The strange Hexham Heads

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 The strange case of the Hexham Heads, involves a werewolf story. This is a true event that occurred in a place called Hexham in Northumberland, England, during 1971. It began when a couple of boys, the Robson brothers, were digging in dirt and they found a pair of curious stones that were carved into the shape of human heads. The description of the stone heads was small, about 2 inches wide, each with different characteristics. One head was called "the boy" for it's hair was made as drawn with lines. The other head called "the girl" seemed to have bigger eyes and longer hair. Some have described the "boy" looking more like a child and the "girl" seemed more of an adult or an elderly woman. It is the female stone head that caused bother, as a report was made that this "girl" stone was demonic. 

Once the discovery of the heads was known more locally, the newspapers mentioned it and studies were made. Archaeologists examined the two heads and were not able to date them. It was believed the heads were Celtic in origin due to the style of the carvings. But it wasn't so much the significance of the stone heads that interested historians. Something else happened. 

While the stone heads were in the family home of the Robson's, the stone heads moved by themselves. Objects were thrown around, by unseen forces, especially glass bottles. Things turned violent this way by a poltergeist. The paranormal activities turned so severe that the next door neighbours also experienced the same things. The neighbours were terrified when a boy's hair was pulled by an ghost, and another occasion when they saw a goat-man entity exiting their house. The Robson family handed the stone heads over to the historian Dr Anne Ross. 

She had these stone heads with her, and also experienced troubling strange things. She was disturbed from sleep during the night and saw a wolf-man in her bedroom, leaving through the door, so she went after it. She followed the entity down into the kitchen, where it vanished. Another time, her daughter returned home from school to see a wolf-man on the stairs who bounded away before disappearing. More paranormal activities followed until she learned that the Robson's had a similar experience. When she took the stone heads from her house, the paranormal stopped.

Later a man named Desmond Craig emerged and claimed that he made those two heads for his daughter, when he used to live in the Robson family house years before. When told to replicate the stone heads, the ones he produced were not in anyway the same. They were much more of poor quality and his claims that he made the other two were dismissed. The University of Newcastle examined the two heads and found they were moulded artificially from solid rock, and not made with sand and clay as the Mr Craig had done. The heads were passed around among historians until they ended up at University of Southampton, who then handed them to a psychic in 1978, where they completely disappeared. The whereabouts of the Hexham stone heads is unknown. 

The town of Hexham has experienced a werewolf in the past, long before the Hexham Heads incident. In 1904 there were attacks by a wolf creature in Hexham, which some believed was paranormal and not a regular wild wolf. This was reported in The Hexham Courant newspaper "The Wolf of Allendale" which saw a brutal loss of livestock animals with bite wounds on the necks, some were gutted and half eaten. A large wolf was seen near Allenheads School that drew panic, so a hunting party was organised to look for it. They only found traces of the wolf near a drain but it had gone. Sheep were slaughtered one night, and hunters were still unable to locate the wolf. 

Sources: 

book Lo! by Charles Fort

Historic Mysteries article "The Phantom Wolf and the Hexham Heads" . 

She Wolf Night