A Walking Dead Man in Rotuma. The ghost of a murdered man returns to walk the small Pacific island where he lived and was hacked to death.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 8, 2016
in Crime , Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged A Walking Dead Man in Rotuma , Fiji Islands , ghosts , Hugh Hastings Romilly , Kimueli , murder , Pacific Islands , Rotuma
The Tooth-Snatcher A father’s dire dream exposed a shocking crime of tooth-snatching.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 3, 2016
in Body Snatching , Crime , Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian
and tagged bodysnatchers , bodysnatching , corpse teeth , dead man's teeth , dead men's teeth , ghosts , The Tooth-Snatcher , tooth snatchers
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
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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
Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 brings you the week’s posts: the Witch of Leadville, eye-lash history, the ghost of a living woman, a discontented and destructive daemon, as well as creepy crawlies in hair and jungle.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 20, 2016
in Animal Tales , Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Panics , religion , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Witches
and tagged astral projection , Colorado , demons , false eyelashes , false hair , ghosts of the living , giant spiders , gregarines , Leadville , M.R. James , poltergeists , Spiritualism , Valentines , Victorian hairpieces , Victorian humor , Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 , witchcraft , witchcraft trials
The Witch of Leadville A tailor’s wife in a prosperous Colorado mining town finds herself on trial for witchcraft in 1899.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 18, 2016
in Crime , Folklore , News , Occultism/Magic , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Witches
and tagged anti-Semitism , Catherine Rothenberg , Colorado witch , Leadville Colorado , Leadville witch , Martin Roberts , The Witch of Leadville , witch persecution , witchcraft in Colorado
Aping the Devil. The unfortunate Mr Cocks found himself assaulted by a dark demon dragging a chain.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 9, 2016
in Animal Tales , Crime , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A demon on the road , Aping the Devil , baboons , Chinese New Year , Cornish folklore , Cornish road ghost , ghostly monkey , St Columb , Year of the Monkey
Weekend Compendium: 30 January 2016 including levitating chicken-creature.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 30, 2016
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged barber's ghost , dissection room , DIY surgery , ghost hoax , hospital ghosts , Irish ghost , lady detective , Mrs Daffodil , post-mortem room ghost , scrofula , tattoos , theatrical special effects , Weekend Compendium: 30 January 2016
Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016 with a fashion editor out of his depth, spook lights in New Zealand get up close and personal with a traveler, flappers and their corsets, and the ghosts of two murder victims.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 23, 2016
in Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged corsets , executions , fashion magazines , flappers , ghostly murder victim , hanging ropes , hangman , Haunted Ohio , Mary Seneff , New Zealand , Ohio ghosts , spook lights , Victorian fashions , weekend compendium , Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016
The Ghost of Mary Seneff rises from her watery grave, appearing before multiple witnesses.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 21, 2016
in Crime , Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian
and tagged Ellen Athey , ghostly murder victim , Haunted Ohio , Mary Seneff , Ohio ghost stories , Ohio ghosts , Sugar Creek Ohio , The Face in the Window Haunting Ohio Tales , The Ghost of Mary Seneff
The most popular fortean posts on this blog for 2015.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 31, 2015
in Animal Tales , Crime , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , medical oddities , News , Strange Deaths , Strange Lives , Victorian , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged auto-decapitation , bizarre deaths , death by hair , Detroit Devil statue , elemental , elephant ghost , forteana , German war toys , ghost impersonator , Great War toys , Herman Menz , lost children , Missing 411 , phantom car , Romeo the circus elephant , the Phantom of Rt. 40