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Hometown Ghost Stories

Cursed Possessions: The Screaming Skull of Burton Agnes Hall

Hometown Ghost Stories

Hometown Ghost Stories

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6658 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The screaming skull of Burton Agnes Hall has haunted the building for over 400 years. After the tragic death of Anne, 2 sisters took on the grim task of decapitating the corpse of their youngest sibling to fulfill her dying wish.... to place her skull in the mansion in order to look after their beautiful home for eternity. Every time the skull was removed, paranormal activity within the mansion reached an unbearable level. Join us as Rob, Dave and Jesse discuss the hauntings and the validity of the curse behind the screaming skull of Burton Agnes Hall. MERCH: http://hometownghoststories.com Music by: Jesse Wilkins Become a supporter on Patreon! http://patreon.com/hometownghoststories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hometown Ghost Stories contains serious and often distressing events and is not intended for all audiences.

0:07.0

Listener discretion is advised.

0:09.0

What's going on, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into hometown ghost stories, curse possessions.

0:15.0

Tonight we have a crazy story for you. This one has it all. It has poltergeist activity. It has curse possessions.

0:22.6

It has a human skull that apparently screams and it caused such paranormal activity inside of a hall

0:32.0

in Great Britain that it has earned the reputation as one of the most chilling and haunting cursed possessions of all time.

0:40.1

Let's talk about the screaming skull of Burton Agnes Hall.

0:44.2

I'm Jesse Wilkins, and this is hometown ghost stories, curse possessions.

0:48.6

Music Great Britain is full of haunted homes, businesses, and castles.

1:11.6

From old farmhouses to grand halls and ancient dwellings, they're scattered all about the country.

1:17.6

Let's talk about one of these locations that has a screaming skull.

1:22.6

Burton Agnes is a beautiful village in the east hiding of Yorkshire.

1:27.8

The village has several cottages, a church, and a great hall.

1:32.1

This hall was the home of the Boyntons.

1:34.2

Burton Agnes Hall, as it stands today, was built from 1601 to 1610 by Sir Henry Griffith.

1:40.6

It's a large building of red brick with a mixture of Elizabethan, Tudor, and Jacobian styles.

1:46.5

It has a long broken façade with many windows.

1:50.4

Inside is a grand hall, a magnificent staircase, a gallery full of paintings, hand-carved woodwork,

1:56.9

and a curious piece of artwork over the fireplace, which represents the Empire of Death.

2:02.2

All in all, the inside and the outside of Burton-Agnes Hall is absolutely magnificent.

2:07.8

Money was no object, so the family called in the best architects of the time to furnish designs,

2:13.4

masons, bricklayers, and carpenters. Sir Henry Griffith had three daughters who were very

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