London, it is said, is one of the most haunted cities in
the world; hardly surprising, when you think about it, given its very long
history (it is, after all, some 1,966 years since the Romans founded what was
then called Londinium). Lists of haunted buildings in London are many, but we
do not see very often is a list of who
the ghosts are. Or rather, were – for the ones who are apparently doing the
haunting were alive once.
What with one thing or another, I’ve been talking to a
lot of people about ghosts recently (more on that in a later blog-post) and
this has in turn impacted on my writing. Who are London’s ghosts? There are
people, or rather the spirits of dead people, from all levels of London
society: Royalty, criminals, bankers, bishops, actors and nurses have all been
seen somewhere. Some of them are even in more than one place! More information about some of the best-known ones can be found
on my latest article for Londonist, accessible via this link:
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