Taste of cannibal tale at cave
Bean is said to have been head of an incestuous cannibalistic family that oversaw a 25-year reign of murder and robbery from a hidden sea cave on the Ayrshire coast during the 15th century.
The family is said to have butchered and eaten more than 100 victims before being captured by King James I himself and burned alive.
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Hide AdTheir cave is to be recreated in a chilling new feature to open at the Edinburgh Dungeon on February 12.
Manager Alex Blackman said: "Visitors will have to carefully negotiate the remains of earlier hunting parties."