If the Unlucky Mummy is about 3000 years old, it's likely that the majority of people who have had anything to do with it have come to some form of end by now.
@@ZGryphon well, the thing with nightmares is, is that you wake up and everything is okay. Well, as okay as they were before you went to sleep ofcourse... Nothing in the real world changes during a nightmare. So that's a good thing. Rose was also a good thing -not in a sexist way. I liked Rose.
Egypt: *Return the coffin, or suffer my curse* The British: What's your offer? Courage the Cowardly Dog was a show ahead of its time. As sad as the sinking of the Titanic was, it was also the same exact day that my grandpa was brought into this world as a shining beacon of hope in what was a Korea forcibly occupied by the Japanese.
In its last years before demolition the station building was a cafe. I did make sure to go in there and while I was in there, use the toilets. Which were downstairs. So I presumably did go into the station proper.
Ancient Egypt buff! Yes, Amun-Ra wasn't an actual person but the chief deity of the Egyptian Empire. The Egyptians believed he created the whole universe. In the early days of their civilization, they worshipped him as two separate gods. Amun, god of air. And Ra, god of the Sun and light. When Amun became popular during the Empire/New Kingdom period, he fused with Ra.
@@arthurfarrow Before the New Kingdom period, yes. During, no. Ancient Egyptian text described Amun-Ra as "Lord of truth, father of the gods, maker of men, creator of all animals, Lord of things that are, creator of the staff of life". He was so popular, even Akhenaten was jealous
I personally think Holborn is a poor choice as "the" British Museum underground stop. If You're a super familiar with all the small streets in Holborn, which most visitors will not be, it's easy to get lost. For me, Russel Square is a better and far nicer route. Easier to give directions for, Just left out the station, Diagonally across the quare, then to the end of Montague St, the Museum is in plain sight from there. It is a more scenic route and if Google is correct it takes one minute longer.
Jago : _There Is An Artifact Known As The Unlucky Mummy Which Is Incorrect Because It's Not A Mummy At All, It's A_ ..... Daddy .... I really was hoping Jago was going to say that.
Way back in '85, I stayed briefly at a hostel next to the BM in Montague St. My only curse was that the museum was under renovation so I never got to see the scary scarcophagi.
The Northern Line was once called TootingCamden following Howard Carter discovering Tutankhamen’s Tomb in 1922. Without people knowing it, Mummies, Pharaohs and Scarabs haunt the Northern Line especially when Halloween comes without the line needing stoppage at the British Museum.
@@TalesOfWar If they didn’t move the items to the Museum, the people living there would have destroyed their heritage. Burn marble anyone ? A change in religion ?
The British archaeologists knew full well that people will destroy their own heritage, because they had the example of all the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England to look back to, and all the post-Tudor buildings built using stones "recovered" from those unwanted monastic buildings, which of course was just the British doing what peoples throughout history have done to obtain expensive building materials: nick them from unused and unwanted old buildings. I'm not sure what the German and French archaeologists were using as their justification, or why the return campaigners seem to ignore the "stolen" heritage in French and German museums. And they really don't want to know where Russian museums got their stuff from! Of course, all those archaeologists had eyes in their heads to see what the locals were doing with the heritage which today's campaigners claim was so desperately important to them back then that the locals weren't selling it to anyone with money, oh no, and more recently we got to see Islamic State destroying religious heritage across the lands they occupied just because it didn't fit into their specific view of their religion, which doesn't exactly help the arguments of "heritage must be returned to the land of origin regardless of the stability or corruptness of that land today". The whole thing's far too messy to be reasonably handled in the media, which is why it's all devolved down to "Give us back the things you stole from us when we sold them to you!" 😕
Toronto's Museum subway station's decor is similar to Holborn's, but more spectacular, because its "ancient" columns, sarcophagi, etc. aren't just images, but acual sculptures.
In the Sixties, when I was a student in Central London, many of us patronised one of the shops in the old British Museum station building (I think called Jackatex), which sold cheap jeans, tee shirts and the like. You had to wash them a few times before wearing them as the dye came out. In the summer, I have taken off a tee shirt to find I had orange-coloured armpits. Then, I had no idea that the shop was in an old station, nor had I heard of the British Museum station.
@@ianthomson9363 in the late 70’s on a school trip to the museum most of the boys went into the joke shop we all got canned for going in there the next day
Hadn't realised that the plan to combine the two stations dated back as far as 1913. There's a possible mundane explanation for the noisy mummy, shared by other locations; late night tube maintenance men were worried to hear sounds of trains approaching or screeching wheels, but they then died away - they were on the nearby Post Office Railway that worked through the night. And wheel screech can transmit a long way down the tunnels anyway.
