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The Hexham Werewolf
In 1972, the Robson boys dug up a pair of stone heads in their garden in Hexham. The following night, their neighbour witnessed a werewolf-like phantom in his house.
The heads were passed to Dr Anne Ross, who collected such things, but shortly after acquiring them, she was woken at 2am by a monster. “It was about 6ft high,” she said, “slightly stooping, and it was black, against the white door, and it was half animal and half man. The upper part, I would have said, was a wolf, and the lower part was human and, I would have again said, that it was covered with a kind of black, very dark fur. It went out and I just saw it clearly, and then it disappeared, and something made me run after it, a thing I wouldn’t normally have done… I could hear it going down the stairs, then it disappeared towards the back of the house.”
She initially believed it to be a dream, until her tearful teenage daughter revealed that she had seen something similar. Ross disposed of her collection. The heads were displayed in the British Museum for a time, where they were linked with further odd happenings. Although it was later claimed a previous owner of the Robson house had carved the heads, they have since gone missing, and it was never possible to determine their provenance. Interestingly, in 1904 there was a wolf panic in Hexham. Sheep were slaughtered and farmers armed with guns roamed the countryside on the hunt for the “The Wolf of Allendale”. Linked? Perhaps…
