A Corpse on Eggs A mysterious infant corpse found on a layer of eggs in a chimney.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 27, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Corpse On Eggs , chimney burial , corpse on eggs , Easter , Easter eggs , egg magic , hidden charms , hidden objects , mummified infant , mysteries , Paris , witchcraft
Consumption Cottage An Illinois cottage where an unusually large number of tenants died of consumption.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 24, 2018
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths
and tagged consumption , Consumption Cottage , Effingham County Illinois , hoodoo houses , infectious disease , sick houses , tuberculosis , World TB Day
Death in Nightingale Vale – A Japanese Ghost Story Nightingale Vale was haunted by the ghost of an old woman luring people to commit suicide.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 20, 2018
in Animal Tales , Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News
and tagged bewitched cat , Cherry Blossom Festival , Death in Nightingale Vale - A Japanese Ghost Story , haunted cemetery , haunted forest , Japanese ghost story , Mikawashimura , suicide forest , Uguisudani , Yanaka Cemetery
The Dark Man Remember the Dark Man, the changeling… A story for St Patrick’s Day.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 17, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Short Story , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged abducted by the fairies , blind man , changeling , changelings , fairy fiddler , Ireland , Irish changeling , Irish fiddler , Liscannor , Moher , St Patrick's Day , The Dark Man
Blue Flame Ghost Civil War troops are terrified by a headless blue flame ghost.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 13, 2018
in Crime , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Spook Lights , Victorian , War
and tagged blue flame ghost , Civil War ghost story , headless ghost , spook lights , Virginia ghosts
The Expenses of Necromancy Sandwiched in a savage review of The Occult Sciences by Arthur Edward Waite is this cutting analysis of the expenses of necromancy.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 10, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , News , Occultism/Magic , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Arthur Edward Waite , Histoire de la Magie , necromancy , occult rituals , raising the dead , The Expenses of Necromancy , The Occult Sciences
A Bewitched Farmhouse at Binbrook A farmhouse at Binbrook, Lincolnshire, is bewitched by a witch or a polt.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 6, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Witches
and tagged A Bewitched Farmhouse at Binbrook , Binbrook , English witches , Grimsby , incendiary poltergeist , John Dunn , Lincolnshire , Lincolnshire witches , poltergeist , Walk Farm , walking dead , William Drakes , witchcraft , witches
Death by Owl A young wife is scared to death by an owl that had been following her.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 3, 2018
in Animal Tales , Death , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged death by owl , frightened to death , Josetta Coonan O’Neill , owl festival , owls , owls as omens of death , scared to death , strange deaths
The Phantom Teeth of Knightsbridge After a man died from swallowing his teeth, the phantom teeth began to haunt his widow and his flat.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 27, 2018
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Strange Deaths
and tagged choking on false teeth , dentist , Elliott O'Donnell , false teeth , loose teeth , pawnbroker , pawned teeth , swallowing false teeth , The Phantom Teeth of Knightsbridge
Farmer Burrows’s Stone Corpses Farmer Burrows finds stone corpses tied together in a dead tree.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 24, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Bodies , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Farmer Burrows's Stone Corpses , incorrupt bodies , John L Burrows , mummified bodies , Ohio Forteana , petrified bodies , petrified corpses , stone corpses , Warren County Ohio