![]() ![]() The site got its name from nearby Bethlehem Hospital which housed the mentally ill, but only a small number of its patients are believed to be buried there. The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) excavation suggests 30,000 Londoners were buried there. Between 1569 to 1738, the western end of Liverpool Street was used as a burial ground called Bedlam or New Churchyard. The thin wooden coffins the bodies were originally in had rotted, so the victims appear to lie in a mass grave.īut that wasn't all. ![]() During excavations for CrossRail, 30 bodies believed to be victims of The Great Plague of 1665 were discovered. The discovery that the station was built on a mass burial site was made in 2015. ![]() With so many laid to rest in the area, its hardly surprising that two ghosts are said to haunt the station. Liverpool Street Station could be London's most haunted thanks to its location on the site of an ancient burial site where thousands of people were buried, including dozens of plague victims. ![]()
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