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The Phantom Bus Of London's Death Corner - A Chilling Apparition.

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2024
  • The junction of Cambridge Gardens and St Mark's Road, in the North Kensington district of London, is the scene of one of the Capital's more unusual ghosts.
    In the 1930s, residents of Cambridge Gardens were, from time to time, woken in the early hours of the morning by the sound of a bus roaring at great speed along the street. Going to their windows, they would see a brilliantly illuminated bus, careering along the centre of the road, "with neither driver nor passengers."
    CHAPTERS
    00:00 - Introduction
    00:54 - People Begin Talking About The Phantom Bus
    01:15 - Accounts Of The Ghost Bus
    02:20 - First Time It Was Seen
    02:49 - The Ghost Bus Appears At A Garage
    03:19 - The Birmingham Gazette Account Of The Hauntings
    05:10 - The Bus Vanished
    05:40 - The Daily Herald's Account
    07:02 - The Bus That Wasn't There
    08:13 - The Spectral Conductor
    09:07 - A possible Explanation For The Haunting
    10:23 - The Inquest Into The Death Of The Driver
    12:22 - Was The Ghost Bus To Blame?
    14:05 - Rumours Of The Phantom Bus
    14:30 - Conclusion
    14:55 - Closing Credits
    On June the 11th, 1934, a fatal accident occurred at the spot where the phantom bus was known to appear, and, at the inquest into the driver's death, mention was made of the "Ghost bus."
    Journalists began making their way to this leafy London neighbourhood, and soon stories about the "phantom bus of death corner" were appearing in newspapers all over the country.
    In this video, you will hear the first hand accounts of the ghost bus's appearances given to reporters in the aftermath of the tragic collision.

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  • @cbamr
    @cbamr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    By all account, the ghost bus is more regular than a regular bus

    • @JasonSnow-zq2ve
      @JasonSnow-zq2ve 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Cheaper too.

    • @annglaister
      @annglaister 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      That’s funny lol😂

    • @shaunpenne1840
      @shaunpenne1840 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It's funny because it's true!!!😂😂😂😂😂

    • @paulguise698
      @paulguise698 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It would be in Whitehaven

    • @supernoodles91
      @supernoodles91 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Can we hope for a few spectral trains too?😉

  • @beefabob
    @beefabob 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    I think they should call Ghost Bus-sters

  • @MorristheMinor
    @MorristheMinor 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I remember reading about this case nearly 40 years ago. The account I read stated that a bus inspector had come forward to say that he had seen the bus pull into his depot before vanishing. Furthermore, after the fatal accident the junction was amended and after that the bus was never seen again. Just thought I'd mention it.

    • @JackTheRipperTours
      @JackTheRipperTours  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I read the same accounts all those years ago. I'd forgotten all about the story until I chanced upon the inquest report and then it all came flooding back!

  • @leighburton7048
    @leighburton7048 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    You wait forever for a phantom bus and then three of them come along at once!

  • @ErnaldtheSaxon
    @ErnaldtheSaxon 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Jack the clipper was the conductor

    • @MorristheMinor
      @MorristheMinor 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I 'ate you Butler!!

  • @hellooohowareudoing
    @hellooohowareudoing 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    "I'm not sloshed officer, I just swerved to avoid the ghost bus!"

    • @JackTheRipperTours
      @JackTheRipperTours  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I thought of ending with a similar comment. What a great excuse!

    • @hellooohowareudoing
      @hellooohowareudoing 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@JackTheRipperTours Excellent video by the way - very enjoyable

  • @Ater_Draco
    @Ater_Draco 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I know I shouldn't listen to this at bedtime, because you tell the most atmospheric ghost tales..... but I'm going to anyway 😂

    • @dawnkindnesscountsmost5991
      @dawnkindnesscountsmost5991 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's only 8PM right now, but it's mid-October, so it's completely dark outside, and might as well be midnight. 😂 Of course I'm watching! 😮

  • @jppirie
    @jppirie 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    100% serious - I saw this bus with my best friend around 1993 I lived one road away. It was around 8pm the bus came at speed down St Marks Road, we looked around and saw it coming really fast. The lights were all on inside and really bright as were the headlamps. We could hear engine racing just like a speeding bus engine would. As it was coming fast we started running around the corner into Cambridge Gardens to the bus stop (that used to be there*) so we wouldn't miss it. We got to the stop (which was just around the corner and waited; the bus never came. We went back to look and there was no bus and we were baffled. Truthfully we didn't know the story of the ghost bus and found out in later years. It wasn't remotely a spooky experience - at the time we were mystified as to where the bus went and left scratching our heads.

