Haunted Merseyside with Tom Slemen
The night calls
Several months ago in The Challenge I told the intriguing story of a 1970s down-at-heel Huyton private investigator named Robin Cardinal, and how he was hired to trace a young lady named Audrey... Read more »
The mystery of “Mr Wobbly”
On 21 March 2005, at a house on Bentham Drive, Childwall, Rhea, a 32-year-old woman who originally hailed from Dovecot, let her 4-year-old daughter Bella sleep with her because the girl had... Read more »
THE DRUID'S BONFIRE
One of the strangest stories I looked into some years ago was the one which concerned two young juveniles and a terrifying supernatural encounter they both experienced. Their testimony was also... Read more »
Marriage saved by a timeslip
Even in our sceptical postmodern world, romantic love still brings couples to the altar and the registry office, but of course, people today divorce more quickly than they did in the last century... Read more »
A real time machine
I’ve changed a few names in this intriguing tale for legal reasons, but if anyone doubts the events depicted in it, they only need to check the local newspaper archives in the Central... Read more »
Suzy's twin
In March 1976, Billy a 13-year-old boy from Gillmoss, and his best friend Dustin – also 13 – of West Derby, donned their Sunday best – £5 Barathea blazers and £1... Read more »
BACK TO THE FORTIES
You know you’re middle-aged when your daughter wants to borrow your old outfit for a fancy dress party, laughed Mrs Jones in the kitchen of her Huyton home.
Her... Read more »
A trip back to yesterday
A recent story in the Knowsley Challenge about a timeslip jogged the memories of a few readers who had either personally experienced a slippage or knew someone who had.
A... Read more »
