Morecambe gardener 'nearly has heart attack' after digging up skull
Chris Dickson said he was in two minds about calling the police when he unearthed what he initially thought was a human skull in a garden in Morecambe.
Chris, who runs his own gardening business called The Lawn Ranger, was "happily digging away" in Sharron Lee's garden in Lancaster Road when he made the discovery.
He said: "All of a sudden I came across a skull.
"I nearly had a heart attack!
"Heart pounding and panicking I carefully dug around it when the owner came back and said 'that's Harold', I lost him years and years ago, I thought someone had pinched him'."
Chris said this left him even more confused, until Sharron explained Harold was actually just a Halloween prop.
He said: "Its not something you dig out of the ground often, but we all had a great laugh about it afterwards."
Chris said the discovery was good timing given Halloween is just over a week away, and he hoped the story would give people a good laugh during difficult times.