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Strange Liverpool is Tom Slemen’s fascinating book documenting the bizarre but true stories about his hometown which are not found in most local history books. Read
* Adolf Hitler’s alleged spying mission in Liverpool…
* The mysterious occultist named Bezzera who told a young Beatle he would be the most famous man in the world…
* The gigantic UFO – witnessed by thousands of people - that passed over Liverpool during its dramatic fiery descent into North Wales and the ensuing Government cover-up…
* Mighty Mary Richardson, whose strange power allowed her win a tug-o-war match with a Liverpool rugby team…even shire horses could not make her budge an inch…what was her secret?
* The incredibly charmed life of Scotland Road’s Mick Riley - which inspired the phrase, ‘the life of Riley’…
* The Secret Mersey Tunnel, which runs from Speke to Bebington…
* The Summer of the Leprechaun – when hundreds of people in Liverpool saw Little People in the parks and gardens of the city…
* The bizarre but creepy tale of the so-called Greek Vampire who terrorised Victorian Liverpool…
Plus many more astonishing stories of Liverpool which prove the old saying that ‘truth is stranger than fiction’.
* Adolf Hitler’s alleged spying mission in Liverpool…
* The mysterious occultist named Bezzera who told a young Beatle he would be the most famous man in the world…
* The gigantic UFO – witnessed by thousands of people - that passed over Liverpool during its dramatic fiery descent into North Wales and the ensuing Government cover-up…
* Mighty Mary Richardson, whose strange power allowed her win a tug-o-war match with a Liverpool rugby team…even shire horses could not make her budge an inch…what was her secret?
* The incredibly charmed life of Scotland Road’s Mick Riley - which inspired the phrase, ‘the life of Riley’…
* The Secret Mersey Tunnel, which runs from Speke to Bebington…
* The Summer of the Leprechaun – when hundreds of people in Liverpool saw Little People in the parks and gardens of the city…
* The bizarre but creepy tale of the so-called Greek Vampire who terrorised Victorian Liverpool…
Plus many more astonishing stories of Liverpool which prove the old saying that ‘truth is stranger than fiction’.