Post by TELA on Aug 7, 2011 20:49:46 GMT
It's strange to think something as earth changing as life after death could ever be in the same room as the investigator trying to prove its existence. The Thornton Road poltergeist is one of these rare examples where a real investigation is undertaken by official channels and well documented. The investigation began as a vandalism case, but then turned into something far more incredible as time went on.
Ward End is a quiet neighborhood in Birmingham England where people live in peace between Saltley, Hodge Hill, and Stechford. The residential area has a public park which was first opened in the 1890s and has been open ever since. It's a quiet community, and generally normal. So it was all the stranger when the police were called in to investigate a series of events where rocks were being thrown at one house on Thornton Road. The occupants had investigated over the course of several days themselves in an attempt to discover who the culprit could be. When no source was discovered, they called the police. The stone throwing had increased significantly since it began. It was occurring several times a day by the time investigators arrived at the house. Roof tiles were chipping away and falling off, and windows were being shattered.
Chief Inspector Len Turley was a stern and respected man in the community, who initially suspected vandals. When none were ever seen in the area, people were posted around the house armed with automatic cameras, night vision, flood lamps, and everything else at their disposal. Soon the matter became a source of embarrassment for the police department and more resources were allocated to this un-catchable crook. The strangest thing was, the automatic cameras would go off and never catch a human figure in the dead of night. The only things they ever saw were rabbits, the occasional fox, and rats. Had anything even as small as a rabbit been in the area, the motion sensing cameras would have picked up on it. But there was nothing. Even as the police were visiting the stone throwing would continue.
Those who say the police were simply incompetent should be made aware that during the investigation lasting almost a year, the police also solved five murder cases. And yet the house on Thornton road remained a mystery even then.
Stones that were thrown were taken away and analyzed and found to match those in the yard. It seems likely they were somehow picked up and thrown at the house, but no footprints were ever discovered that led authorities to believe that somehow a person had walked into the yard unseen by anyone else. Several of those investigating concluded jokingly that it was as though the rocks had somehow thrown themselves. And now twenty years later it is still clear that no one knows what could have caused the disturbance of Thornton Road. The phantom rocks stopped being thrown at the house long ago, but no written record of the exact date exists.
www.unexplainable.net/Ghost-Paranormal/The-Poltergeist-of-Thornton-Road.shtml
