Case file · Haunting
Ghosts of the Tower of London
Anne Boleyn, beheaded in 1536, is said to haunt the chapel where she is buried and to walk the White Tower carrying her head.
1536 CE · 51.51, -0.08 · status: legend
The account
Other ghosts attributed to the Tower include Henry VI, Lady Jane Grey, Margaret Pole and the Princes in the Tower. The headless Anne even got a 1934 comic song.
The sceptical view
These are traditional ghost stories attached to a site of famous executions; no documented sighting is better than anecdote.
Connections in the atlas
- Tower of London
- Federici, ghost of the Princess Theatre
- Leap Castle
- The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
- Borley Rectory