Haunted London Underground

Author : David Brandon,Alan Brooke
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780750954075

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Haunted London Underground by David Brandon,Alan Brooke Pdf

London's Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly stories and sightings, particular stations and abandoned lines, many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries ago. This chilling book reveals well-known and hitherto unpublished tales of spirits, spectres and other spooky occurrences on one of the oldest railway networks in the world. The stories of sightings include the ghost of an actress regularly witnessed on Aldywch Station and the 'Black Nun' at Bank Station. Eerie noises, such as the cries of thirteen-year-old Anne Naylor, who was murdered in 1758 near to the site of what is now Farringdon Station, and the screams of children who were in an accident at Bethnal Green Station during Second World War, are still heard echoing. These and many more ghostly accounts are recorded in fascinating detail in this book, which is a must-read for anyone interested in the mysterious and murky history of London's Underground.

Author : Jill Armitage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ghost stories, English
ISBN : 1902674715

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London Underground Ghost Stories by Jill Armitage Pdf

Author : Dee Phillips
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684029815

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Terror in the Underground Tunnel by Dee Phillips Pdf

David and Emma were thrilled to accompany their mom to London to watch the filming of her movie. They were even more excited when they found out the movie would be set in an abandoned subway station! When the brother and sister decide to explore the old, crumbling station, however, they hear the cries of a ghostly child— just as they spot a phantom subway train barreling toward them. Soon, they find themselves becoming part of a terrifying story that took place more than 70 years ago! What will happen if David and Emma step aboard the ghostly train? The answers can be found in the maze of passageways and dark tunnels deep below the streets of London. Join David and Emma as they step into the past to uncover the terror in the tunnel. Terror in the Underground Tunnel is part of Bearport’s Cold Whispers II series. This bone-chilling book is the fiction companion to Dark Labyrinths from Bearport’s best-selling nonfiction series Scary Places.

Author : Richard Jones
Publisher : New Holland Australia(AU)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Haunted places
ISBN : 1847739857

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Haunted London by Richard Jones Pdf

This title takes the intrepid ghost seeker on a truly hair-raising journey to some of the capital's spookiest places. From the chilling manifestations at the infamous 50 Berkeley Square to the eternal restlessness of Jack the Ripper's victims, no haunted house is left unmentioned.

Author : David Bownes,Chris Nix,Siddy Holloway,Sam Mullins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300245790

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Hidden London by David Bownes,Chris Nix,Siddy Holloway,Sam Mullins Pdf

Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.

Author : James Clark,Shirley Hitchings
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752498072

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The Poltergeist Prince of London by James Clark,Shirley Hitchings Pdf

It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying, incredible and mysterious hauntings in British history. The spirit, who quickly became known as 'Donald', began to communicate, initially via tapping sounds, but over time - and with the encouragement of psychical researcher Harold Chibbett, whose case-files appear here – by learning to write. Soon, the spirit had begun to make simply incredible claims about his identity, insisting that he was one of the most famous figures in world history – but what was the truth? Here, for the first time, is the full story, told by the woman right at the heart of it all – Shirley herself.

Author : David Long
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462363

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The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long Pdf

Did You Know? In 1884 the Circle Line opened and was described in The Times as ‘a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.’ According to one psychologist, Tube commuters can experience greater levels of stress than a police officer facing a rioting mob or even a fighter pilot going into a dogfight. Underground trains have only twice been used to transport deceased people in coffins: William Gladstone and Dr Barnardo. Some of the most bizarre items handed in to lost property include 250lb of sultanas, a 14ft canoe, a child’s garden slide, a harpoon gun, a pith helmet, an artificial leg, someone’s brother’s ashes and a sealed box containing three dead bats. WITH well over a billion passengers a year, more than 250 miles of track, literally hundreds of different stations and a history stretching back at least 160 years, the world’s oldest underground railway might seem familiar, but how well do you actually know it? This book offers a feast of Tube-based trivia for travellers and lovers of London alike.

Author : Peter Underwood
Publisher : Haunted
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 184868262X

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Haunted London by Peter Underwood Pdf

This was the first book on London's ghosts, when Peter Underwood was President of the Ghost Club. He is uniquely qualified to write Haunted London, presenting a parade and gazetteer of the psychic phenomena of Britain's capital city - a city with nearly ten million living inhabitants and the ghosts of many dead ones. As well as all the famous hauntings - the Cock Lane ghost, the Grey Man at Drury Lane, the Tower ghosts, the haunted house at Berkeley Square etc. - the book contains many new and hitherto unpublished findings. Not all ghosts date back to earlier centuries: there are ghost motorcyclists, for instance, and new buildings on the sites of older ones are as likely to have ghosts as those which still stand. For easy reference, Haunted London has divided up London geographically. Ghostly associations are uncovered in churches, theatres, hotels, inns and scenes of murders. Poltergeist infestation is another phenomenon included in this work which is sure to fascinate anyone wanting to get to know London better - whether they be visitors, psychic researchers, students of history, of legend or folklore, or simply lovers of one of the world's finest cities.

