Author Archive

Called by the Dead The living are called by the dead to join them, even if it means committing suicide. The dead can be so demanding…

Silk in the Super-Sargasso Sea A vanished roll of silk mysteriously reappears–had it been captured by Charles Fort’s Super-Sargasso Sea?

An Overwhelming Odour of Corruption was the main feature of the haunting of “Holly Cottage” The stench of corruption, flabby hands, spitting in the dark, and the sound of a coffin being moved. No wonder the rent was so low.

The Fatal Glass of Beer Mrs Hubbard was mysteriously poisoned by a fatal glass of beer. In the aptly named Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, a railroad flagman has an unexpected encounter with the dead woman.

Morris-dancing Fairies Two accounts of Morris-dancing fairies in Wales.

Old Jokes’ Home Celebrating Tell an Old Joke Day with Victorian gallows humor, cholera jokes, puns, and heartlessness.

Detritus of the Dead Mourners of the past used the detritus of the dead–personal artifacts and mementos–to make mourning wreaths.

Cheiro and the Czar The society palmist Cheiro told Czar Nicholas II of Russia of his doom a decade before the Russian Revolution.

Something Baleful on the Bridge Something invisible and baleful on the bridge evokes awful feeling of horror, sickness, and impending death in the witnesses.