I'd like to know why all ghost-hunters do so at night with all the lights turned off and only use small torches. I think they've got ghosts and vampires confused.
@@johndododoe1411 You have this back to front. It is people who say ghosts exist that must provide evidence for their extraordinary claim. If credible evidence is provided then I will accept it. I am under no obligation to prove that supernatural beings do *not* exist. In fact, it's a meaningless and disingenuous demand as non-existence of anything cannot be proven anyway. Also, to save you dragging it out again, I'm an atheist. I regard all religions as constructs of superstition, ignorance, and tyranny.
Went on a school trip to the British Museum once, and we took the Northern line from Waterloo to Goodge Street. It wasn't far from there to the Museum. I was intrigued by the old lifts at Goodge Street.
And possibly by the 'secret' citadel under it,(Used by General Eisenhower in the last war). So secret, in fact, it was part of the plot of the 1968 Doctor Who story, 'The Web Of Fear'. LU forbade the BBC to film on the underground, so the Doctor Who production team built extremely realistic sections of tube tunnels and platforms, modular, so they could be endlessly reconfigured. So realistic were they, that, after the story was broadcast, LU accused the BBC of breaking in at night, and filming. Not much remains of the original series, but it is wonderfully claustrophobic.
My first trip into London for two-and-a-half years,and also my first use of public transport in approximately that same time period,was to meet my sister and niece (visiting from Canada) one hot Tuesday in the middle of last May at Euston and,among several other things visit the British Museum,where the mummies were what they wanted to see the most. Some of them are placed so that they tower over you,and leaned forward slightly to make them even more imposing.
Thanks, now I know where the station building was. The Central Line had all the interesting places (Trafalgar Square and The Tower excepted) Post Office, Marble Arch, British Museum, Bank. could not be more London if it tried
I think the 'connecting passage' myth comes from a 1930's comedy thriller movie, 'Bulldog Jack', where a secret passage leads from a sarcophagus in the museum to the station (called 'Bloomsbury' in the movie).
Used to use Holborn station to visit Beauties model shop, remember them, we, Royal Doulton,had a London showroom in Hatton garden back in the 80s and I had to check every couple of months the displays/ merchandising/ branding etc, a nice day out from Stoke. We need some updates from tales of your railway modelling adventures methinks.
Though I am not that old, there was a 1935 film set in "Bloomsbury Station" a spoof of the Bulldog Drummnd stories starring Jack Hulbert called "Bulldog Jack" and it is clearly intimated it was supposed to be British Museum: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_Jack It also starred Kay Wray famous for screaming her way through "King Kong" 2 years earler. By the way, in the late 1960s I used to have to use the Central Line every day, and I clearly remember if you looked out of the right hand window Westbound you could see the remains of the British Museum platform, including period adverts. Bulldog Jack is very dated and if you want to see a Bulldog Drummond I'd recommend the 1951 effort with Walter Pidgeon and Margaret Leighton
The thirties version has some very good fast patter....apparently in the early days of the 'talkies' there was a shortage of actors who could speak so many music hall and theatre actors transferred to the silver screen bringing the fast music hall rapid patter with them. The scene with the villain driving the tube train is a classic
@@kangaroogroundboy Strangely I was watching part of Bulldog Jack last night (from the removal of the jewels to the end on the train) the speed of dialogue was indeed rapid.
I once a heard a variation of the haunted station story about 25 years ago which goes that the British Museum has a basement storage area which is just the other side of the wall of the station and contains at least one Egyptian mummy/sarcophagus. There is a legend that the museum has certain artefacts which have had so many odd incidents happening around them that they are never put on public display. There are supposed to be reports of figures being seen standing on the abandoned platforms by the driver of passing trains.
The real story is that the Unlucky Mummy has lost its Oyster-shell cartouche and therefore is condemned to ride the Central Line without means of exit.
There are a lot of odd museums in London. About 20 years ago I phoned the curator of the British Radio Museum near Crystal Palace F.C. We were getting on like two autistics with a passion, until I told him that I'd be writing up my visit for 'The Football and Real Ale Guides'. He shouted that he did not want any publicity, and put the phone down.
@@michaelmiller641 I can remember the conversation, but not the man's name. I'll look up Gerald Wells Radio Museum when I am sober. Like I said: we were getting on like radio hams a hemisphere apart, until I said I was writing a review for 'The Football and Real Ale Guides'. He didn't care what I was writing for, he just didn't want anyone he didn't know coming to his museum.
Back in late 70's I have a fond memory of Charlie Drake telling us kids on a school trip to the museum to "eff" off as we kept mugging his shots doing bunny ears behind his head and just annoying the heck out the poor chap, teacher got affronted so ol' Charlie told him to go do one and gave him 10 minutes of very rude words without repeating himself and our teacher retreated under the barrage of vitriol from someone we all thought was considered quite a clean chap.
