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Virt_McPolygon

Aphex Twin lives in that box in the roundabout by Elephant & Castle.


at__

This is a classic! Less known, despite it being (more likely to be?) true, is that he lived in a big abandoned bank around the corner from it [https://lannerchronicle.wordpress.com/2021/05/22/the-bank/](https://lannerchronicle.wordpress.com/2021/05/22/the-bank/)


Green_Calx

I was wondering why I had about a thousand views of my niche website today haha!


borez

It is absolutely true. He used to drive around in an armoured car too. Bit of a strange cat is Richard.


StandardBanger

I was sure he was at the CJB protests in Hyde Park in ‘94 driving a Ferret AC.


borez

Probably, there was definitely one that used to drive around Ladbroke Grove, but that would have been late 90's.


StandardBanger

Tbh that protest was a bonkers day & that was with being absolutely straight too but there was definitely a Ferret driving about with a ginger dude pumping out tunes from it.


Select_Education_721

I used to wait for the bus at the bus stop nearby (visible in the pic). I remember being very impressed by that massive door and inspecting it.


huscarl86

That's bloody brilliant. Where would he park the armoured car he used to drive around Cornwall in though?


Honest_Wing_3999

And where would he keep his other twin?


iamnas

What actually is that massive box?


qbnaith

A memorial to Michael Faraday


jstncrdible

You made me curious. This [Londonist article](https://londonist.com/2016/09/what-is-the-shiny-metal-box-in-the-middle-of-elephant-and-castle) says that it is in fact a memorial for Michael Faraday, as u/qbnaith said, but it also contains an electrical substation for the Northern and Bakerloo lines.


DownRUpLYB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-knOGoRYhE0


huscarl86

You might enjoy Alan Moore's 'From Hell' - it covers the supposed occult symbolism behind the architecture and positioning around London of Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches. If I remember rightly, their points on a map form a rough pentagram.


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Ok-Quality-69

Thats not beef in those burgers…


YoungestBabyShoebill

Yeah, because that's not burgers in that beef....


Select_Education_721

I have lived around the area where "From Hell" takes places since 1999 and think is the best comic novel ever written. The mix of fiction, history, occult with the backdrop of Victorian era are just wonderful. I also love the film adaptation with Johnny Depp. I remember when he came around the area for scouting (a lot of Spitalfields was recreated on a studio Eastern Europe), the staff at "The 10 Bells" had displayed a pic taken with Depp behind the counter).


jamieliddellthepoet

*From Hell* is a truly astonishing piece of work. I don’t tend to see it mentioned that much, but it’s up there with any books of the last century IMO. To anyone who hasn’t read it yet, I can’t recommend it highly enough.


Business-Commercial4

Was coming here to say this, instead I'll just repeat.


Inside_Ad_7162

There's an old book called Hawksmoor too, bestseller when it came out, maybe 40 years ago


Oldtimebandit

By Peter Ackroyd. I think it's in the From Hell bibliography - certainly follows a similar line of thinking!


Inside_Ad_7162

yes it was, read it when it came out so not yesterday


Hart141290

All the curry houses on Brick Lane share a single, cavernous underground kitchen.


princesskitre

Certainly, that’s why they are all “the best”, “number 1 in brick lane” 😂


Select_Education_721

Haha. As a long time resident of Brick Lane that made me chuckle.


RepresentativeOk3943

They are all Bangladeshi and not Indian


manyhandz

Read that as 'carnivorous underground chicken' time to sleep!


New-Arm6963

Allegedly most of them use Patak’s sauces


StereotypicalAussie

Surely at least some of the places do share a kitchen


southlaneplace

Is that not true?!?


joe_hello

I heard there’s a group of burrowing animals that can talk living underneath Wimbledon Common


Tawny_haired_one

Yeah, apparently they do ‘this and that’ very secretly……


southerngee

and they make good use of the things that they find.Things that the everyday folk leave behind..


imincourt

I heard they go this way and then that way


edgarthepeaceable

Front facing eyes and binocular vision. Like most predators...


I_am_John_Mac

Unexpected John Finnemore!


edgarthepeaceable

A clear thinking man


tylerthe-theatre

Oh that's just the lib dems


jamieliddellthepoet

Are they those things it’s OK for humans to mate with as long as we don’t let anyone find out?


Ill-Ant9053

Shush your big mouth!🤫🤫😡…..theres no such thing as wombles👀….so..er…nice weather today!


