Tom Slemen

Strange Liverpool Tom Slemen

Publisher Marketing: 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'.