Haunted Merseyside with Tom Slemen

The Time Scanner (Part 1)

Many scientific inventions came along before their time, only to be lost, vanishing into obscurity before being rediscovered, sometimes centuries later. 

Take, for example, antibiotics;... Read more »

THE MOONLIGHT HUNT

On the Friday afternoon of September 16 2016, 27-year-old Huytonian Ralph Winnington was already close to oblivion as he and his nine friends careered from bar to bar in the city centre of Liverpool. 

The... Read more »

Two Vampire Tales

On the Sunday evening of 10 May 1959, temperatures across the North West suddenly rose to 70 degrees, and a rare phenomenon known as ‘vapour lock’ took place; petrol in the fuel delivery... Read more »

NOEL AND LEON

I’ve had to change a few names in the following story for legal reasons but beyond that, the account is exactly as it was related to me. 

In 1970, a 50-year-old Huyton bachelor... Read more »

UFOs over Knowsley

The unidentified flying object - better known by its abbreviation: UFO – exists, simply because any light in the sky or unfamiliar object that cannot be explained is technically a UFO, but what most... Read more »

The Roby Thing

In May 1951 a gang of four children - Tony, aged 8, Jill, aged 7, and Alan and George, both aged 10 - went to play in one of the old deserted barns on Roby’s Carr Lane. 

George’s... Read more »

For the love of George

Timeslips are one of the most fascinating incidents in the sphere of the paranormal, but what exactly are they? If you see the ghost of a top-hatted Victorian gentleman, that is a haunting, but if the... Read more »

THE JUBILEE PARK TIMESLIP

On the sunny morning of Saturday 1 March 1975, 13-year-old Tony Drake had his usual weekend breakfast of eggs, bacon, black pudding and two rounds of Mother’s Pride bread fried in lard, and afterwards... Read more »