Okay. Thanks to Shane Dawson I have been looking up Urban Legends. So I have been looking up some, mainly in London to be afraid of the place I live in! So here are the ones I found! Oh and PLEASE tell me more xD Spoiler: London Urban Legends <3 The Shadows of Cane Hill (Croydon) If you’re looking for a location for your ghost story, Cane Hill Asylum would be hard to beat. In operation between 1882 and 1991, thousands upon thousands of patients passed through its doors. Some of them – such as Charlie Chaplin’s mother and the brothers of David Bowie and Michael Caine – would later be immortalised by those they left behind. But the majority lived and died unnoticed, hidden from sight. All of which may explain why they – some say – never left. Over the years, disturbing reports have come in from the derelict hospital of figures moving in the grounds. Others swear they’ve seen shadows flitting by the windows, or vanishing into the night. Dogs are known to fear the site, and it’s said the dead are watching from the windows, turning their cold and envious eyes upon the world of the living. At least, that was once the case. In 2010, a fire gutted the hospital. Today, only a shell remains of the place a many lost souls once called home. The Crying Girl (King’s Cross Station) At roughly 7.30pm on November 18th 1987, someone carelessly dropped a match on a King’s Cross Station escalator. The resulting fire gutted the ticket office, killing 31 and trapping hundreds of people underground. Today, the terrible memories of the fire still linger on in the form of the crying girl. A young woman with long brown hair, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, the crying girl has been spotted around the station, seemingly inconsolable with grief. Passengers have reported trying to comfort her, only to see her suddenly disappear in the crowd, or feel their arms going right through her. More creepily, people have heard her sobs when the platforms are empty, and others have smelled smoke curling out from underneath the escalators. Although no-one has ever got a clear look at her, it is thought she’s one of the fire’s victims, her spirit left behind to wait forever on the platform where she died. That said, crying children often turn up in urban legend, many of which are cautionary tales, and may go some way to explaining the King’s Cross haunting. The Screams of the Dead (Bethnal Green Station) In 1943, Bethnal Green in East London experienced one of its worst wartime tragedies. Not from bombs or flying shrapnel, but something potentially far deadlier: panic. During a routine air raid siren test, civilians on their way to shelter in the Tube station all happened to converge on the entrance at once. In their panic to get downstairs, some people tripped… and then the stampede began. As more and more people fell to their knees and bodies kept piling in the door, the panic became a deadly crush. One hundred and seventy-three people were trampled to death, including at least 41 children. The disaster was Britain’s worst civilian tragedy in the entire war. Over 70 years after the accident, its memory still scars the station. Underground staff and late night passengers have reported hearing women screaming and the sound of children crying. Do the voices of the dead still linger beneath East London’s streets? The only way to be sure is to go down there late at night and find out for yourself. What one do u think is creepiest?