Speaking of coffins in the British Museum! A couple weeks ago a friend of mine and two friends of hers and I were touring the Greek exhibits when we happened upon a GIGANTIC vase that was roughly four feet and change tall and three feet in diameter at its widest point. The other three joked that I could probably fit inside it, as I'm only 5'7...until they read the description. Turns out it's not a vase. It's a coffin, used for children or young adults.
As your still photo shows, the old station was the site of the most wonderful Aladdin's cave of photographic gear, Brunnings. We photographic students haunted the place (!). David Brunning, the proprietor once showed us down the back stairs which led down to track level!
I’ve sometimes thought it would be interesting, if not particularly photogenic, to hear more about the bits of abandoned / disused tunnels around the tube. We hear about abandoned stations from time to time, but not so much the tunnels. Just a thought.
I supposed a ghost that has been around for aprox. 3000 years must be bored to Osiris and back if they consider Bored Apes to be worth stealing... Then again, their worth is probably as imaginary as the curse.
On the subject of hauntings by Egyptian Mummies, Great Yarmouth supposedly had one. It was apparently donated to a school round 1900 and sat in one of the science rooms, at least until it stunk the place out and the decision was made to bury the occupant in a nearby churchyard. Things were ok for a while until the stink returned and nearby residents to the churchyard reported knocks on their doors late at night (might've been a possible sighting). Upon checking the sarcophagus, turned out that one of the Mummy's hands was still in it and the said hand was reunited with it's owner.
I used to pass the Museum on my motorbike heading to the LSE, so I always thought it was quite far from High Holborn. It's actually about 350 metres as the crow flies, which is eminently walkable. Another interesting thing learned from Jago. Thanks!
I took a photo of that coffin lid and my camera's micro SD card started getting corrupted files around that day, I always wondered why I lost all photos from that day specifically
Press Like to dissolve the curse on yourself. And also inform Tom Cruise, since he is the one who have the curse (the Mummy in the London Museum is supposed to be Ahmanet, which was mistaken as Amon Re)
Are the Dutch viewers proud to see a Dutch pancake house on the site of the former Tube station? EDIT: Looks like My Old Dutch Pancake House is next door. Close enough, though.
I have heard that the British Museum once had its own railway station on another video I’ve watched ages ago or it might of been on telly that I was watching with my mum and it was fascinating to watch. Still I do like your videos and content you always upload since I’ve subscribed to your channel.
Oooh, terrific tale from the tube. And, maps ! I realise we have sarcophagi, mummies, abandoned stations, and the Titanic . It's begging for an Agatha Christie style motif to tie it all together - your copyright, of course.
@@greatscot I would get the H&C to Liverpool Street and get the Central Line to Holborn or get the Elizabeth Line or Central Line to Tottenham Court Road
Back in the 1990's when I was using the Central line, in evening rush hour, the train would sometimes pause in the section of tunnel where Museum Station used to be. Although the platforms are not there, you can see some of the tiling and of course the drastic widening of the tunnel at that point.
Well, back in the 1980s, in rush the hour, East bound trains often stopped at British Museum waiting for the trains ahead. I distinctly remember often staring through the window to try and make out details in the very dim light, on the wall. I seem to remember seeing various items. Posters, notices etc.
@@JagoHazzard I think what you are trying to say is that the cost of overcoming the engineering challenges would be too great to justify, given the expected return. Sorry for being pedantic. Excellent video as ever.
More details about the 1935 film Bulldog Jack. It's a marginally funny spoof of Bulldog Drummond starring Jack Hulbert. It is largely set in the abandoned British Museum station where a gang of thieves (lead by Ralph Richardson) have set up a base to allow them steal a necklace from the British Museum. There's rather a good fight in the Museum The climax of the film is a fight on a runaway underground train. It also stars King Kong's Fay Wray. I love the film but I'm not going to claim it as a masterpiece. It is, however, ESSENTIAL viewing for anyone interested in the London Underground
I’ve been to the site of British Museum for work. The dead-end of the siding has a staircase down to an adit joining the running tunnels and a MASSIVE vault door in the wall. Perfect sort of door for an Ancient Tomb 👻
H'mmm No passage from the BM to Museum Station, you say? Odd, because (supposedly) in WW2 valuable, flammable items were packed and moved through this non-existent tunnel to safe storage in locations outside central London. And if you used the BM shooting range in the late 1970s to early 80s there was a large heavy metal door of the type used to seal Underground station passageways. The shooting range was in the 3rd basement under the (now demolished) south eastern(?) stacks (book storage for the Library
I don't know if it existed in 1906, but the Montague Place entrance at the "back" of the British Museum is actually closer to Russel Square than the main entrance is to Holborn. It's also closer to Goodge Street. I think even Tottenham Court Road is closer to the front entrance than Holborn.
