Realising the fate that was about to fall him he fought desperately to escape, driving his horse into and over his attackers. One group pulled the woman from her horse and had her stripped and disemboweled before the other group had chance to wrestle the man to the ground. It happened one evening for the Sawney Bean army, when they attacked a man and his wife as they were returning home from a nearby fair. The bodies were taken back to the cave to be carefully prepared for the larder by the women folk.Įven in the best-planned operations however, things sometimes go wrong. As many as half a dozen victims would be ambushed and killed at a time in military style operations by the Sawney Bean army. And as the family grew so did their appetite. Although mass searches of the area were carried in order to locate either the missing people or their murderers, nobody ever thought to search the depths of Bennane Cave.Īs the years went by the family grew older and thanks to their high protein diet, bigger. The local authorities had by now established what must have been, and what must still be to this date, the longest missing persons list ever produced. Finds of curiously preserved but decaying body parts were discovered washed up on the surrounding beaches in the area. Over two decades, generations of Beanie babies grew up in Bennane Cave, refining their skills of murder and cannibal cuisine including, the now lost art of salting and pickling the flesh. As the Beanie babies grew up and in turn, through incest, produced Beanie babies of their own, their cooking pots increased in size dramatically. Fourteen little Beanie babies in total, each with a very unhealthy appetite for human flesh. The high protein diet seemed to have been effective as Mrs Bean began to produce little baby Bean’s. To avoid those unnecessary visits to the shops for provisions whilst at the same time disposing of any evidence, he came on the bright idea of butchering the bodies to provide a high protein diet of human meat for himself and his wife. Then it dawned on him that in order to help make sure that he could never be identified for his crimes, he should murder his victims. It proved a simple enough matter to ambush travellers on the lonely narrow roads that connected the villages of the area.
Lacking a trade, it was Sawney’s plan to support his new wife on the proceeds of robbery. The cave’s entrance was flooded for several hundred metres, twice a day at high tide, a nice draught exclusion feature! In addition, the accommodation featured lots of side passages where a young couple could extend into, and convert over the next 25 years, to accommodate a growing family. Bennane Cave was rather an imposing abode, with tunnels penetrating the solid rock and extending for more than a mile in length. The newly wed Mr and Mrs Sawney Bean set up home at Bennane Cave, by Ballantrae in Ayrshire, Scotland.
The latter part of his life is a little better documented following his relocation across country to Ayrshire and his marriage. Little is known for certain about his early life, however Sawney Bean is believed to have been born in East Lothian in the late 15th century, and was a tanner by trade. If legend is to be believed however, when compared with the exploits of one Mr Sawney Bean, it may appear more appropriate to rename him Hannibal the pussycat. Five particularly gruesome Hollywood blockbuster films have featured a character known as Hannibal Lecter, otherwise known by his descriptive nickname Hannibal the Cannibal.
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