  • @itallia666
    @itallia666 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Ooh! I used to live on St Marks Rd
    In the 1970s!
    Ive never heard of this Ghost Bus!
    Although my flat was at the back of a large house, i had a fire escape stairs from my kitchen door & often sat out there at night for a cigarette or if it was a warm night & you could hear traffic even in the early morning hours & the sound of a bus or large vehicle was distinct.
    There are so many spooky places throughout London & its suburbs
    My friend lived in a large house
    Further along St Marks Rd & she swore it was haunted.
    Other residents in the house also said they had seen or felt disturbances.
    Later on after doing abit of research , as she was a junior reporter on a Newspaper & had access to certain records, found
    Out that there had been an accident outside her house & a young lady had been killed but right after the accident, shed been taken into the house by the owner & the young girl had died in their front room.
    This was in the early 1900s.
    So id guess there are many phantoms in such a great metropolis!
    I lived in St Marks Rd for 7 years until i returned back to my Northern city home, but i was very happy in my flat & never felt at all spooked!
    Even my friend, in her haunted house, once she found out about her ghost, spoke to the poor young lady by name, told her she knew of her untimely demise & didnt mind her being there.
    Actually after that, the hauntings were less & it felt much calmer & happier there
    Anyway, my friend lived there
    A further 5 yrs until she left to get married!
    Thanks for this video! It intrigued me because i lived there!
    Peace
    🇬🇧👧

    • @dawnkindnesscountsmost5991
      @dawnkindnesscountsmost5991 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sometimes talking to the spirit will calm them, and spooky occurrences are fewer, or stop completely.
      When a coworker ("Sally") and her husband bought their house 40 years ago, and their two boys were young (4 and 6 years old), some weird things happened in the house, and often in the boys' bedroom. Sally & her husband knew that the man who'd built the house had died a few months before, and knew his name ("John"), so she had a talk with him. Sally told John that he'd built a beautiful house, she was sorry that he died, and that she and her family wanted the opportunity to grow in the beautiful house and make it their home. Sally told John that she didn't mind that he was there, but she wouldn't stand for him scaring her sons, so for him to stay, he had to be a peaceful presence, and not scare the boys at all. Sally and her family never had another scary thing happen again, but occasionally some odd, helpful things would happen, such as needed things would appear where they hadn't been a minute before, or if one of the boys accidentally kicked or threw a ball into the road, the ball would return to the yard as if kicked or thrown back to the boys, but no one was visibly present to kick or throw it, keeping the boys from running into the road to get the ball. The family attributed such things to John, and thanked him accordingly.

  • @dancedecker
    @dancedecker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Many thanks for an excellent and interesting story.
    Apparently it stopped being seen after the road layout was altered in the late thirties.
    There's stories of a similar vehicular ghost, in the shape of a phantom blue Bedford CF van that runs people off a road as it crosses a narrow hump backed bridge, at a place called Condor Green near Lancaster.
    As people usually slow down for the bridge, I don't think there have been any fatalities, but a lot of very shaken drivers and bent bumpers.
    All very interesting.

    • @stevejelly3161
      @stevejelly3161 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I do believe the accounts !!!
      .
      I wonder if they are similar to a looping magnetic piece of recorded tape ????
      .
      Or maybe generated by emotion ?????
      .
      It's "funny" but credible .........a "Blue Bedford CF Van" ............ (yeh i believe it) ............ but 90% of the people just refuse to admit it 🙂
      .
      Way back in 1981 ..... when i left school ..... a few people saw Roman Soldiers marching and just walking into a wall on a feeder lane .................. surveyors had been "digging around" the area to widen the road !!!!!!!
      .
      I think WW11 old disused airfields have a "feelgood factor" also 🙂

  • @traciemarsh1611
    @traciemarsh1611 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    my daddy told me my grandad used to live there he said he saw it, xx thankyou so much for posting this x

  • @robanderson473
    @robanderson473 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "Ooh I'll getcha for this, Butler! Errrgh'errgh."

    • @Noblerot1830
      @Noblerot1830 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hate you Butler! 😂

  • @felineexceptional
    @felineexceptional 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Khan will have trouble ULEZ charging these phantom vehicles... I'm sure he'll give it a go though.

  • @annamae859
    @annamae859 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I heard the story of the Ghost Bus several times when I was Living at Ladbroke Grove.
    Always runs on time and never gets diverted.

  • @Westeross
    @Westeross 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The reflection theory sounds feasible- another great tale 👍🏻

  • @neilforbes416
    @neilforbes416 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    A "Spirited" ride indeed!

  • @ozzyrocks666
    @ozzyrocks666 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Better call the Ghost Bus'ters'

  • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
    @JohnDavies-cn3ro 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for this story. I first heard of the tale nearly 60 years ago, a kind of throwaway addition to a story about other phantom vehicles, an have always been intrigued by it. You cover it in the deepest detail and history that I've ever seen. Thanks.

