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Centuries of spectral sightings lie beneath Greenwich and Blackheath's elegant Georgian facades.

On this 45-minute walking tour, you'll uncover ghostly tales and royal secrets that haunt this UNESCO World Heritage Site, finding out how centuries of rebellion, romance, and tragedy left supernatural echoes across the landscape.

You'll also have a chance to:
- Visit the monument to Sir Walter Raleigh, whose embalmed head was kept by his widow in a velvet pouch.
- Walk through Greenwich Park past Anglo-Saxon burial mounds to the Queen's House, where a famous 1966 photograph captured an unexplained shrouded figure ascending the Tulip Stairs.
- Learn about JASON, the secret 10-kilowatt nuclear reactor hidden in the Naval College basement until recently.
- Stand at the Prime Meridian line where east meets west and all global time zones begin.
- Trace the remnants of the Queen Elizabeth I Oak where Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn danced during their courtship.
- Discover The Crown pub's Victorian ghost, a jilted woman who still appears outside waiting for her lover.
- Explore how Blackheath got its ominous name and hear the legends of plague pits beneath the heath.