Midnight Terror

Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?

Oct 21, 2026 2:34

In 1943 four boys found a woman's skull grinning out of a hollow tree in Hagley Wood — the remains of someone no missing-person list could name. Then the words began appearing on walls across the Midlands: 'Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?' Forensic artists have since given her back her face. Eighty years on, she still has no name.