City Rooms

This Halloween, prepare to be scared by the City of London. It's easy to feel spooked while wandering the city considering the frequency of ghost sightings and things get even worse after discovering the twisted fates that some of London’s resident ghosts met before their deaths.  Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, exploring these spooky hotspots will make for a memorable night. Here’s our list of just a few of our favourite spooky spots in the city. And no, there aren’t any graveyards, remember, it’s a resting place, not a box to tick on the goth bucket list. First off you can head down to this pub originally known as the Jack the Ripper, this Spitalfields pub can't get away from its gory history. Now named The Ten Bells, some accounts of the Ripper story link two of his victims, Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly, to the pub. Annie Chapman may have drunk at the pub shortly before she was murdered; and it has been suggested that the pavement outside of the pu...

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 ...