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 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
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
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.
Posted by
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
The Haunted Cab The London cab haunted by the bloody, cut-throat ghost of a suicide.
Posted by
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
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