London’s Madame Tussauds is bringing back its creepy ‘Chamber of Horrors’ experience in time for Halloween on 22 October.
Closed in 2016 to be replaced by the family-friendly Sherlock Holmes Experience, the returning attraction will feature some of London’s most menacing criminals.
Guests will meet East End gangsters the Kray twins, serial killers John Christie, John Haigh, Dennis Nilsen and Jack the Ripper, and the last woman to be hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis.
“Relaunching ‘Chamber of Horrors’ continues an important legacy first started by Marie Tussaud herself more than 200 years ago,” said Tim Waters, general manager of Madame Tussauds London.
Waters said the wax museum has “remained true to Marie’s original vision of featuring individuals whose different crimes have each had a significant impact on Britain’s social and criminal history”.
Christie is known to have murdered six people at his home in Rillington Place, Notting Hill during the 1940s and early 1950s. Haigh, known as the ‘Acid Bath Murderer’ was convicted of six murders between 1944 and 1949.
Nilsen was convicted of six murders and two attempted murders of young men and boys within two properties in north London where he lived between 1978 and 1983.
Jack the Ripper is suspected of the murder of at least five women in Whitechapel in east London in 1888. He was, of course, never caught or officially identified.
Meet London’s most menacing criminals
“Crime and horror have been embedded in the history of Madame Tussauds London since its inception,” said Zoe Louca-Richards, historian and archivist.
“The original Chamber of Horrors first opened more than 200 years ago, and featured death masks and authentic relics, alongside the figures of the most infamous offenders of the time.”
“Madame Tussauds London’s archive houses a significant collection of historical artefacts, which help tell the story of some of the capital’s darkest crimes,” she added.
“The return of Chamber of Horrors will once again see some of these items back on display to the public.”
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