The Haunted Gallery & Catherine Howard | Hampton Court: Behind Closed Doors | Channel 5 

Even if there were no ghosts just the fact that you be there where 500yrs this poor child screamed for her life is just ... there are no words for it

I passed out in the gallery of Hampton Court on a tour. I remember right before feeling absolutely terrified out of nowhere, not being able to breathe and feeling like I was ice cold. I thought that I had screamed because I heard a scream, but nobody else heard it. I found out later that this happens especially to women in the gallery.

I went to visit Hampton Court on a school trip when I was in year 6 (I was 10 years old) and I fainted in the haunted gallery. I remember the staff thinking I had low blood sugar and giving me chocolate to help me feel better. I later realised they were only telling me that so not to scare me! I can still remember the repressive, heavy feeling I felt there. It makes me feel headachy just thinking about it. Very strange indeed.

Catherine described herself as "the most vile wretch in the world" in her letter to Henry, but Henry was the real wretch for forcing that poor girl to go through all that suffering.

I never ‘saw’ Catherine …. But as I came out of the upper Royal Chapel into the gallery I heard a frightening , long scream, and I went suddenly cold and got goosebumps down my arms. I thought the sound was from an audio that a lady was listening to close by. But when I asked staff, they told me there is no scream on the audio. I felt rather privileged to have heard her. 😌. I want to go back again.

That poor young girl, she must have been terrified.

Its crazy to wrap your mind around when you see shows and movies of historical figures that they were real people and lived their lives like anyone. I can imagine putting myself in her shoes, screaming down the hallway trying to save my life. Gives a sinking feeling, sense of dread thats just horrible.

My sister and I are from Indonesia and knew nothing about the hauntings in the gallery. We also did not know anything about the history of the gallery. The moment we stepped into the great hall my sister said to me, "I do not like it here. Let's go, " but I sensed nothing and said, "Oh just a little more," and coaxed her to go up the gallery. As we went up the gallery she became more and more uncomfortable and kept asking me to leave. Then when we reached the door to the chapel behind which the narrator says Henry was at prayers and at which Catherine was said to have been screaming and pleading, my sister became extremely upset and grabbed my arm pulling me out of that section of the palace very agitated telling me, "He was an evil, evil man! We must get out of here now! Right now." Afterwards we visited a friend for tea and she told us that gallery was known to be haunted.

It’s so bizarre to think of being cloaked in all that finery and surrounded by the rich decor while being treated like a caged animal. Makes my spine tingle 🥺

Katherine Howard’s life was actually so tragic. Everyone cares so much about Anne Boleyn and her ordeal but Katherine Howard’s was so much more traumatic

I went in Sept. of 2019 and I was standing in front of the picture of King Henry with Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward telling my cousins and aunt the story of Catherine Howard. Suddenly I got a chill and goosebumps on my arms and the hair on my neck stood up on end. I looked at them and asked if they felt it and they said no and sort of looked at me funny. I invited the Queens to show me a sign they were there. I asked them respectfully before I stepped into the castle. It was a bit of a scary feeling but it proved to me that they are still there.

It's likely that the feeling of dread or anxiousness in that room that people get is likely from Catherine herself. They are feeling the same fear that she felt during this time in her life, or rather, nearing her inevitable arrest and execution.

I would LOVE to see Howard’s spirit. It seems her spirit needs someone to encourage her to be at peace. If she screams it’s because her life was brutally ended too young. I would not be frightened by that terrified young woman, spectral or corporeal, as I only feel pity for her awful situation.

I feel so sorry for Katherine Howard her whole life was awful, I just want to give her a hug. She was just a child.

I would absolutely love to be able to work at Hampton Court Palace and maybe be able to see any Tudor era royalty. I think it would be absolutely amazing lol

When we visited Hampton Court, I walked into one part and immediately got a strange cold, feeling like a shudder and exclaimed aloud "Oh dear, this has a weird atmosphere!" It cleared the room - and when I went over to see what the room was called it said "The Haunted Gallery"! I didn't see anything though.

This is the story which brought my attention to Tudor history. I was about 7 and was an advanced reader, so I was allowed to choose books for older children. I saw a book called The Haunting of Hampton Court and decided to read it. The picture I forged in my head as a child of Catherine running down the corridor screaming after Henry has never left me. Since then I became fascinated with medieval and Tudor history.

