“The first I heard of the Hexham Heads was a couple of years ago, just through online chatter,” says Greg McKevitt, content producer for BBC Archive. “I saw mention of the footage existing in the archive and obviously my ears pricked up. Nationwide was such an unusual programme, and it’s been fertile ground for our social media team. We’ve been posting clips from it for many years now.”

The Hexham Heads themselves? The central figures in a story that continues to baffle and fascinate in equal measure. In 1971, brothers Colin and Leslie Robson unearthed two small, carved stone heads in their Northumberland garden, and the discovery sparked a torrent of outlandish supernatural claims. There were reports that the Robson family had experienced a flurry of poltergeist-like activity in their home, with bottles flying and the heads themselves changing position when left unattended. For neighbour Nelly Dodd, the repercussions of the discovery were even more alarming: she claimed to have been coverage, see , ).