used to work at Upminster Station. One early morning I was there in a closed area on my own and away from anybody passing by outside when I heard a man's sighing voice say, 'Oh no.' It didn't come from outside. It was clear and definitely a sound from in the room. It seemed to come from next to me. I had no explanation for it and only ever heard that one time.
Happy Halloweek, Jago! Love me some creepy stories!
I think it's the sound of someone that made the terrible decision of taking those stairs, they seem to go on forever.
Thank you for greeting me so many times at the beginning of the video. I do need to get into practice for tuesday.
See plenty of zombies on the underground...all on mobile phones
They're everywhere....walk away from them....before they walk into you. 😆
@@julianaylor4351 just yell BRAIN'S..and see what happens 🤪
I have never seen that ghostly big cat that haunts many stations. We are warned of it so many times, but it is never seen.
"mind the cat; mind the cat; stand clear of the claws".
Fear the crabcat.
I've always assumed this was why railway companies run "ghost trains".
Hi mate, just wanna say it’s always a pleasure when your videos come up on my feed.
They’re a great bitesize video with lots of information with some good humour.
Hope ur having a lovely week :)
Great video. I love ghost stories, even when they're thoroughly preposterous, because there are more things in heaven and earth than we have even dreamed of.
As I am a London Underground enthusiast since 1976 age 2 I will be haunting the Underground after I die.
A video with more than a ghost of a chance of success thanks Jago
Thank you for the book recommendation, Jago. I'll be make sure to buy Railway Ghosts tomorrow.
Given the tube’s age and the historic places it runs past, you would think there would be more rather than less sightings.
Nothing ghostly about the spectre of a Jago Hazzard notification. You are the door-knocker to my Tube interest. Cheerio.
What a fascinating story. Like you I’m a healthy skeptic when it comes to the supernatural but I still like ghost stories 😊. The last one you talked about seems a bit unusual as ghost stories go. Ghosts don’t usually have such a normal look but more ragged old clothes or they are half transparent… it makes me wonder where this myth/sighting comes from. And if the drivers say it’s an almost everyday occurrence it sure could use some looking in to. Has anyone tried to stand in her way? Talk to her? Stop her? Follow her inside the train? Does she appear at all times or just nights? So many questions 😊
it’s the ones that get you almost believing them lol you know they are fake but the fact you got so curious over something you know as untrue makes it much more curious
Sounds like Mr Horton had been at the Gin again.
In 1981 pop duo Godlley & Creme had a hit with a song called "Under Your Thumb" about spooky events on a train.
Good call! I loved that tune as a child, my blood ran cold when I found out what it was about...
I'm planning to visit this station next week to ride the 1972 Stock on the Bakerloo Line ❤ Amazing story 👻
I intended to enter the Elephant & Castle underground station yesterday but it was closed due to disruptions or something. The whole Piccadilly line was messy. I have a love hate relationship with London and I enjoy leaving it as often and as long as I can but it does have a charm unlike any other city in the world. Unfortunately its full of people who are too stressed and unhappy and that makes it harder for me to enjoy being here.
“You are the mysterious footsteps to my empty platform” - Just brilliant.
Very spooky stuff Jago! I also spotted a 'ghost' on the tracks at 03:46 - it's a little sparky flash but 'Ooooooo ghost!'
‘Down in the tube station at midnight’
The Strange one for me when I was 12(1995). I got on a train in the afternoon from Kings Cross station it was a really hot day the train was boiling hot so I went to the door between the carriages and the window was down. The train was busy but I remember thinking I picked the wrong carriage, as the carriage next to me was busy but not like mine. Just as the train left i turned away and then back. Opposite me was now a adult man leaning on the window just like me, enjoying the air. He said "its really hot in here" to which I responded yes. I looked away a little shy and turned back and he was gone. Now although there was nothing distinct about him he was not in the carriage, I looked away for seconds and could not see him anywhere. It unnerved me so much I waited to the next station and swapped carriages and never did see him again.
He wasn't a ghost from London that's for sure, being convivial and striking up small talk in the Underground. Perish the thought.
It's good to have a bit of a sceptic, it makes it more interesting when you find something you can't get your head around😊👏🏾
Jeez it's crowded enough at peak time already without passengers from 'the other side' hopping on 😂
Enjoyed this interesting and informative post, thankyou!
