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Time Or Dimensional Slips

MorningAngel said:
Interesting from facebook. It hView attachment 80584appened in Liverpool.
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Guess he meant this shop:

Memories from TJ Hughes store, London Road Liverpool from Cathy Keegan​


https://owenowentrust.org.uk/memories-from-tj-hughes-store-london-road/

The referencing of locations though old shops that are no longer there is unfortunately a Tom Slemen trait so I'm hoping this is nothing to do with him. Problem is he has now written twenty-six Haunted Liverpool books so it would take a long time and more athn a few quid to check this.

Anyway, talking of Mr Slemen here he is narrating his own fiction research:

 
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Was looking at Amazon yesterday, and noticed that Mr Slemen is onto about Volume 31(!) of his allegedly-Spooky-Liverpool books.

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Steven said:
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This will always be at No 1:

Tom Slemen’s Spooky Summer: Broomsticks over Birkenhead​

Our columnist’s new series on the scary side of the sunny season

You may naturally associate the world of the occult – ghosts, vampires witches, doppelgangers and the sort – with ink-black wintry nights and leafless gnarled branches silhouetted against the waning skull of the moon, but some of the strangest and spookiest incidents I have researched have taken place in broad daylight at the height of summer."

Crikey, what bone-chilling tale of the paranormal has Tom unearthed...?

"The first woman in the formation was a brunette of about 30 sitting side-saddle on a brush, and wore a flowing pinkish dress, and the young blonde lady flying behind her had her hand on the broom-mounted woman’s shoulder.

The third figure flying closely behind the blonde one was much younger, possibly in her teens, and she was also blonde.

All of these females were laughing and giggling and the brunette was screaming as she almost fell off the broom."


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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/local-news/tom-slemens-spooky-summer-broomsticks-7341587

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Paul_Exeter said:

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From the excellent UK Paranormal Database :​

Choir​

Location: Peterborough (Cambridgeshire) - Cathedral
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Choir unknown, environmental experience in 1996
Further Comments: Several ghosts are said to haunt the cathedral. The sounds of an invisible choir have been reported, while phantom monks appear in the graveyard (one of whom vanishes through a closed side doorway. A light resembling a candle has been spotted floating around the upper floors at the front of the building, while an old piece of folklore says that if a hare makes a lair in the building, the city would be destroyed by fire within a week. In 1996, two visitors to the site found themselves surrounded by a strange sudden silence and found themselves walking along a high walled alleyway which exited by the front of the cathedral. The visitors were unable to find the alleyway when returning to the area later that day, and despite returning to Peterborough many times over the years, the route has never been rediscovered.
https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/recent/index.php
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*This might shed a little bit of light on it. (Pun intended!)
https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/opinion/secret-tunnel-at-the-cathedral-1144544
 
At No 2:

WELCOME to Haunted Wirral, a feature series written by world famous psychic researcher, Tom Slemen for the Globe.

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"On 1 April, 1958, a gang of Wirral Teddy boys accosted a middle-aged policeman on his bike near the Wishing Gate, Red Hill, and told him they’d seen a ‘big monster’ that looked like Godzilla stomping towards nearby Brackenwood Park.

"Get out of here, idiots!" the bobby told the dapper youths but they seemed genuinely shaken.

The policeman later saw huge three-toed prints in the sand of a local golf course.

[... a thunder storm storm...]

"Two schoolboys came upon the unearthly casualty – a dinosaur – possibly a Tyrannosaurus Rex – lay crumpled in a clearing with a smoking wound on its head where the lightning had struck it.

It was breathing when the schoolchildren found it but when they returned with two policemen, the flesh-eating reptile from the Cretaceous Period (85 to 65 million years ago) seemed to be dead and its eyes were closed.

As chance would have it, two of the Teddy boys who had told the bobby about the monster back in April came on the scene and said they had seen the thing before crossing Brackenwood Park.

A man holding his child dared to touch the snout of the fallen giant and a nervous policeman yelled at him to keep away from the animal.

I later spoke to this man (when he was 70) on the Billy Butler Show and he told me that the ‘monster’ had feather-covered patches of skin on some parts of its head."

https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/17781513.haunted-wirral-phantom-dinosaurs/

But presumably the local council disposed of the body because it was of absolutely no interest to the scientific community or the media....
 
Paul_Exeter said:
I later spoke to this man (when he was 70) on the Billy Butler Show and he told me that the ‘monster’ had feather-covered patches of skin on some parts of its head."

https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/17781513.haunted-wirral-phantom-dinosaurs/
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Presumably a fact he didn't mention at the time (when current thinking was that dinosaurs had scaly skin) and only 'remembered' much later, after prevailing theories changed.

Shame he didn't mention the feathers at the time. Could have moved dinsoaur-theory forward a few decades in one fell swoop.
 
Paul_Exeter said:
This will always be at No 1:

Tom Slemen’s Spooky Summer: Broomsticks over Birkenhead​

Our columnist’s new series on the scary side of the sunny season

You may naturally associate the world of the occult – ghosts, vampires witches, doppelgangers and the sort – with ink-black wintry nights and leafless gnarled branches silhouetted against the waning skull of the moon, but some of the strangest and spookiest incidents I have researched have taken place in broad daylight at the height of summer."

Crikey, what bone-chilling tale of the paranormal has Tom unearthed...?

"The first woman in the formation was a brunette of about 30 sitting side-saddle on a brush, and wore a flowing pinkish dress, and the young blonde lady flying behind her had her hand on the broom-mounted woman’s shoulder.

The third figure flying closely behind the blonde one was much younger, possibly in her teens, and she was also blonde.

