Paranormal record / 1864
1864. The Tower of London. A rifleman of the 60th Rifles stood sentry by Tower Green. A white figure came towards him. Some say it was a woman in Tudor dress and a French hood. Some say it had no head at all. He challenged it three times. No response. He thrust his bayonet into it. The blade passed straight through, and a fiery flash ran up his rifle. He was found unconscious at his post. Brought before a court-martial, he was saved in most tellings by men watching from a nearby window, among them Captain J. D. Dundas. It is one of the Tower's most famous ghost stories. Yet no record from 1864 has ever been found.
The Tower of London has never been short of ghosts. Its most famous belongs to Anne Boleyn, beheaded within its walls. In the Inner Ward lies Tower Green. At its south-west corner stands the Queen's House, beside the Bloody Tower. In 1864 a sentry kept watch nearby. He was a rifleman of the 60th Rifles. His name has never been recorded.