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The oldest underground in the world – in London, its first branch received passengers back in 1863. Today it is branched network with eleven lines and a length of more four hundred kilometers. The metro of the British capital has 270 stations, though almost forty of them are inactive, practically abandoned.
Londoners who have to use the subway sure that at the abandoned stations not only rats and homeless, but also ghosts. Trains do not stop here, however from windows you can see these underground halls that once served as transfers from one line to another or to exit to the surface cities. Sometimes human figures actually flicker here and some strange shadows, but to say with confidence that or who it is, hardly possible, especially given the enormous speed of the train, sweeping past mysterious dungeons.
As for ghosts, they often appear on operating stations, scaring not only passengers, but also staff subways. For example, at the Black station they periodically see black nun.
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Ghost Station Black
However, this ghost is not even a nun, but a poor crazy a woman in a black coat who once lost her beloved brother, why lost my mind. And the thing was this: her brother, whom she is in four years replaced the mother and gave all of herself, so that learned and began to work in a bank. But once a young man is strong lost in a casino, and since it was urgent to give a large amount of money, then he forged bank checks. This forgery is coming soon revealed, the employee was convicted and sentenced to death – that’s such were the laws in England in the early nineteenth century (1811 year).
His sister Sarah, having lost her mind from such grief, then, to the very death, she came to the bank and begged the guards to let her go to her brother. After death, the mad woman was buried in a cemetery near the bank, but the cemetery was demolished over time, and a metro was built nearby. Why the ghost of the miserable Sarah, dressed in a black coat, which before scared locals, moved to the Black station, remains a riddle. But he is seen here quite often, the cast is even dubbed the Banking nun, who is always quiet and peacefully. True one night, Sarah scared a cleaning lady to death, asking her if she knows how to get to the bank where she works her brother.
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Phantom Station Farringdon
Under the arches of this station, children’s sobs are often heard, more often just late in the evening just before the subway closes. People says, that the 13-year-old girl Ann Naylor, a hatter’s student, cries like that, the mutilated corpse of which was once found in a wasteland, not so far from her work. As the investigation later established, it was the daughter’s revenge the hatter who was jealous of the girl for her fiancé.
In the heat of a quarrel, after which a fight ensued, the owner’s daughter dealt the girl a terrible blow with a candlestick in the temple. Ran on the noise is a hatter, he didn’t come up with anything better than to finish off his student, and then, under cover of night, throw the corpse in a vacant lot. Villains punished however the restless spirit of ann naylor from that eighteenth century wandering the streets of London and crying. And then he for some reasons chosen station “Farringdon”.
The ghost not only weeps, but sometimes appears before astonished passengers, and this always brings the last misfortune. Or is the girl just warning like this about an impending disaster?
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Hyde Park Corner Ghost Station
At this station, a ghost appeared in 1978. In that ill-fated day employee Berry Oakley turned off the escalator, made the usual bypass the station and returned to the control point. And then there was a noise working escalator. Together with his partner Berry Oakley once went around the station, and again turned off the conveyor.
On duty, the men decided to drink tea and relieve nervous tension, which swept them. Berry Oakley suddenly felt someone unkind look. The next moment the room was terribly cold even the steam went out of my mouth. And suddenly a terrible crawled out of the wall into the room human head. Poor men are so scared that quit their job the next day and never again looked into the subway. Unfortunately, although not so often, but repeated at this station, which is why employees here do not like night shifts and agree to them only for a double fee and certainly the three of us.
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The Ghost of Covent Garden Station
“Covent Garden” became famous for the fact that in the fifties here The ghost of actor William Terris from the Adelphi Theater appeared. First to a tall man who always wandered around the station in an old-fashioned clothes and muttered monologues from the tragedies of Shakespeare, few paid attention, especially since he politely gave way to everyone. But once this ghost went into the duty room to the repairmen and introduced himself as named, and named the theater where he worked as a tragedian. Since that the moment the visitor held his head in the hands of the workers, of course, blown out of the capter like the wind.
The hype following this incident caused many to think that the workers were victims of a massive hallucination. However the investigation revealed that in London actually at the end of the nineteenth century there was such an actor in the Adelphi Theater, but in 1897 the year a talented tragedian was killed out of envy for his success on stage and in women by the mediocre actor Richard Prince. Dying in the arms his beloved Jesse Milward, the tragedian allegedly exclaimed that he still coming back. And … kept his word. That’s just why he chose to return the London Underground and specifically to the station Covent Garden?
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Ghost Station British Museum
This is just one of many abandoned London stations Metro, located next to the “British Museum”. Shut her down in the thirties of the last century. However, homeless people and metro employees appear here. And they are more afraid of all at this time meet the ghost of an Egyptian as it never bodes well.
Once this terrible ghost came across by workers, one of which met a ghost with a gaze – and immediately received a mental order rush under the wheels of a train that was just approaching the station. A person has such an irresistible desire to fulfill this order that only others saved him from suicide workers who were afraid to look into the eyes of a ghost.
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Phantom of Oldgate Station
But not all subway ghosts in the UK capital scary and evil, some of them even work real miracles, saving people from imminent death. So, a few years ago when repairing some kind of damage one of the young electricians accidentally came under a voltage of 20 thousand volts. From such contact usually people just burn like candles, and the guy wasn’t even hurt, although he lost consciousness.
Workers who were near the victim at that moment noticed that for a fraction of a second before the guy’s contact with high-voltage wire, a ghostly haze appeared near it as a kind old woman with maternal tenderness stroked the young man on the head. Workers are sure that this is what saved young man, because by all laws of physics his death was inevitable.
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However, there are enough ghosts in any metro in the world, no less terrible stories go about the ghosts of the Moscow Metro. But it is already another page of the “terrible book” of artificial dungeons …
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