Two stoneheads discovered buried in a garden, a half-man, half-beast, appearing in bedrooms,

and archaeologists appearing to become distressed or possessed.

This is the strange mystery of the Hexham heads.

Hexham may give the impression of curses or voodoo because of its name, but actually Hexham is the name of a small northern market town,

located 20 miles west of the English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,

and located a few miles from Hadrian's Wall, a defensive fortification built by the Romans in 122 AD.

The story begins one February afternoon in 1972, when 11-year-old Colin Robson was playing in his

garden at the family home of 3 Reed Avenue, Hexham.

He was having a go at weeding when he looked down at the ground.

There was a lump there and it appeared to be a large

stone, approximately the size of a tennis ball. As he looked closer, he saw that there

appeared to be a conical protrusion on one side of the object. Clearing away the grass and earth

around it, he reached down to pick it up and he saw that it appeared to have human features on it, like a face.

The young boy was filled with excitement at his unusual find, and he shouted for his brother Leslie to come and see what he'd discovered.

Leslie was astonished at his brother's discovery come and see what he discovered. Leslie was astonished at his brother's

discovery and not to be outdone he frantically started to dig the ground. It was not long

before Leslie too had found a second strange head. One of the heads appeared to be a boy and the

other a girl. They were a pale,

greenish, stone colour. The boy had short hair carved into his head. Both of their faces

were carved too. Neither of the stone faces were pretty, but the girls was the worst.

She would go on to be given the name, the hag or the witch,

for she had a large hook nose and what was described as wild, bulging eyes.

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