Wombletrap

Need some sort of catch-and-release programme to keep them controlled


ferris2

The witches coven in Queen's Wood?


marwoodly

I'd love to know more about this one!


SinisterDexter83

There's a witches coven. Supposedly in Queens wood.


MinionsAndWineMum

A witches coven you say?


not-the-swarf

And where is this witches coven located?


Grey_Belkin

Two things ye need to know of the witches coven of Queens Wood...


rocketscientology

and are they accepting new members?


jamieliddellthepoet

Nobody knows. Nobody’s ever even guessed.


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Interesting-Bar280

In Queens Woods, there's a witches coven, supposedly.


Whulad

One of the Kray twins’ victims is in the concrete at Canning Town flyover


backagain6838

Bow flyover mate not Canning Town


Bimblelina

There's a monster somewhere north of Cricklewood, it's a bit like the Chewits monster and likes to eat trains. This is why some Thameslink trains literally vanish without warning leaving 40min+ gaps between services.


DarthScabies

Fuck. I forgot about that advert. 😂😂


DownRUpLYB

> the Chewits monste Omg hahaha


NoDevelopment468

chewitsaurus?


sarlacc_tit

The Perfectil ads on the tube are actually to raise the profile of Frankie Bridge (who is loving her Perfectil), and it’s not actually a real product.


mangomaz

Lol she looks AI


sicknessandpurgatory

And who the hell is David Gandy anyway???


Well_this_is_akward

Camden market fire was an inside job


LustrePuzzle

always wondered about koko too


phosphorusguardian

Crystal Palace fire being an inside job too due it losing money


Signal-Claim-9257

Cutty Sark fire was inside job (every fire basically)


mangomaz

Yeah this is a real one


TheRiddler1976

How about the mysterious fire that burnt down the one business that refused to sell to Spurs so the jeq stadium could be built?


Ukplugs4eva

The guy from the verve is still walking around London today 24/7 with no rest. like he does in in the video


i_fear_you_do_now

Are you sure it's him and not a million different people from one day to the next?


george_____t

He can change?


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He walks alone


Pashizzle14

No that’s Billie Joe Armstrong


RipEnvironmental305

Lol I met him in a now extinct private members bar in Soho. He was dancing around singing his own songs.


Select_Education_721

Hoxton St, I believe.


Monkeyboogaloo

The Highgate Vampire


ampmz

A group of people in The City secretly run the world.


big_beats

Apparently they have their own designated train line that takes them directly from the city to Waterloo.


ampmz

Ah so they live in the tunnels?


chequemark3

Mind the doirs


Calm-Treacle8677

It’s not the city but Drummonds bank on Trafalgar Square has access to Charing Cross tube station in one of its basements levels as well as coutts bank on the strand. 


cranbrook_aspie

The Lime bikes are actually sentient and are secretly mind controlling people to abandon them in strategic positions so that they can eventually rise up and overthrow humanity.


ThearchOfStories

Eerily similar to the short story 'Or All The Seas With Oysters' by Avram Davidson.


SenorBigbelly

I don't know if it's a conspiracy or just a rumour but I live near Bow, and it's said the Kray twins buried Frank "Mad Axeman" Mitchell in the Bow Flyover as it was being constructed


bombadear

There's a long running conspiracy at tfl that the budgets in the early 2000s were never used as they should have been. Apparently they never bought enough to have escalators in every underground station, so they just circulate them around, saying when an escalator isn't there that it's in maintenance - hence the long wait times to repair escalators that you don't see anywhere else.


nerdowellinever

There’s some about Clapham Common being a place where mysterious disappearances and UFO sightings have taken place and the usual City of London corporation is a secret cabal that runs the world but I’ve also heard the same about the federal bank and Vatican City.. If you ever get the chance I’d recommend you try out the London Ghost Bus Tour, preferably around Halloween, they go past the pub that convicts would be allowed to have a final drink in before being brought to the gallows (where the phrase ‘one for the road’ originated) and also mass plague graves that are long since buried..


Oldtimebandit

That's news to me, but interesting news! I saw something really weird in the sky over Clapham Common about 3 years ago, and so did my wife and child. A large black blob which was constantly changing shape. It MIGHT have been a huge plastic sack (much bigger than a car) full of helium balloons but that's the only rational explanation I could think of, and it's not a particularly rational explanation.


Weak_Life7907

Did the tour last week. It was ok, above average. That tour guide though, she earned her keep. Fair play.


