8 Haunted Places in London
Every case file on record in London — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file.
Tower of London
S · London, United Kingdom — 1,000 years of executions, torture and royal prisoners inside England's most famous fortress.…
Highgate Cemetery
A · London, United Kingdom — Victorian necropolis of crooked tombs where a 'Vampire' panic gripped London in the 1970s.…
284 Green Street — The Enfield Poltergeist
A · Enfield, north London, England — The 1977–79 case at the centre of the world's poltergeist literature: a single-parent family, two daughters at the eye of it, and the most investigated haunting ever recorded.…
Hampton Court Palace — The Screaming Gallery
A · Richmond upon Thames, London, United Kingdom — Henry VIII's palace on the Thames, home of England's most royal ghost story — a teenage queen dragged down this corridor to her death, and a 2003 CCTV figure that made the evening news worldwide.…
Mitre Square — The Ripper's Ghosts of Whitechapel
A · Mitre Square, City of London / Whitechapel, East End, England — The autumn of 1888, when an unnamed killer took five women in the alleys of Whitechapel and spawned the largest true-crime canon on earth — and a ghost tradition to match: Catherine Eddowes is said to…
Theatre Royal Drury Lane — The Man in Grey
A · Catherine Street, Covent Garden, London, England — The oldest theatre site in London — a playhouse since 1663, the current building since 1812 — and the holder of the West End's senior ghost: the Man in Grey, an eighteenth-century gentleman in tricorn…
50 Berkeley Square — The House That Kills
B · Mayfair, London, United Kingdom — A discreet Mayfair townhouse that Victorian London agreed was too dangerous to sleep in — the attic room's unseen tenant was said to frighten trespassers to death.…
The Langham — Room 333 and the Seven Residents
B · 1C Portland Place, Marylebone, London, England — London's self-declared most haunted grand hotel: opened in 1865 as among England's first purpose-built luxury hotels, the Langham carries a resident canon of seven-plus — headlined by the Room 333 enc…