The abandoned Tube station haunted by an Egyptian Priestess

While many of the former stations have since been repurposed, some of the disused tunnels remain.

Including the British Museum station, where tunnels still stand and are said to even have doors that lead to the former station's namesake, the British Museum.

But what makes this ghost station different from the others is reports that it's haunted by an Egyptian Priestess.

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The abandoned Tube station haunted by an Egyptian Priestess 

The British Museum station first opened in 1900 and was on the opposite side of High Holborn Tube station (now Holborn station).

Pre Transport for London times, the British Museum was run by the Central London Railway, while Holborn was run by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. 

Plans were for the two stations to be connected, however, issues of tunnel alignments meant it was not possible to complete.

Due to Holborn being a better-connected station, British Museum was abandoned after it was shut in 1933.

Following its closure, reports began to spread that the British Museum tube station had become a spot often visited by the ghost of the Egyptian Priestess Amun-ra.

It comes after rumours arose of Amun-ra being able to access the tunnel through an access point from the museum. 

According to the Business Design Centre, the ghost of the Priestess followed a display at the museum on 'The Unlucky Mummy', where a wooden inner coffin board was taken from Egypt to be on display at the British Museum.

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The board had no name inscription, but the artwork showed it belonged to a woman, suggesting she was of a high rank.

Early publications from the British Museum described the owner of the coffin as 'The Priestess of Amun Ra', which in folklore is linked to the term 'The Unlucky Mummy'.

Now, it's believed that Amun Ra haunts the former British Museum station with some Tube travellers hearing screaming and even seeing a woman wearing a loincloth in the station.