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January 12th by may
Hey Adri,
Living in this city has taught me a few practical things. Bring an umbrella wherever you go. Buy beer in eights for a better deal. Don’t freak out when you hear strange noises at night.
Not owning a car means that I get around a lot on public transportation. London has a great network of buses and trains, so even if I leave a party at four in the morning, I can still hop on the 205 to get home. But living — and sometimes traveling — alone brings out the charming little paranoid in me. A weird shadow here, a bit of howling there… good stuff for B-grade horror, bad for the nerves.
I get particularly antsy when I’m at a Tube station alone when it’s dark, catching the last train at midnight as I so often do. If you’ve watched enough bad movies, you know the creepy bits always happen on trains and subways. Something about dimly lit tunnels that must breed horror. It doesn’t help that I’ve heard so many stories about the famous ghosts that haunt this city and its underground stations.
The legends of the haunted Tube stations are so popular that even the TFL (Transport for London) website has an item in its FAQ section listing the allegedly haunted sites. Rumour has it that several old stations (such as Aldwych) closed down because too many station workers demanded transfers after encounters with these ghosts.
What’s fascinating to me is that Londoners – typically a jaded, skeptical lot – are still subject to the occasional bout of mortal fear. It’s a comforting reminder that even in big, impersonal cities such as this one, people are still… human.
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