A woman taking a woodland walk was left spooked after finding baby dolls tied and nailed to trees in a secluded spot.
The walker, who is a theatre practitioner at Walsall Manor Hospital, was on a lockdown stroll when she made the unsettling discovery.
Talking to BirminghamLive, the 64-year-old explains how she was on a stroll through the woods at Cannock Chase when she found the eerie dolls in a clearing.
"I've had to shield for all of the lockdown, but when I was on my walks I looked a bit further and as I dug through the undergrowth I saw these dolls.
"They were in some sort of order. Their dresses were all raggedy and they were all tied and nailed to the trees."
The mum-of-two soon learnt that the site had more significance than just being a forest area.
"And as I came out of the woods I saw a sign that said that this was the operating theatre for the old Pensions Hospital. It was just a little bit weird considering what I do for my job.
"I have got a friend who is a spiritual medium and she wants to go and take a look up there to see if she can feel anything."
The assortment of creepy dolls were discovered on Brindley Heath, the site of an old war hospital.
The Ministry Pensions Hospital closed in the late 1920s and the buildings were acquired by a nearby colliery to house miners and their families.
When the woman went back to the dolls clearing, she said she said her prayers.
"It wasn't that scary and I stood in among the dolls. I was saying my prayers. I talked to the dolls and wished the children who used to live in the mining village eternal rest."
Brindley Village, as it was then known, had a school and a working men's club, but residents were moved in the early 1950s to a council housing estate on the outskirts of nearby Hednesford.
