Covent Garden, City of Westminster, England
Interior of the former vegetable market
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal on Drury Lane has been called ‘one of the world's most haunted theatres’ and is haunted by the wraith of an eighteenth century dandy, also referred to as the "Man in Grey".
He is described as having ‘powdered hair beneath a tricorne hat, a dress jacket and cloak or cape, riding boots and a sword’.
Legend says that the Man in Grey is the ghost of a knife-stabbed man whose skeletal remains were found within a walled-up side passage in 1848.
Also sighted have been the apparitions of actor Charles Macklin and clown Joseph Grimaldi. Macklin has been reported backstage, wandering a corridor that is where in 1735, he murdered fellow actor Thomas Hallam in an argument over a wig. Grimaldi is reported to be a helpful spirit, guiding nervous actors around the stage!
The comedian Stanley Lupino claimed to have seen the ghost of Dan Leno in a dressing room.
Pictured left is the Theatre Royal courtesy of ExpressingYourself.
Catherine Street,
City of Westminster,
London,
WC2B 5JF.
The House appeared on the TV program, Most Haunted. It was featured in Series 1 (2002).
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
Location
Visitor Information
Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane.
It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and with the Royal Opera House, which is also known as "Covent Garden".
Pictured left is the interior of the former vegetable market courtesy of Henry Kellner. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
