- Victorian architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson was the
first ghost writer to feature the Tube with his story A Romance Of The
Piccadilly Tube.
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- It has now been re-published, the first time since 1919,
with the Underground home to a series of ghostly apparitions.
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- Since then, there have been a series of sightings and
a number of eerie stories...
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- Last year, a 15-strong TV team, led by former Blue Peter
presenter Yvette Fielding, looked into the supernatural - 106 steps beneath
the West End at Aldwych, one of the Tube's disused stations.
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- Whatever it was, it frightened Yvette, 34, who admitted:
'I was scared. For the detector to record a presence, there had to be something
there.'
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- It is said to be the ghost of an actress who haunted
the old Royal Strand Theatre, which stood above the station.
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- Before the British Museum station - 100 yards from Holborn
on the Central Line - closed in 1933, the ghost of an Ancient Egyptian,
dressed in a loincloth and headdress, would appear late at night.
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- The story takes a stranger turn when the black and white
thriller, Bulldog Jack, was made in 1935.
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- It included a secret tunnel from the station - renamed
Bloomsbury - to the Egyptian room at the museum.
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- But on the same night the film was released, two women
disappeared from the platform at Holborn - the next station along from
the British Museum. Marks were later found on the walls of the closed station
and more sightings of the ghost were reported.
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- At Elephant & Castle station, on the Bakerloo Line,
there's a tale of a pretty girl who walks the length of the last train,
only to disappear before she gets to the front.
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