So I have been reading a lot about ghosts. I think my fascination with ghosts is that they are representatives of the past, and that if one were to see one, they witness history. I believe that can also go for sounds one hears that are unexplainable, as is the following story:
During the Blitz, some Tube stations were used as air-raid shelters, Bethnal Green station on the Central Line in the east end was one of them. On 3 March 1943, at 8:17, the air raid sirens went off and the residents in the surrounding neighbourhood descended down into the station. There was a long staircase with only a single bulb for light in the middle. A little later, whilst residents were still piling into the station, a anti-aircraft rocket was set off in a nearby park. This loud blast caused a mass panic, and thus causing more people to surge into the station down the stairs. One woman and her baby slipped halfway down the stairs causing a people in front of her to fall and within minuets, 300 people were crushed in the stairwell. Out of that, 173 people were killed, mostly women and children.
In the spring of 1981, a station master was closing up and finishing paper work one of the offices located of the station platform. Whilst in the office, he started to hear children crying. The crying got louder, and then all of a sudden, women screaming. It culminated to a loud mass of people in panic, which lasted about 10 minuets. The station master left his office and went up to the upper level because he was so frightened of the noise. Out of the 173 people to die, only 27 were men. Were these cries and screams of those who lost their lives during the panic?
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