S02-E09 - The Haunted London Underground
Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained
Steven Holloway
4.5 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Beneath London, the city has another life.
Miles of tunnels.
Silent platforms after midnight.
Stations built through old burial grounds, wartime shelters, accident sites, and places where tragedy left its mark.
In this episode of Haunted UK Podcast, Steve descends into the ghost stories and strange experiences attached to the London Underground — one of the oldest, busiest, and most atmospheric transport networks in the world.
The journey begins with the history of the Underground itself, from the first steam-powered journeys in 1863 to the deep-level electric lines that changed London forever. But beneath that engineering achievement lies a darker story: plague pits, disturbed graves, wartime bombing, fatal accidents, fires, suicides, and the countless human lives connected to the tunnels beneath the capital.
Steve explores the Black Nun of Bank Station, believed to be Sarah Whitehead, who spent her life searching for her executed brother and whose ghost is still said to appear near the Bank of England and in the station below. The episode also enters the disused tunnel of Pages Walk near Embankment, where staff and contractors have reported dread, footsteps, cold spots, slamming doors, and the unsettling effects of infrasound.
Other accounts include invisible footsteps in the ballast of the Jubilee line, the ghost of murdered actor William Terriss at Covent Garden Station, a mysterious maintenance worker seen by a trainee manager between Oval and Stockwell, and first-hand witness stories from Ickenham Station involving a woman in 1950s clothing and unexplained footsteps late at night.
Atmospheric, historic, and deeply rooted in London’s hidden layers, this episode explores haunted stations, ghostly passengers, forgotten tunnels, residual hauntings, wartime tragedy, and the uneasy question of what still moves through the Underground after the last train has gone.
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| 1:16.6 | He immediately radioed his colleague back in the CCTV room to report that he couldn't find the lady and that he must have somehow missed her. |
| 1:19.6 | His colleague checked over 100 cameras, but there was no sight of her whatsoever. The |
| 1:47.0 | The This is episode 19 of the Haunted UK podcast, and in this episode, we're going to journey down into the depths of the London Underground. In 1863, a world first happened. |
| 2:45.5 | A steam locomotive pulling gas-lit wooden carriages travelled between Paddington and Farringdon. |
| 2:53.0 | On its opening day, this train service transported an estimated 38,000 people between these two destinations, |
| 3:01.7 | and proved so popular that other trains were given from lines elsewhere to help cope with the demand. |
| 3:08.9 | But what made this locomotive in its carriages so special? |
| 3:13.4 | Well, this was the beginning of the now world-famous London Underground. |
| 3:21.7 | These first true deep-level train lines were introduced in 1890 and ran from King William Street to Stockwell. |
| 3:30.0 | Deep-level lines meant that these train surfaces would travel completely under the busy roads of London, |
| 3:36.0 | thus bypassing the need to go through the costly and tiresome agreements with above-ground property owners. |
| 3:42.6 | These trains were also now powered by electricity, and their popularity grew massively, |
| 3:48.6 | calling for the need to extend the branch out to other destinations throughout our busy capital city. |
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