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.
Salt Tower is haunted by Lady Jane Grey, one the executed wives of King Henry VIII, who now is prone to appear as a translucent, white image. Henry VIII also imprisoned and ordered tortured several Jesuit priests, among them Walpole. He never could get them them to surrender information about any collaborators. People have spoken of many supernatural goings on at the Salt, such as light orbs and speaker-less whispers. Walpole also scratched anguished inscriptions in the wall that remain today.
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 in the city, the Bank of England demonstrates the adage that it isn't wise to build atop an ancient graveyard. One of its unwelcome customers is the shade of Sarah Whitehead. Her brother, an employee, wound up being executed in the nineteenth century for the high crime of accepting forged documents. She appears periodically, dressed in black, as though still waiting for her brother Philip.
Seventeenth Century King Charles II's favorite lover, Nell Gwynne, appears in spectral form at the city's Gargoyle Club. At Red Lion Square, the King's executioners, Ireton, Bradshaw and Cromwell, still walk about, discussing private matters. They died naturally in their day, but were dug out of the ground, posthumously tried and convicted of regicide, and desecrated by hauling their decomposed bodies about the land in open display.
On a minimal budget, you can explore the line between this world and another, more mysterious place. Even if you are not one who believes in things that go bump in the night, the history alone is grimly fascinating. The haunted placed to visit in Central London await you, each surpassing the other, and are available for the price of a london kings cross hotel style.
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