London Underground Ghosts - Part Two

The Bakerloo Line Photograph.

During the early 1980's a photograph came to light which hit the news, the picture in
question left paranormal investigators perplexed and photography experts only able to
guess at what it could be.

Karen Collett had been showing her family the sights of London, something that millions
of people do each year, as with so many people visiting London she was taking pictures
of the sights andof her family, what she did not expect to find in one of her pictures was
an image of a man who hadbeen put to death in an electric chair in America in 1936.

Karen Collett thought she was taking an innocent picture of her family on a underground
carriage, her nephew wanted her to take a picture of him in front of the brown framed
windows of the carriage. Several months later while the family were looking at the
pictures of the trip to London they noticed an eerie image in the background of the picture
she had taken of her nephew on the Bakerloo Line.

The picture appeared to show a man sitting strapped onto an electric chair, the image
appears to be at the moment of electrocution as there are sparks coming from the mans
hands.



Confused by the image and sure that the man in the chair was not visible when she
took the picture the photograph was sent to Maurice Grosse of the Society for
Psychical Research and famous for his investigation into the Enfield Poltergeist case.
Grosse investigated the picture, it was strange as the image fitted perfectly into the
framed window of the carriage but the underground did not block out their windows
with  posters.

Grosse's investigation discovered that the man in photograph was in fact Bruno
Hauptman a German ex-convictwho was executed in New Jersey State Prison on
April 3rd 1936 for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr,
Son of the Aviation hero Charles Lindbergh,the case became known as "the crime
of the century"

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London Underground Ghosts - Part One

Liverpool Street Station.

When you look at the history of the London underground you can understand why there are a lot of reports of  strange happenings and even ghost sightings. At the time the first tunnels were dug accidents were common place, the methods used to dig the tunnels were not that modern and the first attempts to tunnel under the Thames resulted in failure and death.

The tunnels stretch for miles around London and may were dug over or through graveyards, plague pits and other sites of disasters.

During WWII many of the tunnels were used as air raid shelters,, when the sires would sound the coming raid people would make their way to the underground and wait out the German air attack, often they would have to spend the night in the tunnels and even at this depth they were not safe from the German Bombs. Many people lost their lives in the tunnels during WWII.

And then of course there those who have lost their lives at the wheels of the trains themselves, many poor soul has chosen to take their own life and picked the underground train as tool of choose, while other have either accidentally fallen to their death or even been pushed.

During the summer 2000 the line controllers who monitor all the CCTV cameras for the whole of the underground  24 hours a day picked up an image of a man in white overalls standing on the platform near the entrance to the east bound tunnel at Liverpool Station. Well you may ask what is strange about that? after all that is what the platforms are for after all. The reason the Line Controller was so surprised was that it was 02:00 in the morning and the station was closed, all the doors to the platform should have been locked and all personnel gone home, The Line Controller checked the maintenance schedule to ensure that there were no contractors scheduled to work on the part of the track that morning and confirmed that there were no planned works.

Concerned that someone may have been locked in or even broken in, the controller called the Station Supervisor on duty, Steve Coates was the Supervisor on duty that night, with 23 years experience under his belt Steve was no novice in this role. Coates received the call to investigate what the man was doing in the closed station and made his way to the platform in question.

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