Thanks Jago. - Many years ago my dad would work in the B.M. on occasion. As a kid I had heard and read stories about the station,we had a fun afternoon discussing the tall tales and the truth. - If memory serves me,there is a least one (not Conan Doyle), Sherlock Holmes book featuring the station,and I think a couple of rather strange comics inspired by it too.
If the Unlucky Mummy is about 3000 years old, it's likely that the majority of people who have had anything to do with it have come to some form of end by now.
Aahhh, so the curse is true, then! 🙂
Papier mâché is notorious for its cursed properties.
"Are you my mummy?" Nightmare inducing Dr. Who episode.
And yet it's one of the only ones with a happy ending. "Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody lives!"
@@ZGryphon well, the thing with nightmares is, is that you wake up and everything is okay. Well, as okay as they were before you went to sleep ofcourse... Nothing in the real world changes during a nightmare. So that's a good thing. Rose was also a good thing -not in a sexist way. I liked Rose.
I think it was closed due to the actions of the Doctor Who and the Great Intelligence. Not mummys but yetis. The mummy tale was a cover story.
Egypt: *Return the coffin, or suffer my curse*
The British: What's your offer?
Courage the Cowardly Dog was a show ahead of its time. As sad as the sinking of the Titanic was, it was also the same exact day that my grandpa was brought into this world as a shining beacon of hope in what was a Korea forcibly occupied by the Japanese.
Do you have a Great Korean Museum so to speak in Pyongyang, dear leader?
In its last years before demolition the station building was a cafe. I did make sure to go in there and while I was in there, use the toilets. Which were downstairs. So I presumably did go into the station proper.
Ancient Egypt buff! Yes, Amun-Ra wasn't an actual person but the chief deity of the Egyptian Empire. The Egyptians believed he created the whole universe. In the early days of their civilization, they worshipped him as two separate gods. Amun, god of air. And Ra, god of the Sun and light. When Amun became popular during the Empire/New Kingdom period, he fused with Ra.
I thought it was Atum who created the Universe either by sneezing, spitting, or an emission following an act of self-abuse.
@@arthurfarrow Before the New Kingdom period, yes. During, no. Ancient Egyptian text described Amun-Ra as "Lord of truth, father of the gods, maker of men, creator of all animals, Lord of things that are, creator of the staff of life". He was so popular, even Akhenaten was jealous
@@arthurfarrow Different parts of Egypt had different myths. In Memphis, is was told that Ptah had created the universe with his thought.
I personally think Holborn is a poor choice as "the" British Museum underground stop. If You're a super familiar with all the small streets in Holborn, which most visitors will not be, it's easy to get lost. For me, Russel Square is a better and far nicer route. Easier to give directions for, Just left out the station, Diagonally across the quare, then to the end of Montague St, the Museum is in plain sight from there. It is a more scenic route and if Google is correct it takes one minute longer.
I agree!
Or Tottenham Court Road is best for the main entrance.
@@Avgeek1564 Fair point, I would still favour Russel Square for its scenic aspect. The Square is nice, has a little history. Montague St is charming
Jago : _There Is An Artifact Known As The Unlucky Mummy Which Is Incorrect Because It's Not A Mummy At All, It's A_ ..... Daddy .... I really was hoping Jago was going to say that.
Its the daddy of all coffin lids
@@highpath4776 When Jago got to that point in his sentence, I even said it myself.
Way back in '85, I stayed briefly at a hostel next to the BM in Montague St. My only curse was that the museum was under renovation so I never got to see the scary scarcophagi.
The Northern Line was once called TootingCamden following Howard Carter discovering Tutankhamen’s Tomb in 1922. Without people knowing it, Mummies, Pharaohs and Scarabs haunt the Northern Line especially when Halloween comes without the line needing stoppage at the British Museum.
If you've been through Camden, you'd know that a zombie really wouldn't be terribly noticed on the northern line...
@@camenbert5837 and those are just the ones asking for change outside the station!
The people who embalmed the mummies were the original wrap artists
Durr hurr hurr.
Tut, Tut.. Guess keeping a mummy tale under wrap hadn't a ghost of a chance so close to the 31st & all...
There must be hundreds of other items in the British Museum which also supposably have their own curse of some kind
@Ben Chuft and understandable too
@Ben Chuft They were merely borrowed on a long term basis without asking permission! Not stolen! Totally different! haha
Well there's the swear box in the staff room...
