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| The Hexham Horrors | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 3 2009, 01:21 AM (253 Views) | |
| XNavyGunner | Feb 3 2009, 01:21 AM Post #1 |
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This week’s Lair of the Beasts is a little different: it’s a two-part tale, the second and concluding installment of which will appear right here next week. On December 10, 1904, a startling story appeared in the pages of the English newspaper, the Hexham Courant. Under the heading of Wolf at Large in Allendale, it read: “Local farmers from the village of Allendale, very near to Hexham, had reported the loss of their livestock, so serious that many sheep were being stabled at night to protect them. A shepherd found two of his flock slaughtered, one with its entrails hanging out, and all that remained of the other was its head and horns. Many of the sheep had been bitten about the neck and the legs – common with an attack made by a wolf.” The newspaper article continued: “Hysteria soon set in. During the night, lanterns were kept burning to scare away the wolf, and women and children were ordered to keep to the busy roads and be home before dusk. The ‘Hexham Wolf Committee’ was soon set up to organize search parties and hunts to bring down the beast using specialized hunting dogs, the ‘Haydon Hounds’, but even they could not find the wolf. The Wolf Committee took the next step and hired Mr. W. Briddick, a trained tracker. But he was also unsuccessful, despite searching the woods.” On January 7, 1905, however, there was a major development: the Hexham Courant reported that the body of a wolf had been found dead on a railway track at Cumwinton, Cumbria – which was approximately thirty miles from where the majority of the attacks had been occurring. However, it was the newspaper’s firm opinion that this was not the same creature, but yet another one. In other words, the mystery beast of Hexham was still out there. Indeed, according to some theorists, there was a whole pack of such animals wildly roaming the countryside of northern England by night. And although the searches for the animal, or animals, continued for some time, they were finally brought to a halt when the attacks abruptly stopped. Hexham’s mysterious and wolfish visitor had gone. In 1972, however, it may well have returned – albeit in a slightly different guise. And as evidence of this, we have to turn our attention to the bizarre story of the Hexham Heads. The strange saga all began in February 1972. An eleven-year-old boy and his younger brother, whose family name was Robson, were digging up weeds in their parents’ back yard in the town of Hexham, when they unearthed two carved, stone heads, slightly smaller than a tennis ball and very heavy in weight. Crudely fashioned and weathered-looking, one resembled a skull-like masculine head crowned by a Celtic hairstyle; while the other was a slightly smaller female head that possessed what were said to be witch-like qualities, including the classic beaked nose. Shortly after the boys had taken the heads into their house, a number of peculiar incidents occurred in the family home. The heads would move by themselves. Household objects were found inexplicably broken. And at one point the boys’ sister found her bed showered with glass. However, it was the next-door neighbors who would experience the most bizarre phenomena of all. A few nights after the discovery of the heads, a mother living in the neighboring house, Ellen Dodd, was sitting up late with her daughter, who was suffering with toothache, when both saw what they described as a hellish, “half-man, half-beast” enter the room. Naturally, both screamed for their lives and the woman’s husband came running from another room to see what all the commotion was about. By this stage, however, the hairy creature had fled the room and could be heard “padding down the stairs as if on its hind legs.” The front door was later found wide open and it was presumed that the creature had left the house in haste. Soon after the incident, one Anne Ross – a doctor who had studied the Celtic culture and who was the author of several books on the subject, including Pagan Celtic Britain and The Folklore of the Scottish Highlands – took possession of the stone heads to study them herself. She already had in her possession several similar heads and was certain that the Hexham Heads were Celtic in origin and probably nearly two thousand years old. The doctor, who lived in the English city of Southampton and about 150 miles from Hexham, had heard nothing at that time of the strange goings-on encountered by the previous owners of the heads. Having put the two stone heads with the rest of her collection, however, Dr. Ross, too, encountered the mysterious werewolf-like creature a few nights later. She awoke from her sleep feeling cold and frightened and, on looking up found herself confronted by a horrific man-beast identical to that seen at Hexham. As for what happened next, well, you’ll just have to wait until next weekend to find out! Source |
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| Mystical | Feb 4 2009, 09:50 AM Post #2 |
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talk about a cliff hanger! Geez..now I have to wait till next week to find out what happened.Very good read so far. |
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| Isis | Feb 4 2009, 04:44 PM Post #3 |
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I have to wait..OMG...
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| Mystical | Feb 7 2009, 12:09 PM Post #4 |
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waiting not so patiently for the continuation of the story ugh..I hate to wait...
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| Isis | Feb 7 2009, 07:36 PM Post #5 |
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I guess we are going to have to stay here and wait girl.....
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talk about a cliff hanger! Geez..now I have to wait till next week to find out what happened.




waiting not so patiently for the continuation of the story

2:48 AM Jul 11