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The pic at the bottom of the post was taken during an investigation that was carried out at a site on the Black Country / Brum. border on Friday night (June 4th). We had been setting up kit around the property concerned, when I suddenly happened to notice a nasty-looking, almost 'Z' shaped...

Hi Big Gee, That one was a bit of a kicker, I must admit!! Laugh!! A lot of normally sceptical people had kept schtum over the Wem picture, as there certainly seemed to be something about it that set it apart from the other fare on offer, along these sorts of lines!?! I must admit I didn't...

Speaking to a friend the other night and he mentioned that the 'Nationally famous' ghost photograpf depicting the 'Wem Town Hall Ghost' from the 1990's has now been proven to be a fake!! I've just checked the Shropshire press to find something on the matter out and found the following...

Hi Mike, Have you broached this question on another forum somewhere????? I know I've read something about this elsewhere??? Regards, Nick

I'd been planning to go and take a look at the area where Wolverhampton / Bilston gibbet once stood recently - but, instead, I took a virtual tour of the region yesterday!!!! Laugh!!!! I duly offer you a Moor Lane, Witton: allegedly haunted by a handsome young man in RAF uniform!? During...

Kicking off - not exactly a terribly inspiring view - but here's one of my favourite, allegedly haunted, Brum sites: Warstones Lane Cemetry on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter. (I did write an article on the associated haunting for a Star Trek fanzine about 10 years ago - but I can't find it...

Hi All, JohnO has recently been kind enough to draw my attention to this thread..... Sadly, I can be of little help on the topic of Sunday Schools - save to show the commemorative medallions below, regarding Robert Raikes. Both were discovered during my metal detecting pursuits - months apart...

Slightly off topic - but not exactly, really - but does anyone recall the Brum 'Vampire' stories that began circulating a few years back?? On the whole, I think they boiled down to hysteria, more than anything more substantial, but there were reports of some chap running around (Shard End, was...

Hi John, Thanks for your comment! I know 'The Stone Tape' well. I'm a big fan of the late Nigel Kneale, who wrote the story. I don't know if it's still online, but you used to be able (not too long ago) to view the programme via YouTube. It was cut into segments, of course, but, if you...

The following is a matter which has been playing on my mind for a few weeks now - so I just wondered what other forum users might think on the subject?: I should begin by stressing that I loved my previous house – my home from early childhood and then onward for some 26 years – with a passion...

Hi Astonian, Sorry to hear that the Court House event was cancelled!! Strange that they couldn't get enough people to attend in this day and age.....? The Station Hotel is a really popular site these days...... and I'm told that the meals are nice there!! Laugh!!! Again - Let us know what...

Hi Len - I'd forgotten about this thread until you've just resurrected it!! Laugh!!! Cheers and all the best, Nick

It was a bit on the dramatic side ('a bit'????:rolleyes:) but it was the first rendition of the story I came across, so I thought it would suffice!!:D Aye - that's the address KevKonk. I believe that - as with a few other, allegedly haunted buildings - the site concerned was subsequently...

The story of the Pell family of Coxwell Road - mentioned elsewhere on this thread, I believe - is probably the most widely publicised case from the area and has appeared in many books. This is the story that concerns a child of the family allegedly being smothered to death in it's cot by a...

Hi Anthea and Paul, As I think I mentioned a little earlier in the thread, I cannot help but wonder if the name Tom Knocker possibly derives from a reference to the supernatural creature called a 'Knocker' at all. This 'thing' - basically a leprechaun-type creature - turns up in Welsh and...

Hi Astonian - thanks for the prompt reply! Re. the apples - you see... I didn't have to go out scrumping, as we always had our own, bumper crop every year!!:grinsmile::grinsmile: Only a lowly council house, mind you - no lavish orchard or anything like that - there were just two lovely trees...

Hi Paul - it's a terrible thought to consider that, if this woman had killed herself through a mixture of love and abject sorrow, she should still be paying for such an act in the hereafter(?) I've never been very happy with the notion of 'earthbound entities' for a variety of different...

I get the impression, from the posts on here, that the Wood doesn't exist anymore, perhaps? I think I recall seeing something about it in one of those 'Harborne In Old Photos' type books a few years ago.... but I can't for the life of me recall what the pic itself was? (And please don't say 'a...

Ooooh Ray - the oldies aren't always the best!!:biggrin::biggrin: Wendy - re. the murderers Hammond and Pitmore - this was the ref. I'd seen previously (on this forum) - vastly different, but surely the same case you mention here: All the best, Nick

Hi Wendy, Thank you very much for your reply and the associated data. Tom Knockers Wood had come up in some of our research a few years ago when (I believe) we were looking into stuff associated with the Court Oak at Harbourne(?) I don't quite know where the association came in, but I tend to...