  • @vespasian606
    @vespasian606 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Saw a large plane desperately trying to clear the end of a disused airfield once. My colleague who was stood beside me saw it too. Since closure the runway had lost a few hundred yards from one end courtesy of the M25 so it all made sense. That is until it vanished into thin air. Whatever we saw or thought we saw the pilots panic was all too evident. The wings angle of attack looked well beyond the stalling point so it definitely looked like he was trying to clear the road even if it meant crashing on the other side.

  • @tay7366
    @tay7366 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Ghost bus tours , now that’s an idea 🤔

    • @dancedecker
      @dancedecker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I run one. In Blackpool.

  • @benlujan288
    @benlujan288 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for your wonderful uploads, sir!

  • @angelajones2095
    @angelajones2095 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loved this tale. 😃

  • @ruiseartalcorn
    @ruiseartalcorn 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great story, many thanks. I love the old lady's comment at the end ;)

  • @davidboyce8683
    @davidboyce8683 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fascinating.

  • @adelecurry7405
    @adelecurry7405 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Might people have been seeing drivers returning empty buses to the depot?

  • @WadeRaney-vv5oi
    @WadeRaney-vv5oi หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was there a 🚌 crash in old times,I did notice that the no7 was heading for Trafalgar Scare,Thanks for a Good Presentation as usual 👋

  • @janesykes4483
    @janesykes4483 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've heard this before , very creepy 👻👻👻👻👻👻

    • @janesykes4483
      @janesykes4483 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Does anyone know the origin s of it

  • @Legionmint7091
    @Legionmint7091 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I wonder if the no. 7 ghost bus inspired J.K Rowling’s Knight Bus in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
    In Stockholm, Sweden, we use to have The Ghost Train, which actually was a silver colored prototype underground train (the regular underground trains were green at the time).
    The urban legend said that it passed all stations and took you to the abandoned stop Kymlinge, which was a dilapidated station that never came in use, and when you arrived you were already dead…
    I rode it many times at night, and thought I’m not superstitious at all you couldn’t be entirely sure.
    Sadly enough it was decommissioned in 1994.

    • @Brian.001
      @Brian.001 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      you couldn’t be entirely sure. 🤣🤣

    • @Legionmint7091
      @Legionmint7091 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Brian.001 Hey, I was young and usually pissed at that time of night. 😘

  • @Cortinaman63
    @Cortinaman63 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Given the dates of that type of bus, has anyone looked in to a number 7 bus being destroyed during WW1, ?, there were German bombs dropped in the London area, around 1917, or maybe even during WW2, and the driver might have been a driver of the early type of bus before also doing so in the 1940's, when London was also bombed, and buses were involved back then, I recall a very famous photo of one nose down in a bomb crater, just one example, there were others.

    • @Noblerot1830
      @Noblerot1830 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The one in the crater was Balham High rd. The nearby tube flooded due to water and sewage pipes being ruptured and many people died. There is a plaque in the station. I think it was 1940/41 .

    • @JohnDavies-cn3ro
      @JohnDavies-cn3ro 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I know the German Zeppelins and Gotha raiders did a lot of damage - indeed, one Zepp got as far as Walsall, where they hit a tram, killing the town's Lady Mayoress. You'd need a detailed map of the afflicted areas to know if there was a connection. Also, have you though about the 'Blighty buses' that went to war in 1914, as troop transports in Flanders? They were ex LGOC B types, and their drivers went with them..... could it have been one of them, lost in France?

    • @KeplersDream
      @KeplersDream 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@JohnDavies-cn3ro It was the largest zeppelin raid of the war; apparently they got lost in the fog, thought they were over Liverpool and dropped their bombs anyway. Our cenotaph was built on the spot where the mayoress was killed, and there's still bomb damage to be seen in nearby walls.

  • @itsjohndell
    @itsjohndell 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Good job for spooky season. Sadly TfL will start running Phantom Replacement Bus Service from the rail Stations.

  • @filmbuff2777
    @filmbuff2777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • @adieblackmore54
    @adieblackmore54 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    enjoyed this

  • @donnicholas7552
    @donnicholas7552 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Spooky story!👻

  • @davehendry8056
    @davehendry8056 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i was a bus driver in the 90s i got to a terminus at midnight and seen an old guy sitting up stairs at the front with a hat on so i jumped out the cab ran up stairs and he was gone

  • @hauntinggoingonwithangelamylif
    @hauntinggoingonwithangelamylif 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very interesting channel I like stories like yours happy to subscribe ❤❤❤

  • @margaretcorriher1000
    @margaretcorriher1000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I do love 😘 a good ghost story. 😇🇺🇲👻

  • @rodmorrison47
    @rodmorrison47 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You have to appreciate that elderly lady's last comment, though.

  • @michaelbeams9553
    @michaelbeams9553 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Do you need exact change ?
    Wonderful video .

