Archive for
‘September, 2014’

The druggist and the dagger. A horrific story of burial alive from Greece this week, inspires a post on a New Jersey dentist’s solution for his fear of premature interment.

A Golfing Ghost Story from St Andrews A golfing Earl meets his doom on the links at St Andrews.

Summoned by a “spirit friend,” a man steps out of his body to help deliver a baby from a distressed laboring mother.

Butterflies of Doom For all its reputation as a symbol of the soul, the butterfly is not often found as a death omen. Perhaps it is more a conductor of souls.

The Devil in a Diving Suit -Scared to Death in Toledo The story of the unfortunate Mrs Joseph Smolinski of Toledo, Ohio, scared to death by–a Public Health Official?

The Victorian Book of the Dead’s first chapter is on personifications of Death. Here we meet a Reaper-like Death Angel, who discusses, in a weirdly bureaucratic way, the persons who are to be taken.

Today we look at some hair-collectors—not ones who wanted to make sentimental hair jewelry or memorial hair wreaths, as was so commonly done in the Victorian period, but persons with more sinister motives. Meet “Jack the Clipper.”

A German professor came up with an unusual theory about where the Devil got his face. The Stuarts are blamed once again.

The statue of a horned Satan which appeared mysteriously in Vancouver seems as good an excuse as any to revisit two posts on the Devil and his minions.