The Ghost of Anne Boleyn
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
History Hit
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We talk the ghost of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England before Henry VIII chopped off her head, with the marvellous Tracy Borman.
Where can Anne Boleyn's ghost be seen? What form does it take? And why does she haunt us so? Get ready for carriages pulled by headless horses, spooky palaces, a weird floating cylinder thing...and a single moment in history that has haunted England, and now Britain's, imagination for hundreds of years.
Tracy's new book "Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History" is out now.
Edited by Tom Delargy, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Warner Brothers and Salem's Lot, the spine-tingling new horror film from the legendary Stephen King. |
| 0:09.1 | It is so exciting, it is that time of year. It is spooky season. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, it's just the best time of year. |
| 0:15.0 | No surprise that we love this time of year, of course. |
| 0:19.0 | There is no better fit for this season than a good horror film. |
| 0:22.0 | Salem's lot is one of Stephen King's |
| 0:25.1 | favorite stories, I'm sure you've heard of it, and it's adapted from the 1975 best-selling |
| 0:30.0 | novel. Salim's Lot follows an author who returns to his hometown in Maine, but things are not as they should be. The place is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire. |
| 0:42.1 | Of course it is. |
| 0:43.0 | Why wouldn't it be the place is called Salem? |
| 0:45.0 | Salem's lot is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's bestseller. |
| 0:49.0 | From the creators of the record-breaking horror franchise, The Conjuring Universe. |
| 0:53.0 | So take yourself, your mom, your romantic date, or just a pillow to hide behind to see this |
| 0:59.6 | after dark endorsed vampire movie. |
| 1:02.3 | Salem's lot in cinemas October 11th. |
| 1:05.0 | On a dark October night in 1817, Edmund Lenthal Swift, a poet, lawyer and master of the |
| 1:19.3 | jewel office, was dining with his family in what had once been the rooms occupied by Henry the 8th's ill-fated wife and Berlin in the Tower of London. |
| 1:30.0 | The gentlemanly Edmond was in the act of offering a glass of wine and water to his wife when she paused and exclaimed, |
| 1:39.0 | Good God! What is that? A cylindrical figure, like a glass tube had appeared, hovering between the ceiling and the table. |
| 1:49.7 | His contents, wrote Swift afterwards, seemed to be a dense fluid, white and pale azure like the |
| 1:57.2 | gathering of a summer cloud and incessantly rolling and mingling within the cylinder. This ghostly object moved slowly up the table |
| 2:07.1 | before pausing over his wife's shoulder. She screamed out, oh Christ it has seized me. |
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