On a sultry summer evening in 1930, about 8 thousand people gathered in London's magnificent Royal Albert Hall for an event dedicated to their favorite writer - Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the image of the famous Sherlock Holmes.
In front of everyone present, the culprit of the meeting slowly entered the hall and took a place of honor next to his wife Jin and remained there until the end of the event. No one would have been surprised at the presence of the writer at the meeting, if not for the fact that Sir Arthur died six days before this concert dedicated to his memory.
Why was the writer's wife not even surprised at his appearance in the hall? It turns out that Jean was a well-known medium, capable of communicating with the souls of the dead and could organize their visit to the world of the living. She probably knew in advance that Arthur's phantom would appear at the concert. Surprisingly, all those gathered, who knew the writer by sight, reacted to his mystical appearance with purely English calmness. This attitude can be explained by the fact that Londoners are accustomed to the appearance of ghosts and do not consider it to be something strange and unexpected.
Why are ghosts so fond of the streets and buildings of London? Experts believe that most children in the capital of England are born at midnight. Mediums are sure that it is with this fact that the ability of people to see ghosts and feel the approach of spirits, as well as the ability to communicate with these otherworldly entities, are connected. However, this version is unable to explain the fact that ghosts often appear in front of foreign tourists visiting London.
It turned out that with the help of information received from ghosts, the true history of many events of the past is often restored. With the help of phantoms, documents were found that were considered irretrievably lost.
The most striking example of such "cooperation" of ghosts with living people was the clarification of the real events associated with the death of Henry VIII's wife, Anne Boleyn. The historical literature indicated that she died on the chopping block in the presence of numerous onlookers. But in 1972, a young girl, accompanied by her parents, came to the Tower Castle on an excursion. While inspecting the Green Tower, which in ancient times was the place of execution, the girl unexpectedly saw the events that took place at this place more than four hundred years ago. The girl saw Queen Anne on her knees. And the fact that it is quiet and, trying imperceptibly, from behind, the executioner approaches with an ax. The queen did not hear the assassin's approach, and he, swinging an ax, cut off her head.
The girl's account of her vision did not make any impression on historians, since no one in the group of tourists saw this terrible scene. But after only a few months, the specialists got into the hands of the documents confirming that the execution took place exactly as the girl saw in the castle in her vision. It turned out that the execution was carried out in such an unusual way due to the fact that they did not want to greatly frighten the queen and for this they even invited an executioner from France, known for his delicate attitude towards convicts.
Unusual phenomena are constantly happening behind the high walls of the Tower. One day a young guard, conducting a night tour of the passages of the castle, heard a faint noise from the direction of St. Peter's chapel. He leaned the ladder against the outside wall of the chapel and looked out the window. From what appeared before his eyes, he almost fainted: inside the chapel, numerous historical figures, familiar to the guard from portraits hanging in the corridors of the castle, walked around, gathered in groups and talked sweetly. Among them was a very beautiful young woman with long dark hair, like Anne Boleyn. Next to her was the writer Thomas More, who was executed in 1553 for high treason. The Duchess of Salisberry and Lord Dudley and his wife were talking quietly nearby.
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Among the noble persons were the participants in the revolt of 1745, who were executed in the Green Tower. These rebels differed from the rest in their appearance: faces of bluish color, a bloody line from a rope around their neck, with eyes burning like pieces of coal.
But not only the Tower is famous for its ghosts. And not all ghosts are quiet. So, in the Harper mansion in London's Anfield district, a noisy spirit raged for three years: it rearranged furniture, carried babies from cribs to the floor, threw obsolete coins at the house, etc. The spirit was not afraid of either the Harper family members or the correspondents who came to see the poltergeist. Quite possibly, the spirit liked to show its cool temper to numerous spectators.
But the spirit living in the famous London store Bemington Arcade is very correct in behavior. Apparently, he likes to be among the elite goods, distinguished by grace and beauty, and his antics are only at the level of innocent pranks. For example, he removed goods from the shelves and laid them on the floor in the correct geometric order. And in the morning, sellers lifted boxes, packs of cigarettes, purses and handbags, putting them in their places. By the way, not only sellers, but also numerous buyers thought that someone invisible was constantly nearby and watching them.
In one of London's towers, where criminals were kept in the 17th century, the ghost of Earl Henry Percy is often seen walking along the breastwork. And although Percy was not executed for participating in a conspiracy against King James, but was released, paying 30 thousand pounds, his ghost regularly appears in the tower. Here is the ghost of Lady Jane Gray, who tried to take the throne of England by deception. In 1554 she was executed within the walls of this tower.
Also famous for its unusual ghosts is Martin's Tower in London. During the reign of King Henry I, many animals were kept there for the entertainment of the monarch. So that the guards, to their horror, repeatedly saw the ghosts of huge bears in the corridors. One of the guards was so frightened by the beast walking on him on two legs that he hit the ghost with a bayonet, but the weapon only pierced the phantom and entered the door, next to which was the ghost of the animal. The sentry was so shocked by the vision that he died of the shock the next day.
Londoners have become accustomed to the ghosts that exist next to them. A special unit has been created in Scotland Yard to record all reports of phantom appearances. Residents of the city do not let the employees of this police unit get bored. They regularly inform them of encounters with ghosts. And the police have to investigate the most unusual such cases …