All of these females were laughing and giggling and the brunette was screaming as she almost fell off the broom."


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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/local-news/tom-slemens-spooky-summer-broomsticks-7341587

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Anyone on here reckon that Tom Slemen was in cahoots with our most haunted friend, Derek I’llconya....?

My mate saw Tom Slemen once, going round the pubs of Liverpool with a charity tin and wearing fake Parachute Regiment beret………….well according to my mate anyway. :)
 
In at No 3:

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"Almost 24 hours later, Howard turned up at the Wheatsheaf in a very distressed state. Bert bought Howard a brandy to calm him down, and then he and a group of (mostly bemused) drinkers listened to the old man’s strange story.

He had seen cars 'like something out of the old Flash Gordon serial' flying about, and he had been chased by a huge robot with the word “police” emblazoned across its chest near Willaston Road. Howard had then met a band of ‘rough-looking beatnik types’ who were fighting the robot with bows and arrows and slingshots.

"The machines had taken over everything," said a trembling Howard. It’s not known if he went on any further excursions into the future.

With the current concerns about the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Howard’s story of robots ruling the roost paints a grim picture of the fairly-near future."

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Paul_Exeter said:
In at No 3:

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"Almost 24 hours later, Howard turned up at the Wheatsheaf in a very distressed state. Bert bought Howard a brandy to calm him down, and then he and a group of (mostly bemused) drinkers listened to the old man’s strange story.

He had seen cars 'like something out of the old Flash Gordon serial' flying about, and he had been chased by a huge robot with the word “police” emblazoned across its chest near Willaston Road. Howard had then met a band of ‘rough-looking beatnik types’ who were fighting the robot with bows and arrows and slingshots.

"The machines had taken over everything," said a trembling Howard. It’s not known if he went on any further excursions into the future.

With the current concerns about the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Howard’s story of robots ruling the roost paints a grim picture of the fairly-near future."

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A Cyborg Max!
 
Paul_Exeter said:
At No 2:

WELCOME to Haunted Wirral, a feature series written by world famous psychic researcher, Tom Slemen for the Globe.

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"On 1 April, 1958, a gang of Wirral Teddy boys accosted a middle-aged policeman on his bike near the Wishing Gate, Red Hill, and told him they’d seen a ‘big monster’ that looked like Godzilla stomping towards nearby Brackenwood Park.

"Get out of here, idiots!" the bobby told the dapper youths but they seemed genuinely shaken.

The policeman later saw huge three-toed prints in the sand of a local golf course.

[... a thunder storm storm...]

"Two schoolboys came upon the unearthly casualty – a dinosaur – possibly a Tyrannosaurus Rex – lay crumpled in a clearing with a smoking wound on its head where the lightning had struck it.

It was breathing when the schoolchildren found it but when they returned with two policemen, the flesh-eating reptile from the Cretaceous Period (85 to 65 million years ago) seemed to be dead and its eyes were closed.

As chance would have it, two of the Teddy boys who had told the bobby about the monster back in April came on the scene and said they had seen the thing before crossing Brackenwood Park.

A man holding his child dared to touch the snout of the fallen giant and a nervous policeman yelled at him to keep away from the animal.

I later spoke to this man (when he was 70) on the Billy Butler Show and he told me that the ‘monster’ had feather-covered patches of skin on some parts of its head."

https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/17781513.haunted-wirral-phantom-dinosaurs/
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But presumably the local council disposed of the body because it was of absolutely no interest to the scientific community or the media....
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Mind you one good thing about Thomas Sleman is his artwork.
 
Robbrent said:
I think we should just discount any stories from Liverpool going forward because nearly every story links back to Sleman
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The problem is that he will appropriate genuine Fortean cases and then add his own special brand of fiction to them. Take for the example the well known Curse of the Crying Boy Painting:

"On 5 September 1985, the British tabloid newspaper The Sun reported that an Essex firefighter claimed that undamaged copies of the painting were frequently found amidst the ruins of burned houses.[1] By the end of November, belief in the painting's curse was widespread enough that The Sun was organising mass bonfires of the paintings, sent in by readers.[2]

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David Clarke, investigative journalist, says that stories naming the child as Don Bonillo or Diablo did not emerge until 2000 in a book by Tom Slemen. They relate the child to several fires including the painter's studio. However, he says that "there is absolutely no truth whatsoever to any of that."[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Boy

So whilst Tom Slemen most certainly did not create this crying boy curse folklore, he did decide to sensationalise it for his book. That is why there is still hope for the original Bold Street time-slip cases.

You can listen to Clarke discuss this case here:

https://squaringthestrange.libsyn.com/episode-141-the-crying-boy-curse-with-david-clarke
 
MorningAngel said:
Some just put this up on a local group. Unfortunately most people are taking the p. I remember reading another weird one about the tunnel somewhere. View attachment 81468
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I was going to suggest that it might have been a fraudster just posing as a toll collector wearing the yellow jacket and pocketing the money himself, but I guess not, huh? :dsist:
 
Google maps lets you look back at previous years and here were the toll booths in 2014:

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But in 2018:


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... extinct as a human worker in an AI future

So is there another crossing with a. toll? Although he says he checked this.

A driver paying the toll before 2014:

 
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Paul_Exeter said:
Google maps lets you look back at previous years and here were the toll booths in 2014:

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But in 2018:


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... extinct as a human worker in an AI future

So is there another crossing with a. toll? Although he says he checked this.

A driver paying the toll before 2014:

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Well I saw a building after it had been knocked down, so it’s possible. I just wonder how much toll was paid.
 
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