May Queen Crowned in Coffin A May Queen dies, but May Day still goes on and she is crowned in her coffin.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 1, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson , dead May Queen , May Day , May Queen , May Queen Crowned in Coffin
Pickled to Death Deaths from embalming fluid poisoning, often mistaken for alcohol.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 28, 2018
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged drinking embalming fluid , embalmer , embalming , embalming fluid accidents , embalming fluid poisonings , embalming fluid suicide , Pickled to Death , poisoned by embalming fluid , undertaker suicide , undertakers , wakes
Death in the Mango Tree A woman encounters a death-urging creature in an Assam mango tree.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 21, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Assam , Death in the Mango Tree , Death in the Tree , Devil Tree , Earth Day , Elliott O'Donnell , forest elementals , Indian ghost stories , sylvan horrors , The Devil is in the Mango , Trees of Ghostly Dread , vagrarians
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
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 14, 2018
in Crime , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Abraham Lincoln , D D Home , Lincoln's assassination , omens of death , predicting Lincoln's assassination , Predicting Lincoln's Death by Horoscope Trance and Manual Alphabet , Profssor Thomas Lister , prophecy , prophetic dreams , tokens of death , trance
Embalmed alive Horrific tales of ingestion of embalming fluid or premature embalming.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 10, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged bizarre deaths , catalepsy , embalmed alive , formaldehyde , formalin , medical malpractice , medical mistakes , near death experiences , premature burial , 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?
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 7, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Chief Medical Examiner , coroner , Criminal Courts Building , forensics , ghosts , haunted coroner's office , New York City Coroner , New York City ghosts , New York Morgue , Spook Wants a Coroner , suicide museum , suicide poison closet
A Corpse on Eggs A mysterious infant corpse found on a layer of eggs in a chimney.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
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
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