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Actor William Terriss was murdered outside London’s Adelphi Theatre in December 1897 by Richard Prince. A later theatre tradition holds that Terriss’s ghost continued to haunt the Adelphi. The murder is documented history; the…
Open archive record →A Hampton Court ghost tradition identifies a Grey Lady with Sybil Penn, a Tudor nurse associated with Edward VI and Elizabeth I. After her tomb at nearby Hampton church was disturbed during nineteenth-century rebuilding,…
Open archive record →Hampton Court tradition says that Catherine Howard escaped her guards after learning of the accusations against her and ran towards the chapel to plead with Henry VIII, only to be seized and dragged back.…
Open archive record →One of the Tower of London’s stranger ghost traditions concerns a spectral bear said to have terrified a Jewel House keeper. The story draws unusual plausibility from the character of the place: the Tower…
Open archive record →Later ghost tradition repeatedly returns Anne Boleyn to the Tower of London, where she was imprisoned and executed in 1536. Versions place her apparition near Tower Green, the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad…
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