There are many frightening legends about the London Underground. Most often, you can hear stories about ghosts, but here from time to time you meet unusual animals.
London Underground is considered one of the largest, its network consists of 11 lines with a total length of 402 km and 270 stations. It is also the oldest metro in the world, it began its work with the first line back in 1863.
In addition to the famous subway tunnels, under London lies a branching network of auxiliary technical tunnels, which are rumored to connect somewhere with secret undergrounds built in the Middle Ages.
For many decades, tales have been circulating about the "wild man" living in these tunnels, for whom the London dungeons and the house and hunting grounds. Moreover, he allegedly hunts not only for rats, but also for homeless people wandering into the tunnels.
Conspiracy theorists say the UK government is working hard to cover up the presence of a "wild man" and other anomalous creatures in the London dungeons. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain why when homeless people disappear in the tunnels once again, the local police supposedly pretend that nothing is happening.
Rumors about strange creatures living near London circulated here in the middle of the last century and they even got into the plots of science fiction films and TV series. For example, in the series "Quatermass" in the series "Pit", released in 1967, which told about a tribe of ape-like mutants from the tunnels.
In 1968, in one of the episodes of the fantastic series about Doctor Who, it was about the yeti living in the subway, in 1981 the film American Werewolf in London was released, which also touched upon the theme of tunnels, and in 2002, the fantastic film The Power of Fire, in which the action took place on the ruins of London, including in the subway tunnels in which a fire-breathing dragon was hiding.
Still from the yeti from the series about Doctor Who.
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It was not always entirely an invention of the writers. In 1972, the film "Death Line" was released, one of the stories of which was based on the story of the eyewitness Colin Campbell.
In the mid-60s, he returned home very late and was the only passenger in a subway car. When he got out at his station (there was no one else on the platform except him) and the train left, Colin suddenly heard a dull growl nearby.
The man turned around and was horrified to see a large ape-like creature on the platform. However, he was lucky, the creature did not attack the person, but turned around and ran away towards the tunnel where the train left. At the same time, according to Colin, it muttered something.
The most curious thing about Campbell's story was that the creature did not look like real (made of flesh and blood), but as if it was a phantom or it was in a different physical state. The creature's legs were almost transparent and the man remembered this very well.
Campbell was so shocked by the meeting that he was in severe shock and could barely move. Especially when the beast crossed the rails and … disappeared into the concrete wall of the tunnel right before his eyes.
There were also a few more stories of people about the meeting with the "Yeti" in the London tunnels, but the researchers could not find their authors and maybe some of them or even all of them may be fiction. Or maybe all this is true, and there really is someone living there.