Macabre Traveler
Macabre Traveler
Kristin Diversi and Jen Billock
Episode 11: The Tower of London. From Coronation to Choppination.
35 minutes Posted Mar 18, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
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In the latest episode, Jen and Kristin head across the pond to jolly old England, pip pip, Cheerios, old chaps, to check out the Tower of London and all the fun and murder that happened in and around it.

We talk about the menagerie that used to be kept at the Tower; the many, many, too many people killed there; Guy Fawkes’ Gun Powder plot and how Jen can’t say “effigy;” the little Lost Princes; and much more. And, of course, ghosts: Does Anne Boleyn walk around carrying her head? Is there a giant bear waiting to scare the bejesus out of tourists?

Listen and find out.

SOURCES:

The Story of the Tower of London, from Historic Royal Palaces

https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/the-story-of-the-tower-of-london/#gs.tsn3g6

Anne Boleyn, Beefeaters, Guy Fawkes and the princes: a brief history of the Tower of London, from History Extra

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/anne-boleyn-guy-fawkes-and-the-princes-a-brief-history-of-the-tower-of-london/