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The Hexham Heads and the Creature on the Stairs
Anne Ross woke to find a tall, fur-covered figure in her bedroom doorway. Its upper body reminded her of a wolf, while the lower half had the shape of a man. When it moved away, she got out of bed and followed it downstairs. Elsewhere in the house, two small carved heads sat in a box. Unearthed by two brothers in a Hexham garden in 1971, the faces had already become associated with broken household objects and an animal-like visitor in the home next door.
Ross had spent years studying beliefs in which carved heads could guard a home or hold a power beyond death. Her daughter later described a…
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