The Haunting of the Tower of London (2022)

Plotzle Horror · Puzzle #14 · 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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.