Top 3 Haunted Places in London

Get spooked in London by visiting the site of mass graves underneath London Bridge. Dare to enter the Dungeon, which gives visitors a playful glimpse of the city in historic times? Tread the steps of kings, queens and traitors who were imprisoned in the Tower of London then executed. One of the famous residents of the Tower was Guy Fawkes, who was burned at the stake for trying to torch the Houses of Parliament. Effigies of the man labeled a traitor are still burned on Bonfire Night in the UK today.

1. Haunted tombs

When this attraction was being dug out contractors came across a pit of human bones, which are believed to have been the remains of victims of the plague in the capital in the 14th century. Since the discovery builders reported tools going missing and lights flickering on and off, with some even refusing to finish the job.

Some of the skulls even displayed holes where they were believed to have been put on spikes along London Bridge, which runs on top of this attraction. According to The London Experience, in 1305 Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace (whom Mel Gibson famously played in the film Braveheart) was the first person to have their severed head put on show on London Bridge.

This attraction claims to be the scariest in London, taking visitors on a grisly tour of London’s illustrious history from the Great Fire of 1666 to the pestilence that claimed the most lives a year earlier. Tickets range from £15, but booking online and avoiding peak times could almost halve the admission price. Eerily it is cheaper to visit The London Experience after 17:00.

2. Dare the Dungeon

This place is like a history lesson in fear. There’s the story of famous murderer Jack the Ripper, mutilated his victims on the cobbled streets of Victorian London. In 2002, Johnny Depp starred as a clairvoyant investigator who tries to catch the killer in the film From Hell.

A boat ride take travelers through a purgatory of back spins and watery experiences alongside the drop that sends those brave enough plummeting downhill. Feel the heat of how the Great Fire of London started, that burned all in its wake in 1666, and smell the stench of disease that reviled people from the victims of The Plague in 1665.

Visit the London Dungeon from December 7th to 29th to see Santa strung up by Satan, who has robins roasting on an open fire among blackened Christmas trees this year.

3. Trapped in the Tower

The Tower of London is a ghoulish place where prisoners were kept shackled and put to death over the years, living in unsanitary conditions by today’s UK standards. For more than 900 years kings, queens, sinners, saints and traitors were locked up here regardless with one of the UK’s first terrorists Guy Fawkes imprisoned here before being burned at the stake for trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

Graffiti of the name Jane may be a lasting tribute to the 16-year-old queen who was put to death under accusations of being a traitor by her husband jailed elsewhere in the Tower. She was only queen for a few days until her power was snatched away in 1553.

The Queen’s House is said to be one of the most haunted places of the Tower of London, which was once occupied by Arabella Stuart. She was imprisoned for an unconventional marriage to Lady Jane Gray’s nephew Willam Seymour. Despite planning a daring escape for the pair of them, she was discovered and sent back to the Tower where she later died while her husband got away.

Photo of London Dungeon, London, UK, originally posted by Iaw keven

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