Summary: What can be quite so creepy as shadowy sheep-men… in your house?<br> ⁓The Voice before the Void<br> “Hexham Heads”<br> Wikipedia<br> The Hexham Heads were a pair of small stone heads, about 6 cm high, found in 1971 in the English town of Hexham. The heads became associated with alleged paranormal phenomena, and their exact origin is a point of controversy.<br> The heads were originally dug up by two boys, Colin and Leslie Robson, who found them in a garden in 1971. After the discovery, the Robson family reported strange phenomena, with the heads allegedly being moved when no one was in the room and bottles being mysteriously thrown across rooms. The Dodd family next door also reported phenomena, with one boy’s hair pulled in the night and his mother Nelly seeing a half-man, half-sheep figure leaving the house shortly thereafter.<br> The heads were subsequently given to Dr. Anne Ross, an expert in Celtic artefacts. According to Dr. Ross’s own account, she woke one morning and saw a part-animal, part-man figure walking out of the room; she followed it downstairs and saw it heading towards the direction of the kitchen, but then lost track of it. A few days later, her daughter Berenice told her that, after returning home from school, she saw a large, dark, werewolf-like figure on the stairs that jumped over the banisters and into a corridor before vanishing. Ross also reported the feeling of a cold presence, her study door bursting open with no apparent cause, and another apparent sighting of a dark figure. Knowing of Nelly Dodd’s experience, Dr. Ross equated all of these phenomena with the Hexham heads and the incidents allegedly stopped when she removed every Celtic head in her possession out of the house, along with the two Hexham heads.<br> A man named Desmond Craigie reported that he was the creator of the heads, making them in 1956 for his daughter while he was living in the house later occupied by the Robson family, along with a third head which became damaged and had to be thrown away. Craigie, who worked for a company that dealt in concrete at the time he allegedly created the heads, made some replicas to demonstrate his claim. The original heads were analysed by Professor Dearman of the University of Newcastle, who concluded that the items had been moulded artificially rather than carved.<br> The heads were presented to Dr. Don Robins, a chemist. He theorized that the heads contained a large amount of quartz, which worked as a basic computer and played back images of the past, allowing the heads to perform seemingly paranormal actions.<br> The original heads were later lost; their current whereabouts are unknown.<br>
