Thinking Sideways: Hagley Woods Mystery

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 27 February 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In April 1943 a woman's skeleton was discovered in a hole in a hollow tree in England; months later, mysterious graffiti began to appear which gave the corpse a name. The graffiti, and the investigation, continued for decades, but no one has ever identified the mysterious "Bella" in the Wych Elm… or her murderer.

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of Thinking Sideways on Joe, your host.
0:25.7	Steve?
0:27.2	Your co-host.
0:28.2	Oh, yeah, I guess we're all co-hosts, um, well, I'm Devon, your host.
0:32.4	Yeah.
0:33.4	Okay.
0:34.4	All right, so we're just getting together one more time to solve another unsolved mystery.
0:41.0	This week we're going to talk about the Hagley Wood mystery.
0:43.8	Ooh, yeah, it's a creepy one.
0:45.6	A little intro here, there's an area in the West Midlands of England.
0:49.0	The West Midlands is like the western part of the middle part of England, which is like
0:52.9	kind of a buts whales for all those who really care.
0:55.9	The western part of the middle part, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so anyway, it's
1:03.4	that part that's kind of just east of whales.
1:06.2	Anyway, in this, there's an area there known as the Black Country, which earned its name
1:11.2	with its dark mysterious macabre past.
1:14.4	And well, it's not really true.
1:15.4	It was at the heart of the coal industry and a good part of the industrial revolution
1:19.5	took place there.
1:21.0	And it was so smoking and sooty that it was said to be black by day and red by night.
1:25.5	So that's why no one is assuming it's from fires.
1:28.1	Yeah, you have from coal fires, furnaces, and foundries, and all kinds of good stuff.
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