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London has several underground stations that have been the subject of some rather peculiar and unnerving phenomenon. Aldgate Station on the Circle Line has had a variety of strange sightings.

At Aldgate the line crosses over older sections of underground rail, and strange sightings are so frequent that they are recorded in the station log.

In one case, a late shift conductor watched as a track worker bent over the rails doing a bit of work. As the man worked, the conductor saw an old woman with white hair gently stroking the back of the man’s head. Within the next few minutes the man made a horrible mistake, coming in contact with the deadly 24,000 volt conductor rail. While he was knocked unconscious by the jolt, he was miraculously unharmed. The old woman was believed to have been killed many years before, falling onto a similar rail during the bombing of London in the Second World War. Aldgate station has had many such sightings. Passengers frequently report of hearing footsteps, in the wee hours of the morning, approach them and pass them by with no sign of anyone. Strange and mournful whistling is also reported.

Not far from the Marble Arch, in a narrow, winding cobble stone alley behind Hyde Park Corner, is a fashionable and quaint neighborhood pub. The pub, called the Grenadier, is a fragment of London’s past that belongs to the Waterloo era. The Grenadier once served as an officers mess for the Duke of Wellington’s regiments.

In those days, the main bar was in the cellars with the officers dining room in the pub’s main room upstairs. Still in use today, the old pewter bar was moved upstairs and is believed to be the oldest of it’s kind in existence.

The story goes that many years ago a young officer was caught cheating in a card game. His companions handed out immediate and brutal punishment of flogging him on the spot. He allegedly stumbled down into the cellars and died. To this day his ghost is said to haunt the pub. The story of the Grenadier haunting is well known, and customers from all over the world have left money attached to the ceiling of the main bar as a tribute. The pub has also been the subject of numerous television and radio programs, and was featured in the movie “Around the World in 80 Days.”

The disturbances are most acute in September, which incidentally happened to be the month the young officer was cheating at cards.

Several guests have reported distinctly seeing a figure of a man going up the stairs from the bar, only to vanish before he reaches the top. Employees have been frightened on trips to the wine cellars by unexpected chilly breezes and faint unearthly sounds. Numerous times, workers attempting to renovate the pub have experienced frightening events such as locked doors flung wide open, and have heard heavy foot steps, and loud banging. Needless to say, the pub has not received many renovations. It is fairly common for other peculiar events to occur day or night such as unexplained shadows along the staircase, loud knocking and rapping, lights switching off and on, objects being moved, and water being turned on.