Quest for the Hexham Heads

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Both mother, daughter and an additional son, Richard, have reported witnessing the strange beast, describing the creature as a werewolf, dark in colour and bipedal. The incidence only ceased when the heads were removed from the property. Newspaper Extract Subsequent Claims OK, onto my Frank Hyde research. Over Christmas I did a bit of a ‘cold case’ review of the main protagonists in the story and decided to try again with Frank Hyde.

He then made a couple more to show he could do it, from ‘local stone, sand and water’ although they were even more rubbish looking than the originals. The head on the left was made by Des Craigie to prove he could make little stone heads, the one on the right was made – rather suspiciously – by one of the boys who found the original heads (source: Screeton 2012) Let me know what you think, and follow The Hawthorn Files on social media for more and keep up to date with all manner of strangeness. On the rather bizarre platform of the BBC TV early evening news magazine Nationwide, Anne Ross made some amazing claims about the Hexham Heads that were not fit for academic publication. She recounted that her home in Southampton was being haunted by a huge werewolf that seemed to have followed the Heads all the way from the NE of England; the Heads had been brought south with Ross for analysis at her own institution, Southampton University, and she had taken them home. Big mistake! This question has been annoying me for years,rough guide history , family finds two small stone heads in a field in hexham,north of england,take the heads home only to discover that by doing this they invited some extreme paranormal activity so they give the heads away.The next owner experience's the same trouble and does the same ,exept that when questioned about it -the newest owner doesnt recall or is blatently lying about it ..sorry about being very vague about the story...but the real overall story IS very vague Believing the presence of the stone heads to be responsible for these events, Dr Ross passed on her whole collection of stone heads, along with the Hexham pair to other collectors. The Hexham Heads found their way to the British Museum for public display, though were soon removed from display and mothballed, amid reports of unsettling events associated with the heads.The discovery of the two strange heads was to see the start of a chain of inexplicable events that involved local folks, academics, scientists, historians and fortean investigators. Mrs Dodds, who lived next door to the boys, suddenly woke one night startled to find a half-sheep half-man creature standing in her bedroom. When it saw that she was awake and staring at it, she said it then turned and “padded” downstairs and went out of the front door! Here's a crash course in some of the myths and legends that have defined the North East over the years. Giant worms A major reason for this doubt was another character being added to the drama, local man Des Craigie who used to live at 3 Rede Avenue. He dropped the ‘bombshell’ (as Screeton describes it) during an interview in the Evening Chronicle that he made the Heads. He claimed:

Does anyone remember an article on a north east BBC news programme in the mid seventies about two stone heads unearthed in Hexham that conjured up a werewolf apparition? The 'werewolf' appeared to a pretty eminent archaeologist and her family and used to appear with a sort of banging noise at various times of day.... it was passed on to another and the same thing happened. The mysterious thing is is that i looked into this story and rang a museum at Hexham who sent me some newspaper clippings and said that the heads hade been buried in a secret location due to 'trouble'. This really spooked me and sent me off trying to get in touch with anyone involved. I managed to reach an old man who told me he'd MADE the heads - something the archaeologist had disputed (she said they were celtic). As for her - one Anne Ross - I've never managed to reach her (and she is pretty well known). An Extract from the Fortean Times, via the brilliant series of articles from The Urban Historian An Analysis Sources: The story of the Hexham Heads has been recounted in most detail by Paul Screeton in his book Quest for the Hexham Heads (Fortean Words 2010) and in Don Robins’s 1988 book The secret language of stone; both books were consulted in the preparation of this post. Stuart Ferrol’s Fortean Times articles (294/295) were also helpful. The newsclipping was sourced from Screeton’s book, while the top picture of the Heads – and the hands holding the ‘fake’ heads – are available widely online.The objects made the papers as it was thought they could be a significant prehistoric find - but it's the paranormal stories which surrounded the objects which have lasted longest in people's memories. The two young boys of the family were the ones who had discovered the stones, unearthed while they were digging the garden of their family house in Hexham, Northumberland. While they reached deep into the soil, they found two small stones shaped like skulls. They seemed like carved heads, which they brought to the house to show their parents.