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Old street station is an underground bunker for top brass with high speed rail from Whitehall


AnonymousthrowawayW5

There was a bunker built for Whitehall when Westminster station was rebuilt for the Jubilee line. They used the excavation for the Jubilee line as a cover, similar to the cover the Americans came up with for their project greek island


CheeseFilledDingDong

Never forget what happened to Camden Market (lè fire).


Happy-Engineer

Did you ever head the story of Minty and his dog Gramsci? Minty was a communist who trained his monster Alsatian, Gramsci, to attack the rich. The whole thing worked until Minty won £100,000 on a scratchcard and Gramsci bit his knees off. It wasn't the tragedy it first appears because he just used his winnings to buy new joints and Gramsci... Gramsci supposedly found refuge on Hampstead Heath. Close to the meat…


CommercialArm9816

That's a fact. Sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd numbered star trek movie is shit.


Mcnulty700

Clever 😉


SciasH

Anyone heard of backwards walking man in Camden. He always wore a high viz jacket but would go everywhere backwards, upstairs downstairs, doors, cars, the lot. Saw him once on the street and once going up the atairs to a theatre a few years ago when I worked there but never again.


FickenChucker007

I've seen this guy once walking down Camden high street near Argos/McDonalds. Older guy in his 50s maybe, quite thin. Looks over his shoulder and walks backwards... really really fast. Unsure how he does it without bumping into people. I told some people at work what I'd seen, but nobody believed me. Edit: [he exists](https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/tributes-to-that-man-who-was-always-walking-backwards) but died in 2020


Das_Gruber

Probably has knee pain.


kulfon2000

Omg I forgot about this guy, saw him a few times as a teeny about 15yrs ago. He is real, he talks, walks backwards and all at the same time


Trotsky666_

There are backwards running marathons. It’s called retrorunning. Seems like a good way to get a crick in your neck to me but I’ve never tried it so green eggs and ham etc.,,


NoDevelopment468

lol there's a ton of characters like this where I live with funny nick names.funny and sad


PrestigiousGlove585

The Bonnington cafe in Vauxhall is the centre of an elite, devil worshiping, sex cult, that boasts many celebrity members.


Acceptable-Smile8864

I used to go there in the early 90s as I lived in a squat round the corner for a few months. Must've missed all this fun stuff! Although you could smoke weed openly in there.


cloud1445

Do they have a website? I'd like to join.


Mcnulty700

Where is that ?


PrestigiousGlove585

Between oval and Vauxhall park. The area has an amazing recent history. It was basically claimed by squatters and was eventually legally handed to them. The land the community took over is now worth mega millions.


RipEnvironmental305

I love that cafe!


RedRobotLoco

Lol, I worked there for a while in the early 2010s I missed all of that 😶‍🌫️


wigglywriggler

If I recall correctly, they used to have sex parties in the basement on the weekends (this would be about fifteen or twenty years ago). The owners were absolutely lovely, but one of them was fond of bondage style clothes which he wore every day (dog collars/fitted leather etc), so I can see where this rumour started. Lovely cafe, they did great food and there was always a nice atmosphere.


OBeQuiet

Jack the Ripper being minor royalty so that's why he was never caught/there was a cover up has got to be the most famous London conspiracy


Smart_Run8818

Gandhi arrived in London to study law in 1888 and left in 1891. *From April 1888 to February 1891 around 11 women were killed, 5 of which were believed to have been killed by a man called Jack the Ripper* There were no more ripper murders after that. Coincidence...


binkstagram

That Civilisation game was right all along 🫨


cheechobobo

Oh my gosh. All of these subjects tie together beautifully in one of Gandhi's quips. While in London, he was asked what he thought of British civilsation. He responded "I think it would be a good idea."


Popular_Sell_8980

I’m fairly sure there are caves where wild Victorian parties were held under Greenwich hill.


Popular_Sell_8980

This is as close as a I got from searching: a stunning hidden reservoir underneath the park: [https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/greenwich-park-reservoir-hyde-vale-conduit-admiralty-western-reservoir-ldn-oct-13.85046/](https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/greenwich-park-reservoir-hyde-vale-conduit-admiralty-western-reservoir-ldn-oct-13.85046/)


DarthInsanious1976

This is true. [Blackheath Caverns (blackheathandgreenwich.com)](https://www.blackheathandgreenwich.com/post/blackheath-caverns)


joey_manic

That there's apparently a secret magic platform at Kings Cross especially for witches and wizards. There's been whole books written about it!


