You may naturally associate the world of the occult – ghosts, vampires witches, doppelgangers and the sort – with ink-black wintry nights and leafless gnarled branches silhouetted against the waning skull of the moon, but some of the strangest and spookiest incidents I have researched have taken place in broad daylight at the height of summer.

read more Tom Slemen’s Spooky Summer: Broomsticks over Birkenhead – Liverpool Echo.