Author Archive

Pickled to Death Deaths from embalming fluid poisoning, often mistaken for alcohol.

The Road to Perdition – Hell Located Various Hell locations around the world; New Jersey leads the pack.

Death in the Mango Tree A woman encounters a death-urging creature in an Assam mango tree.

The Little Stone Book A miniature stone book is found in Wyandotte County, Kansas, by local antiquarian George U.S. Hovey.

Predicting Lincoln’s Death by Horoscope, Trance, and Manual Alphabet Lincoln’s death predicted by a variety of seers including an astrologer who cast a horoscope, a trance medium, and a student using the manual alphabet

Embalmed alive Horrific tales of ingestion of embalming fluid or premature embalming.

Spook Wants a Coroner A young lady ghost (?) asks to give an ante-mortem statement about the cause of her death. Was she a spook or an insane woman?

Midnight Grange and Bogey Park – Haunted Houses To Let A report on haunted houses available from the estate agents of the Society for Psychical Research.

Easter Greetings – with evil rabbit.