The Chained Skeleton in the Pond
Here’s some dark lore about a shackled skeleton found in a South Norfolk (UK) duckpond.
I’m back doing my short dark folklore and history videos on YouTube so here’s the (sort-of) script for my latest offering…
The video starts with a shot of the rural landscape and I say:
“These are the grounds of Geldeston Hall in South Norfolk, just a few hundred yards away from the River Waveney. Today the Hall, which still in private ownership, is the home to numerous equestrian events including showjumping and cross-country. The cross-country course also includes a water-jump — where the horses basically race through a small pond — and it is this pond that’s the focus of our attention today because back in the first half of the 19th century — so about 200 years ago — this pond was known as a horse pond, where local farm labourers would take horses both to drink and to wash them.
“At the time the pond periodically flooded so the parish council arranged for it to dug out and deepened. To the farm labourers’ horror their diggings uncovered a human skeleton that had been buried by several feet of mud. But this was no ordinary skeleton because a large piece of…
