Is It Really the ‘Black-eyed Child’ of Cannock Chase?

Mysterious figure with glowing eyes in dark forest at night in Cannock Chase.

A child�killed in the infamous triple-murder in the 1960s in Cannock Chase in�Staffordshire, England was said to be lurking in a�forest — and a paranormal investigator�claims to have captured its ghost in a video.

For centuries now, the locals of�Cannock Chase, Staffordshire have been haunted by a ghost they called the ‘black-eyed child’ believed to be one of the children killed in a cold-blooded murder in the 1960s. It was said that�Cannock Chase was the site where car mechanic Raymod Leslie Morris murdered seven year-old Christine Darby in 1967.�He was also believed to be the suspect in the disappearance of two other young girls in the area.�Since then, it is believed that their souls have haunted the woods.

Is It Really the 'Black-eyed Child' of Cannock Chase? - Stay at Home Mum
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While some believe they have seen it before their very eyes, 23-year-old Tom Buckmaster, from Arnold, Nottingham, claims he has captured on video some spooky�images on camera as he was ghost-hunting with his Haunted Finders team –�even claiming, they were chased by the eerie�figure, which threw a rock at them.�He said he spent six hours looking for paranormal activity before the figure appeared at about 7pm on October 10.

“It looks like a child dressed in white – you can see the legs moving as it walks.�I didn’t even know I had captured the ghost until I went over the footage and thought, ‘What the hell was that?’�You could hear running on the footpath behind us. We got weird voices on there – there were footsteps, and voices saying, ‘We’re watching, We’re looking’ and then a male voice saying, ‘He’s coming,’” he said.

See it for yourself here:

Could it be�the ‘Black-eyed Child’ of Cannock Chase?

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