Over
coming week, I hope to lead you on a journey of discovery and adventure. Briefly taking a glimpse into a past so horrid. Of haunting tales and ghastly ends that awaited so many of her most famous occupants. Firing your imagination, so that you will delve deeper into her history for yourselves.During her long and illustrious 900 years, The Tower of London has developed into one of most haunted places in Britain. She has been home to beheadings and murders, torture and hangings, as well as being a prison to Queens and Nobles alike.
Thomas A. Becket is "the first reported sighting of a ghost at Tower of London."
During construction on Inner Curtain Wall in 13th century, Thomas appeared apparently unhappy about construction, and it is said he reduced wall to rubble with a strike of his cross. Henry III’s grandfather was responsible for death of Thomas Becket, so Henry III wasted no time building a chapel in Tower of London, naming it for archbishop.
This must have pleased Thomas’ ghost because there were no further interruptions during construction of wall.
The Bloody Tower was scene of infamous disappearance of two princes; Edward V (12) and Richard Duke of York (10), who are thought to have been murdered in 1483 on probable command of Duke of Gloucestershire, who was to be crowned Richard III.
According to one story, guards in late 15th century, who were passing Bloody Tower, spotted shadows of two small figures gliding down stairs still wearing white night shirts they had on night they disappeared. They stood silently, hand in hand, before fading back into stones of Bloody Tower.
These figures were identified as ghosts of two princes. In 1674 workmen found a chest that contained skeletons of two young children, they were thought to be remains of princess, and were given a royal burial not long afterwards. The story of little princes is still to this day a heartbreaking story. They are "among most poignant ghosts" in Tower of London.
