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The Calgarth Skulls

Dorothy's curse.

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Screaming skulls

The Calgarth Skulls

Two skulls in the window.

Private, don't visit

What's there
Old hall near Windermere
Legend from
Windermere
Tone
Spooky
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Before you go

Private house. Check before you go.

  • Calgarth Hall
  • Near A591
  • The pin marks the spot.

The skulls always return.

West's Guide to the Lakes notes two human skulls long kept in a window at Calgarth. A later tale says Myles Philipson framed Kraster and Dorothy Cook for stealing a silver goblet to get their land. Dorothy cursed him, and their skulls kept coming back to the hall.

Sources

  1. West's Guide to the Lakes 1778/1821, Old Cumbria Gazetteer —
  2. Reconstruction of a Fable (2018), Lakeland Walking Tales —

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