Buddha’s Butterfly A ghostly butterfly haunt’s Buddha’s statue.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 12, 2017
in Animal Tales , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spook Lights , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Buddha statue , ghost butterfly , ghostly butterfly , living creature enclosed in statue , luminous butterfly , phantom butterfly
Phantom Coaches at the Door Phantom coaches pull up to the door, bringing death or mystery.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 8, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Augustus Hare , Brentford , Carham , dead coach , death coach , death omens , Ealing Park , family ghosts , Irish ghosts , Lady Victoria Kirwan , Limerick Ireland , Marquis of Hastings , Mount Coote , phantom coach , Phantom Coaches at the Door , tokens of death
Damned Images – Happy Birthday, Charles Fort! A selection of damned images for Charles Fort’s birthday celebration
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Chris Woodyard
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August 5, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Berlin Heights Ohio , Bourbon Indiana , Charles Fort , Charles Hoy Fort , Damned Images , Damned Images - Happy Birthday , Dr Machette , face in the window , face in the window ghost , forteana , Hardin A Tucker , Hudson Tuttle , images not made with hands , lightning daguerreotype , Milton Laughlin , mysterious images , Pareidolia , Sydney Australia , The Face in the Window , window pane ghost , window pane specters
Cholera Curiosities Fortean curiosities of cholera including blue fog, sulfurous stenches, vanishing birds. and Women in Black.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 1, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged avian cholera , Carbondale Pennsylvania , Cholera Curiosities , cholera epidemic , Cholera Forteana , cholera in India , cholera in Italy , cholera in Russia , death omens , disappearing birds , fortean mysteries , Queen Theresa of Bavaria , strange cholera phenomenon , The Woman in Black , The Women in Black
The Voluntary Lunatic A Spiritualist tells lady mediums how to avoid involuntary commitment to lunatic asylums.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 29, 2017
in medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged George Boole , involuntary committal , Mary Everest Boole , Mrs George Boole , Spiritualism and lunacy laws , The Voluntary Lunatic , Victorian insane asylums , Victorian spiritualism
Down to the Sea in Sharks Stories of objects and people eaten by sharks.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 25, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Abram C. Littleton , bones found in shark , Down to the Sea in Sharks , eaten by a shark , man-eating sharks , Shark Week , sharks , Sultana steamship disaster , things found in sharks' stomachs
Only Holes A skull-faced Swiss ghost haunts children.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 22, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian
and tagged Chamonix , faceless ghosts , French ghosts , John Ruskin , Joseph Coutet , Only Holes , skull-faced ghost , Swiss ghosts , Switzerland , William James Stillman
Captain Osborn Sees an Untoo Captain Osborn of the Royal Navy sees an Untoo or evil Malay spirit, much to his shock.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 18, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged Captain Osborn Sees an Untoo , Captain Sherard Osborn , Hantu , Kedah , Malay folklore , Malay ghosts , Malayia , Malaysia , Pacific ghosts , Quedah , Royal Navy , Untoo
The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House The Spiritualist Eddy Brothers and their family see a phantom carriage sent as an omen of a death in the family.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 15, 2017
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged death coach , Eddy brothers , Henry Steel Olcott , Horatio Eddy , materialization mediums , mediums , People from the Other World , phantom coach , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House , Vermont , William Eddy
The Fairy Kiss. A mysterious kiss is bestowed on a grieving woman in an Irish house built on fairy ground.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 11, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Victorian
and tagged fairies in Ireland , fairy kisses human , Good People , Hawthorn trees , Irish fairies , Irish fairy encounters , May trees , The Fairy Kiss , The Gentry