I went on a school trip to Hampton Court Palace in Year 6. Me and my mum are super into paranormal, and my mum had always heard about ghost stories from Hampton Court Palace, and was so jealous when I came home with the letter saying we were going there. The night before my visit, me and my mum sat and read through the ghost stories from the place together… the one that remained etched in my mind the most out of any of the others was this one, Catherine’s story. The next day, when me and my year group visited the Palace, we had a guided tour. I remained stood in the Haunted Gallery by myself while my school group moved on, because I wanted to take it all in and hopefully feel, see or hear something. As I looked at a portrait of Henry VIII, I suddenly heard this loud, wailing scream, and the sound of heavy footsteps, like someone running. I looked all around the gallery in a panic, but I couldn’t see anyone or anything there. Suddenly the screaming and footsteps stopped, and one of my teachers had realised I was missing, and came back to get me. I remember her saying to me “Come on, Lucy, you’ll miss the rest of the tour! You can have some free time to come back to the Gallery later!” (After the tour, we would be aloud to go off in small groups to the parts of the Palace we were most interested in if we wanted to, before we got back on the bus.) I asked her if she had heard what I heard, because it sounded too loud for her to have not heard it, and she said no, and asked me what it was. I described it to her, and her face looked in shock for a second, before she seemed to quickly compose herself and said “Come on now, we’ll lose the others!” And grabbed my hand and led me back to the rest of the group. I told my mum my experience when I got home, and she confirmed what I had already spent the entire rest of the day thinking it was: I had experienced Catherine Howard’s ghostly last call for help in the Haunted Gallery.

Can you blame her? Being married to king piggy the 8th.

I went to Hampton Court multiple times growing up and it always ended the same way with me hearing her scream for her life. I swear that I saw the shadow of a headless woman at one point on the tour. Katherine Howard had the worst luck ever. I hope her and the other queens that haunt the court finally find peace and go to where they all deserve to be.

I feel so bad about Katheryn Howard, i found out about her and the other five queens because of the musical SIX and ever since then i've been searching about them, Katheryn's story broke my heart, poor child

Poor young girl married off to an ageing, obese, stinking and diseased lecher old enough to be her father. How ghastly for her to have to submit to his advances 🤢 and then to be ‘murdered’ by him in a fit of pique and jealousy for seeking the lighter and more attractive company of her peers.

I visited Hampton Court 2 weeks ago and I have no clue of the layout or where things are. However when I looked at the doorway to the gallery I felt this awful feeling of dread and sadness, aswell as this heavy feeling in my head as I was walking towards it. It was only after this that my dad told me it was the Gallery and asked if I felt anything. He asked me this because I have had alot of strange paranormal events and he believes I am sensitive to the paranormal. There is defo something off about that room. Which is find so fascinating.

I took photos in various areas, and when developed there were white figures on top of staircase, and in the corridor with portraits of the Queen's. And in the Maze.. The Chapel gave me horrible feelings even though it was very bright... BUT I LOVE IT THERE..100% Worth a visit..

She was only an abused child! So sad

When can we call him a murderer and face up to Reality?

It was like Catherine was screaming for help because when I was walking down those halls exploring and stuff, I heard guards running and Catherine screaming I was really scared but my mom went to explore with me

There is an uneasy, odd feeling. I was so totally drained at Hampton Court. It was so uncomfortable. I did my best because I wanted to explore the castle. I sadly feel spirit and they sure realised that .

Even just seeing the rooms and the gallery on a video gives me the chills, one day I'll definitely visit

I too remember walking through the “haunted gallery”. Very heavy feeling. I felt such pressure around my head. Very oppressive. I can understand how people could faint. I was very glad when I left the gallery and the pressure lifted. I asked my brother who was with me if he had felt anything walking through there but he hadn’t. I would go back - but I wouldn’t stay long in that gallery.

Henry was a nut.

I'm a huge Tudor fan and I would love to see either Anne Boleyn's ghost or Katherine Howard's ghost. For Katherine's spirit, I always thought her to be trying to find help and forgiveness from Henry and everyone else that was around her. It might sound crazy but if I ever heard her scream from another room in the castle, I would run to the Haunted Gallery or wherever I heard the scream coming from. I just want to tell Katherine "Everything is going to be okay. You're safe." I don't care if I faint, I just want K Howard to know that everything is okay.

It's impossible not to hate Henry VIII and his kind.

Poor Catherine. Eternal peace.

