The Twelve Deaths of Christmas Twelve Christmas-themed deaths because it’s the hap-hapless-est time of the year!
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 18, 2018
in Christmas , Death , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Christmas deaths , dangerous Christmas gifts , dangerous Christmas toys , dreadful deaths , Father Christmas , poisoned fruitcake , poisoned stockings , Santa Claus , shoot your eye out , The Twelve Deaths of Christmas
A Christmas Ghost Story – The Crown Derby Plate Revive the tradition of the Christmas ghost story with “The Crown Derby Plate,” by Marjorie Bowen.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 15, 2018
in Christmas , Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Short Story
and tagged A Christmas Ghost Story - The Crown Derby Plate , Christmas ghost stories , Christmas ghosts , Marjorie Bowen , olfactory hauntings , The Crown Derby Plate
The Hairwork Bracelet A hairwork bracelet is materialized from the spirit world at Christmas.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 4, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Christmas , Christmas presents , hair jewellery , hairwork bracelet , memorial hairwork , memorial jewellery , mourning jewellery , Spiritualism , Strange Christmas presents , The Hairwork Bracelet , wreath of flowers
The Groaning Thanksgiving Board. There is much to groan about in this collection of toxic Thanksgiving foodstuffs.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 20, 2018
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged poisoned cranberries , poisoned gravy , poisoned holiday foods , poisoned potatoes , poisoned pumpkin pie , poisoned turkey , Thanksgiving , Thanksgiving poisonings , The Groaning Thanksgiving Board
Ghosts Counting Oranges In 1908 The Metropolitan Psychical Society offered $5,000 to any medium who could get the ghosts to count the oranges spilled behind him.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 17, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism
and tagged Dr. Isaac Funk , Dutch ghost , Dutch ghost photograph , Ghosts Counting Oranges , James H. Hyslop , James L. Kellogg , Metropolitan Psychical Society , Spiritism , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud , Spiritualist tests , telepathy , W.S. Davis
The Spiritual Telegraph Stories of spirits speaking through the medium of the telegraph.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 13, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged EVP , ghostly messages , ghostly telegraphy , ghosts in the machine , ghosts on the phone , haunted telegraph , telegraphy , The Spiritual Telegraph
A Casket 300 Feet Long A casket 300 feet long would be required to bring back the remains of all the US soldiers who died in the Great War in France.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 10, 2018
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , War
and tagged A Casket 300 Feet Long , American Undertakers' Association , Armistice Day , First World War , First World War cemeteries , Gold Star Mothers , Great War , Great War mourning , Howard S. Eckels , Mabel Fonda Gareissen , repatriation of soldiers' remains , returning dead American soldiers to the United States , The Purple Cross , WWI , WWI mourning
The Death of the Queen of Bohemia Writer Zoe Anderson Norris, the Queen of Bohemia, is warned by the ghost of her mother that she is next to follow her in death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 6, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths
and tagged death omens , death tokens , Land of the White Lilies , mother returns to warn of death , omens of death , prophetic dreams , The Death of the Queen of Bohemia , The Land of White Lilies , tokens of death , Zoe Anderson Norris
Cremated Alive We fire up the retort as we look at the third of a terrifying triumvirate of Victorian death-fears: being embalmed alive, dissected alive, and cremated alive.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 3, 2018
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged 19th-century cremation , cremated alive , cremation , premature burial , premature cremation , Victorian cremation
