Falling Angel Witnesses saw an angel fluttering to the ground and shot at it.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 21, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged angel , angel in the sky , bad omen , falling angel , Levi Vining , Louisiana angel , pelican , Ponchatoula , prophetic bird , shooting an angel , shooting down an angel
The Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan Where is the Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan?
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 18, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Genghis Khan , Gobi Desert , Khara-Khoto , Mausoleum of Genghis Khan , Mongolia , Mongolian archaeology , Pyotr Kozlov , The Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan , Tomb of Genghis Khan
Dead as a Doornail -The Carpenter of Doom Over the space of a lifetime, a man was haunted by recurring visits from a mysterious carpenter, whose presence meant death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 14, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged banshee , Dead as a Doornail: The Carpenter of Doom , death angel , death omens , mysterious carpenter , personifications of Death , phantom carpenter , psychopomp , spectral carpenter , tokens of death , unearthly carpenter
An Overwhelming Odour of Corruption was the main feature of the haunting of “Holly Cottage” The stench of corruption, flabby hands, spitting in the dark, and the sound of a coffin being moved. No wonder the rent was so low.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 4, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged an overwhelming odour of corruption , dangerous ghosts , elementals , English ghost stories , ghostly smells , ghostly stench , ghosts , horrors , olfactory hauntings , poltergeists , smell of corruption , smell of decomposition , sound of a coffin being moved
Morris-dancing Fairies Two accounts of Morris-dancing fairies in Wales.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 28, 2018
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics
and tagged Bodfari , Coblynau , Denbighshire , dwarfs , Edward Williams , Elias Owen , fairies , Morris Dancers , Morris Dancing , Morris-dancing Fairies , The Reverend Edmund Jones , Welsh fairies , Wirt Sikes
Old Jokes’ Home Celebrating Tell an Old Joke Day with Victorian gallows humor, cholera jokes, puns, and heartlessness.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 24, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged antique jokes , bustle jokes , choking with mirth , cholera jokes , false hair jokes , gallows humor , morbid jokes , old jokes , Old Jokes' Home , painful humor , painful joke , sick jokes , spiritualist jokes , Tell an Old Joke Day , Victorian humor , Victorian jokes
Cheiro and the Czar The society palmist Cheiro told Czar Nicholas II of Russia of his doom a decade before the Russian Revolution.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 17, 2018
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Social History , War
and tagged Cheiro , Cheiro and the Czar , Czar Nicholas II of Russia , Nicholas Romanov , palm reading , palmist , Romanov Death Prophecy , Romanov murders , Yekaterinburg
Something Baleful on the Bridge Something invisible and baleful on the bridge evokes awful feeling of horror, sickness, and impending death in the witnesses.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 14, 2018
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged bridge ghost , evil aura , evil spirits , ghost on bridge , haunted bridges , invisible animal , panic , phantom animal , phantom dog , Something Baleful on the Bridge
A Charm from Cheltenham A charm from Cheltenham is given to a young RAF flier who immediately recovers his lost nerve and, despite many crashes, lives a charmed life
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Chris Woodyard
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July 10, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Social History , Strange Lives , War
and tagged A Charm from Cheltenham , A. Cosgrave George , First World War , Great War , Great War aviator , pilot mascot , RAF Centenary , RAF fly-over , RAF lucky charm , RAF pilot lucky charm , Royal Air Force , soldier lucky charm
The Elf-Shot Spaniel A curious dog is elf-shot by grotesque Irish fairies after straying into their territory.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 23, 2018
in Animal Tales , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged dog elf-shot by fairies , dog shot by the elves , elf bolts , elf darts , elf-shot , elf-stone , elfin arrows , evil fairies , injured by the fairies , Irish fairies , Irish water spaniel , mad dog , malevolent fairies , Shot by the Elves , The Elf-Shot Spaniel