spooks

Thursday news. Life goes on.

For a bit of Hallowe’en fun, five football fanatics interrogated the ghosts of Highbury through a Ouija board. The highlights can be heard on Resonance FM tonight, but first Chris Roberts sets the spooky soccer scene. It’s a popular complaint amongst contemporary football fans that …

London’s crime rates are not the same as those in The Wire, according to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson. Dismayed by politicians’ seeming fondness for gaining publicity and whipping up a fear of gang culture by making a baseless comparison to a fictional TV …

An oil drum stuffed with wires and other highly realistic bomb paraphernalia caused problems near Deptford train station last week. A hawk-eyed passenger spotted the suspect barrel in a yard close to the station, and rightly alerted authorities. But, and you’ll have guessed this from …

“If you look to your right, you will see Britain’s most haunted building,” claims The Conductor as we sweep round Tower HIll. A barrage of drunken quips ensues. The Conductor stares out the malcontents, awaits silence, then responds deadpan: “No, Sir, not Pret A Manger.” …

We’d like to say, up front, that we have absolutely no belief in ghosts, afterlives or any form of spiritualism. But we would sooo love to be proved wrong. Tonight, we’re heading down to a ‘haunted’ morgue beneath Greenwich’s Royal Naval College for four hours …

Image by M@ It’s the event that Londoners have been dieing for. London Ghost Week begins on 24 April, and celebrates all things spooky in the capital. Highlights include an all-night vigil in a Victorian school, séances at the sites of Ripper victims and an …

45. Cockpit Steps Where? Abridged spiral stair case leading down to St James Park from Old Queen Street, Westminster. What? This week, a rare intrusion into the third dimension, courtesy of Cockpit Steps. The curious name alludes to a royal cockpit, where gentlemen of note …

In which we spend a night with some decayed, 17th century dudes, in the catacombs beneath London Bridge. Beneath the Surrey side of London Bridge, behind doors that once led to the robot-kitsch Cynthia’s Bar, a new attraction is taking shape. The London Bridge Experience …