Racing Tips from the Astral Plane The author describes the racing tips he received from the Astral Plane via luminous letters and images.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 5, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged Hermis , mental impressions , mental vision , occult science , predicting horse race winners , Preen , prophecy , prophetic visions , psychic phenomena , psychic research , Racing Tips from the Astral Plane , Savable , Sheepshead Bay Race Track , Suburban , Suburban horse race , visions
May Queen Crowned in Coffin A May Queen dies, but May Day still goes on and she is crowned in her coffin.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 1, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson , dead May Queen , May Day , May Queen , May Queen Crowned in Coffin
The Road to Perdition – Hell Located Various Hell locations around the world; New Jersey leads the pack.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 25, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged damnation , Darvasa Gas Crater , devil , geography , Hell , Mount Etna , Mount Heckla , New Jersey , Perdition , purgatory , St Patrick's Purgatory , The Rev. Caesar Andrew Augustus Taylor , The Road to Perdition: Hell Located , William Whiston
Death in the Mango Tree A woman encounters a death-urging creature in an Assam mango tree.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 21, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Assam , Death in the Mango Tree , Death in the Tree , Devil Tree , Earth Day , Elliott O'Donnell , forest elementals , Indian ghost stories , sylvan horrors , The Devil is in the Mango , Trees of Ghostly Dread , vagrarians
The Little Stone Book A miniature stone book is found in Wyandotte County, Kansas, by local antiquarian George U.S. Hovey.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 17, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged carved stone book , George U.S. Hovey , Kansas missionaries , Kansas wonders and curiosities , miniature stone book , Mormon , Native American artifacts , pipestone clay , Quindaro township , The Little Stone Book , White Church Kansas , Wyandotte County Kansas
Predicting Lincoln’s Death by Horoscope, Trance, and Manual Alphabet Lincoln’s death predicted by a variety of seers including an astrologer who cast a horoscope, a trance medium, and a student using the manual alphabet
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 14, 2018
in Crime , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Abraham Lincoln , D D Home , Lincoln's assassination , omens of death , predicting Lincoln's assassination , Predicting Lincoln's Death by Horoscope Trance and Manual Alphabet , Profssor Thomas Lister , prophecy , prophetic dreams , tokens of death , trance
Embalmed alive Horrific tales of ingestion of embalming fluid or premature embalming.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 10, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged bizarre deaths , catalepsy , embalmed alive , formaldehyde , formalin , medical malpractice , medical mistakes , near death experiences , premature burial , premature embalming
Midnight Grange and Bogey Park – Haunted Houses To Let A report on haunted houses available from the estate agents of the Society for Psychical Research.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 3, 2018
in Folklore , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged estate agents , Haunted House and Estate Agents , haunted house rental agency , haunted houses , haunted real estate , letting agents , MESSRS. EDMUND GURNEY & CO. , Midnight Grange and Bogey Park - Haunted Houses To Let , real estate and ghosts , Society for Psychical Research , stigmatised properties , Victorian humor
Ape-ril Fool Was the ape-man on the Miner girls’ farm a hoax to scare them off the property or an April Fool’s joke?
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 31, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics
and tagged ape man , Ape-ril Fool , April Fool , April Fool's hoax , April Fool's joke , Connecticut , hoaxes , Mildred Miner , Muriel Miner , North Stonington , P T Barnum , side-show performer , Zip "what-is-it?"
A Corpse on Eggs A mysterious infant corpse found on a layer of eggs in a chimney.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 27, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Corpse On Eggs , chimney burial , corpse on eggs , Easter , Easter eggs , egg magic , hidden charms , hidden objects , mummified infant , mysteries , Paris , witchcraft