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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Two skulls in the window.
Private, don't visit
Private house. Check before you go.
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.