@@TalesOfWar If they didn’t move the items to the Museum, the people living there would have destroyed their heritage. Burn marble anyone ? A change in religion ?
The British archaeologists knew full well that people will destroy their own heritage, because they had the example of all the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England to look back to, and all the post-Tudor buildings built using stones "recovered" from those unwanted monastic buildings, which of course was just the British doing what peoples throughout history have done to obtain expensive building materials: nick them from unused and unwanted old buildings. I'm not sure what the German and French archaeologists were using as their justification, or why the return campaigners seem to ignore the "stolen" heritage in French and German museums. And they really don't want to know where Russian museums got their stuff from!
Of course, all those archaeologists had eyes in their heads to see what the locals were doing with the heritage which today's campaigners claim was so desperately important to them back then that the locals weren't selling it to anyone with money, oh no, and more recently we got to see Islamic State destroying religious heritage across the lands they occupied just because it didn't fit into their specific view of their religion, which doesn't exactly help the arguments of "heritage must be returned to the land of origin regardless of the stability or corruptness of that land today".
The whole thing's far too messy to be reasonably handled in the media, which is why it's all devolved down to "Give us back the things you stole from us when we sold them to you!" 😕
The Mummy is still around and haunts Congress in the form of its current Speaker
Toronto's Museum subway station's decor is similar to Holborn's, but more spectacular, because its "ancient" columns, sarcophagi, etc. aren't just images, but acual sculptures.
In the Sixties, when I was a student in Central London, many of us patronised one of the shops in the old British Museum station building (I think called Jackatex), which sold cheap jeans, tee shirts and the like. You had to wash them a few times before wearing them as the dye came out. In the summer, I have taken off a tee shirt to find I had orange-coloured armpits. Then, I had no idea that the shop was in an old station, nor had I heard of the British Museum station.
There was the joke shop round the corner from the Museum too- an important source of fake vomit, whoopee cushions and squeaky buns.
@@ianthomson9363 in the late 70’s on a school trip to the museum most of the boys went into the joke shop we all got canned for going in there the next day
I used the camera shop Brunnings a few times in the 1970- 1990 period and thought I knew about the station I didn't know it was located there.
Hadn't realised that the plan to combine the two stations dated back as far as 1913. There's a possible mundane explanation for the noisy mummy, shared by other locations; late night tube maintenance men were worried to hear sounds of trains approaching or screeching wheels, but they then died away - they were on the nearby Post Office Railway that worked through the night. And wheel screech can transmit a long way down the tunnels anyway.
Maybe they were Ghost Trains
You call Brenden Frasier - I'll call Rachel Weisz!
For anyone who isn't sure, it's really easy to tell if you've seen a ghost. You haven't.
Any proof not involving a religious belief that they don't exist in recent centuries?
I'd like to know why all ghost-hunters do so at night with all the lights turned off and only use small torches. I think they've got ghosts and vampires confused.
@@johndododoe1411 You're asking for *proof* that ghosts *don't* exist?
@@worstuserever Bingo. Because that's the apparent claim, and ghosts generally don't depend on any one religion for their existence.
@@johndododoe1411 You have this back to front. It is people who say ghosts exist that must provide evidence for their extraordinary claim. If credible evidence is provided then I will accept it. I am under no obligation to prove that supernatural beings do *not* exist. In fact, it's a meaningless and disingenuous demand as non-existence of anything cannot be proven anyway. Also, to save you dragging it out again, I'm an atheist. I regard all religions as constructs of superstition, ignorance, and tyranny.
Went on a school trip to the British Museum once, and we took the Northern line from Waterloo to Goodge Street. It wasn't far from there to the Museum. I was intrigued by the old lifts at Goodge Street.
And possibly by the 'secret' citadel under it,(Used by General Eisenhower in the last war). So secret, in fact, it was part of the plot of the 1968 Doctor Who story, 'The Web Of Fear'. LU forbade the BBC to film on the underground, so the Doctor Who production team built extremely realistic sections of tube tunnels and platforms, modular, so they could be endlessly reconfigured. So realistic were they, that, after the story was broadcast, LU accused the BBC of breaking in at night, and filming. Not much remains of the original series, but it is wonderfully claustrophobic.
I once directed some French tourists from Tower Bridge to Russell Square. Tube with a change to Goodge Street is faster but 188 bus is simpler.
My first trip into London for two-and-a-half years,and also my first use of public transport in approximately that same time period,was to meet my sister and niece (visiting from Canada) one hot Tuesday in the middle of last May at Euston and,among several other things visit the British Museum,where the mummies were what they wanted to see the most. Some of them are placed so that they tower over you,and leaned forward slightly to make them even more imposing.
