Morris-dancing Fairies Two accounts of Morris-dancing fairies in Wales.
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Chris Woodyard
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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
The Devonshire Death Fire A fire set as a prank by a Devonshire farmer is seen as an omen of death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 2, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , News , Panics , Prophecies , Social History , Spook Lights , Victorian
and tagged corpse candles , Death Light , death omens , Devonshire death fire , Devonshire death omens , Devonshire folklore , Scotland folklore , spook lights , Tanwe , The Devonshire Death Fire , tokens of death , Welsh folklore
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
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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?"
Haunted Ice The people of Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, refused to use the haunted ice, fearing it harbored the spirit of a suicide.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 20, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Strange Deaths
and tagged cutting ice , ghost frozen in ice , Haunted Ice , ice houses , Port Clinton Pennsylvania , suicide frozen in ice , suicides , William Glassmier
The Rolling Bogey of Pogue’s Run A rolling bogey and/or a shape-shifting ghost haunted residents of Pogue’s Run, Indiana.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 27, 2018
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Victorian
and tagged boggarts , bridge ghosts , fairy census , Indiana ghosts , Indianapolis ghosts , Pogue's Run , Pogue's Run Bottoms , rolling Pooka , rolling wool bogey , shape-shifters , shapeshifters , The Rolling Bogey of Pogue's Run
Louisville’s Hoodoo Dog The Hoodoo Dog of Louisville, Kentucky was said to doom any man he befriended.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 18, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , medical oddities , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Deaths
and tagged ghost dog , hoodoo dog , Kentucky forteana , Kentucky ghost dog , Kentucky ghost stories , killer dog , Louisville ghost dog , Louisville Kentucky , Louisville's Hoodoo Dog , panics , Rosenbaum
Ghosts in Grave-clothes Ghosts who appear in Grave-clothes, usually archaic in style.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 7, 2017
in Costume History , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Panics , Social History , Victorian
and tagged ghosts in burial garments , Ghosts in Grave-clothes , ghosts in shrouds , omens of death , second sight , shrouded spooks , shrouds , tokens of death
Here, Mr Hotfoot The Devil is hotfooting it around the Black Country, searing footprints into the soil.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 4, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , religion , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Black Country , devil's foot prints , devil's foot-marks , Devil's Hoofmarks , Eagle Colliery , Great Devon Mystery of 1855 , Here Mr Hotfoot , Mike Dash , Mr Hotfoot , mysterious footprints , Rosley Regis , Satan's Spoor , Spring-heel-Jack , the devil
Orange You Scared? The color orange as a rare paranormal color, usually found only in spook lights.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 14, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Sky Mysteries , Spook Lights , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged orange , orange ghost , orange phantom , orange spook lights , Orange You Scared? , spook lights , supernatural orange lights , the color orange
National Ghost Hunting Day Celebrating National Ghost Hunting Day with profiles of famous ghost hunters and stories of spook seekers, amateur or professional.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 30, 2017
in Crime , Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , Interesting People , News , Panics , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Charlie Dove , coughing ghost , Elliott O'Donnell , ghost hunting , ghost panics , Hereward Carrington , hunting ghosts , Jack the Stripper , National Ghost Hunting Day , professional ghost , psychic howler