This week, Noelle shares a story from 1943, when four young boys entered the woods in a small town near Birmingham, England, and discovered something horrific wedged inside the trunk of a tree. A year later, incriminating graffiti appeared, reading “Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?”—a haunting question tied to a mystery that remains unsolved to this day.
Sources
https://medium.com/curiosity-chronicles-extended/who-put-bella-in-wych-elm-6b5ed7b881a3
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0g26yr4/the-80-year-old-mystery-of-the-skeleton-found-in-a-wych-elm
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-07/mystery-over-who-put-bella-down-the-wych-elm-/102171844
https://brian-haughton.com/ancient-mysteries-articles/bella_in_the_wych-elm/
https://crimereads.com/who-put-bella-in-the-wych-elm/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_Glory
https://josefjakobs.info/2018/01/bella-in-wych-elm-mysterious-anna-from.html
Books: Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm?: Volume 1 & 2: The Crime scene Revisited
by Alex Merrill
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