Hi, my name is Kevin Hicks and welcome to my YouTube channel the History Squad. Now I’ve been
asked by uh various subscribers if I could give you know some of the personal stories of my life
and believe you me there are quite a few. But I’ve got a bit of a funny story and it's, it's edged
with a little bit of tragedy you see as a police officer I uh it was in the late 80s I think about
88, 89. I was the police officer the constable at the village of Denham in Buckinghamshire just on
the edge of London there and sometimes I get fed up people are always at you, you know excuse me,
excuse me, I’ve got this problem so I used to hide when it came to lunch time. I would take a little
break with my sandwiches flask of coffee in the churchyard behind the church in Denham village
now where I used to sit. Uh if I remember correctly it was an apple tree there was these
lovely um apple blossom and that kind of thing so it's early summer you know late spring but I used
to sit next to a grave which um, really got to me it was the axe murder graves the 1870s an entire
family had been murdered so I often used to sit there, very rarely any flowers and the stone on it
was fading so I used to sit there and kind of keep them company and I’m sat there this one day. It's
so quiet, I just loved it nobody around to disturb me and as I’m eating my sandwiches as
a voice comes on Kevin, Kevin. Really creepy just on the wind and I thought to myself
somebody's uh having a joke here and I looked around and I could see the whole graveyard,
the whole cemetery here nobody is there. Carry on eating my sandwiches, pour some coffee, Kevin,
Kevin and I actually thought, now I’m being honest with you here, that it was God. Here
I am. I’m in a cemetery. I’m right next to the church and this voice is so gentle on the wind
and I looked up as if to say yes lord when I thought hang on where's that coming from.
So I stood on the bench and I’m looking around and I can't see anybody in that church yard and then
the voice comes over PC Hicks, I’m over here you dope. And I think well that's not God is it?
Please constable Hicks yeah so I look in there right at the end of the cemetery in
the new part I could see sticking up out of a grave the eyes and nose of somebody. Oh dear
somebody's fell in an open grave. So closed me sandwiches, secured my bicycle, you never know,
put on my policeman's hat and off I went down the cemetery and sure enough
there was somebody in an open grave. They'd fallen in, but it was the gravedigger
and he's full of expletives and was very angry and so grateful I was there but he was stuck.
He'd been opening up a grave that already had somebody in it from a few years before and his
feet had actually gone through the lid of the coffin. Horrors yeah? And uh I had to go and
get a ladder from behind his work shed get him out and we'd come up to where my coffee was he
sat down with his flask and he was still cursing and I said so you, you often have problems in this
church yard. He says Kevin, he says you wouldn't know, you just don't know what's down there
and then he said you know the other night I was uh digging a grave it was just for some ashes to be
put in some urns to finish off this old Victorian grave and it was down at the back entrance to the
cemetery. I went oh yeah, I know where you are. He says well it was the grave right next to the gate,
I’m halfway down, sit down open me sandwiches, flask of tea, light up a candle because it's
getting a bit low, getting a bit dark. He used to keep a candle in a jam jar
and I said oh yeah yeah, I’ve seen you doing that before now. He says yeah. He says¬¬ well
problem is I fell asleep. I said what? He says, halfway through the dig I fell asleep. I said
only you could fall asleep in a cemetery. He says the dead never hurt anybody Kevin,
and that we giggled. He says the problem was he said, when I woke up
I realized straight away where I was so I quickly lit my candle,
me candle and I stood up. Yawn, as I stood up there was a car there, and both the doors to the
front were open and there was a couple naked doing stuff across the driving seat. When I stood up
and they took one look at me as I’m holding up my… you know they drove away without actually closing
the car's doors to their BMW. It was hilarious. He said I’ve often wondered is there somebody in this
world telling the story of when somebody rose up from the dead or was it an illicit meeting.
We laughed. Now that churchyard has some famous people in there now, people who I knew when they
were alive Sir John Mills and people like that but the tragedy of that church are the axe murders
I’ve had another look into it and I’m thinking I might just do a film about these
people the Marshall family that were butchered. It should be famous or infamous but actually Jack
the Ripper takes the place, so stand by for some more stories of when Kevin was actually
a police officer. Now I hope you enjoyed that video if you did, like, share and subscribe.
Remember to turn on the notifications if you do subscribe and a quick shout out to a couple of my
uh patreon members Richard MacPherson and Micah S, so guys thanks for now. Bye, see you soon.