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Ghost of Covent Garden Underground Station
The famous ghost of the London Underground is that of actor William Terriss who was murdered outside the Adelphi Theatre in 1897. Some years ago his wandering shade spooked numerous employees in Covent Garden Underground Station - though what he's doing down there is anyone's guess (waiting to catch a ghost train?). Jack Hallam's 'Ghost of London' has a few more London Underground ghosts, I think, but I can't recall them off-hand - and today I've just learnt that Corinne Downes, wife of crypto-zoologist Jon Downes, is compiling a book on this very subject.
One can't help wonder whether Infrasound - low frequency sound that allegedly spooks people out - might be responsible for a great deal of the eeriness associated with the LU. Steve Parsons and Para.Science carried out a very useful study on this phenomenon in the subterranean tunnels of Mary King's Close in Edinburgh - they identified rumbling traffic and a big extractor fan were creating infrasound in that enclosed environment.
The famous ghost of the London Underground is that of actor William Terriss who was murdered outside the Adelphi Theatre in 1897. Some years ago his wandering shade spooked numerous employees in Covent Garden Underground Station - though what he's doing down there is anyone's guess (waiting to catch a ghost train?). Jack Hallam's 'Ghost of London' has a few more London Underground ghosts, I think, but I can't recall them off-hand - and today I've just learnt that Corinne Downes, wife of crypto-zoologist Jon Downes, is compiling a book on this very subject.
One can't help wonder whether Infrasound - low frequency sound that allegedly spooks people out - might be responsible for a great deal of the eeriness associated with the LU. Steve Parsons and Para.Science carried out a very useful study on this phenomenon in the subterranean tunnels of Mary King's Close in Edinburgh - they identified rumbling traffic and a big extractor fan were creating infrasound in that enclosed environment.