The creepy ‘hand in the wall’ at Tower of London and why Beefeaters put it there

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A TikTok influencer has drawn attention to an often missed creepy "hand in the wall" of the Tower of London – and revealed the grisly reason why the Beefeaters put it there.

With around 2.8 million tourists visiting London's iconic fortress it is hard to believe that many have missed the gruesome body part .

However, with so much to take in at what was once the most secure castle in the land, many hundreds of thousands of visitors have missed the creepy severed skeletal hand, with a ghoulish yellow tint, which is hidden behind clouded glass in a section of the wall of the north Byward Tower.

And it's at, ironically, hand height, reports MyLondon.

But, as well as highlighting the hand, the gruesome story behind the object was recently revealed by one resident of the Tower, and TikTok influencer, Megan Clawson.

Influencer Megan lives in the fortress where her dad is a Beefeater, and said the hand's story dates back all the way to the grisly punishments seen in medieval times..

The TikTok star rose to fame for her videos sharing the various secrets of the historic fortress and shared the story behind 'The Hand In The Wall' on her page earlier this year.

Megan described how she is by now "quite used to the gallows humour of the Yeoman Warders inside the Tower of London".

"They leave little humorous Easter Eggs all around the tower that many visitors miss," added Megan, who told her 199,000 TikTok followers, "including the hand in the wall."

Walking through the tower towards the hand in the video, she then shared the grisly reason behind why it is thought to be there.

Megan told her followers: "The story goes that once upon a time you needed a password to enter. To give the password you were required to place your hand into this spice [indicates hole in the wall] beside the North Byward tower."

However, what she described next indicates there might have been a pretty awful punishment for anyone who didn't know the word.

Megan dramatically informed her followers: "If you got the password wrong, they would chop off your hand right there and then."

William the Conqueror built the stone tower in the 1070s and has been the protector of the Crown Jewels and home to Yeoman Warders, and of course, the famous ravens that, according to legend keep the Tower secure, are looked after by a Ravenmaster.

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