The Tower of London has been a major landmark on the skyline of the city of London since the eleventh century. The construction of the Tower of London begun in 1078 by William the Conqueror as a symbol of his power and as a tool to subdue any of his conquered people who might be tempted to rebel against him.

Successive English monarchs continued adding to the Tower of London and it became a luxurious royal palace, the home of the Crown Jewels and the Royal Mint and housed a menagerie of exotic wild animals owned by the King. But it is as a prison for traitors and enemies of the crown that the Tower of London is most remembered for, and few who entered by Traitors Gate were fortunate enough to return to the freedom of the world outside.

More frequently their last glimpse of the sun and the world they were leaving behind came as they were waiting on the scaffold for the axe to fall. So perhaps it is not surprising that the Tower of London’s long and bloody history has lead it to become known as one of the most haunted buildings in Great Britain.