Ghost · Happisburgh
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No legs, a head on its back, and a sack for the well.
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Happisburgh's ghost had no legs, and its head hung down its back. They found the rest of him down the well.
Farm workers walking home to Happisburgh saw a figure coming up from the beach at Cart Gap. At first they thought it was hunchbacked. Then they realised it had no legs, and the hump was its own nearly severed head hanging down its back by a strip of flesh. Someone followed it to the well at Pump Hill, where it threw a sack down the shaft and went in after it. When the well was searched, men found a pair of legs in sea boots, then a torso in sailor's clothes with a pistol. They were thought to be the remains of a smuggler killed in a fight with his comrades.