Covent Garden: The Most Haunted Tube Station?
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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Ghosts! Ghosts don't pay taxes, as you well know, Jago - you shade of a Victoria urchin.
"Hayden spoke to the station master and asked who he was gonna call??
Hands up who either said or thought to yourself "Ghostbusters!"
I totally thought that too!
🙋🏼♂️
Jago is obviously still now well, no way he would miss that!
I ain't 'fraid of no ghosts! 👻
Totally did and then immediately felt ashamed for doing so. Lol.
I was a Station Assistant (as we were then called) in 1998-2000 at Covent Garden. I was the staff member who lamped out the last trains. One night, I could see someone walking off the platform via the passageways. I radioed my Supervisor to ask him to do a PA to tell this customer that the trains had all gone. I saw this figure disappear around the corner several times. The Supervisor radioed back that he was looking at the CCTV and that I was the only one down there. I left pretty damn quickly. I didn't get a good look at him (it gave the impression of being a man) only that he was wearing either a long coat or a cloak because it swished as he turned the corner. Many staff members have seen 'ghosts' over the years, especially Supervisors because they were often alone at night. When I was a Supervisor at Wimbledon Park, I heard the cleaner, who was from the Cote D'Ivoire , talking to someone. When I saw only him, I asked who he had been talking to and he said, matter of factly, that he had been chatting to the ghost and added that at least it wasn't a terrorist. I couldn't fault his logic I suppose.
The ghost of William Teriss is probably a much better conversationalist. I wonder what they were talking about? Possibly current events (or history, in the case of what Teriss has to say on the topic).
I love the phrase "melancholy looking gentleman". So much more erudite than "grumpy looking sod".
I'd be pretty grumpy if I'd been murdered too.
I'm surprised that Charles Tyson Yerkes' ghost doesn't haunt the underground somewhere 😂😂😂
jago is comissioned to make these videos to keep Yerkes distracted, previously he was a great nuisance on the tube.
He haunts this channel instead
@@PhantoonYou beat me to it!
There is no need. He haunted it well alive.
You beat me to it!
I would’ve assumed there would be hundreds of ghosts from all the people who dropped dead from exhaustion after deciding to take the stairs up from the platform rather than getting the lift.
My grandma nearly became a victim earlier this year
Notably fewer people than if the signs had been correct about the number of stairs.
I used to work near Covent Garden tube station 22 years ago, and needed to lose weight, so I decided to incorporate running up those stairs in the morning into my daily fitness routine. Maybe not one of my best ideas...
Never did see the ghost, I'm sorry to say.
I remember doing the Covent Garden stairs rather than wait for the lift. Probably the most exhausting staircase I've experienced but I got to the top... eventually.
Particularly when my 2nd brother feared the lift would fail and refused to go into it…. 😠, and forced us to climb the stairs 🥵
In the late 1970s Covent Garden was closed on Sundays. The signalling was arranged so that trains had to reduce speed to 5mph as they approached the platform starter. The standing instruction to guards was keep all doors closed.
The micky taking amongst train crew was fierce and one of our colleagues, an impressionable Asian chap, was asked if he knew why we had to keep the door closed.
When he said he didn't, he was told it was in case the ghost grabbed him and pulled him out. He went pale. 🤣🤣
Proof that London Underground invented time travel if he was asked "who you gonna call?"
It must have worked wonders… At 10:02 Jago states that few sightings happened after 1980 onwards. In 1984 we all got to know who you gonna call…?
Covent Garden station didn't exist in 1897, but it's said that Terris was a regular customer at a bakery that used to occupy the site. It was demolished make way for the station when the tube was built, which may explain the connection.
That Sponsor transition at 3:10 was so smooth, that it got me saying "Oh ffs" out loud and immediately laughed afterwards🤣
I thought it was coming at 2:28 following the mention of Psychic News.
I think the scariest person from this video is that fella who invented the pay toilet. What a devilish ghoul indeed…
“Here I sit, broken hearted, paid a penny and merely f@rted!”
