Ghost stories abound in one of London's most haunted tunnels

[UM-Bot]

East London's Blackwall Tunnel, which stretches underneath the Thames, remains a hotspot for ghostly tales.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/379733/ghost-stories-abound-in-one-of-londons-most-haunted-tunnels

[papageorge1]

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According to one particularly well known and haunting tale, a motorcyclist who was passing through Blackwall Tunnel had stopped to pick up a hitchhiker who had wanted to be dropped off at Leigh-on-Sea in Essex.

The story goes that by the time the motorcyclist had reached the end of the tunnel, his mysterious passenger had completely disappeared.

Curious, he later visited the address given to him by the hitchhiker and discovered that the man he had supposedly picked up had in fact died in a motorcycle accident several years prior.

How reminiscent of the Japanese Taxi drivers picking up passengers requesting to go to a then tsunami devasted area. They disappeared before arrival. One confused woman passenger actually asked 'Am I dead?' shortly before disappearing.

Yes, I believe from the quantity, quality and consistency of ghost stories that these things really happen.

[Grim Reaper 6]

3 hours ago, UM-Bot said:

East London's Blackwall Tunnel, which stretches underneath the Thames, remains a hotspot for ghostly tales.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/379733/ghost-stories-abound-in-one-of-londons-most-haunted-tunnels

Good story, thanks for sharing.

[Wepwawet]

I'm sure this has probably been covered multiple times on this forum, but worth looking into are hauntings on the London Underground system. This list has fifteen, but there are more, and I'm surprised it does not cover the "death trains" that transported the dead from a hospital to a cemetery, or the figure of what many drivers have reported to look like a railway worker at a junction, or drivers on one specific route, which I cannot off hand remember, who know their train is empty as they are returning to their depot, but "know" somebody else is on the train.

On trains in general, there are a number of very odd things around some disasters involving the footplate crew, or driver in modern trains, and Moorgate comes to mind on the Tube.

Edited August 14, 2024 by Wepwawet