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Ghost stories

Stories and legends from across the palaces

Could they be true? Sometimes the facts seem to bear out the strange sightings....

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Are the palaces haunted?

  1. Legend has it a huge ghostly bear appeared by the Martin Tower.
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  2. Dame Sybil, or the ‘Grey Lady’, haunts Hampton Court Palace
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  3. She is believed to frequent Hampton Court Palace's Haunted Gallery
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  4. The moniker given to a ghostly figure who appeared on a palace CCTV camera in 2003
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  5. She reputedly resides in the Queen's House, one of the Tower's most 'haunted' buildings.
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