Several brilliant actresses played Catherine Howard through the years. Angela Pleasance played her in "The Six Wives Of Henry VIII." Lynne Frederick played her in "Henry VIII And His Six Wives." Tamzin Merchant played her in "The Tudors."

Poor Catherine.

I went to Hampton Court on a school trip as a kid I can remember walking through that gallery n it really does have a weird creey atmosphere

I have visited there in 1993 and I got such a feeling of dread in that gallery even before hearing the stories

remembring these times for memories in year 5 and year 6

Not only Hampton Court is haunted bit can you imagine The Tower? Chills.

I visited Hampton court on a school trip in year 4 I think I walked down the haunted gallery corridor.

it wouldn't surprise me at all if Hampton court is haunted by Catherine Howard 😱😱

I went down that corridor on a school trip, and saw Catherine's ghost. She was screaming silently and being dragged back by guards.

I went here on a school trip when I was 11, I remember feeling dizzy like I was going to throw up in that corridor and I never knew why

Been to Hampton Court numerous times and the Haunted Gallery has always had a very creepy vibe to it, even before I'd heard the story. After I had heard it I visited on a day that there weren't many people about and the gallery was empty. I stood there for several minutes hoping for a glimpse but nothing...

Poor Catherine. She never stood a chance with the nest of vipers that was Henry the 8ths court.

i’ve been to Hampton court and it is even more beautiful in person i didn’t experience anything supernatural while i was there but seeing some paintings of certain people henry viii in particular something about his portrait staring at you made you feel uneasy

When I worked at Hampton Court an American man asked me why they'd built the palace under a flight path, I laughed thinking he was playing but the perplexed look on his face at my reaction told me otherwise.

So, it's a terrifying thing to witness Katherine Howard's distressed spectral image screaming along the corridor seeking help from the King himself, is it? Not from my point of view, it isn't! The only really terrifying aspect of this was the appalling circumstances that led to her despicable early demise. It's not any astral entity 'replay' we need to fear, folks. It's the living ignorance of those behind such tragedies as this.

The irony was...NOT ONE of the men accused along with Anne Boleyn-with the exception of Mark Smeaton the musician who, because he was of low rank,and could legally be tortured to extract a confession testified against Anne. The others, to a man, stood up for Anne's innocence and went to the block still defiant, declaring their and Anne's innocence. As for Catherine Howard, the 3 men accused with her: Dereham; Culpepper and Mannox blamed each other, blamed Catherine, blamed Jane Rochford, Anne Boleyn's brothers widow whose testimony threw Anne and her brother George both under the bus. They accused Catherine of seducing them...Catherine Howard inspired NONE of the loyalty and devotion her cousin Anne--who was totally innocent--had.

Some Things I Have Heard: Girls have been known to faint in that hallway( Around the same spot ). It’s also rumored that Jane Seymour , Henry’s 3rd wife has been heard calling out to her son in that Hallway( She died from childbirth after giving Henry a heir ). Anne Boleyn has been seen wearing gray/white, while carrying her bleading head around the Tower of London and multiple different places that held some significance to her.

I appreciate musicals like Hamilton and Six for getting people into history. Katherine Howard's song from Six is am upbeat pop song, but the lyrics are dark and tragic. She was manipulated by older men her whole life.

This is sad and very tragic

Great. The Tudor version of The Shining. Compared to all the brutal, nasty stuff that went on in British castles, The Outlook Hotel would seem relatively mild.

I went there. I sensed nothing but overall it was confusing psychically due to the different eras and also the rose garden was the only place i sensed anything

The passageway called the "Haunted Gallery" as shown in the video is in the addition added in the William & Mary period, long after the death of Katherine Howard. If her ghost haunts it, she is not only guilty, but confused.

I agree when we were there you could just feel the fear in the air

I came here as a baby and my mum had told me that I kept looking at the same spot nobody was coming over but I seemed to watch the air I had the looked up as if someone was infront of me and my mum recalls me crying and my mum went into the changing bag and recalled my blanket over me being about a meter away we didn’t move and my mum remembers that day like it was yesterday

Not to mention that Catherine was younger than his eldest daughter! If it was me, I'd never see anyone younger than my kids, that's just disgusting.

I was there several years ago and enjoyed the incredible history… Wonderful experience, but no feelings of a ghost… just history. Highly recommended for anyone to visit.

I always love knowing the history especially when it come to haunted mansion or castle

Gift of lands and expensive jewellery is worthless without a head. Henry Viii was so evil in seducing a child and then beheading her. She deserved to live a long happy life with children and grandchildren. Meeting Henry Viii was really inauspicious.

