'I was clearing out elderly neighbour's garage and found something seriously disturbing'
'I was clearing out elderly neighbour's garage and found something seriously disturbing'
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A woman was forced to issue a "trigger warning" before revealing the bizarre item she discovered when cleaning out her elderly neighbour's garage. Molly Thomas from Milton Keynes took to TikTok in shock after helping out the man who worked in media production in the 1960s. "Didn't expect this today!" she penned in a caption alongside a series of snaps of her find. She added: "Turns out my old sound engineer neighbour had something to do with a 1962 recording by he who shall not be named. Bit icky, he definitely didn't know about the darker side at that time.".
The item in question appeared to be a BBC black and white picture postcard of Jimmy Savile's face with "PTO" [please turn over] handwritten by the late disgraced presenter at the bottom. Turning the postcard over revealed a further inscription from Savile - who died aged 84 in 2011 - which read: "This looks like me but actually it's a rare pic of AHAB. Cheers, Jimmy.". 'AHAB' refers to the song, Ahab the Arab, a 1962 release by Savile, which was a novelty cover of the same track written and recorded by Ray Stevens earlier that year. Sympathising, one TikTok user penned in response: "It's not your neighbour's fault, Savile fooled the nation." Molly replied: "I don't think he'd have worked with him if he'd known at the time. It's one of the people I've never heard a story about because I'm guessing he wasn't pleased he recorded him.".
Another quipped: "Now then, now then. Not everyday you find something like that." A third shared a similar tale: "I found one of my Grandma stood next to him. To be fair she looked miffed in it.". Whilst a fourth, seeming to get the wrong end of the stick, defended Molly's neighbour: "Stop being woke, it only means something today, it's unfair to judge someone when you don't know a backstory. Jimmy Savile kissed my mother on the hand once, but I know the backstory.".
Molly responded: "I know the backstory. It was a note acknowledging they'd worked together. I'm allowed to feel gross about it knowing what we know now and it was an unexpected find. Not sure that's woke.". After his death in 2011 it emerged Savile - who was awarded a knighthood in 1990 for his charity work - sexually abused hundreds of victims, many when they were children. Police believe Savile may be the most prolific paedophile in British history.