  • @catherinebirch2399
    @catherinebirch2399 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I can't figure out how something without a soul can become a ghost.

  • @deniseelsworth7816
    @deniseelsworth7816 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Im totally with the sweet old lady at the end but I really enjoy the tales. Im interested in every aspect of old London.

  • @shaundonohue4879
    @shaundonohue4879 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Did it arrive on time, better late than never.

  • @lindawilliams8067
    @lindawilliams8067 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My cousin and my uncle both live in Cambridge gardens they never mentioned the phantom bus , and I live in Dollis Hill.

  • @generalcancel
    @generalcancel หลายเดือนก่อน

    If the bus turned south from Cambridge Gardens into St Mark's Road, the next right turn is Bartle Road - which, prior to being rebuilt and renamed, used to be Rillington Place, and we all know what happened there!

  • @thomasrobertson4213
    @thomasrobertson4213 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That’s nothing, in Edinburgh buses are regularly showing on the tracker and then go missing just before they are due to turn up…

  • @Playstation-Trains23
    @Playstation-Trains23 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You can't buy a bus then two come along at once!

  • @nigelbranthwaite8471
    @nigelbranthwaite8471 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The picture seems to be of AEC NS operated by General maybe there could have been a accident with a between a General bus and car at that corner.

  • @grey2619
    @grey2619 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Ghost buses are nothing unusual, frigging happens every day with me.

  • @dawnkindnesscountsmost5991
    @dawnkindnesscountsmost5991 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    4:47-4:59 Pretty obvious that it's the Knight Bus, driven by Ernie Prang. Somebody performed a permanent Disillusion Charm on the interior of the bus, which only affects its driver, conductor (Stan), and the riders, which is why it appears to be empty. Everyone on it can see each other without a problem, of course.
    14:28-14:38 The Phantom Bus had its 15 minutes of fame (50 years before Andy Warhol uttered his quote about it), and retired, crossing the Rainbow Bridge for buses in June 1934.

  • @kolemoore-rn2ee
    @kolemoore-rn2ee 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The old bus depot in Croydon (South London) is meant to be haunted. Stories of an old bus pulling into the depot and vanishing.

  • @jamiestacey7862
    @jamiestacey7862 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    👍

  • @charlespeterwatson9051
    @charlespeterwatson9051 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder if "The Last Of The Summer Wine" based their "Th Phantom Number 14 Bus" episode on this.

  • @white-dragon4424
    @white-dragon4424 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There must be an origin of this bus, as in an accident involving a bus of its type in the area? If not, then I'd say it's all in people's imaginations.

  • @andreamallon3062
    @andreamallon3062 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They just cant see the passengers getting off and on, its part of the "otherworld" jeez, did no one see Harry and co. using it 😂😂

  • @deniseelsworth7816
    @deniseelsworth7816 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That's just what busdrivers do . Set off when they see you coming. Thats humans for you not ghosts 😂

  • @paulguise698
    @paulguise698 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hiya Richard, what I'm trying to say is , how can a bus be a ghost, its not a living thing, a ghost is someone who hasn't accepted the fact that their dead yet, I find it quite baffling, say Richard that's all I have to say about the Ghost bus, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England

  • @SirKenchalot
    @SirKenchalot 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't know about buses but I heard rumors there was a train traveling up the country at tremendous speed, wishing people here and there day and night but that sort of thing never happens in real life, right?

  • @tammyfader681
    @tammyfader681 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Isn't that the witches bus that picks up Harry Potter lol

  • @john0597
    @john0597 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There's always two ways or two reasons why the bus would would have appeared one that the driver crashed the bus nearby or passed away or it's just a recording and for whatever reason the bus materialise and and the area had ley lines is it and it was just recording I was just a recording of the bus going past nothing more

    • @matildamartin2811
      @matildamartin2811 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s what I was thinking. When they rebuilt the crossroads, the ley lines were probably broken, which is why the recording was lost.

  • @korbendallas71
    @korbendallas71 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I wonder if jk Rowling used this as an inspiration for the night bus in Harry Potter

  • @isladurrant2015
    @isladurrant2015 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Does it take Oyster Card?

  • @Rollin_L
    @Rollin_L 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think it must be one of the phantom electric buses, such as the one some American community spent huge money on before they all broke down and the maker went out of business!

  • @ericanelson1973
    @ericanelson1973 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🚦🛣️🚗🚎🚌🚚. A different kind of life after death? 💀

  • @georgebrooks3747
    @georgebrooks3747 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Call the ghost bus-sters

  • @HW-sw5gb
    @HW-sw5gb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What if we kissed in the back of the ghost bus? 😳😳

  • @StephanieJordan-Smith
    @StephanieJordan-Smith 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who ya gonna call..ghost bus ters😂😂😂