@@PMA65537 only if the traffic condition is fine
This route is not that crowded (and very non-touristy) though
Fun fact: there was a pharaoh called Arses. Honestly, I'm not making it up.
I knew a Welshman called _John Thomas_ once.
There's a French Dessert spelt Arse
@@davidjames579 Best served with that quintessential French soft drink, Pschitt.
Still worshipped in Highbury.
Don’t call Brendan Fraser, he hates Mummies
Thanks, now I know where the station building was. The Central Line had all the interesting places (Trafalgar Square and The Tower excepted) Post Office, Marble Arch, British Museum, Bank. could not be more London if it tried
I think the 'connecting passage' myth comes from a 1930's comedy thriller movie, 'Bulldog Jack', where a secret passage leads from a sarcophagus in the museum to the station (called 'Bloomsbury' in the movie).
Used to use Holborn station to visit Beauties model shop, remember them, we, Royal Doulton,had a London showroom in Hatton garden back in the 80s and I had to check every couple of months the displays/ merchandising/ branding etc, a nice day out from Stoke.
We need some updates from tales of your railway modelling adventures methinks.
Though I am not that old, there was a 1935 film set in "Bloomsbury Station" a spoof of the Bulldog Drummnd stories starring Jack Hulbert called "Bulldog Jack" and it is clearly intimated it was supposed to be British Museum: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_Jack
It also starred Kay Wray famous for screaming her way through "King Kong" 2 years earler. By the way, in the late 1960s I used to have to use the Central Line every day, and I clearly remember if you looked out of the right hand window Westbound you could see the remains of the British Museum platform, including period adverts.
Bulldog Jack is very dated and if you want to see a Bulldog Drummond I'd recommend the 1951 effort with Walter Pidgeon and Margaret Leighton
I should have added Westbound, between Holborn and Tottenham Court Road.
FAY Wray. From Alberta, Canada.
The thirties version has some very good fast patter....apparently in the early days of the 'talkies' there was a shortage of actors who could speak so many music hall and theatre actors transferred to the silver screen bringing the fast music hall rapid patter with them. The scene with the villain driving the tube train is a classic
@@kangaroogroundboy Strangely I was watching part of Bulldog Jack last night (from the removal of the jewels to the end on the train) the speed of dialogue was indeed rapid.
"hey what happened to my NFTs" lmao
I once a heard a variation of the haunted station story about 25 years ago which goes that the British Museum has a basement storage area which is just the other side of the wall of the station and contains at least one Egyptian mummy/sarcophagus. There is a legend that the museum has certain artefacts which have had so many odd incidents happening around them that they are never put on public display. There are supposed to be reports of figures being seen standing on the abandoned platforms by the driver of passing trains.
The BM has more artifacts not on display than on display.
Very unlucky mummy, if it's not even a mummy.
The real story is that the Unlucky Mummy has lost its Oyster-shell cartouche and therefore is condemned to ride the Central Line without means of exit.
Amon Ra now plays Wide Receiver for the Detriot Lions, how the mighty have fallen.
I last saw him presenting This Morning with his wife Ruth!! ;O)
There are a lot of odd museums in London. About 20 years ago I phoned the curator of the British Radio Museum near Crystal Palace F.C. We were getting on like two autistics with a passion, until I told him that I'd be writing up my visit for 'The Football and Real Ale Guides'. He shouted that he did not want any publicity, and put the phone down.
Gerald wells presumably!
@@michaelmiller641 I can remember the conversation, but not the man's name. I'll look up Gerald Wells Radio Museum when I am sober.
Like I said: we were getting on like radio hams a hemisphere apart, until I said I was writing a review for 'The Football and Real Ale Guides'. He didn't care what I was writing for, he just didn't want anyone he didn't know coming to his museum.
@@glynwelshkarelian3489 I can imagine him being an awkward customer!
@@glynwelshkarelian3489 I can imagine him being an awkward customer!
Thanks - great story with lots of detail I'd never heard before.
Back in late 70's I have a fond memory of Charlie Drake telling us kids on a school trip to the museum to "eff" off as we kept mugging his shots doing bunny ears behind his head and just annoying the heck out the poor chap, teacher got affronted so ol' Charlie told him to go do one and gave him 10 minutes of very rude words without repeating himself and our teacher retreated under the barrage of vitriol from someone we all thought was considered quite a clean chap.
Charlie Drake's Adult and extended Version of Just A Minute
Everybody's got a breaking point, and you and your classmates seem to have found his.
I quite fancy whatever a Dutch pancake is.
Filling!!!!
They’re delicious! If you’re ever in Amsterdam there’s an excellent pancake house just down the street from Anne Frank’s house.
