Opened in 1865 and host to literary giants like Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain, The Langham is widely regarded as London’s most haunted luxury hotel. Room 333 is its epicenter—where a spectral figure in a Victorian nightshirt is said to appear during October, often with a shattered face. Staff and guests have also seen a German prince who leapt from a fourth-floor window, a man in military dress who paces the corridors, and a phantom butler who tidies rooms left empty. During a 1973 BBC stay, reporters fled after witnessing glowing presences and beds shaking.