As for creepiness on the underground, any station you find yourself alone in is scary if you've seen American Werewolf In London... 😀
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I find it particularly entertaining that, as the legend is related, one place "the girl on the train" is never seen is... on the train. She's seen going _into_ the train, but only by people who are outside, and when they go aboard to look for her, she isn't there. I suppose "the girl who approaches the train" doesn't really have a ring to it, though. :)
Interesting video , there seems to be a never ending history of ghosts on the tube , I bet a lot go unreported .
The movie Ghost has a section on the subway (New York?) involving the spectral hero meeting another very angry ghost. With the number of people that are murdered on the New York subway annually, you might expect the ghosts on the trains to be standing room only.
I've seen living creatures on the tube far more terrifying than any ghost.
Sorry about that, I'll tell the wife to take the bus next time!😁
Someone let me off the tube at Elephant and castle before they got on - that spooked me !!
Another interesting video from you, Jago!!
I do remember going into embankment station northbound bakerloo . I was the first in the station, early in the morning. When I got to the platform, there was a man already there sitting on a bench. As I walked past him just a few yards, I looked back at the dot matrix. He's wasn't there. 😮
William Terriss's ghost at Covent Garden was a famous one, he hasn't been seen much there recently though , I think the statiion getting busier and opening up on Sundays (prior to 1982 it used to close) has probably scared him away! At Elephant & Castle, I've changed between Northern and Bakerloo lines at low level a few times, but not (knowingly) encountered anything untoward, but there can be a first time!! I don't "celebrate" Halloween though , not nice at all!! 😢😮😊
I bet Jago recorded this with a lit flashlight under his chin.
I always feel spooked out when I get on the waterloo and city line platform at waterloo
Infrasound is the cause of a lot of the underground’s ghost stories IMHO. I remember seeing a test done on the Kennington loop some time ago, another ‘haunted’ section I believe.
This is why The Jam's "Down in the tube station at midnight" still has the power to chill. (It also has nice 1938 stock, probably, sound effects at the beginning)
I can attest to that. I remember returning to Charing Criss some 30 years ago late one evening and there was a busker playing Down in the Tube station at midnight somewhere in the tunnels there. The sounds echoed down onto the platforms and were eerie and somewhat scary.
@@dordyboy Was he playing, down in the Tube Station, at midnight? Or the actual song, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight? lol.
Both. Simultaneously 😊
@@dordyboy Did he ask if you had any money? haha
I have been to Elephant and Castle before and I do admire the name that it came from. And there are plans to extend the Bakerloo Line from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham.
And towards Bromley and/or Hayes taking over the Hayes Line from Lewisham that Southeastern currently operates on.
not on the underground (or anywhere near London), but the 16th century Bolling Hall in Bradford, which is open to the public
one particular room has had a reputation for being haunted since the Civil War, and when I went in there I had a very strong feeling that there was someone stood right behind me - but there wasn't
and for context, this was in broad daylight on a sunny day
now I don't believe in ghosts, but there is definitely something very odd about that room, probably some kind of infrasonic phenomenon
Low level white noise is often attributed to these kind of things. You can't "hear" it in the normal sense, but feel it. Some places just have the perfect combination of factors that make them more likely to produce this phenomena. Parts of the underground have been shown to have this, usually the older bits as they didn't understand the science of acoustics quite as well as we do now.
I wish that when there were two stations one of them was just called "Castle" and therefore the other was called "Elephant".
I've heard that the Underground runs a 'skeleton service' at that time of day ......
At 1:20 is the hand written 124 evidence of Geoff Marshall correcting the number of steps?
No. They're as high as a 15 storey building.
I worked at Coutts bank as a Supervising Engineer for a few years . Now Jago this is one spooky place you should investigate.
Under the building are tunnels that connect to the underground .
Also the woman crossing Strand. Just an Idea but as you get into the History it deepens .
Night engineers especially the older serving ones told me of some weird things going on .
Thanks George
Nicely done, that Dickensian twist at the end.
What an EERY & SPOOKY 👻👻 *Tale From Da Tube* , Sir. Jago Hazzard! You are the *mysterious footsteps* to my empty _UA-cam_ platform!
He did not talk about the pub nearby which refuses to serve spirits.
