Overview
- Local coverage revisits Tom Slemen’s well-known 1996 account of a witness called Frank who reported seeing Bold Street as the 1950s with a Cripps department store and vintage cars.
- Reports recount that a young woman named Emma appeared to experience the same 1996 shift before the scene returned to the present.
- Reader comments surged after the AI-generated image, including a claim from Irene Morton describing a similar experience in 1971.
- Articles highlight Bold Street’s unusual substructure, noting a 2001 excavation that uncovered a well along with clay pipes and porcelain fragments.
- The excavated feature is now displayed as Ye Olde Wishing Well at Jeff’s, with outlets framing the accounts as part of Liverpool’s established ghost-story tradition.