I visited Birmingham's 'Bermuda Triangle street' and found truth to 'eerie' mystery

The UK has some infamous places where strange and peculiar events have allegedly occurred over recent decades. You've got Loch Ness in Scotland with the Loch Ness Monster, alongside Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, with a major UFO sighting taking place there in 1980.

Then there's the likes of Stonehenge with conspiracy theories about how the ancient monument was actually built. It came as a surprise though when BirminghamLive recently received reports of 'strange goings on' in a quiet city cul-de-sac.

One resident claimed people had ' mysteriously disappeared' from the Gladys Road area in Hay Mills, while a number of cars appeared to have been 'abandoned' there. The resident said it had left the neighbourhood 'eerily quiet'.

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It conjured images akin to the Bermuda Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean, an area where planes have allegedly disappeared without a trace. With the possibility of similar incidents happening on our doorstep, we set out in search of answers.

It did not take long to discover these so-called 'abandoned cars'. In order to access Gladys Road, you have to veer off the bustling A45 Coventry Road onto Deakins Road. There, you'll find a number of terraced streets branching off of it, including Gladys Road.

As I turned into a leafy tree-lined street, I found a number of vehicles covered in leaves, pollen, dust and bird poo. It did appear like they had been left there for good.

The time of day was just after 9am, a usually quiet period of the day, so this added to the atmosphere. It felt overall rather eerie, like the movie set of a post-apocalyptic film, with no signs of life.

Of course, that wasn't the case. Speaking to a few residents on their doorstep, the question became who owned the cars and why did they look 'abandoned'.

Some vehicles, get 'dumped' on the street by thieves and robbers, with Gladys Road within easy reach of the A45 Coventry Road to get away on foot. Other vehicles are totally road legal, they just simply haven't been moved in a long time.

Parking is a premium in the area and this appeared a way to store them. A quick check of the registration plates of some of the abandoned-looking ones revealed some had the necessary tax and MOT - but others didn't. The police and a neighbourhood street do carry out regular patrols and check the status of cars, too.

As to people disappearing from the area, none of the residents had heard such reports. One woman shook her head, perplexed at the notion. A man, who recently moved to Gladys Road, said: "I don't associate with anyone from the area."

Thankfully, there were no further reports of people going missing. But it appears the mystery of cars being abandoned remains.