My father in law worked on the maintenance on LT doing night work and he said Covent garden was very scary and he heard noises he couldn't explain
Best not to go down there after watching Quatermass and the Pit.
@@rjjcms1 A very good film in is day but hardly anyone remembers it now.
Whilst working for LT Lifts and Escalators Div. as a Ventilating Plant Attendant (we looked after tunnel fans and pumps as well) I visited Covent Garden many times on nights to maintain the tunnel fan there. After finishing the work, which didn't take long, my mate Bert and I would drop one of the lifts down half a shaft so we could get our heads down and couldn't be caught if our supervisors came on to the station. One of these times my mate was convinced, and I could never shake him from it, that he was pulled off of the passenger bench he was lying on by a man in a cloak and hat. Was he dreaming? Maybe but as I say he stuck to the story for as long as I new him.
Loved the black bird (crow, raven?) flying past the camera in the opening cemetery shot!
And the Squirrel making an impressive leap off the headstone in the background
Carrion Crow. Jackdaws are more grey, Rook would have pale patch at base of bill, and it's too small and lacks the "shaggy beard" look to be a Raven.
@@alanclarke4646 thanx!
...it was Peter Lorre!
@@swanvictor887 Vincent Price fan!
A flash mob singing and dancing to the Ghostbusters theme seems appropriate.
I worked at Covent Garden on nights for a while in the late 80's, pretty much the first thing anyone said to me was about the ghost and how nobody went down to platform level once the station was closed. I didn't believe in all that nonsense so went down there, I didn't see or speak to anybody but as soon as I got to the bottom the old wooden lift doors started banging together making a hell of a racket. I can remember slowing to 3 stairs at a time when I got near the top so it didn't look like I was hurrying. Nobody said anything to me about it and neither did I.
Another extraordinarily detailed masterpiece by Mr Hazzard. However, any mention of Brompton Cemetery should surely include its most famous inhabitant - the time traveller and/or teleport enthusiast Hannah Courtoy.
Excellent video as always Jago.
To my mind, by FAR the best documentary on this subject is "Ghosts on the Underground"
I highly recommend it.
The Covent Garden ghost is of course mentioned.
My favourite is towards the end when Bill, a track worker recounts his experience.
A really good documentary.
Do you know where I can find that? Cheers.
@bordershader I simply typed in that exact title into RUclips and it comes up.
The title picture is the Underground Roundel.
Any issues finding it, let me know and I'll try to assist. But that should do it.
Cheers
@dancedecker magic, thank you!
@bordershader You're welcome. Let me know what you think. Cheers
This tale was retold in a BBC Radio 4 play, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Burt Coules: The Star of the Adelphi, and can be found in the final series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first broadcast in February 2002.
Great stuff Jago.
I'd heard of William Terris's ghost, but you went into so much more detail.
There's a real freaky one at Becontree Station . . . Woman in a white dress, with no face!!
I love the 1985 class 2 riding stock piccadilly locomotive especially with the Egyptian embroidery + photo voltaic recharge
I very much doubt there’s ghosts etc down there - the underground is a place that, when empty, will feel unsettling and there will be all sorts of noises in the tunnels anyway! Still, great story!
Your videos are the ghost story to my Halloween 🎃
Another superb contribution JH!
Ahhhh...John Nevil Maskelyne - one of the true forefathers of British Magic; an 'exposer' of crooked card play; and a constant thorn in the side of fake psychics and spiritualists (long before Houdini decided to jump on the bandwagon). I'm not quite sure what he'd have made of 'The Covent Garden Ghost' - but I can guess! As the inventor of the pay toilet, one wonders where all those pennies would have been spent without him?
I love haunted station vids! Great job, hoping to see more!
This is philosophically interesting. I have been considering where I should haunt, when the time comes, and I wonder whether the paperwork requires us to select a particular venue (whether or not yet constructed), or whether it's possible to apply for a single transferrable haunt, accounting for various eventualities?