They are not Dutch pancakes, the restaurant is just called My Old Dutch.
@5:41 I love the idea of a ‘mummy’ heading off to work, maybe holding a briefing case 😂
See if you can discover Hobbs Lane Jago, the Tube station used in Quatermass and the Pit?! Scary 😱😄
Speaking of coffins in the British Museum!
A couple weeks ago a friend of mine and two friends of hers and I were touring the Greek exhibits when we happened upon a GIGANTIC vase that was roughly four feet and change tall and three feet in diameter at its widest point. The other three joked that I could probably fit inside it, as I'm only 5'7...until they read the description. Turns out it's not a vase. It's a coffin, used for children or young adults.
As your still photo shows, the old station was the site of the most wonderful Aladdin's cave of photographic gear, Brunnings. We photographic students haunted the place (!). David Brunning, the proprietor once showed us down the back stairs which led down to track level!
I’ve sometimes thought it would be interesting, if not particularly photogenic, to hear more about the bits of abandoned / disused tunnels around the tube. We hear about abandoned stations from time to time, but not so much the tunnels. Just a thought.
I love a good ghost story. It makes the tube journeys more interesting. 👻
Jago, you told us last time out that you don't like appearing in your video's, yet there you are at 3.59 filming the cartonnage with your iPhone.
Well this was a nice thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning!
"Shrieks and moans" - of distant train wheels in curves; "objects flying round" - due to air turbulence caused by passing trains
More outlandish supernatural events, apocryphal or not, please
Abandoned station goodness 🙂
Brings back memories. I used to work in Victoria House around the corner. Many a happy pancake in my old Dutch and a pint in the princess Louise.
I supposed a ghost that has been around for aprox. 3000 years must be bored to Osiris and back if they consider Bored Apes to be worth stealing... Then again, their worth is probably as imaginary as the curse.
I thought it closed for reasons outlined in the 1972 documentary "Death line". After all, cannibals are never good for passenger numbers....
London seems lifeless without cars
4:37 wow, I'd better be extra careful next time I borrow an ancient coffin lid, as you do.
On the subject of hauntings by Egyptian Mummies, Great Yarmouth supposedly had one.
It was apparently donated to a school round 1900 and sat in one of the science rooms, at least until it stunk the place out and the decision was made to bury the occupant in a nearby churchyard. Things were ok for a while until the stink returned and nearby residents to the churchyard reported knocks on their doors late at night (might've been a possible sighting). Upon checking the sarcophagus, turned out that one of the Mummy's hands was still in it and the said hand was reunited with it's owner.
oh I do love a good curse
It's a shame they demolished the old station building as it was much nicer looking than it's modern replacement
She didn't have a ghost of a chance of being taken seriously. Wooo!
Getting hold of Brendan Fraser is a whale of an idea! I'll see myself out.
I used to pass the Museum on my motorbike heading to the LSE, so I always thought it was quite far from High Holborn. It's actually about 350 metres as the crow flies, which is eminently walkable. Another interesting thing learned from Jago. Thanks!
I took a photo of that coffin lid and my camera's micro SD card started getting corrupted files around that day, I always wondered why I lost all photos from that day specifically
I've enjoyed this, I just hope I don't come across any ancient Eygiptian mummies next time I'm in London and on the tube lol.
Press Like to dissolve the curse on yourself. And also inform Tom Cruise, since he is the one who have the curse (the Mummy in the London Museum is supposed to be Ahmanet, which was mistaken as Amon Re)
'Someone' could put a suitable 'Egyptian image' on the train tunnel wall close to the former station - people would spot it in passing.
I would love a box of delicious Almond-Ras.
Are the Dutch viewers proud to see a Dutch pancake house on the site of the former Tube station? EDIT: Looks like My Old Dutch Pancake House is next door. Close enough, though.
Well, I guess that wraps things up. Eh?
“Women and children and mummies first!!!”
Please do a video on Birmingham New St Station. Fact: it wasn't even built on New St but instead Stephenson St.
Please don't let Brendan Fraser know, he has had enough troubles lately.
maybe don't let Tom Cruise know, since he had the curse of this Mummy (she is Ahmanet, but mistaken as Amon Re)
absolute banger lad. Was hoping you'd do a vid on this topic
I have heard that the British Museum once had its own railway station on another video I’ve watched ages ago or it might of been on telly that I was watching with my mum and it was fascinating to watch. Still I do like your videos and content you always upload since I’ve subscribed to your channel.
'Death Line', starring Donald Pleasance, was filmed not too far away from here, at Russell Square station :D
No medals today - I'll be back
Wondered where you were of late
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Very droll Jago! Very droll indeed!
This pleases me, thanks Mr, H.
