Mystery as ghostly ‘black-eyed child’ seen in Staffordshire beauty spot 30 years after figure was ‘first spotted’
VILLAGERS have been left spooked after spotting a creepy "black-eyed child" roaming a beauty spot - 30 years after a similar figure was first spotted.
Ghost Hunter Lee Brickley was called to Cannock Chase, Staffs, after reports the alleged ghostly girl had returned.
Lee, an author, started his investigations in 2014 after a couple reportedly encountered a girl who's "eyes had no colour", reports.
The man said: "Once we had entered the woodland, and the road was no longer visible, we started to hear the giggling noise of a little girl.
“To our amazement, a child, no taller than one metre in height appeared as if out of nowhere further up the path in front of us. We stopped dead in our tracks after noticing her eyes had no colour. Her head was tilted to the side in much the same way it would appear if she had been hung.
“She stared at us for around five minutes before running away into a densely grouped area of trees. My wife wanted to follow her, but I was having none of it.”
Lee was also contacted by another witness, after she wildly claimed to have encountered a ghost.
She said: "Around two months ago my daughter and I were walking through Birches Valley when we heard the screams of a young child.
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She continued: “I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl, but they definitely seemed in distress and sounded very close to us, so we instantly started running towards the noise."
“We couldn't find the child anywhere and so stopped to catch our breath, that's when I turned round and saw a girl stood behind me, no more than 10 years old, with her hands over her eyes, like she was waiting for a birthday cake.
“I asked if she was okay and if she had been the one screaming, she then put her arms down by her side and opened her eyes, which is when I saw they were completely black, no iris, no white, nothing.
“I jumped back and grabbed my daughter, when I looked again, the child was gone. It was strange really, I knew something was going to happen, even before it did, I just had a weird feeling.”
Lee has reported nine encounters with the "creepy child ghost" over the last two years, from "seemingly credible witnesses."
But the first reports of a "black-eyed child" from locals date back to the 1980s.
The paranormal private eye has detailed his aunt's encounter with a black-eyed child in 1982, when she was just 18 years old.
“She stumbled upon a dirt track and caught sight of the six to eight-year-old girl, running in the opposite direction, shouting ‘help mummy help’", he said.
Lee explained: “By now it was getting dark and the little girl had reached an area of very densely planted thick and bushy trees.
"She turned around to face my auntie, looked her dead in the eyes, and then ran off into the dark, compact woodland. At this point, probably very wisely, the decision was made to give up.”
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Lee said: “While it might seem like a standard spectral encounter, almost all the reports involve the child leading people towards potentially dangerous situations."
The paranormal investigator added: “In my mind it seems likely that even if my auntie had continued to chase the little girl, she would never have caught her, because it wasn’t a child at all, but an evil force, planning to do away with my own family member.”
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