The real story of which they were based on the movie is this.


Entrance to the espluznante cave, where to the present, no one wants to penetrate

Sawney Bean, also known as "the cannibal of the hills", is considered the most famous cannibal of antiquity, and although the fact that he was a psychopath anthropophagiac is not a something (there have been thousands throughout history ), sawney keeps a history of degeneration of cinema rather than reality. Wes Craven was inspired by him to create "the hills have eyes", although i have found many more influences in Rob Zombie's movies the house of the thousand corpses and the devil's Renegades, both related to murder, incest, The savagery and the perversion.

He was born in Scotland, in the th century, in East Lothian County, East of Edinburgh. While his childhood and youth was not too unusual for the time, he soon met Agnes Douglas, who became his sentimental partner. They both fled when agnes was accused of witchcraft and settled in a cave of ballantrae, in a coastal area that was abutted with a path.

The cave had nearly two miles of galleries and there began its life in common. At First, it lingered through the belongings that were stolen from travellers, after killing them, however, the degeneration had just begun.

They immediately began to procreate at an alarming rate (in a cave there is not much to do), and of course, their bloodline needed to subsist, for which they began to rob many more travellers and, in some cases of necessity, to eat their own Children and feed others with the remains. However, when the first children began to grow older, the number of missing travellers increased, but what actually happened is that no member of a caravan managed to survive the angry attacks of the bean family, the bodies were moved to the cave , where the whole family satisfied their appetite. They came to become to human flesh to such a point that it became their only food.

Many locals were executed accused of the disappearances of those who were venturing into that path, but none recognized the guilt for what the executions stopped, and despite the fear of people, there was no other route to transport goods or Move from town to town, so the facts continue to happen.

A few years later, the family reached a level of savagery rarely seen, their offspring spread to the 48 known members, as many were able to die for diseases or serving "snack". incest was a regular practice, Mother with children, granddaughters with father, among brothers and so forth. All of this got a lot of birth with malformations or, which accentuated his already existence.

The disappearance of soldiers of the king's army made it even more alarmed, because, as the patrols were sent to find the killers, the special location of the cave made the water more than 200 meters In the dwelling when the tide was high, making it impracticable for armed men.

Legends About Wolves, vampires and demons spread throughout the country, the children were frightened with tales about that rocky area, the remains they left or threw into the sea made the discovery of them extend the fear of the region , which began to be depopulated.

One day, a caravan of about 30 people heard screams a few meters later, as they approached a wild stamp, a man tried to defend himself with his weapons while his wife and daughters were gutted, cut and his blood was drink by several members Of the bean while still alive. By seeing the travelers and their great numbers, the savages fled between the hills. This fact served to discover that they were not wolves responsible for the massacres but humans in a state of savagery and lived nearby.

One of the present made the tale come to the ears of King James I, which sent 400 armed men accompanied by hunting dogs to the area, the smell of rotting flesh coming out of the cave facilitated the task, after hundreds In Zig -, they arrived at the bean home and had a grotesque vision. Apart from the marriage bean and his eight children, six daughters, eighteen grandchildren and fourteen granddaughters (all fruits of incest), exhibits thousands of human members scattered across the cave, strings of arms in salting, skulls on the ground, legs everywhere, fingers Et cetera. In addition to a fortune in jewels, clothes and different items taken away from travellers.

The whole family was arrested and moved to Glasgow, where the men were dismembered in public so that they would slowly be dismembered in the presence of the women of their lineage, which were subsequently burned alive while uttering profanity and curses and without showing the slightest proof of Regret.

The nightmare was over, however, there is a legend in girvan, a nearby village, which speaks of a woman, elder daughter of sawney, who left the cave to settle there, integrating into society, but someone discovered her ancestry and was hanged In a tree she had planted herself. It is said that, since then, whoever stops under him can hear the sound of the body of's daughter swinging. Popularly known as the hairy tree, nothing is known about its location, but is being investigated for the sake of attracting tourists.

The truth is that on the coast of ballantrae there is still a grotto that the locals call the cave of Sawney Bean, in which many years no one dares enter.

Sawney Bean also served as inspiration for the creation of a character from batman comics named Solly Bean, a criminal cannibal whose compulsion is to devour human flesh.


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