Awesome Scary Locales To Go To In The City
Tourists to Britain out for a grand time might consider getting themselves a cheap hotels London style, then exploring the numerous haunted placed to visit in Central London. This is an ancient city with some very old buildings. Further, it is a city that was from time to time ruled by tyrannical, bloodthirsty kings who executed a great many fine people. Put all that together, and the result is an exceptional city for ghost hauntings.
We should start where so many met their end, at London Tower. By reputation the most haunted place in England, it isn’t actually a single building but rather, three. They are the Salt, the Wakefield and, most prominently, the Bloody Tower.
King Henry VI was killed in 1471 in Wakefield Tower one midnight as he bowed his head to pray. It is believed that King Richard III was the killer. Today, upon each anniversary of the murder, Henry reportedly appears at midnight.
At Salt Tower, the Lady Jane Grey, bride and victim of Henry VIII, is rumored to appear in white and shimmering. Other victims of the famous king appear as well. Henry VIII ordered the torture of several Jesuit priests he’d had arrested in hopes that they would surrender information about other Catholics. They included his critic Walpole, who scratched writings into the wall of the cell that can still be read nearly five centuries later. They reportedly appear today as glowing orbs, disembodied voices, and chills.
The Bloody Tower, meanwhile, is home to the ghosts of little boys who were victims of Richard III, their uncle. It is also haunted by two other wives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. There is another woman, one Margaret Pole, a Countess, who was one of Henry’s victims without having married him. She fled the executioner and was cut apart as she ran. Her death screams are still audible periodically.
Elsewhere, the Bank of England is visited by the ghost of Sarah Whitehead, who mourns the execution of her brother for knowingly accepting a forgery. That’s how things were done in the early 19th Century. That the Bank was built upon over a graveyard probably facilitates these matters.
There are hauntings that revolve around 17th Century monarch King Charles II. There is Nell Gwynne, Charles’ most beloved mistress, whose spirit appears at the Gargoyle Club. Then there are Cromwell, Ireton & Bradshaw, Charles executioners. They weren’t killed, but their badly decomposed bodies were dug up, convicted of regicide, and desecrated by public display. The three of them are said to haunt the Red Lion Square.
There are such locations all over the city, and indeed, across the country. Of course, there is the question of whether you even believe in spirits that walk the night. Perhaps you are not convinced. The best thing to do would be to see for yourself and decide what you believe about ghost hauntings. It would almost certainly be among the least expensive city tours one could engage. Once you find a hotel kings cross for yourself, make your own list of haunted placed to visit in Central London.