1:57 - I love how the stairs say they're for emergencies only... When I visited London, we stayed in a place near Queensway station. I just walked down the stairs the first time we went in because the lift was too busy. I chuckled at the sign when I saw it down the bottom.
On our return, again the lift was busy, so I told the group I was travelling with I would race them up... I assumed they would beat me given how many stairs there were, and how unfit I am really... But I ended up having to wait for them 😂
After that, I just used the stairs in all the underground stations if I saw stairs before I saw a lift.
it's a routine for me to watch these videos, and it's something I'll always have fun doing
Nice Lancaster Gate B-role being used during the Ground News advert.
I was expecting the outro thankyou to say "You are the paracetamol to my thumping headache" lol
Once again, outstanding research, Mr H. Amongst many other things I learned from this episode was that CG station was on the verge of closure until 1980.
Does the ghost of CTY stalk the tunnels of any of our tube stations?
I remember going there in about 1977. That whole area, let alone the station, felt like it was at the wrong end of borrowed time. 3 years later, I got my first job at Drury Lane, and the transformation in that time was almost unbelievable.
I think your voice adds to the atmosphere of subject 😊
Another great video Jago. I knew about the ghost but didn't know the background to it. Very interesting and informative video, thanks.
Given the antiguity of some London districts the Tube has been plowed through, you would have thought more spectral activity from earlier ages of the City. Roman Legionaries, Saxon/Mercian or Danish traders, errant medieval Monks, or Civil War/P,lague/ Great Fire victims.
Happy Hop - Tu - Naa .
Here on the Isle Of Man we are not as commercialized like with Halloween , There is no trick or treat , Children do knock on doors to get treats but sing Celtic / Gaelic carols instead , Overall-its more relaxed and respectful .
...do they still burn a Wicker Man....?!
Jago really saved the best story for Spooktober. Such fun! 👏🏽
A great tale of seen and not heard.. Well done Jago
Gary Numan claims he saw a ghost in ‘40s clobber at Piccadilly underground station. He has used that look on album covers.
Ah, that was probably me.
5:54 also invented the pay toilet??? Truly, this man was responsible for the spookiest and most cursed of things on the underground!
Lovely Halloween vid, thanks. Didn't know that Maskelyne invented 'spending a penny' - I knew he invented ship camouflage and was a most varied fellow in his activities off the stage, but that one's new to me.
Surely if you ask ‘who you gonna call?’ there can only be one answer……😂👻
2.22, . . " who should I call?" . . . who else started humming that tune.....
Oh for God's sake Stationmaster, you missed a golden opportunity there. "Who you gonna call?" ... "Er, Psychic News?" 🙄
In other words Ground News: Don’t let yourself get tricked. Exactly. Nothing like a ghost story.
Thanks Jago, l always enjoy a spooky tale !
Why are ghosts always Victorian? I would love to see a miniskirted 60s ghost, or perhaps a funky flares and platform shoe-wearing 70s ghost.
Cool video as always! 😎
Nice one. However i was quite taken aback when the photo of the moustachiod man appeared, thinking you has sneaked in another mention of your Nemesis Yerkes 😅
This is my favourite ghost story from the tube. Thanks, Jago.
I like these stories. I wouldn't be surprised if people who are susceptible to this can feel the presence of some visitors from the past. More likely when the station is deserted. It probably gets crowded if the lift breaks down late at night as quite a few ghosts gather in the lift shaft.
2:21 I can't have been the only one to think "GHOSTBUSTERS"
Terris also has a memorial at Eastbourne where the former lifeboat house (Now the Lifeboat Museum) was built in his memory with a large plaque on the wall.
Your voice is getting lovelier!
Brilliant video sir!
You rock!
