Bettiscombe Manor is home to the legend of a screaming skull. In the 19thcentury, John Frederick Pinney returned from Nevis with a faithful Jamaican slave who soon after passed away of tuberculosis. His only request was to have his body returned to his home country, but Pinney refused and buried the man in the cemetery at St. Stephen's Church. Afterwards, the village and Pinney were plagued with bad luck and spectral screams from the cemetery. The manor house was beset by rattling windows and slamming doors, such that Pinney brought the exhumed body into his home and refused to discard it. The body decayed, leaving only the skull to howl each time someone tried to remove it. Legend has it that if the skull is ever removed from Bettiscombe the skull will resume its unearthly screaming and a dreadful fate will fall upon the house.
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