Beyond the Ferns
91. The Mysterious Discovery of the Hexham Heads - The Faces Dug Up Beneath the Garden
On this week's episode, we are headed to London! In the spring of 1971, two young brothers were pulling weeds in the garden of their family home in England, when they uncovered something strange beneath the soil: two small, formed stone-like heads. At first, they seemed like little more than an unusual discovery. Then, according to the families involved, things began to happen. Objects reportedly moved on their own. Strange noises traveled through otherwise empty rooms. Glass shattered without explanation. An overpowering animal-like smell appeared and disappeared. And eventually, witnesses began describing something far more disturbing—a large, dark figure that seemed to exist somewhere between human and animal. When the mysterious heads were later taken from the home and examined by Celtic scholar Dr. Anne Ross, the story should have become easier to explain. Instead, it became even stranger. Were the Hexham Heads ancient artifacts pulled from ground that had kept them hidden for centuries? A modern creation surrounded by coincidence and fear? Or had two ordinary objects somehow become attached to something no one could explain? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