The reason why William Terrace haunts Covent Garden is that that it was built on the site of his favorite bakery
Hello Jago, thank you for bringing your fans, myself being one, a spooktacular Halloween Tale from the Tube. It is now long past sunset and so must return to W10 on the ‘extension of Central Line’
Best wishes from Hobbs Lane.👻
Sounds Spooky Jago - @ 2:20 - Who are you going to call??? GHOSTBUSTERS!!! 😄😉🚂🚂🚂
Well they do say "If you see something that doesn't look right, report it to a member of station staff". 👻
Incidentally, I think I saw a man with pink trousers in the video.
Michael Portillo in a Jago video? Now that would be something. 😮
"Who you gonna call?" I see what you did there ...
Is the exterior "burgundy" tile on CC station original or was it installed in the '30s. Always wondered about that. Plus, I've done the stairs (mistake) but not seen any ghosts
You coulddo something on tube stations in horror films - Death Line, American Werewolf in London, Creep etc.
Squirrel!
There's quite a lot of hauntings by some accounts. There's a few videos on it including one done years ago where the railway gentleman you speak of was interviewed I believe.
Sorry to hear you are suffering, but don't worry about your voice, it is better than most people's on a good day.
6:23 yep, he played Yerkes.
At last, a photo of Jago. Just as I always imagined him…
"Who they were going to call"
I see what you did there.
Dear Jago, guess mr. Terrace ghost is living in the afterlife’s presumption he could find some quiet in the Covent Garden!
8:27 ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ had an episode like this.
Having neither heard, nor seen Yerkes ghost floating within the heady surface vapours, I must leave the decanter undisturbed, my shot glass unturned . . . & return to 'just walking the Hoover' . . . it sucks : )
Thank you for another dead good video Jago.
Too many mushrooms from Covent Garden vegetable market is my explanation.
I believe the station site used to be a bakery that Terrece used to frequent.
Well, he's obviously been looking for the 15th storey ever since the time of Queen Victoria, but has never yet found it
There’s no Stay Puft emoji.
☁️👻
I was somewhere on the tube the other day, think it was Moorgate, on the Northern Line, and when the doors opened, I heard a scream. Everyone heard it. Don’t know who or where it came from.
Good one jago 👍
I always avoid this deep station; lift or steps, it's a wearisome affair
Deadlines on Halloween. Like it.
5:46 🐿
Could you make the add reads longer please, I mean over two minutes is not enough. I love hearing about s**t I will never use.
Like this comment if your first answer was "Ghostbusters" when Jago talked about who they were going to call.
I always thought the most well known ghost story for the tube is the Kenny loop
I remember doing a PowerPoint about ghosts on the underground. I just copied the documentary and used that as the entire basis of it. Couldn’t only get through a couple in 10 minutes, probably would’ve ended up being longer than the doc itself.
Tried your link for Ground News but although it mentions the discount none gets applied before you pay 😒
Well I have been to Covent Garden and I didn’t find it scary at all and I’m not scared of anything. But still interesting to know about how tube stations do keep dark secrets that is so fascinating to hear about.
Did you get the number of the locomotive
Does he insist that box five be kept empty for him?
Would Covent Garden at the time have been like Essex Road on the Northern City Line now?
Looks like the Americans got at that pub board. "...Theatr(squiggle)"
A coven in Covent?
So Covent Garden station was originally the dead end of the line...
there's an old Goon show script called the Scarlet Capsule which spoofs both Quatermas and the Underground in which Neddie Seagoon tries to find the meaning of the phrase Minador after 15 mins of crazy jokes it's revealed as....Minthedoors followed by FX of train pulling out
A COVEN is a group of witches, so why wouldn't COVENT GARDEN be the spookiest.
What,no "Ghost Of Yerkes?!" 👀👻☠️👻👀
More haunting on the tube x
Yerkes would be busy raising money and playing with his electric trains. 😊
I am sure that a beer or 2 will help ease the voice! Get well soon Jago!
I've came here for the 'Ghostbusters' comments.
2:21 - Ghostbusters?
6:22 Are we sure that's not Rupert Graves? He's the splitting image.