By Jake Laurie

Last updated at 09:34, Wednesday, 10 November 2010

NEW: Built in 1847 the underground village beneath the train station, known as ‘The Fever Pit’, is the scene of terrifying sightings of ghosts.

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The Undercroft which is open to the public for the first time; has proved so popular that the tours at Halloween sold out!
Luckily Abstract Magazine was able to get a personal tour of The Undercroft and some brave members of the Editorial team ventured down.

We were given torches, a digital thermometer, and an EMF reader. None of the team knew what to expect. Firstly we went to an old “house” even though it was underground there were windows. We ventured to an upper floor corridor where our EMF monitor went crazy and it got a warmer, we weren’t even underground. Stuart Davison, Station Manager, said
“when I’ve been in this corridor, I have been kicked in the back of the leg. The cleaners refuse to clean up here at night.”

When we got down to the Undercroft; we went into a long, dark room where we were told by Stuart Davison that ghosts of a man, a woman and a child had been seen sitting on the chairs. I thought that I’d seen something at bottom of the room, but had I?
The next room we went into was an old workshop, which hadn’t been used since 2006. In this room it is said ‘that the hands of females get cold, even though the females are warm.’ There was a dead rat on the floor.

Turning off the lights we were plunged into darkness with only torchlight to guide us through the vast labyrinth of rooms. While in the darkness; Stuart Davison gave the Abstract Team a good scare by spraying the CO2 fire extinguisher. Niall McNulty who went down with us said “I wasn’t scared when he done that, it didn’t bother me.” But we all know it did.Before we made our way up a very low, long corridor that took us under the tracks we took a right into an old buffet room. Old tables, sinks were left covered in dust and smashed crockery littered the floor, did the ghosts smash these. After switching off our torches our EMF meter went crazy again- was there a ghostly presence in the room with us? The change in temperature could’ve suggested that there was.

We made our way up to the old butcher’s area; we were walking right underneath the mainline. As we walked up the corridor we were told this was the most active places in the Undercroft, would be see or experience anything in the crypt?

A few months ago in the crypt station staff discovered a piece of newspaper dating back to the 1920s, “the paper just appeared in front of us” was how Stuart described it.“Even though days before workmen had been down there, so surely they would have seen it.”
While in the butcher’s area the Abstract team experienced nothing, we heard footsteps on a wooden floor that sounded really close; but there was no wooden floor near us.
Two very brave members of our team were shut in the crypt ‘by mistake’ with no torch.

Abstract Magazine would like to thank Stuart Davison for giving up his time to let us have a look around the Undercroft.

First published at 20:48, Thursday, 04 November 2010
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk