The Man Who Talked to Monkeys at San Francisco’s Woodward’s Gardens.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 12, 2016
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged monkey language , monkey speech , primate communication , simian language , speaking with monkeys , The Man Who Talked to Monkeys , Woodward's Gardens
The Wizard and the Kidnapper. World-renowned Wizard of Graphology, Rafael Schermann analyses the ransom notes in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 1, 2016
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Social History , Strange Deaths
and tagged Bootlegger , Charles Lindbergh Jr. , graphology , handwriting analysis , kidnapping , Lindbergh kidnapping , Rafael Schermann , Richard Hauptmann , The Wizard and the Kidnapper
Some Discontented Daemon torments a young servant in 17th-century Devon with shredded clothes, apparitions, bodily contortions, and levitation.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 16, 2016
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , News , Poltergeists , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Andrew Paschal , clothes-slashing poltergeists , devil , Devon ghosts , flying , Francis Fry , John Aubrey , levitation , poltergeists , possession , Some Discontented Daemon
Weekend Compendium: 6 January 2016: The Ladies’ Man, A Fluttering in the Vault, A Woodsy Costume (barking), Begotten by a Ghost, Hairdressing for the Dead.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 6, 2016
in Animal Tales , Costume History , Cryptozoology , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged costume history , dressing the hair of the dead , ghost bird , ghost gets woman pregnant , ladies' man , sex with ghost , Weekend Compendium: 6 January 2016
Begotten by a Ghost: Madame Lasalle and her etherealized spouse produce a bouncing baby boy
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Chris Woodyard
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February 4, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Begotten by a Ghost , sex with ghosts , spectrophilia , spirit materialization , woman made pregnant by ghost
The Lesser (King’s) Evil: A desperate woman, suffering from scrofula, submits to a gruesome home surgery.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 28, 2016
in Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Victorian
and tagged 19th century medicine , 19th-century surgery , sawing off the skull , scrofula , surgery without anesthetic , The Lesser (King's) Evil
Weekend Compendium: 16 January 2016
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 16, 2016
in Costume History , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , lethal clothing , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , extravagant funerals , French couture , French models , frozen ghosts , frozen to death , funeral jobs , funeral service , mannequins , Minnesota ghosts , mourning customs , mourning professions , poisoned stockings , Spiritualism , weekend compendium
Dr. Slade, the Medium and the strange stories whispered about him.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 12, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , Dr. Slade , Dr. Slade the Medium , homosexuals , shamans , slate writing , spirit messages , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , the Medium , transsexuals , Victorian spiritualism
The Freak Man describes how he creates carnival gaffs and “natural specimens” for dime museums.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 7, 2015
in Cryptozoology , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged carnival gaffs , demon children , dime museums , double baby , fake sea serpent , freak maker , panoramas , The Freak-Man
A professional corpse says the job is “dead easy.”
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Chris Woodyard
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September 24, 2015
in Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged burial alive stunts , buried alive , carnival attraction , escapeologist , professional corpse , sideshow attraction , The Professional Corpse
