Haunted Merseyside with Tom Slemen
STRANGE IMPOSTORS
In August 1982, Frank Johnson, a widowed Huyton businessman, was drinking in the Stanley Arms pub on Roby Road one Saturday afternoon, and he felt so down in the dumps.
He sat there,... Read more »
THE DEMON IN THE POOL
In the late 1990s a reclusive man in the Midlands named Stephen who had won millions on the National Lottery passed away, and he left the bulk of his fortune to his 35-year-old nephew in Liverpool,... Read more »
TALES OF THE ASTRAL
One inclement night in the 1990s, a 19-year-old Huyton lad named Tom came off his motorbike in torrential rain as he tried to negotiate that bend where Mab Lane swings into Deysbrook Lane in West Derby.... Read more »
THE DOPPELGANGER
The following strange story was told to me many years ago by a prominent theatre director. I have had to change a few names for legal reasons.
In the 1960s, Jeremy Richards, a Huyton-born... Read more »
The Huyton Vampire Hunter
On the Tuesday morning of 6 May 1952 at around 3.20am, a group of silhouettes was seen skulking about among the gravestones of St James’s Cemetery, a vast sunken graveyard next to the Anglican... Read more »
THE KNOWSLEY WITCH
Across Knowsley in the early 1994, strange rumours circulated about a woman who was said to be a real-life witch and her ability to cure all sorts of ailments and conditions.
Raymond Gallantree,... Read more »
The Vamps
The following strange story was related to me many years ago.
It was Valentine’s Day, 1980, and Karl Creighton, a 20-year-old Huyton man, browsed the latest LPs at the Probe Records... Read more »
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THE UNINVITED GUEST
The following terrifying story took place in January 1972 in Huyton, and over the years, quite a few witnesses to the incident have spoken to me to add more detail to the account of the weird goings-on.
It... Read more »
