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Lendalfoot

Carleton Castle, now in ruins, was the home of Sir John Carleton who, legend states, had a neat way of earning a living. He married ladies of wealth then enticed them to Gamesloup, a nearby rocky eminence, where he pushed them to their deaths and inherited their wealth. Sir John went through seven or eight wives before meeting the daughter of Kennedy of Culzean. After marrying her, he took her to Gamesloup, but instead of him pushing her over, she pushed him over, and lived happily ever after on his accumulated wealth. It is said that you can still occasionally hear the screams of the women as they were pushed to their death.

But if it’s a gruesome tale you’re after, then you should head for Sawney Bean’s Cave a few miles south of the village, on the shoreline north of Bennane Head, and easily reached by a footpath from a layby on the A77. Here, in the 16th century, lived a family of cannibals led by Sawney Bean (“Sawny” being Scots for “Sandy”), which waylaid strangers, robbed them, and ate their flesh. They evaded capture for many years until a troop of men sent by James VI trapped them in their cave. They were taken to Edinburgh and executed. It’s a wonderful story, but no documentary proof has ever been unearthed to prove that it really happened.