Product Description
by Tom Slemen (Author)
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 about: * 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'.
