The Haunted Cab The London cab haunted by the bloody, cut-throat ghost of a suicide.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 23, 2018
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged growler , hackney carriage , haunted cab , London cabby , London ghost story , The Haunted Cab
A Cabinet of Cursed Curiosities A Cabinet of Cursed Curiosities such as Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s death-car, a deadly opal ring, and a drunkard’s chair.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 20, 2018
in Crime , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Cabinet of Cursed Curiosities , Archduke Franz Ferdinand , cursed car of Sarajevo , cursed cars , cursed objects , cursed ring , haunted chair , haunted objects , hoodoo gems , hoodoo objects , Hope Diamond , Prince Henry of Prussia , unlucky objects
The Waxen Effigy of a Child The horribly realistic waxen effigy of a child, created to commemorate a murder.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 16, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News
and tagged cursed object , family curses , haunted effigy , haunted object , haunted statue , Isle of Wight , Objects of the Damned , Priory Bay Hotel , screaming skulls , The Waxen Effigy of a Child , wax effigy , wicked stepmother
The Wild Cat’s Portrait The eyes of a life-sized wild cat portrait brought destruction to the drawing’s owners. A tale of a haunted drawing.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 13, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Dr. Franz Hartmann , elementals , German occultism , haunted art , haunted drawing , haunted painting , Justinus Kerner , Objects of the Damned , The Wild Cat's Portrait , Theobald Kerner , wild cat drawing
Damned Desks Damned desks, in the Fortean sense, that are haunted or hoodooed.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 9, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Coe I. Crawford , cursed furniture , Damned Desks , Elmer Burkett , haunted desk , haunted furniture , hoodoo desk , hoodoos , Karoshi , Objects of the Damned , United States Senate , unlucky 23 , Washington DC
Posing the Corpse Posing the corpse so the corpse can join in the fun of the wake or have a drink or accuse a malefactor or, simply as a joke.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 25, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Cincinnati wake , corpse pranks , Dia de los Muertos , extreme embalming , Herman Henry Lutterbey , MaNene Festival , Posing the Corpse , posing the dead , Tubbe Lutterbey
The Image on the Retina A fictional treatment of the theory of optography in which a young man photographs an image on the retina of his murdered sweetheart, which leads him to the killer.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 22, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Short Story , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged forensic science , Fortean , Mrs. Clinton Davis , Mrs. Winslow Shearman , murder victims , optogram , optography , photographing an image on the retina , Spearman murders , The Image on the Retina
Veto Goes Mad President Garfield’s dog Veto goes mad at the President’s death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 18, 2018
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , medical oddities , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged dog goes mad at death of master , General Garfield's dog , James A. Garfield , Lawnfield , Mentor Ohio , Newfoundland dog , presidential dogs , presidential pets , Veto , Veto Goes Mad
The Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan Where is the Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan?
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 18, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Genghis Khan , Gobi Desert , Khara-Khoto , Mausoleum of Genghis Khan , Mongolia , Mongolian archaeology , Pyotr Kozlov , The Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan , Tomb of Genghis Khan
Dead as a Doornail -The Carpenter of Doom Over the space of a lifetime, a man was haunted by recurring visits from a mysterious carpenter, whose presence meant death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 14, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged banshee , Dead as a Doornail: The Carpenter of Doom , death angel , death omens , mysterious carpenter , personifications of Death , phantom carpenter , psychopomp , spectral carpenter , tokens of death , unearthly carpenter