Right in the heart of England, there's an area where the county of Worcestershire borders

the West Midlands that's basically a postcard of British countryside, green fields, thatch

cottages, quite little market towns, and at the center is Witchbury Hill.

An 84-foot tall stone pillar rises from the summit.

If you get close enough, there's a message painted on its base in big white letters.

This single phrase has appeared and reappeared all over the surrounding area for decades.

It's a question that has haunted West Midlands for over 75 years.

Who put Bella in the Witch Elm?

This is Supernatural, a park-caste original, and I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

Every Wednesday, I'll be taking a deep dive into a real unexplained occurrence to try and figure out the truth.

This week, we're exploring the unsolved murder of a woman whose remains were found buried in a tree in Hagley Wood.

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With most murder investigations, you start with the victim.

Establish the facts of their life, what they did, and where they went in the days before their death.

From there, you can start to narrow down the people who might have had motive or opportunity to harm them.

But what if you don't know who the victim is in the first place?

That was the problem with the case of the Summerton Man that we covered a few weeks ago.

But the Hagley Wood mystery, better known as Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm, is even older and in some ways weirder.

The theories about Bella's true identity are all over the map.

And if you're willing to open up your mind, the strangest possibilities might offer the closest thing we have to an answer.

It all began on April 18, 1943, when 14-age boys were traipsing around the countryside.

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