The Hexham Werewolf
An apparently true tale of stones that came to life
The Discovery
It was an average day in an average house in an average town, and this all happened to an average family. In fact, they would be the first to say that there was nothing unusual about them or their lives. Up until the point they found the heads.
It happened like this. We can imagine a break in the rain or a beautiful spring day, but whatever the weather, in May in 1971, two brothers Colin and Leslie Robson, were playing in their garden. We know it was May because their sister later confirmed she was on her honeymoon and away from the house when it happened.
Colin and Leslie were amusing themselves by throwing stones at each other. Apparently, it’s fun. As the lads stooped to find missiles and grubbed in the dirt, they both found a stone head. One each.
These little stone heads were the size of a boy’s fist. People later described them as tennis ball sized or about 6 cm in diameter. Not that anyone used centimeters in England in 1971.
The stone the heads were made of was greenish-grey and glistened with quartz crystals. The heads were round-ish, seemed to be carved of local stone, and had irregularly shaped features, holes for the mouth and eyes, ridges for the nose, and they…