Buildings do have memories like a recording but all this emotive drivel adds to their takings. Such detail in a persons personality let’s face it most people don’t know who they live with.

I loved the Tudor show and how they portrayed her And Henry On an Aside, I adore that blonde historian lady Shes a great orator Very intelligent and pretty

Kathrine Howard dated so many wrong people in her life and was usually forced to date by anybody and sadly her fate happend but she was under a lot of pressure and was so young so she was just learning about how toxic the earth is . Any one of Henry’s wives didn’t deserve it

I've been to Hampton court three times and would never tire of looking around it Apparently in the winter months they run nightly ghost tours of the palace and the tower of London too.

I loved it. The trees outback are shaped like giant Hershey's kisses

i understand that every winter while Henry the 8th lived there about 6oo cart loads of fire wood was burned in the fire places at Hampton Court Palace

The duke of Norfolk infuriates me when I learn about him. He basically lead that poor girl to her death.

I just wanna hug her like for real i just wanna hug cathy 😔

I went there the other day and it was so atmospheric!

Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour. Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Katherine Parr. The randy ol' goat would be blocked from all but the sleaziest hook up sites today.

I'VE BEEN THERE!!! SO GORGEOUS!

When I was younger, me and my class went on a school trip there!! We actually went in the gallery, and I remember we were sitting on the windowsills while someone who worked there told us the story about the ghost running down the hallway screaming. Me being the freaky 6 year old I was, I LOVED it 😅🤣

Henry had no mercy for anyone

i used to live in Kingston upon Thames. Very close to HP. I visited several times and never felt ANYTHING!

I wonder if the hauntings take place on the anniversary. I spoke to a Beefeater once who told me of a recent haunting at the Tower of London. A bear, of all things.

Poor Queen Catherine Howard !

If there were anyone to be able to talk to Catherine's ghost we'd be able to here her story...

It is amazing that not only Anne Boleyn but also Catherine Howard appears now as a ghost. Anyway, All because of Henry VIII.

I went to Hampton court and before I went to the haunted gallery I was fine all jolly but after I went in the haunted gallery I was so energyless I felt I’ll and had head aches

That poor, poor babygirl. There are no words.

when and if i ever go to london i’m coming to this palace so i can attempt to speak to Katherine and Jane (and maybe more)! Katherine did not deserve all the traumatic experiences in her life leading to her death

This sounds like a job for ✨✨Ghost Adventures✨✨😂

I was at Hampton Court with my husband and 2 children, we were in the haunted gallery, they went ahead and I was on my own I knew the history of the gallery and suddenly it went cold and I felt somthing near me I ran so fast to get to my husband I almost fell over, the feeling in that place was awful😭

I walked up and down the corridor hoping for an experience of CH!! Unfortunately none for me!!

It’s the kitchen that always gives me the creeps there.

Imagine if Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were never killed by Henry and were only given a divorce and when Henry died what would have happened to them in Edward and Mary reign would they be able to Make it to Elizabeth reign they might even gain power again

I knew the corridor was supposedly haunted by Catherine Howard before I went to Hampton Court. So once I got there, I invited her to contact me & started asking her questions. I have video of me asking a question, & then these beeps going off directly after. It happens like 5 different times, so it wasn’t just a random thing. Made me want to stay in that corridor all day, & not go on w the tour.

This was an interesting video.

Poor girl.

It's hard to believe that CCTV surveillance cameras were not installed in strategic places in Hampton Court, including the haunted gallery. Actual CCTV footage of alleged ghosts will draw more worldwide interest. Beyond fascination with paranormal phenomena, may these restless souls find rest, peace and ultimately justice on Judgement Day.

katherine howard roams those halls, knowing that was the one place she had a chance of redemption. she might think the king is still there, and she is still begging for forgiveness after 5 centuries.

They should do a movie on her life it so tragic.

If I was there on my own I’d dress up in the clothes and wait till the morning and hide in the shadows haunting people! 😂

U know alot of games was played with this king especially when it came to women women were victims most of the time I'm sure he was not the best in bed for all the chasing he did His weight and his own stench kept him vomitus but he considered himself the cats meow Unbelievable

There are fire doors, in larger buildings, that automatically open when an alarm anywhere is set off.

It wouldn’t shock me if Hampton Court was haunted.

How cool would it see see a ghost.

I’m going to visit next year in February