High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The ruins of Hylton Castle are reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a murdered stable boy Robert Skelton, known locally as the Cauld Lad of Hylton. The events are said to have taken place in the 16th or 17th century and there are several legends concerning the ghost's origins. One story states that the stable boy was caught courting Baron Hylton's daughter, and was killed. Another version says that the baron ordered that his horse be prepared for an important journey, but Skelton had overslept. There are several versions of what happened next. The enraged baron was said to have either decapitated the boy, hit the boy on the back of the head with a riding crop, striking a spot that had been injured the day before, causing a fatal blow, stabbed him with a nearby pitchfork. He was then reported to have disposed of the body in a deep pond, or an unused well. Several months later, the body was recovered. The baron was tried for Skelton's murder, but had an alibi. An old farm worker stated that the baron had ordered the boy to remove a tool from the top shelf in the barn, and the boy had fallen, seriously wounding himself in the process.

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