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Tuesday 18th January 2011. The Hollywood News is invited to visit The London Bridge Experience to celebrate the DVD release of the Joe Dante film THE HOLE (which is out now folks). Tonight, we are set to delve into the world of the paranormal and officially become ghost hunters for the evening.
It’s just after six in the evening, and I am dashing through London human traffic in the peak of rush hour. The venue is at least a twenty-minute walk away, and awaiting me is fellow THN journo and Tom Fordy, whos is officially my partner in ghost busting crime this very dark, cold night in our nation’s capital. My attempt to reach Fordy is not to get early access to the venue, but to attempt to get a swift one down our necks before we are thrust 50 feet underground to awake people that don’t necessarily want to be.First, a history of the tombs that we are about to enter.
The London Tombs and it’s sister attraction The London Bridge Experience, opened to the British public in February 2008 in a site directly opposite London Bridge tube station in Tooley Street. The tombs site is thought to be one of the areas that was used as a Plague spot, where victims were buried en mass during the famous plague in 1665/ 1666. Such people as Guy Fawkes and William (Braveheart) Wallace were also executed nearby on London Bridge. Upon researching the place, I have discovered that while constructing the attraction, builders found thousands of bones, skulls and other such unpleasantries buried within, a fact secured by tonight’s tour guide, and site general manager James who is convinced that while 2000 bones were recovered, thousands more are still lurking beneath the depths of the building.
Perfect.
Stories on the internet are rife of the paranormal happenings at the London Tombs. In a BBC article dated October 2007, construction workers on the site recall stories of tools going missing, light bulbs blowing and the builders fear of working alone due the strange noises coming from the many tombs within....
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