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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Matt Strudwick & Anna Highfield

TikTok influencer explains grisly reason behind Tower of London's hand in the wall

A TikTok influencer has explained the grisly reason why there's a floating hand embedded inside the wall of the Tower of London.

Some 2.8 million tourists visit London's iconic fortress, which was once the most secure castle in the land. But with so much to take in, as hard as it is to believe, many might have missed the gruesome body part.

The creepy severed skeletal hand has a ghoulish yellow tint and is hidden behind clouded glass in a section of the wall of the north Byward Tower, that hundreds of thousands of people may walk past unknowingly every day.

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