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The so-called Hexham Heads were two stone figurines in the form of human or at least humanoid goals The height of each product was about 6 centimeters. Mysterious artifacts were discovered in the 70s of the last century in the English city of Hexham County Northumberland, hence the name them. Figures are associated with the strangest paranormal. phenomenon, and their origin, and then the mysterious loss, is still thus far remain the subject of heated debate.
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The appearance of mysterious figures
In 1971, the figures were excavated in the garden by two English boys: Leslie and Colin Robson. It was worth the brothers bring finding home how inexplicable began to happen in it right there phenomena. When no one was around, the heads moved on their own. In addition, various objects began to fly around the room. TO for example, several glass bottles spontaneously broke about the wall. But it was far from the strangest and most frightening.
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The Dodd family in the neighborhood suddenly started reporting supernatural accidents. One of the sons began to wake up at night from someone pulling his hair and his mother Nellie shortly afterwards, she saw a creepy creature leaving her house. It it looked like a half-man half-ram. When to both families it became clear that the fault was the find of the brothers, figurines handed over to Dr. Ann Ross – an expert in Celtic artifacts culture.
Ominous figures give birth to mysterious cryptids?
After that, the devilry began to happen already in this house Specialists. Ross said she woke up one morning and unexpectedly noticed a hybrid of animal and human, immediately left her bedroom. Startled british went down and saw that a bipedal monster walked into her kitchen. Not less, an uninvited guest there simply disappeared. And after a few days her daughter Berenice said that, having returned from school, collided with a large and dark figure resembling a werewolf. Creature I stood on the stairs, but at the sight of a child I jumped over railing and hid in the hallway.
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Anne remembered the famous Wolf of Hexham, who allegedly escaped in the winter of 1904 from a local zoo and lifted a lot of goals livestock. Despite the fact that the hunters shot then of the alleged predator, many townspeople felt that in fact in fact, it was not the wolf who hunted here, but the real werewolf, who may still come back. Ross thought: what if the mystical Wolf Hexem was the same monster, which is somehow incomprehensible way attached to these figures? Such a theory, however, looked not too believable since being called by Hexham’s Heads the cryptid was described in different ways: like a half-ram, like half-wolf.
Why did concrete figures acquire mystical properties?
This story took on an even stranger connotation when found the owner of the figures. A certain Desmond Craigie claimed to be the author of these statuettes. According to the man, he created them in 1956 the year when he worked as a builder and lived in the house where much later Robsons settled (this was documented). Craigie said that he poured them out of concrete as a gift for his daughters. Initially, there were three toys, but one of them broke, and she had to be thrown out. To prove his case, Desmond did copies of figures. Moreover, Professor Dearman of the University Newcastle studied the mysterious sculptures and concluded that they formed artificially, but not carved from stone, that is practically confirmed Desmond Craigie’s words.
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But even if so, the mystery of the strange figures did not become a bit clearer, rather the opposite. Why around the heads of Hexham constantly did something supernatural happen? Maybe they performed in as a trigger to call paranormalism? But how such a fantastic trigger managed to create an ordinary builder? What kind of monster appeared periodically in the houses of statuette owners and their neighbors? And finally, why artifacts in a mystical way have evaporated from Ann Ross’s home and cannot be found to this day? By the way, with their disappearance, the whole devilry disappeared, which makes this the story is even more fantastic and inexplicable …
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