Some Spooky Places In London To Set You Up For Halloween!

London is the heart of the United Kingdom and a destination for travellers from all over the world. We’re only a couple days away from halloween now, and if you’re not feeling spooky enough right now then read ahead to hear about some of the most unsettling stories behind places all around London. If you’re up for it then you can take a venture around London to see if they are either haunted, or just generally unsettling.

Firstly we starting off quite gruesome, at the Bleeding Heart Yard. The name of this small square is enough to give you chills. It might look pleasant enough, but Bleeding Heart Yard in Farringdon has a horrific history. Legend has it that on January 27 1626 the mutilated body of society beauty Lady Elizabeth Hatton was found in the cobbled courtyard. She had been murdered and her limbs strewn across the ground, but her heart still pumped blood.

Charterhouse Square, is where we are off to next  where 35,000 plague victims were buried. The history behind it is that on the north side of the square, a Carthusian monastery was founded there in 1371. In 1348, it became a plague pit and mass grave during the time of the Black Death. At that time, is said that tens of thousands of bodies were buried here.

There’s a downside, to the Bruce Castle Museum, in the fact that it’s a little on the haunted side. On bleak winter nights in November, you might catch the ghostly silhouette of Lady Constantia Lucy staring out the window. Lady Lucy killed herself by leaping off the balcony of the castle in the seventeenth century, taking her child with her. They say ‘great mystery’ surrounds the Lady’s death, but the fact that her husband kept her under lock and key in a tiny room might have something to do with it. As well as an unhappy spectre, the castle is home to a mini museum, where you can see archive photos and documents on Haringey history.

Greenwich Foot Tunnel is next up, if you enter the green dome by the Cutty Sark and you’ll find yourself in its dimly lit passage, accompanied only by the echoing footsteps of the walkers chasing your path and the drip-drip-drip of the leaky roof. This tunnel, opened in 1902, runs under the river Thames and connects Greenwich to the the Isle of Dogs.

The Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy is a natural history museum. It was established by Robert Edmond Grant in 1828 as a teaching collection of zoological specimens and material for dissection. It is one of the oldest natural history collections in the UK, and is the last remaining university natural history museum in London. There’s some very creepy specimens to have a look at as well!

Hopefully you can have a read about a few of these really cool and creepy places, and go there if you’re really feeling up to it!