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Haunted Bones: Screaming Skulls

Dark Histories

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The Origins of the Skull

The skull's origins were mired in vague oral traditions but Hutchinson related a story that it belonged to one of the house's previous heiresses who had been murdered. Later investigation into the skull found that Hutchinson had only heard half of the story. In fact Dickie had been taken to the church yard and buried on two different occasions. On both however, disturbances kept the tenants of the house awake all night until it was returned. At one point he had been tossed into a nearby lake only to the same end that saw all the fish dead and the skull being promptly fished back out. When the skull was later inspected and said to have belonged to a young woman the story variously changed

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