Pop icon Gary Numan ‘terrified’ after ‘ghost’ encounter on London Underground

Pop idol Gary Numan has claimed he saw a ghost on the London Underground who was an old man dressed in 1940s clobber.

The Cars singer said he was with a pal and they were following him before the old-timer vanished through a wall – leaving them “terrified”. Gary, 66, told Daily Star Sunday: “I’d gone up to London with my friend Garry Robson, who I still see today, and we were on the Piccadilly Line underground train.

“We got to Piccadilly Circus and we got off the train and you know as you get that flow of people going up towards the exit, I wasn’t really taking much notice of the signs, I was just following the people ahead of me. And we were almost at the end of that flow of people.

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“There was maybe another two or three, a little group behind us and that was it, that was the end of it. I think there was a group of girls in front of us actually, we were just following this group of girls, chatting away, I was going to buy a guitar. I was very excited about that, my first sort of decent guitar.

“Garry Robson, my friend, was interested in music as well. We talked about being in a band or whatever and so we’re not paying any attention, we’re just following the people up ahead without really taking much notice.

“There was this old man in front of me three or four steps further up. He sort of dressed like he was from the ‘40s but a lot of old people do, they dress from the era that they know. So he had the fedora hat on, long grey coat.

“I thought nothing odd about it. No weird feeling coming off it, no coldness, none of that stuff you see in horror films, none of that at all. So we’re sort of following him, really.”

But the electronic music pioneer – who has flogged more than 10 million records – said he and his mate soon had a scare that would stay with them for their entire lives. Gary continued: “We get to the top of the stairs. I didn’t know what happened with the group of girls but the man in front of us went round to the left. I’m still chatting to Garry, we’re looking sort of sideways at each other keeping an eye.

“We followed him round to the left as well, went about six feet, 10 feet, and there’s nothing there. It’s one of those tunnels that have been blocked up, I think back in the war maybe, I don’t know.

“But it didn’t go anywhere. It was a sealed off tunnel and clearly had been forever with dirty tiles or whatever. I stopped. For the first few seconds I couldn’t figure out what happened. I thought there must be a door or a way to go that the man went and there wasn’t.

“And I said to Garry, ‘Was you following the old man?’ And he went, ‘Yeah, where’d he go?’ And there was a couple of seconds again where we both sort of just stood there looking at each other trying to figure it out and then you realise that there isn’t anywhere that he could’ve gone – nowhere.”

The showman – real name Gary Webb – admitted that he and his friend found themselves alone and terrified before doing a runner. He added: “We both saw him, we both followed him. Now, by the time this has happened and we stood there and thought about it, the few people that were behind us have now gone the correct way, they’ve gone off where they’re going.

“So now we’re on our own in this stub of a tunnel, totally freaked out now. Really, really frightened. He must’ve gone through the wall. He’s just vanished – this man has vanished, but we both followed him. And because we both saw it, we both had that back-up, you know, we did see it.

“If I’d been on my own, eventually you’ll convince yourself I must have been mistaken. I must have been daydreaming or whatever and ultimately you’ll probably dismiss it over time but the fact that we were both there and we both saw it – and still talk about it to this day – you know, we know what we saw.

“But now you’re frightened, because now you’re like, ‘That must have been a ghost and now there’s no one else here, just us.’ So then we ran. We looked for the exit sign, legged it, caught up with the people that had been on the train with us, but yeah, a really weird, frightening experience.”

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