The Tower of London is a major tourist attraction and with all of its beefeaters, ghosts and grandeur, it's not hard to see why so many people want to visit. Before its occupation as a tourist attraction, the purpose of the castle was to create a sense of fear and dread by all of those who looked upon it as well as being a royal residence, a fortress and the home of the Crown Jewels. Oh, it was also one badass prison. Steeped in bloody history, the place is most definitely haunted (if you believe in ghosts) as a lot of people were imprisoned there and murdered. It began in 1483 where Princes Edward and Richard were imprisoned there by their uncle. In the 1930s, two skeletons were found, presumably that of the two boys, who were buried beneath a set of stairs. Things got extra bloody during Henry VIII's reign as he attempted and succeeded in breaking away from the Church and the Pope, punishing all of those who did not follow him in these revolutionary changes. This is when the prison came into its greatest use, always full of prisoners who were politicians or people dedicated to the church, this place was plagued by the screams of those who were being tortured. Prisoners were mostly people with a high profile and one of the most famous people to be detained there was Guy Fawkes. It was only after he was tortured that he signed a full confession to being the perpetrator of the Gunpowder Plot. Anne Boleyn was also held there and eventually lost her head.
