Liverpool Echoes

I love Liverpool. It’s a vibrant friendly city and in the 1980s I spent happy years living on Merseyside where I even had a weekly slot talking about the paranormal and taking calls from listeners at Radio City with presenter Brian Ford. During my time there I investigated many strange tales from locals, but one thing I would never have suggested was that Merseyside is “known as a UFO hotspot to alien enthusiasts” or that some liken it to the Bermuda Triangle.

Yet that odd claim was made in the this October. You can tell that it originated with the media, as no serious UFO researcher would describe themselves as an “alien enthusiast”. Ufology solved. The story appeared just a few days before Hallowe’en, when ‘spooky’ stuff – UFOs and aliens included – was filling the media; the brief that week was probably to find a hook to grab the attention of locals.