6/3/2023 0 Comments The witch elm summary![]() ![]() ![]() The little that is known about the case is bizarre enough to open the door to more speculation than conclusion. There’s also a brief summary on Wikipedia. ![]() My summary and speculations are mostly drawn from the half hour podcast and an article in the Independent by Alison Vale, though the two sources contradict each other in places. I first heard about this through a podcast as part of the Punt PI series, which takes a light-hearted look at a number of 20 th century mysteries. It’s not known whose skull it was, let alone how it got into the tree. The story twists and turns as much as any fictional mystery, but leaves all the loose ends untied. This actually happened in April 1943 in Hagley Wood in the English Midlands. This isn’t the beginning of an airport novel. Bob could make out something round in the dark so he groped for what looked like an egg. When they came across a pollarded wych elm, the dense branches looked like a good place for bird nests so up climbed Bob Farmer. Graffiti on the Wychbury obelisk (mjeshenton )Like all the best mysteries, it started when four boys went trespassing in a private forest one night. ![]()
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