Top 10 Haunted Railway Stations

Train Station has always been the places where we see a lot of people moving here and there. One could see different emotions on the faces of people going to their destinations. But this is not the case every time, many of these railway stations are built on or near cemeteries and a lot of them have seen horrible accidents. So you must not be surprised if these crowded areas reflect their horrifying faces that they keeping hiding from the people. There are a lot of haunted places in the world out of which we have brought to you Top 10 Haunted railway stations of the world.

10.Begunkodor Railway Station, India

Begunkodor is a very small village in the state of West Bengal about 161 miles away from Kolkata. The railway station of Begunkodor has been abandoned for about 42 years, since one of the workers saw a ghost and dies after some time.

The station was haunted by the ghost of a lady wearing white saree who had been thought as a ghost of a woman who was run over by a train. The ghost of the lady had been seen dancing on the railway platform and wandering on the tracks and her appearance has caused the fellow workers to leave the station.

9.Caobao Subway Station, China

Caobao Roas is an underground subway station on Line 1 of the Shanghai subway system. The station has a very frightening reputation because of the nine deaths that took place in a very mysterious way at the station. Inexplicable breakdown of trains, ghost sightings, commuters dragged from platform automatically are some of the unexplainable occurrences at the station.

Some spooky stories state of a girl in red spotted sitting on a platform seat who committed suicide few days before. Laugh of a woman is heard in the darkness of the tracks at night time. But the most eerie story is of a person who fell off the railway platform. He didn’t jump or slip and the person standing next to him said that he saw something pushing this man off the platform.

8. Echizen Tano, Japan

Echizen Tano is a very old and famous station in Japan which has been abandoned recently. There is not too much of information regarding the railway station but one photographer caught the image of the lady who has been parading down the station. It is said that the ghost of the dead lady has been waiting for its departed lover to return to her.

7. Kymlinge Metro Station, Stockholm

The station was built by the Stockholm authorities in 1970 but the construction work was not completed due to various ghostly reasons. As a result the metro was opened without Kymlinge station in 1976. The reason behind the ghost sightings is still not known but the workers heard a lot of disturbing noises as well as saw some apparitions during the work which lead to abandoning of place forever.

6.Union Station, Phoenix, USA

The station is present in the state of Arizona in USA and has been one of the most important stations for the city since 1950. The station is remembered by many because of the unusual events that people have faced there. Some have seen a running figure in the opposite direction from them; some say that they have felt the presence of an unknown entity in the attic. There have also been sounds of opening and closing of doors by itself.

5. New Street Station, Birmingham, England

The new street station in Birmingham is one of the busiest stations in the country in which about 35 million of people pass through every year. Many of the passenger passing through the station have reported ghost sighting even at the rush time which is very unusual thing.

One of the figure that has been reported a lot of times has acquired the name Claude. The main reason why he is most reported sighting could be his different Victorian attire along with a hat at the top. However Claude has not been a cause of any unusual accident but still haunts people in a very casual manner.

4.Panteones Metro Station, Mexico

Panteones railway station was bound to attract various ghost stories because the name means “Graveyard” and because it is built near to two very old cemeteries.

It is said that the tunnel between the Panteones and Tacuba is haunted by a ghost who knocks on the walls in pitch dark and there are shadow lumps that appear and disappear when the workers approach them.

3.Macquarie Fields Station, Australia

The train station is situated on the south west of Sydney and seems very harmless for those who do not know about its story.

The station is haunted by the ghost of a teenage girl who has been seen by more than one person at the night time. The ghost of the girl is in its dancing clothes and clutches her chest covered in blood. She sits in the station moaning and groaning, staring infornt of her and did not look like a happy ghost.

2.Waterfront Station, Canada

Waterfront Station in Canada is still a working railway station which was built in the year 1915 and is known as the most haunted structure in the city.

The stories say that a guard on his night duty saw a woman dressed like a 1920’s flapper dancing on music of that era only, but when he approached her, she vanished.

Another guard faced a shining white spirit of an old woman who actually reached out to him when the guard tried to go near her. The guard ran out of the room in terror. In addition to that footsteps as well as figures walking near the rails have been seen in the Union Station.

1.Bishan MRT Station, Singapore

There are a lot of MRT stations that are said to be haunted but the most famous among them is the Bishan MRT station of Singapore. The station is built over a former Bi Shan Teng Cemetery; a lot of stories have been circulating since it was opened in 1987.

The maintainence workers have seen many coffin bearers wandering among the tracks, a lot of headless figures have been spotted on the station. Sometimes passengers also listen to footsteps over the roof of moving trains.