A guard at the Tower claimed a ghostly bear charged him. The Smothering ForceĪ number of spectral animals have been heard over the years, including monkeys, lions and horses, but only one has actually been seen. It is said that you can hear Fawkes’s screams and cries from the Council Chamber in the White Tower, where he was prepared for his execution. She died there in 1615-conflicting reports claim she either stopped eating or was murdered. Enraged at the insult, and perceiving the marriage as a possible threat to his throne, James I imprisoned Arbella in the Tower. King James I did not give his permission for Arbella to marry William Seymour, nephew of Lady Jane Grey. The Grey Lady will only reveal herself to female visitors. Her identity in life is uncertain, but the Grey Lady is a well-known resident of the Queen’s House. Following his execution, his ghost began wandering around the Bloody Tower (where he was imprisoned) as well as along the battlements now known as Raleigh’s Walk. Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower twice, once for a secret marriage and once for treason. Oddly enough, they have also been seen playing on the battlements and some claim to have heard children giggling.
The figures of two lost little boys wearing nightshirts, holding hands, are frequently seen in the White Tower. When the bones of two small boys were found under the stairs in 1674, most people believed them to be the missing princes and the bones were given a royal burial at Westminster Abbey. These boy princes were imprisoned in the Tower by their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard III) and purportedly murdered on his order. The Princes (Edward V and Richard, Duke of York) A few visitors report being tapped on the shoulder, only to turn around and see nothing but a wisp of white. Her presence is typically announced by an overwhelming smell of cheap perfume, so strong it has made several Tower visitors sick. No one is sure who the White Lady is, but she haunts the White Tower. Her ghostly screams can still be heard on the Tower Green and a few visitors claimed to have seen a ghostly reenactment of the chase. When the Countess reached the scaffold where she was to be beheaded, she refused to kneel, saying, “So should traitors do, and I am none.” When the executioner raised his axe, she ran – and he chased her all around the scaffold, hacking at her until she died a gory death. Margaret was a victim of one of the most gruesome, botched executions in history. Lord Dudley is also said to be responsible for the word “Jane” etched into the wall. Lord Guildford Dudley’s ghost haunts Beauchamp Tower, sitting in his cell and weeping late into the night. Lady Jane Grey’s ghost is seen wandering the battlements, a lonely, solitary figure. Jane was advanced as an Anglican alternative to the Catholic Mary. She was only queen for nine days before being executed by Mary Tudor, aka Bloody Mary, along with Lady Jane’s husband, Lord Guildford Dudley. He appears at the last stroke of midnight. Shortly after Edward IV seized the throne in 1471, Henry VI was stabbed while praying in Wakefield Tower, which his ghost haunts to this day. Henry VI stood to inherit both the English and French thrones, but the House of York imprisoned him during the War of the Roses. He met his end as the result of a real-life game of thrones. Peter ad Vincula where she was buried, and wandering corridors as a headless body. She is seen on the Tower Green where she was executed, in St. The second wife of Henry VIII, and the first wife he executed, Anne is the most famous and persistent of all Tower ghosts. Here are thirteen spirits that are most often reported. (Including death by grizzly bear.) On your London vacation, visiting the Tower, regardless of questionable spooks, is a must. Most of the ghosts are unfortunate souls who met an untimely–and many times unjust–death. Like other places with a past filled with skullduggery and fear, the Tower is said to be haunted. It was founded in 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The Tower of London is a historic castle built on the River Thames in the city’s center.
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