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The Hexham Heads

Hexham, Northumberland

Two small stone heads dug up in a garden, and a creature in the night.

In 1971 two boys digging in their garden in Hexham found two small carved stone heads. Soon after, the family next door said they saw a creature, half man and half sheep, in their home.

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When
1971
Where
54.9700, -2.1000
Group
Unexplained

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Hexham's abbey town centre is the gateway to Hadrian's Wall.

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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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