London Underground Ghost Stations
Abandoned stations throughout the London Underground network, including British Museum, Aldwych, and Down Street, haunted by spirits from their operational days and wartime use.
The London Underground contains over 40 abandoned or “ghost” stations—platforms and passages closed to the public but still visible to passing passengers. Stations like British Museum (closed 1933), Aldwych (closed 1994), Down Street (closed 1932), and King William Street (closed 1900) were shut due to low passenger numbers, nearby station openings, or route changes. During World War II, many ghost stations served as air-raid shelters, military operations centers, and secret government facilities. Some, like Down Street, housed Churchill’s emergency railway council headquarters. These disused spaces, frozen in time with period advertising tiles and vintage signage, have become hotspots for paranormal activity.
British Museum station, which once served the museum on the Central Line, is particularly notorious for hauntings. Drivers passing the closed platform report seeing the ghost of an Egyptian figure in ancient dress, arms crossed like a mummy, standing on the abandoned platform. This apparition is allegedly the spirit of a cursed individual connected to the museum’s Egyptian collection. The legend became so persistent that it was featured in various ghost tours and paranormal investigations. Passengers on the Central Line sometimes experience sudden temperature drops and hear screaming as trains pass through the disused station.
Aldwych station, preserved in near-original condition and used for filming, produces frequent paranormal reports from film crews and maintenance workers. The disused Strand underpass echoes with phantom footsteps and the sounds of wartime air raids—screaming, explosions, and people crying. At Down Street, urban explorers and London Transport Museum tour guides report seeing ghostly government officials from the 1940s, still engaged in wartime planning. Shadow figures walk the abandoned platforms of King William Street, and electromagnetic anomalies spike at certain locations. The ghost stations represent layers of London’s history, where the spirits of commuters, wartime refugees, and workers seem trapped in endless routine beneath the bustling modern city.