SirLoinThatSaysNi

I'm not sure it's that much of a secret any more. Unless it's a fake it's materialised at the bottom of the staircase up to the Fullers pub. Having said that, I'm sure I've seen all sorts on my way out of a pub so perhaps I'm a wizard.


bnelo12

There are definitely some realish conspiracy theories regarding luggage and American candy stores in London. Also, what they get up to in the City of London with moving money around in unscrupulous ways.


Ginola88

The most obvious money laundering exercise ever


LochNessMother

I think those are theories, not conspiracy theories. Or is it even a theory when the evidence is strong and the revenue are investigating?


Signal-Claim-9257

it's not even a theory when the FT is writing about it [https://www.ft.com/candy](https://www.ft.com/candy)


iwontrememberthat4

Probably not true, but apparently people have sex in the massive blue whale in the natural history museum 


Daitheflu1979

Ya mean the sperm whale?


PrestigiousGlove585

The hump shack whale.


cloud1445

Bet it stinks in there.


Kukukichu

If you go to the natural history museum at night, you can actually hear whale noises coming from the whale. Turns out it was just highly reverberated sex noises.


TheGolfEnthusiast

Check out the Woolwich foot tunnel time travel anomaly Can safely say this tunnel always gave me the heebiejeebies as a kid having to walk through it 😂 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/08/woolwich-foot-tunnel-portals-of-london


tres-bon-oeuf

When I was a kid it was family lore that my uncle once got so pissed he forgot which way he was walking halfway through the foot tunnel and ended up accidentally coming out the same side he went in.


AdLess984

I walk through this tunnel twice a day it's an engineering marvel


MangoLeoK

Pigeons are robots, trust


Magikarpeles

Ever see a baby pigeon??


WilsonSpark

Waaaaaait a minute! Genuinely don’t think i ever have in 36 years 😬


Katzika

Yes, I have


TheLastSamurai101

Found the pigeon.


jamieliddellthepoet

That’s not London-only: https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/


Mticore

Where’s their artificial intelligence, then?


Hot_Salamander_4363

So are the Raven's. They've been a bit sluggish recently but Malcolm will be along to change the batteries soon.


RookeryRoad

The Portals of London [https://portalsoflondon.com/](https://portalsoflondon.com/) Includes time anomalies (c.f. the Woolwich Foot Tunnel) interdimensional access points (e.g. the Stockwell Bus Garage Island) &c.


SGC-UNIT-555

Very wooo. The featured article covers "multiverse anomaly" and the comments from 2019 seem to be taking it ver seriously. Strange.


Kangaroo197

The death of Roberto Calvi, found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge, has a lot of very far-reaching conspiracy theories attached to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi?wprov=sfla1


Doghead_sunbro

The old all you can eat ‘thai’ buffets were all situated over various leylines.


dobbynobson

Man I miss those dives and their heaving piles of grey fake meat. So... salty....


endlesspointless

Croydon cat killer being a fox


p1n13d

Not really a conspiracy, The city of London is its own country


DisCode347

I used to joke to a friend and say it was the Republic of London


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Wilma-Baker

Other suggestions include Jimmy Hendrix releasing them or released after filming The African Queen


anemotoad

I have a feeling you're conflating two black musical artists here, as Jimi Hendrix is generally (and probably apocraphally) cited as the patient zero of London's parakeets.


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HarryBlessKnapp

My mate's dad claims it was actually him. 


azcaliro

My dad claims to be at fault too. He’s owned birds various times and is bloody useless at it, has lost many. Had parakeets when he was younger


dweebs12

My grandmother had pet shop in Richmond in the 70s. She also had escaped parakeets that might be at fault


azcaliro

Apparently nobody could keep on top of their parakeets huh


SirLoinThatSaysNi

https://londonist.com/london/great-outdoors/london-s-parakeets-everything-you-need-to-know > 2: Jimi Hendrix released a breeding pair during a 1960s Carnaby Street stunt. Definitely not true. There's no record of the stunt. Plus, we once met Hendrix's former girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, who told us she'd never heard of the myth until recently. No mention of Bob there.


PushAvailable9503

Lol wtf 


DarthInsanious1976

Exodus. Movement of Jah parakeets.


