The women were supposedly treated with a little more respect as they were burned to death. This image is a close-up of the cave entrance showing just how well hidden it really is. It is unclear if the tale of Sawney Bean is truth or fiction.
The truth will only be known after an extensive excavation of the cave is made. Is there anyone out there interested? Before visiting the cave, you should check times of the tide and make sure your phone is fully charged.
For a video tour of the cave and for discusions on the facts, visit: www. Sawney Bean. What is known of Sawney Bean's cave is it was located somewhere near the coast of Galloway now South Ayrshire and at its prime housed Sawney, his wife and several dozen of his young - they would remain living in the cave of near twenty-five years before being captured. The Evil Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. The cave entrance should be obvious, with a scramble over a large boulder hands needed to reach the entrance.
The approach to the cave is just below the high tide mark — though it was OK an hour before high water on our visit. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. After a brief and violent exchange the Sawney Bean army found itself, for the first time ever, at a numerical disadvantage and promptly retreated back to the cave to consider this situation.
As they retreated they left behind the mutilated body of a woman as evidence, a score of witnesses and one very angry husband. The man was taken before the Chief Magistrate of Glasgow, who after hearing the tale and putting this together with his longest missing persons list ever and the many reports of the mysterious pickled body parts, decided to take the matter straight to the top. King James I promptly arrived in Ayrshire with a small army of four hundred men and a pack of tracker dogs, and together with a band of local volunteers, launched one of the biggest manhunts the country had ever seen.
Like before, the search extended through the Ayrshire countryside and coastline and like before, nothing was discovered. That was however, until the dogs picked up the scent of decaying human flesh whilst passing a partly waterlogged cave. The manhunt was closing in! By torchlight the troops entered Bennane cave and with swords drawn, they proceeded down the mile-long twisting passage to the inner depths of the Sawney Bean family lair. Nothing could have prepared them for the sight they witnessed that day.
The damp walls of the cave were strewn with row upon row of human limbs and body parts, like meat hanging in a butchers shop. Other areas of the cave stored bundles of clothing, piles of watches and rings and heaps of discarded bones from previous feasts. After a brief fight, the entire Sawney Bean family, all forty-eight of them, were arrested and marched off to Edinburgh by the King himself.
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