Mr. Henderson Teleports Mr. Alexander Henderson, photographer, teleports at a séance with the famous levitating Mrs. Guppy.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 13, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Alexander Henderson , Alexander Lamont Henderson , Mr. Henderson Teleports , Mrs Guppy , seances , spirit photography , Spiritualism , teleportation , Victorian photographers , Victorian spirit photography
Prophetic Spiders There was a thread of prophetic spider messages written in webs in the 19th and early-20th centuries.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 9, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History , Victorian , War
and tagged educated spiders , First World War , Great War , New Orleans , orb weavers , prophetic spiders , spiders predictions , William McKinley , words in spider webs , World War I , writing in spider webs
Ashes a la carte Ashes of the dead eaten by the living.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 6, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , Mourning Customs and History , News , Strange Lives , vampires , Victorian
and tagged Ashes à la carte , brushing teeth with human ashes , cremains , cremation , eating human ashes , human ashes , Mark Twain , Matilda Francefort , mistakes with human ashes
A New Year’s Parade of the Damned
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December 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A New Year's Parade of the Damned , Black Country , Civil War ghosts , devil , Devil's footprints , dragon's ghost , Eating Holy Clay , flagellation , funeral flowers , kissing corpses , spanking machines , Spiritualism , spook lights , Victorian mourning , Victorian tear bottles , Wales , wild men , witch's curse , witchcraft
Happy Haunted Holidays from Chris Woodyard!
Holiday Horrors A medley of holiday hits.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 20, 2017
in Christmas , Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged Abby Warner , bad Santas , Christmas Eve ghosts , English ghosts , Holiday Horrors , killer Christmas trees , Mary Queen of Scots , Ohio poltergeists , Strange Christmas presents , Tower of London
The Phantom Hog Train A phantom train filled with shrieking phantom hogs unnerved Ohio trainmen at Christmas.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 16, 2017
in Animal Tales , Christmas , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Big Four , Linndale Roundhouse , Peter Carson , Phantom Hog Train , railroad ghosts , railway ghosts , The Phantom Hog Train
The Frost Coffin A coffin and mourning scene is seen on a frosty window of a house of death by four police officers and a watchman.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 12, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Cleveland face in the window case , Cleveland forteana , Cleveland ghosts , frost etchings , frost pictures , image appears in frost , Ohio Forteana , Pareidolia , The Frost Coffin , window daguerreotypes , window ghosts
Tucked Up A narrator is tucked up by an invisible humming horde.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 9, 2017
in Christmas , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News
and tagged alien abduction , auditory hauntings , bedroom invaders , Christmas ghost stories , Christmas paranormal , fairies , fairy abduction , Tucked Up
The Singing None The Catholic family who visited Jumièges Abbey in the summer of 1913 were surprised and delighted at the plain chant they heard in the bare, ruined choir, sung by a chorus of — none.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 5, 2017
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , religion
and tagged anglo-Catholic families , Benedictine monks , Divine Office , Edith Anne , Edward Anne , Ernest Anne , Ernestine Anne , ghostly music , Jumieges Abbey , plain chant , plainchant , recusants , The Singing None , Venerable John Anne