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The Haunting of the Tower of London (2022)
Plotzle Horror · H25 · March 31, 2026 · Horror / History
Six plot descriptions for The Haunting of the Tower of London (2022). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.
- Two Victorian archaeologists discover skeletal remains bricked inside the Tower's walls and experience violent shared hallucinations that mirror the prisoner's final days of starvation and madness in captivity.
- A guilt-ridden executioner in medieval London keeps a journal of the nobles he beheads but begins writing entries for deaths that have not yet occurred as his sanity deteriorates.
- Two imprisoned princes allegedly return as ghosts to haunt a tower where guards and inmates begin dying under horrible circumstances, suggesting the spirits are seeking revenge for their murders.
- A Restoration-era painter commissioned to document the Tower's architecture becomes obsessed with depicting the building's violent history and eventually murders his patron to complete his final canvas with blood.
- A Spanish noblewoman executes suspected witches in her ancestral tower during the Inquisition while her own daughter exhibits the same behaviors she condemns in others and awaits judgment.
- When a Protestant spy infiltrates the Tower during Mary Tudor's reign she witnesses Catholic prisoners being tortured and slowly adopts their faith while planning her own escape from England.