Freaky Friday Files: The Hexham Heads
- Ash
- Oct 3
- 3 min read
Hello! Happy Fri-yay, everyone. For today's edition of Freaky Friday Files, I thought we could take a look at the "Hexham Heads". As always, some information in this blog post may be disturbing to readers. Reader discretion advised.
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The Hexham Heads
I have insomnia sometimes, and when I'm suffering from not being able to sleep, I tend to read things on my phone (yes, I know, it's bad), and I recently stumbled across the Hexham Heads, so I thought this would be fun to look at for a Freaky Friday Files.
According to Wikipedia, "The Hexham Heads were a pair of small stone heads, about 6 cm high, found in 1971 in the English town of Hexham. The heads became associated with alleged paranormal phenomena, and their exact origin is a point of controversy." I have so many questions already. One head is said to represent a masculine figure, and one is said to represent a feminine, witch-like figure. They were the size of tennis balls.
Allegedly, these heads were dug up by Colin and Leslie Robson (two young boys aged 9 and 11) who found them in a garden in 1971. Once discovered, the Robson family started to experience strange occurrences. Some occurrences include the heads being moved when no one was in the room, bottles being thrown across the room, and the neighbour's family even experiencing "paranormal" phenomena, with one of the kids' hairs being pulled and sightings of a half-man, half-goat figure leaving the house.
The Hexham Heads were then given to another person - Anne Ross (an archaeologist & expert in Celtic artefacts) - Ross claimed that the heads were "venerated as a symbol of divinity and the powers of the otherworld...the very seat of the soul." While Ross had ownership of these heads, she also experienced alleged "paranormal" phenomena. One morning, Ross woke up to see a half-wolf, half-man creature walking around in her house. She followed the creature downstairs and lost sight of it by the time she got to the kitchen. Her daughter also allegedly saw a "werewolf-like" figure on their stairs, which jumped off and then just vanished. Other phenomena that occurred in Ross's house were feelings of cold patches/feeling of a cold presence, doors opening and closing on their own, and sightings of dark shadow-like figures. Once the heads were removed from Ross's possession, all "paranormal" activity came to a stop.
It's not clear who created these heads, but one man called Desmond Craigie has claimed that he made them for his daughter in the year 1956, and they also lived in the house where the Robsons eventually lived. Craigie worked for a concrete company. Craigie ended up making replicas, but experts didn't believe that he was the original creator of the "Hexham Heads". The OG Hexham Heads were analysed by Professor Dearman of the University of Newcastle, who said that the original heads were moulded artificially rather than carved. This professor believes that these heads were not artefacts at all. Some other people have contested this, but I'm not sure what the "truth" is.
Since then, the original Hexham Heads have been lost, and no one knows their whereabouts to this day. Allegedly, they were given to an anonymous man, but we don't know any more than that.
Here is an image of the Hexham Heads
I feel like we're kinda left with more questions than answers, and that tends to happen a lot in my Freaky Friday Files series.
Where are the Hexham Heads today?
Were they just a hoax? Or were they actually some sort of magical rock that created paranormal phenomena in one's possession?
Some people believe these heads are linked to a "mythical" wolf that targeted livestock in the early 20th century (1904-1905). Why did this wolf only target livestock for 1 year? I'm also struggling to find the specific link, but I think it's mainly because people saw werewolf figures.
Did people really see a half-wolf, half-man creature? Was it their eyes playing tricks on them?
Thanks for reading!
Ash x
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