Some years ago when I was filming on the Tube, I was crossing between platforms at Liverpool St when I heard a very loud male cry. It sounded like a cry of fear/shock, and on reaching the Eastbound platform, I was expecting to see an incident of some kind, or at the very least, the man in question. Yet there wasn't anyone shouting or an incident - people were standing on the platform and it appeared that no one else had heard anything unusual. It was strange and surreal because I know what I heard, yet everything around me appeared to be "normal": no incident and no one in distress...
Wow… that’s very eerie
They probably did all hear the cry of fear/shock but just ignored it, it's London after all.
I am reminded of Neverwhere. That spooked me right out
I saw some of that series being filmed, by chance from a train. Just a flash of a purple cloak and silver foil on the wire cage on the disused platform.
At 3:10 a horrific ghostly disembodied hand can be clearly seen twitching and writhing - no doubt waiting for it's next innocent victim! (*insert spooky Vincent Price laugh here*)
Yup, it is there alright
Yup, I see it too 😱
I can't see it. Don't know whether my time indices are skewed because I don't get adverts, but there's nothing anomalous at my 3:10
@@quantisedspace7047 try 3:05. Inside the carriage door, right hand side of your screen. "It's alive!!!"
Thanks Jago ! I could well imagine said ghostly woman sitting down next to someone & then iterating : 'xcuse my bad mood luv, but l've only been waiting for this F-ing train for thirty six years !
4:38 What kind of unusual you would expect in the Elephant and the Castle?
I’m down in a tube station at midnight, ooo ooo ooo ooooooooo.
I like how you deliberately filmed in the evening for this one.
On a completely different transit system on the other side of the Atlantic: Marta in Atlanta has a few ghosts. The camera systems on the trains only record if they see motion or a person, yet on the late night trains there are tons of recordings of absolutely nothing when the trains are running down the west peachtree subway. Its only a night time phenomenon, as even daytime low ridership trains will see a few cameras not recording.
New Orleans also has weird rules about taxis at night due to ghosts hailing a cab only to disappear mid trip.
JAGO: In celebration of your nearly 200,000 subscribers….and my curiosity as a railroad/transit book collector…I would thoroughly enjoy a video about your reference library, your process, your favorite books, etc. (🍾🥂)
And your ghost story reminded me of the 1959 KINGSTON TRIO hit “CHARLIE and the M.T.A.” (#15, BILLBOARD TOP 100, 1959) about a man who gets trapped on the Boston MTA because he doesn’t have change for the fare increase and has to “ride forever beneath the streets of Boston…he’s the man who never returned.”
Ah, memories.
Thank you ive been to just about every Tube Station in London as I lived in London for 29 years and was at school at Bow Road. Im surprised that ive never heard of ghosts at either Barking or Great Portland Street as I personally saw two suicides, one at each station.
So when you get down to the platforms at E&C, you're on the spirit level?
we need a children's dark fantasy series about the ghosts of a 14th century Black Plague victim and of the victim of a 70s/80s Tube accident traveling around the Underground solving crimes and learning about London history
It'll be ghosts of the navies that built the tunnels refusing to pay the penalty fare in Crypt O'Coin 😂
Navies were not involved. They are mainly concerned with crewing warships and merchant ships.
Ghosts are absolutely the best passengers. They don't argue, they don't ask stupid questions, they don't block the doors waiting for mates who'll be along sometime this week, they don't cause fights or swear at people or threaten anyone, they don't refuse to move from the wheelchair or luggage spaces when they're needed for those people or things, and they don't litter. OK, they might leave some ectoplasm behind but, given the state of the seats on most trains, it's not like anyone would notice that, is it?
As someone who used to live there, the main horror of the station is not having any stairs. You have to wait for elevator which takes a long time
Used to see plenty of the walking dead from the Slimelight on a Sunday Morning at Angel waiting for the first train
I must admit that I miss read this as a 'hunting' and I had images from the days of the 'Empire' and elephants with howdahs etc, which in the locality of south central London would be a sight to behold?!
I was expecting "GET OFF MY TRAIN"👻
They're not ghosts, they're just ticket inspecters.
I confess myself impressed. There are some very spirited comments with respectre this video!
Thanks Jago. I do enjoy a good Halloween story.
🎵🎵 “If you go down to the ‘Elephant 🐘& Castle 🏰’ tonight, you’d better go in disguise 🥸!” 🎵🎵
Cool stories! 👍