Anyone see this on the History Channel ?
I thought it was very good. Lots of interviews with Drivers on the London Tube and other employees there. Some very strange sightings have taken place there......and some good photo's on show...Including interviews with the people who took the photo's which was good because often these photo's turn up on the internet and it's never known who took them or if they were faked.
The most interesting was the photo that the woman took of her kid on the Tube ...when she had it developed ,clearly in the window behind him was an image of a guy in the electric chair...Turns out it was an image of the last person to be electrocuted in the UK (Bruno Hauptmann). Madame Tusauds have a model that matches the photo perfectly ....except they never advertised it with posters on the Tube or anywhere else.....They had an expert examine the negative and it hadn't been tampered with....Anyhoo the woman went to a psychic with her friend who was there for a reading...but before they left the psychic ran after them and told her that she had a message about the photo ....It was ..."I was electrocuted for something i didn't do ...but i did other stuff i didn't get caught for."
Anyway a good program ...watch out for it

It sounds like it would have been interesting to see. I have always wondered why there seems to be a lot of random phenomenon around busy places and transport hubs, like airports and stations. I worked for a time overnight at a small airport after it closed down, and it was the oddest place I've ever worked. Frequent voices, babies crying, motion out of the corner of your eyes, as if all the people passing through had left impressions in a few cases on the atmosphere there.

I ignored it, figured it was just me and was surprised I'd be reacting that way to working alone, when I prefer working alone. Then, one evening there was a lady stranded and I let her sleep in the terminal overnight for a morning flight and she got freaked out by a conversation she heard suddenly happening beside her and came running to find me so she wouldn't be alone in the building.

I confess, that made me feel better, if only to know I wasn't the only one who found it a comfortable place to be, though odd about the sounds which could not be blamed on the building itself.

It's torn down now and a new airport was built, but I regret not taking pictures at night and investigating more to learn more about it.

Of course, I'd probably just get orbs LOL. But EVPs.... I could have gotten those by the reel... or at least would have had a good chance of it.

Did this woman even know that executed man, or was it apparently just his effort to say his piece to anyone who might hear it? Did they say? Just random contact?

Nile Shaman

It appeared to be just a random connection.They had a technical guy investigating the places of the sightings .....His theory is that there's a lot of "Infrasound" in places like this ....(frequency 20hZ down) ...He says that this makes for a "spooky" atmosphere in the mind and then any little thing will seem to be paranormal.
But this doesn't explain the photo's and sightings that people have had.....Anyhoo it's on the History Channel so it will be repeated for time immemorial ,if you dont have it get someone to record it for you.
Bogey

Sounds fascinating & I will certainly be looking out for it.

I think any location that has connections with many individuals will be rife with residual energies & will probably have spirits in visitation.
The problem with these locations is that they are always so busy that it's difficult to investigate without people getting in the way.

I know some underground stations were used as bomb-shelters during WWII - Aldwych being one. The drama and stress of being involved in hiding out there would be strong enough to leave an imprint, I would say.

do u have a link to any info or a video?

I'm sure there was a topic about this ages ago with links to some good websites. I'll go and have a look.

Schnaff

Phenomenon there was very rare during the open hours, and if it was seen was usually rather dramatic. An officer was murdered out front of the place early one morning about oh, 6 years maybe before I worked his ex-shift alone there. One of the airline employees got to talking to me one evening and he told me quite sincerely that one afternoon he'd been working the ticket counter and noticed someone in cop uniform walking through the empty boarding gate and setting it to beeping, due to the gun, and he glanced up expecting it to be one of us and saw the dead cop, as if he was doing his rounds, just keep on walking through. This had happened a couple years after the death. There had been a couple other sightings as well. Usually the boarding gate or walking along the front curb of the terminal was where he had been seen over the years.

I never saw him, however, I could sense him once in a while, a knot of rage, really, and anger. Real rage. He also liked to throw things or make sounds.

Wierd stuff abounded there too much to not be pretty common knowledge. Never been anywhere like that before or since. I did NOT believe at all in ghosts until I'd worked there for a couple years. I still don't understand it all, though. Sorry for the tales, but it was a truly odd experience working there for me. Especially working during the maybe 6 hours a night it was locked down and I was alone. Oddly enough, he left me alone when it was closed and I was alone. He didn't pick on me as much as he did some others. The first couple weeks, though, were bad. After that, we seemed to have a truce of sorts.

This was a place that begged for a good investigation and I'm sorry it is gone forever, now.



I imagine so! Just working violent scenes, you could sense it around and I always tried to dissipate it while having to be there, in hopes it wouldn't set in somehow or the Dead remain in confusion. Longer term unhappiness would be tough to dissipate.

Nile Shaman

Yep good old residual energies would be rife I would think

Yes I saw this program and it certainly was very interesting! Though with the guy being electrocuted, it simply was a poster as the professional thought. A reflection in the window we think... Though the wax works didn't know of any publicity shot for this model it doesn't mean that they weren't taken.

If it WAS real, the image would not have matched exactly and the electricity itself was clearly drawn on, like a zig-zag. Electricity isn't that perfect to look like a Z (makes sense?).

I have Sky+ so paused on the image to check it out. Otherwise you never really get a good shot of it.

Still, some nice stories in that... some true, maybe. Who knows? Spooked me!

I was just thinking the same Loonboy, the London Underground hasn't really changed an that much since the war either, you can almost imagine all those people cramped down there, the singing, the soup kitchen and the terror. It's a pretty scary place - I bet it was terrifying during the Blitz, I agree with your imprint theory.

It sounds like a good progamme - I wish I'd have seen it, there was another one on National Geographic last night as well called Hauntings -it was about several different hauntings, the Amytiville House, Bobby Mackeys Roadhouse, Tutbury Hall, I've never seen it before and it was really good, so keep your eyes open for that one.

You ever been on the Tube when there was about to be a driver's strike???

I have.

Very scary.

*shudders*

I love documentaries like this. Any links?

Heres the video:

Ghosts of the Underground

Thanks for the link.

What a cracking documentary. Loved it.



Especially liked the head through the wall thing. Very creepy story.

Thanks Violet_Blue for the link.

That was a great documentary. It certainly tempts me to visit the underground.

Have a nice day!
Lorelei

Kudos
It's great when people get to see the program you're talking about and then they can make informed comment.....Good find

Appreciate the link, Violet, as I don't have a television. Better show than most of these. Next trip to London, guess I need to take the tube, eh? Never a poster of the electrocuted fellow to account for it.... interesting. Loved the old workman with the tilly lamp and the actor who missed his train .

Nile Shaman