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Best of European Union » ghost of henry http://www.best-of-european-union.eu Travel through the most beautiful places in Europe Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:36:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 The Ghosts of the Tower of London – a quick guide! http://www.best-of-european-union.eu/2012/08/30/the-ghosts-of-the-tower-of-london-a-quick-guide/ http://www.best-of-european-union.eu/2012/08/30/the-ghosts-of-the-tower-of-london-a-quick-guide/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:48:03 +0000 Julius http://www.best-of-european-union.eu/?p=10985 With all of the centuries of history behind it you would expect the Tower of London to be haunted, not just haunted but filled to the rafters with the spectres of those that lived their final days within it’s cold stone walls. Some have referred to the Tower as being the most haunted building in […]

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]]> With all of the centuries of history behind it you would expect the Tower of London to be haunted, not just haunted but filled to the rafters with the spectres of those that lived their final days within it’s cold stone walls. Some have referred to the Tower as being the most haunted building in the whole of England, but there are many other properties around the country that vie for that title. The Tower however which was built in 1078 by William the Conqueror, does have a dark and sordid history that few places around the world can rival.

Tower of London, UK by Fernando Nunes

The Hour Before Midnight

It is the ghost of Henry VI that haunts the Wakefield Tower. Henry met his death on the 21st May 1471, murdered ‘in the hour before midnight’ as he knelt in prayer. This quite tragic and ineffectual monarch is believed to have met his death at the hands of the sinister Duke of Gloucester, being stabbed repeatedly in what was by all accounts of the time, a frenzied and brutal attack, with his body being describes as being ‘full of deadly holes’. It’s on the hour before midnight, every year, on the anniversary of his death that he reappears, his spectre is said to pace around the inside of the Wakefield Tower until, when midnight finally strikes he fades away.

The White Lady

The cold stones of the narrow and winding corridors of the great tower are the haunt of the White Lady. She has been seen waving to visiting children from a window in the tower, who eagerly waved back at her from an opposite building. Most haunted residences seem to have a white or grey lady but this one is different. With the white lady of the tower you smell her approach, as the air is said to fill with the pungent aroma of cheap perfume, which is especially noticeable around the area of the entrance of St John’s Chapel, the scent is so strong th