Hampton Court Palace | London Ghost #haunted #shorts #creepy

Hampton Court Palace | London Ghost #haunted #shorts #creepy

On three consecutive days in winter 2003, Hampton Court Palace security staff were called to close one particular fire door near the palace's Clock Court (now in the Baroque Story exhibition).

On the first day, CCTV footage showed the doors flying wide open with great force but there was nothing to reveal why. On the second day, the same thing happened but this time a ghostly-looking figure in period dress suddenly appeared on the screen and closed the doors. The doors opened again on the third day but there was no further sign of the ghostly doorkeeper.

It wasn't just security staff who thought they were seeing things. A visitor wrote in the palace's visitor book on the second day that she too thought she had seen a ghost in that area.

This CCTV footage of the figure caught the attention of the world's media, with reports in newspapers and on TV and radio as far a field as India, Australia and Peru. This is where the nickname "Skeletor" came from.