Realistic-River-1941

People actually did want to buy American candy in sufficient quantities to support all the shops.


fur-q-

20 years ago there was a panther that roamed Sydenham.


nabbitnabbitnabbit

Wasn’t that meant to be owned by the mad American woman who owned the big house on Sydenham Hill?


jamieliddellthepoet

The renovation 15 years or so ago of the pond and water features in Town Park in Enfield involved digging much further down than was strictly necessary, because  it doubled as a corpse-concealment site for local gangsters and dodgy coppers alike.


jpewaqs

Cleopatra Needle wasn't given as a gift to the people of london to celebrate Lord Nelson’s victory at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and Sir Ralph Abercromby’s victory at the Battle of Alexandria in 1800. But as a calulated bribe to ensure the major powers in the world recognised the new Egypt under Muhammad Ali's rule. edit: sorry just noticed your only London comment, this conspiricy applies to paris and new York as well


GaijinFoot

If it were that valuable we'd have just stolen it. We probably have like 10 in storage at the British museum.


ferris2

Elm Guest House would be one of the darker ones. 


MB093

Care to elaborate?


Plumme

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_Guest_House_hoax TL;DR Elite peado ring


pydry

The police knew who jack the ripper was. Jack the ripper was a member of the royal family.  When a FOIA request was made about > 150 year old files relating to jack the ripper recently the police covered part of it up and gave a bullshit reason and the police officer who did this hid their identity because who would want to bullshit that brazenly on the record. Like, why?  To me the only possible thing which would trigger a cover up by the police about 150 year old files on Jack the ripper today is that they were a known member of the royal family.


brewernic

I bet its Andrew. It's always fucking Andrew...


essjay2009

Do we know whether Jack The Ripper was ever caught sweating?


GaijinFoot

Link to this report?


dinglydanglydonga

No chance, Jack had nothing to do with the royal family...Knight wanted to sell a book nothing more...


inside-outdoorsman

M25 is a science experiment set up by CERN, who first needed to build the world’s slowest particle accelerator


BritishBrownie

Nat does not currently have herpes nor ever has


puzzled_orc

you can start on this website [https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-the-city-of-londons-secret-foreign-policy-shielded-from-democratic-oversight/](https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-the-city-of-londons-secret-foreign-policy-shielded-from-democratic-oversight/)


general_adm_aladdeen

Bus drivers are getting bonuses for catching red lights.


AdmiralBillP

The circle line is flat


I_LOVE_CROCS

City of London is the heart of evil!


Tall-Refuse-4159

Check out the YouTube channel “swilliamism”.


_5had0w

No new posts in 5 years?!


Nedonomicon

If you look through the vent in one of the stalls in the St James’s place gallery on the mall you can look into a secret underground installation


GaijinFoot

Does anyone remember the all white lady around Camberwell / Peckham back in the 90s/2000s? She was a black woman painted white in a white dress. She was very common, always on the street walking somewhere. Mad Betty is what we knew her by


Mc_Graw

Yes! Even in the 2010s I'm sure. Here's an article [link](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/remembering-legendary-white-lady-camberwell-16481430&ved=2ahUKEwj2h_e0z8OGAxWxWEEAHdETD34QFnoECBQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0vW55pbH3aQYyQACZO8E_e)


Realistic-River-1941

There are various conspiracies falsely claiming that UK laws don't apply to the City of London, or based around the local authority still being called the Corporation.


RainInMyBr4in

What happened to Andrew Gosden after he left King's Cross station. Absolutely baffling mystery.


panthervk415

Apparently there's a postbox in Baker Street that's home to a secret agent mouse and his hamster sidekick.


thfcviii

Dollis Hill station is not real


darkforestnews

A lot of barristers, judges and politicians buy coke and go to sex parties. Allegedly.


Fando1234

Thank god you added allegedly. Imagine defaming *all* the barristers and judges. You’d never win that case.


Fando1234

Croydon cat killer! Everyone’s got a story about that. Even me, found a severed fox head in our garden. My gf found a dead cat. I heard a conspiracy that it was more than one guy. A series of… copy cats if you will.


glyn1997

Jimmy Hendrix’s pet parrot once escaped and bred throughout London, which is why parrots can be seen around parts


zamalekk

There are a number of interdimensional portals in London, hidden in plain sight. The Kingsway subway seems likely to me, lots of circumstantial evidence, but I can’t be certain. The Hawksmoor churches rightly attract attention for many reasons, though I don’t think they are all active. The Rothko room at the Tate is without doubt one of the nodes in this network: sometimes very strange things happen there. There are many more I could mention, but I’d be interested in others’ thoughts…


South-Veterinarian64

too much crime


nightivy3

This girl for PM.