Tom Slemen's Haunted Liverpool

On Monday 1 October, 2007, at approximately 9pm, a 22-year-old woman named Hayley was walking up Menlove Gardens East, Allerton, on her way to a friend’s house on Eldred Road. As Hayley walked along the leaf-covered pavement, her thoughts were as far as possible from the world of the paranormal, but as she passed Menlove Gardens North, she became aware of an eerie faint whistling sound. She glanced around without stopping and out the corner of her eye, she saw that someone was walking behind her, so she quickened her pace. The whistling man seemed to speed up too, so Hayley delved into her handbag and took out her mobile phone, ready to call the police, for she felt the man behind her would pounce at any moment. Suddenly, two girls, aged about fifteen or sixteen, walking on the other side of the road, let out a scream and halted in their tracks. They were gazing directly at the man who had been walking close behind Hayley with their hands to their shocked faces.
Hayley turned around to see why the girls were looking at the man behind her, and saw to her horror that the man following her had no legs, and he looked as if he was floating several feet off the ground. The man had two hollow black sockets where his eyes were supposed to be, his face and hands were a deathly white, and he was still whistling as he floated towards Hayley. The teenaged girls turned and ran off down Woolton Road, and Hayley ran across the same road in the other direction towards Eldred Road. The ghostly pursuer apparently gave up the chase at the junction of Woolton Road and Menlove Gardens West, because Hayley looked back at that point, and after almost being hit by a car, she saw that the sinister legless apparition was nowhere to be seen. Now Hayley refuses to go anywhere near Menlove Gardens North, South or West since that spinechilling incident. As scared as Hayley is, she was relieved somewhat to hear that the same ghost with no legs had been seen before in the areas of Allerton and Calderstones in the year 2000. I first received word of the curious ghost in 2001 at Radio Merseyside, and even staked out the Menlove Gardens area with two other ghost-hunters, but we saw nothing. Now, it seems, the whistling phantom of Woolton is up to his old tricks again. I have sifted through old documents and census records regarding this ghost, in an effort to discover who he was when he was alive, and why he has no legs. Some think he was a disgraced reverend, whilst a medium who investigated the floating stalker a few years ago has claimed he is Frederick Garrod, a butler who lost his legs in World War One.
The ghost continues to be seen on Green Lane, Primrose Road, and occasionally, Crompton’s Lane, where he has been seen by a student from Hope University College.