An eerie “black-eyed child” that appears to plague a picturesque Staffordshire woodland reappeared to terrify two young lovers during Lockdown.
Lee Brickley, the acknowledged expert on the mysterious ghostly apparitions in Cannock Chase, told the Daily Star that the latest sighting occurred on June 19 last year.
In the midst of coronavirus restrictions, with many people stuck indoors for weeks on end, two teenagers, Kylie Drakeford and Ben Tilly*, decided to get away from their families and camp for a night in woodland at Birches Valley.
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But as they huddled together for warmth on that rainy night they heard something pacing around their tent. At first they thought it might be a deer or other wild animal but after a while, the pair decided to unzip the flap of their tent and see what was going on.
To their surprise they heard what sounded like a young girl giggling, so they stepped out of the tent into the darkness to see if someone was lost.
It was then taught they came face to face with The Black-eyed Child of Cannock Chase.
Lee interviewed Kylie for his new book: “I was absolutely terrified,” she said. “I’d read the stories in the news about the black-eyed child, but it wasn’t until the thing stood right in front of me that I could quite believe them.
“I knew instantly that we were dealing with the real thing because it moved in ways humans simply can’t move. It was like it could teleport from one place to another when it was moving around and hiding behind the trees”.
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“I was shining my torch right at her,” Ben added, “and she just stood there staring at us with her head slightly dipped.
“That’s when the giggling started to get louder and louder. It really sounded like it was coming from all around us even though I could see she was right in front of us…”
A short while later, the mysterious visitor ran off. The pair were familiar with previous tales of the Black-eyed Child and knew better than to give chase.
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Instead, they stayed in their tent until morning, when they gingerly emerged from their tent to discover a number of all “sculptures” of twigs and what appeared to be crude wooden ornaments hanging from the nearby trees.
The Black-eyed Child phenomenon is widely believed to have begun with a 1996 account of an encounter in Texas, but Lee told the Daily Star that he has heard authenticated accounts dating back at least a decade earlier.
“In the late 1980s, my own auntie had an experience on Cannock Chase which I believe was the first time the black eyed child was spotted by anyone,” Lee said.
“My auntie and her friends were enjoying a summer's day in the woods when a child with black eyes appeared around thirty metres in front of them down a dirt track. My auntie, being only around 18 at the time, ran after the child presuming it was lost and needed assistance. No matter how fast she ran, she was unable to catch up with the little girl"
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"My auntie eventually fell over and sprained her ankle," Lee continued. "When she arrived home, she told her mother about the experience who reported it to the police. There was a police search on Cannock Chase at the time but no little girl was found”.
Lee’s aunt isn’t the only person who suffered a minor misfortune while chasing the Black-eyed Child.
“There was also another incident in October 2019,” Lee told us, “when a young girl chased after the black eyed child near Castle Ring, and again, she was unable to catch up with her.
“The girl involved ran through the trees following the black eyed child until she reached a sheer cliff-edge drop of around twenty feet. Had she not managed to slow her pace and avoid the fall, the girl would have come to serious harm”.
The black eyed child she was chasing had “just seemed to disappear,” he says.
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Paranormal experts are divided on whether Black-eyed Child sightings are caused by a ghost, some sort of woodland spirit or demon, or even an alien entity.
Lee believes that the entire area is one of those of the places where the barriers between our dimension and the next are particularly thin.
“I believe the black eyed child to be some kind of evil entity that may have existed in the Staffordshire woodland since ancient times,” he says. “It is entirely possible that she comes from another world, or perhaps even another dimension.
"The only thing that's for certain is that she is here to stay, and she seems determined to scare the hell out of the residents of Cannock Chase”.
Lee's new book is called: Haunted Cannock Chase: True ghost stories from the UK's spookiest location. You can order a copy here.
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