Folklore

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.

Damned Desks Damned desks, in the Fortean sense, that are haunted or hoodooed.

The Haunted Rocking Chair Stories of haunted rocking chairs in our October series of “Objects of the Damned.”

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.

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.

Veto Goes Mad President Garfield’s dog Veto goes mad at the President’s death.

The Black Ghost – Part One The Black Ghost met by Lord St. Audries, as told by several different newspapers.

Mermaids and Mad Men – Mermaids in Advertising The Mad Men of advertising swam with the mermaids.

Wizard Richardson “Wizard Richardson,” as Dr Elisha Richardson was called, a healer and perhaps “cunning man” of New Hampshire, locates the body of a missing man.