The Haunting of Covent Garden Station

Only just found this channel and it’s top work. Well done.

It would be nice to think that the reason no one has seen William for the past many years is because maybe he has passed on to the other side and is no longer In limbo.

I worked on the Jubilee Line Extension back in the 1990's at London Bridge Underground station. There is an old disused tunnel, built in Victorian times and inaccessible to the public, which is haunted by the ghost of a worker who died when his steam-driven power drill seized up and spun round, killing him. I've walked through that dark tunnel and it's a very spooky place.

Now, THAT is first-rate storytelling.  Wonderful job!  Right down to the beautiful music in the background.  Very atmospheric.  I love the old photographs.

I had an unusual experience on a late night train about 15 years ago. Got on at Hampstead tube and took a seat on the side seats (the long row where you face other passengers). The carriage was nearly empty. I sat there thinking about an interesting talk I had listened to at Keats House when I felt a pair of hands from behind me being placed on either side of my shoulders. I didnt react at first but thought someone was playing a prank on me and turned my head to find out what was going on. It then dawned on me that the only thing behind me was the window and there was no way anyone could do that except by putting their hands through the glass of a moving train. I remained in my seat with the two hands on my shoulders until my stop arrived and I got off and the sensation passed off. I have to say, I felt no threat, more of a reassuring feeling but it was a definate feeling of being touched. I hadnt had any alchohol and was'nt tired or thinking of anything gloomy. To me it felt very real.

Covent Garden has changed beyond recognition since the 1970s. As the name suggests, it was a wholesale fruit, vegetable and flower market frequented by stall holders and their customers, and surrounded by some homespun pubs. It was a very much a working place. Previously it had comprised the farmed lands of Westminster Abbey and its convent ("The Convent Garden"). Now Covent Garden is a tourist and media hub with a 24 hr existence. The last sightings coincide with the old Covent Garden.

This was an exceptionally well told ghost story.

I've got that book Haunted Underground. I picked it up from the London dungeons of all places. It's a very good book. Some of the stories in it are creepy. I'm enjoying your videos.

Well done, no robotic voice, music pleasant and unobtrusive.

That poor man he seemed a kind soul and I am sure he felt he had so much more to give so he goes back now and again to be in the theatre he loved so much, may he rest in peace now.

I took the stairs once at Covent Garden and that's where I had my first asthma attack. I was very nearly one of the ghosts of Covent Garden

That is such a sad story.He tried to help his friend and ended up being stabbed to death by him.

I was working at the Euston Station a couple of years ago on the HS2 project, there they found hundreds of skeletons and caskets from an old plague pit long forgotten, it's stirred up a creppy feeling, watching wheelbarrows full of human bones and skips full of coffins.

I used to work at Covent Garden station and saw the ghost on the platform in 1999.

I hope William has finally found his peace in the afterlife. To be fair to his spirit.... Looking at modern London, compared to what it was just 30 years ago, is certainly enough to scare anyone away now.

The dead don't care. It's the living that we should be really really scared of.

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."----Oscar Wilde.

As a paranormal investigator myself, I think that the reason for the decline and eventual stoppage of reports encountering the ghost of Mr. Terriss can be simply explained as he may have finally crossed over and is no longer hanging around the places that were so familiar to him. I don't think that an actor, spirit form or otherwise, would shy away from a crowd. This is especially true when you consider the public knowledge of his appearances in the underground. No doubt that his role as a ghost haunting the underground was his last acting role and he relished it until such time as whatever unfinished business or whatever else may have been keeping his spirit there was done. His opportunity to cross over came, the curtain came down and 1972 was a curtain call of sorts before his spirit moved on to where it should have been. Initially, it may have been the interest generated by seeing his ghost that kept him tied to that area, given his familiarity with it. Can you imagine the source of energy that would have created for his spirit to sustain itself over the decades? As the knowledge of him as an actor faded and time progressed, I doubt many knew who he was or his story and so his need to stay, the energy that once sustained him was gone and he knew it was time to move on.

Brilliant work. Unbiased, factual, well researched, and yet scary too. Music was fabulous. 10/10

Who else more logical to haunt the world after death, than a great actor who lvoed his profession? After all, the show MUST go on.