Author : Matthew L. Swayne
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738761510

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Haunted Rails by Matthew L. Swayne Pdf

50 chilling true stories of haunted trains and ghostly workers from the steam locomotive era to the modern day Discover dozens of hauntings on railroads in 19 US states as well as in Canada and the UK, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, Nickel Plate Road, Pennsylvania Railroad, and many more. Haunted Rails tells the tale of a possessed caboose on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and a Civil War–era rebel ghost train; museum hauntings at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah and the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania; apparitions at Vancouver's Canadian Pacific Waterfront Station and Nashville's Union Station; and the haunted presidential trains of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Filled with ghost trains, spectral switchmen, and frightening facts, Haunted Rails is a spine-tingling ride to the other side that you don't want to miss. All aboard!

Author : Haewon Hwang
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748676095

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London's Underground Spaces by Haewon Hwang Pdf

This study explores how writers such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon negotiated the dirt and messiness of underground spaces and how, in spite of the transformation of London through underground sewers, undergrou

Author : David Long
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462363

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The Little Book of the London Underground by David Long Pdf

Did You Know? In 1884 the Circle Line opened and was described in The Times as 'a form of mild torture which no person would undergo if he could conveniently help it.' According to one psychologist, Tube commuters can experience greater levels of stress than a police officer facing a rioting mob or even a fighter pilot going into a dogfight. Underground trains have only twice been used to transport deceased people in coffins: William Gladstone and Dr Barnardo. Some of the most bizarre items handed in to lost property include 250lb of sultanas, a 14ft canoe, a child's garden slide, a harpoon gun, a pith helmet, an artificial leg, someone's brother's ashes and a sealed box containing three dead bats. WITH well over a billion passengers a year, more than 250 miles of track, literally hundreds of different stations and a history stretching back at least 160 years, the world's oldest underground railway might seem familiar, but how well do you actually know it? This book offers a feast of Tube-based trivia for travellers and lovers of London alike.

Author : Anon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781514460764

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Mr. Beaston’S Guide to Commuting on the London Underground by Anon Pdf

This book looks at public transport in London, its proper use, and much more. Here are the men who built the early tubes, fraud, rivalry, crime, accidents, ghosts, and the supernatural on and off the Underground, travelling in short skirts and other essential information for the professional commuter. But London and London Underground do not exist in a vacuum. So this book also looks at anarchists and terrorists, observations on economics, housing, sexuality the rural situation and overseas to Georgia, Cossacks, and more. This book is not for the squeamish, neither is London. This is proper London.

Author : David Brandon,Alan Brooke
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780752462301

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Shadows in the Steam by David Brandon,Alan Brooke Pdf

Ghosts traditionally make their presence felt in many ways, from unexplained footfalls and chills to odours and apparitions. This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange and unexplained hauntings across the length and breadth of Britain’s railway network: signals and messages sent from empty boxes; trains that went into tunnels and never left; ghostly passengers and spectral crew; the wires whizzing to signal the arrival of trains on lines that have been closed for years... Based on hundreds of first-person and historical accounts, Shadows in the Steam is a unique collection of mysterious happenings, inexplicable events and spine-chilling tales, all related to the railways. Compiled by David Brandon and Alan Brooke, acknowledged experts on railways and the supernatural, and including sections on the London Underground and railway ghosts in literature and film, this book will delight lovers of railways and spooky stories alike.

Author : Michael Fiddler,Theo Kindynis,Travis Linnemann
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479848935

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Ghost Criminology by Michael Fiddler,Theo Kindynis,Travis Linnemann Pdf

The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces From Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often become forever changed, or “haunted,” in the public imagination. In this volume, Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, and Theo Kindynis bring together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars to study this phenomenon, exploring the origins, theory, and methodology of ghost criminology. Featuring Jeff Ferrell, Michelle Brown, Eamon Carrabine, and other prominent scholars, Ghost Criminology takes us inside spaces where the worst crimes have imprinted themselves on our history, memory, and media spaces. Contributors explore a wide range of these hauntological topics from a criminological perspective, including the excavation of graffiti in the London underground, the phantom of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, VA, during the 2017 riots, and the ghostly evidentiary traces of crime in motel rooms. Ultimately, Fiddler, Kindynis, and Linnemann offer ghost criminology as another way of seeing, and better understanding, the lingering impact of violence, oppression, and history in today’s world. Ghost Criminology curates cutting-edge research to break exciting new terrain.

Author : Will Underwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1728754240

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Ghost on the Platform by Will Underwood Pdf

The London Underground has an established reputation for mysterious, if not supernatural, disturbances.Crashes, suicides, murders and freak accidents, have left about every station in London with their own ghoulish legacy.The history of Liverpool Street underground alone is enough to make it a place to avoid if you are easily spooked. Hearing strange sounds floating up the back staircases of the older stations, or slamming doors, is nothing remarkable, especially given they are linked to miles of windy tubes.The network is one huge sounding-board transmitting, and possibly intensifying, certain kinds of noise.But, as you'll discover, sad spirits - possibly over 4,000 of them still linger in its labyrinth of dark passages. Countless passengers have been left distraught after ghostly encounters, others were unaware they were in the presence of ghosts.The underground has been London's go-to suicide spot for over 100-years, and many have taken that awful plunge. Just about every station in London has witnessed the moan of a soul in pain as they jumped before speeding trains.You'll be amazed and puzzled, at how so many people were drawn to the same spot to commit their final act. In the years between 1940 and 1990 there were 3240 deaths - but as you'll read, there was an alarming number of suicides prior to then.Today the tube remains active with paranormal occurrences, from apparitions, unexplained creaks and groans to strange voices and crying to footsteps and demonic screaming.This deeply researched book documents countless long-forgotten incidents and tales of spirits restlessly roaming stations at night.