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The Cauld Lad of Hylton
The cold boy in the kitchen.
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- What's there
- Medieval gatehouse castle
- Legend from
- Sunderland
- Tone
- Eerie
I'm cauld!
A stable boy, Roger Skelton, was found asleep with the baron's horse unsaddled and was struck dead with a pitchfork; his body was thrown in a pond. His ghost haunted the kitchens crying that he was cold until staff left him a cloak and hood. An inquest in 1609 found Robert Hylton had killed Skelton with a scythe; Hylton was later pardoned.