The Tower of London is notoriously haunted by the ghosts of Anne Boleyn, the vanished young sons of King Edward V, and sundry other prisoners. But two of the strangest events witnessed in the Martin Tower didn't involve ghosts at all...
- In 1815 or 1816, a sentry at the jewel-room door was horrified to see a bear lumbering toward him on its hind legs. Before his eyes, the bear became as flat as a sheet of paper and slipped beneath the jewel-room door. The story is a little absurd, but ghost-watchers point out that a royal zoo was once housed in the Tower; the bear apparition may have been the spirit of a very real animal.
- In 1817, a keeper and his family were sitting down to dinner in the Martin tower when a glass cylinder filled with a viscous, glowing azure substance appeared in midair, hovered briefly over their heads, then vanished. The incident was never repeated nor explained.
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I heard the Tower of London was one of the most haunted places in the world.
It should be. Look at all the unjustified executions that occurred there.
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