That 'My Old Dutch' pancake place has been there for decades. I didn't know it was that old.
4:04 She was said to be a priestess of Amun-Ra.
A station not in denial, but that's pharoah 'nuff!
Oooh, terrific tale from the tube. And, maps ! I realise we have sarcophagi, mummies, abandoned stations, and the Titanic . It's begging for an Agatha Christie style motif to tie it all together - your copyright, of course.
I came down with the Egptian flu once,I went to see the quack and he simply said I've, kissed my mummy to often.
Great video Jago
when you go to the british mueseum: WHERE IS THE BRITISH STUFF????
As i currently live by stepney green tube station and want to revisit the museum, what tube should I take and where should I get off?
@@greatscot I would get the H&C to Liverpool Street and get the Central Line to Holborn or get the Elizabeth Line or Central Line to Tottenham Court Road
@@heidirabenau511 Thanks! I'd choose the Elizabeth line to Tottenham Court Road just because I find the seats quite nice!
@@greatscot H&C / District to Whitechapel (or just walk to Whitechapel) then Elizabeth line to Tottenham Court Road. Easiest, quickest, most pleasant.
@@worstuserever Ok thanks!
Back in the 1990's when I was using the Central line, in evening rush hour, the train would sometimes pause in the section of tunnel where Museum Station used to be. Although the platforms are not there, you can see some of the tiling and of course the drastic widening of the tunnel at that point.
Oh that can totally go back to the brand new meusem
I remember Brunnings photographic shop. Sorry, I just had to say that.
Well, back in the 1980s, in rush the hour, East bound trains often stopped at British Museum waiting for the trains ahead. I distinctly remember often staring through the window to try and make out details in the very dim light, on the wall. I seem to remember seeing various items. Posters, notices etc.
"The engineering challenges were too great to justify the cost" - Not sure that makes any sense.
Take it to UERL.
@@JagoHazzard I think what you are trying to say is that the cost of overcoming the engineering challenges would be too great to justify, given the expected return. Sorry for being pedantic. Excellent video as ever.
@3:31, that was a beautiful building and arguably closer to the actual museum. I think too much is made of intersecting stops. 😉
I use Holborn CL pretty much every day, never noticed the mummy pictures before. Perhaps because it's so busy and I can't wait to get out of there.
Jago, you are the unlucky mummy to my NFTs.
love you delivery great job
Oh how I chuckled, much amusement.
More details about the 1935 film Bulldog Jack. It's a marginally funny spoof of Bulldog Drummond starring Jack Hulbert.
It is largely set in the abandoned British Museum station where a gang of thieves (lead by Ralph Richardson) have set up a base to allow them steal a necklace from the British Museum. There's rather a good fight in the Museum
The climax of the film is a fight on a runaway underground train.
It also stars King Kong's Fay Wray.
I love the film but I'm not going to claim it as a masterpiece. It is, however, ESSENTIAL viewing for anyone interested in the London Underground
I was in that Dutch Pancake place back in July and now I'm craving them. Damn you Jago! 🤣🥞
I’ve been to the site of British Museum for work. The dead-end of the siding has a staircase down to an adit joining the running tunnels and a MASSIVE vault door in the wall.
Perfect sort of door for an Ancient Tomb 👻
H'mmm No passage from the BM to Museum Station, you say?
Odd, because (supposedly) in WW2 valuable, flammable items were packed and moved through this non-existent tunnel to safe storage in locations outside central London. And if you used the BM shooting range in the late 1970s to early 80s there was a large heavy metal door of the type used to seal Underground station passageways.
The shooting range was in the 3rd basement under the (now demolished) south eastern(?) stacks (book storage for the Library
used the range back then, cant remember the name of the club let alone the door. South African name circulates in my mind.
I don't know if it existed in 1906, but the Montague Place entrance at the "back" of the British Museum is actually closer to Russel Square than the main entrance is to Holborn. It's also closer to Goodge Street. I think even Tottenham Court Road is closer to the front entrance than Holborn.
Woooooooooooooooooo. Very appropriate for this weekend. So having dealt with the ghosties you'll just have to watch out for the goulies.
I was hoping he'd say that about wraps it up.
Am I the only who can't hear High Hoburn without a song from Snow White And The Seven Dwarves then playing in their head?
You hum it, I'll whistle it, son............................
Thanks Jago. - Many years ago my dad would work in the B.M. on occasion. As a kid I had heard and read stories about the station,we had a fun afternoon discussing the tall tales and the truth. - If memory serves me,there is a least one (not Conan Doyle), Sherlock Holmes book featuring the station,and I think a couple of rather strange comics inspired by it too.
Jago Hazzard you are just brill. Love your vids.