In 1974 Joan Forman, a dramatist and now writer of books on the paranormal, was researching a play on the life of King Richard and visited the tomb. She stressed that she was not trying to provoke a paranormal experience but was concentrating on the tomb in an attempt to understand the feelings of the parents as they had presumably stood there so many years before. As she placed her hands on the stone image of the Prince of Wales carved on his tomb she heard the church door open. Footsteps were apparently coming down the stairs into the church (which Ms Forman said she founf irritating as she hoped for some time alone). When no one approached her she assumed that another visitor to the church was politly waiting for her to finish.

Ms Forman believed that whoever was there was out of sight behind a large pillar and although she heard one or two mumbled words she couldn't make out any actual phrases. She said she felt riveted to the spot for a time looking at the tomb but eventually felt that it was unfair to monopolise the most interesting part of the church. She left the tomb and walked up the aisle to apologise to whoever was there for keeping them waiting. In fact there was no one in the church and no one around. The church door was closed rather than open as she had expected from what she had heard. Ms Forman intrigued by this checked the old clock mechanism to see if that had caused the noise she had heard but the clock did not work. The only person she could see was some 250 yards away, a gardener mowing the lawn. Ms Forman believes that by touching the child's effigy she may have caused a replay of an earlier incident, perhaps when Queen Anne, the boys mother, was visiting her child's grave...