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True crime can be strangely fascinating.

This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted. I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.

Welcome to fantastical crime.

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII, and she probably is the wife that most people are familiar with of his

six wives. She was executed, but she was innocent, so this was murder. A schism was created when Henry

tried to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. The king had to wait seven years

before he could marry Anne, but his love wane just three years into that marriage.

He stood by as she was executed.

This kind of betrayal and unjust death can lead to hauntings, and in the case of Anne Boleyn, it would seem that her spirit is at unrest.

The controversy and mystery that surrounds the life and death of Anne Boleyn began at her birth.

Trying to pin down her date of birth is impossible.

Ask any historian, and they will tell you that, they've argued about it for centuries.

Eventually, they've agreed on two separate years, which are really nowhere near each other,

1501 and 1507.

Most of them land on 1507, and they base this on looking at the different periods of time

when she was serving in various royal courts.

You had to be of a certain age, usually about 13. So that's

kind of what they base that on. But there are others who say that Anne had special favor, so maybe

she served before she was of the required age, and she could have been much younger when she was

a maid in a court. So we really don't know. I'll just go with

1507. And really in this case, it doesn't really matter. Her father was Thomas Bolin and he became

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