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Post by Avacyn on Jun 18, 2019 6:56:17 GMT
Fiction books about ghosts again
Your Ghosts on the Underground video mentions the King William Street Station tube tunnel. The first book in the Shades of London series recommended by Avacyn mentions that tunnel. I prefer the Lockwood series that I mentioned, but the other books have a lot about underground tunnels in London. Another difference is that not all their ghosts are evil. The now disused King William Street Station:  I'll get the book off the shelf tonight, but if memory serves, it had been used as a base of operations by the original Shades, who were ghost hunters/eliminators, in an agency created by the Government. It had ended up being the location for a trap by the ghost villain of the story. If that is of any help to anyone? |
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 18, 2019 8:37:07 GMT
A warning to the ghosts of London’s underground
They won’t get away with it for much longer:  That told them!
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 18, 2019 8:44:32 GMT
"Could you please refresh my memory? I kind of remember, but it's rather fuzzy. Wasn't Valkyrie involved in that discussion?" Avacyn you are quite right. It started with a request for suggestions for suitable secret locations for an elite group of people. This was for a novel that she was hoping to write. I said that the problem with the London underground was that such people expected luxury and plenty of it! I suggested that a fleet of luxury liners might be more suitable. This thread is really taking off now. |
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Post by Avacyn on Jun 18, 2019 9:23:43 GMT
UnseenI if you want to start it, then by all mean go ahead! It'll be useful, as I'm not really remembering it all too well.
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Post by Avacyn on Jun 18, 2019 9:25:02 GMT
As an aside, did people know that Wrotham has ghosts connected to it?
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Post by UnseenI on Nov 28, 2019 18:14:44 GMT
Fictional ghosts under Vauxhall Station
The recent post about Ingersoll Lockwood’s Trump books has reminded me of Jonathan Stroud’s wonderful Lockwood series, which I mentioned earlier. Some of the action in The Creeping Shadow is set in disused areas under Vauxhall Tube Station. The underground tunnels and platforms are full of malevolent ghosts, and so is an abandoned tube train. Anthony Lockwood and Lucy Carlyle fighting them off with silver rapiers: 
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Post by UnseenI on Nov 29, 2019 8:01:59 GMT
Haunted London stations
The DM has listed some London stations where people have seen and heard what appear to be ghosts. Some sightings are believed to be connected to the Kings Cross fire of 1987 and others to the time when 173 people died in a stampede at Bethnal Green during WWII. Here is another example: “Who or what: Bank Station is said to be haunted by a sinister spirit dressed in black known as 'the Black Nun', with numerous sightings and reports of unexplained stenches in the tunnels, not to mention an undefined but persistent sense of sadness noted by workers and commuters passing through the station. When: The first reported sighting of a spectral figure dates all the way back to the end of the 19th Century, not long after the station opened. Possible explanation: Believed to be the ghost of a lady of the cloth mourning the death of her executed brother who worked at the nearby bank which gave the station its name, the Black Nun is said to have waited for him outside his workplace every day until she died over 40 years later, with her ghost continuing to look for her brother inside the station to this day; on an unrelated but equally creepy note, the foul smell may be explained by Bank's location, on top of a mass grave for plague victims from the 17th Century.” www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3296617/All-aboard-ghost-express-London-s-11-haunted-underground-train-stations-revealed.htmlSuch mass graves are mentioned in the Lockwood books. 
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Post by UnseenI on Jun 2, 2020 7:09:23 GMT
A book about ghost hunting
As mentioned in the Comedy thread, Sunday Post journalist Murray Scourgall called Avacyn an occult-obsessed lunatic in an article about conspiracy theorists. He has been involved with supernatural topics himself. He has written a few books in collaboration with other people: he writes their stories up for them. This Ghosthunter book looks interesting.
“...Murray Scougall, a senior features writer with the Sunday Post. In Murray's 15 years with the newspaper, he has specialized in writing human interest stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. He has previously written two well-received books, Ghosthunter: Adventures in the Afterlife and To Chernobyl, With Love.” 
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