Mysterious ‘UNICORN’ Skull Found Near King Arthur’s Castle – but Is it a Freak Animal or a Hoax?

The Sun ^ | 11 Jul 2025 | Alex West

[nickcarraway]

Unicorns appeared in Arthurian legend and are Scotland’s national animal

A MYSTERIOUS “unicorn” skull has been unearthed near King Arthur’s castle.

Tourist John Goodwin dug it up after spotting the long horn sticking out of moss on the edge of a Cornish cliff.

When he pulled it free, he found a skull with a single tusk in the middle of its forehead — like the mythical creature.

John, a plumber from Canada was near Tintagel — the supposed site of King Arthur’s Camelot castle — with wife Val and their daughter.

He found the skull at St Nectan’s Glen, a spot considered to be sacred.

John, 46, said: “The hairs on my arm stood up when I pulled it out.

“I was in this magical place full of folklore and came across this item.

“There was moss at the edge of the cliff and something poking out of it. It looked like a horn and I kept tugging on it.

" It was grown in there, it wasn’t like someone put it there last weekend. It looked properly old.”

John, in the UK to celebrate his grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary, took the curious object to the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in nearby Boscastle but they refused to take it.

He left it at The Stonehenge Inn, in Durrington, Wilts, on the way back to Heathrow.

John said: “I showed it to the barman and he offered me unlimited ales for the skull.

"Between me and my wife, we had seven or eight and then we left the skull there.”

Unicorns appeared in Arthurian legend and are Scotland’s national animal. But it is thought the skull is either a freak animal or a hoax.

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[Lizavetta]

And also keep in mind that people did not have glasses in those ancient times and might have seen something that appeared to be a unicorn but was something else entirely.

[Sirius Lee]

This video will explain why, scientifically, there are no unicorns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EPsuOEH1fY The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn Song

[delta7]

Obviously fake.
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Like Ukraine….a corrupted fake “ country “.

[Dr. Franklin]

The horn looks like an elephant’s tusk.

[blueunicorn6]

Cow.

[Brilliant]

Elephant

[Mastador1]

Did they find a virgin buried next to it?

[AzNASCARfan]

I have no idea if it is real or fake, but Unicorns are mentioned 9 times in the King James version of the bible...

1.) Job 39:9
“Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?”

2.) Job 39:10
“Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?”

3.) Psalm 22:21
“But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.”

4.) Psalm 92:10
“But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.”

5.) Deuteronomy 33:17
“His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.” (Glory of God Bible verses)

6.) Numbers 23:22
“God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.”

7.) Numbers 24:8
“God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.”

8.) Isaiah 34:7
“And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.”

9.) Psalm 29:6
“He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.”

[R_Kangel]

.... Well for one thing .... The skull is way too fresh and hardly weathered at all ... Not to mention... that looks almost identical to a deer skull ..... That horn looks like a Long horn cow horn grafted the wrong way on that deer skull.

.... I'm gonna go with fake on this one

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[maddog55]

Wouldn’t a fake country be Palestine?

[Nabber]

One word, sports fans: HOAX

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

It looks like an ox horn on a Elk skull? There are some curved antlers on the Irish Elk. (A nightmare of giant deer.)

If someone is interested and willing to pay they could run separate tests on the horn and on the skull.

[piasa]

Job 39:9-12 Will the wild ox [aurochs] consent to serve you? Will he stay by your manger at night? Can you hold him to the furrow with a harness? Will he till the valleys behind you? Will you rely on him for his great strength? Will you leave your heavy work to him? Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

The King James translation, while beautiful, can be pretty far off the mark.

[AzNASCARfan]

Yeah I prefer the Geneva bible, from the side by side comparisons I have made it is almost identical to King James though... The other translations I have read (NIV and NASB) seem pretty watered down to me after reading the Geneva or King James though... but to your point, my Hebrew to English translation and the Israel bible also both say wild ox.