A Spot of Bother: Jack the Ink-Slinger Jack the Ink-Slinger had a fetish for spraying purple ink on ladies’ dresses.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 23, 2017
in Crime , Ephemera , medical oddities , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged A Spot of Bother: Jack the Ink-Slinger , Jack the Ripper , New York , panics , salirophilia , sexual fetishes , spoiling women's dresses with ink , Victorian crime
Review: Central Ohio Legends & Lore Ohio legends from James A. Willis of The Ghosts of Ohio.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 16, 2017
in Crime , Cryptozoology , Death , Folklore , Ghosts , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Annie Aokley , bigfoot , Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery , Dr. Snook , Fort Amanda , Frankenstein's Castle , Gates of Hell , Grassman , Hatchet Man , Johnny Appleseed , Love Rollercoaster , Ohio folklore , Ohio ghosts , Ohio legends , Ohio Players , Ohio urban legends , Review: Central Ohio Legends & Lore , Stonewall Cemetery , Stuart Pierson , The Night The Ghost Got In , Thurber House , urban legends , William Quantrill , Witches' Tower , Woolyburger Cemetery
The Hound of Evanston The Hound of the Baskervilles came to life in 1904, throwing the Illinois suburb of Evanston into convulsions of terror.
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 26, 2017
in Animal Tales , Crime , Cryptozoology , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , News , Panics
and tagged Arthur Conan Doyle , Evanston Illinois , fake ghosts , George P. Macklin , ghost dog , ghost hoaxes , ghostly dog , mastiff , National Dog Day , phosphorescent paste , pranks , rat poison , Sherlock Holmes , The Hound of Evanston , The Hound of the Baskervilles
Damned Images – Happy Birthday, Charles Fort! A selection of damned images for Charles Fort’s birthday celebration
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Chris Woodyard
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August 5, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Berlin Heights Ohio , Bourbon Indiana , Charles Fort , Charles Hoy Fort , Damned Images , Damned Images - Happy Birthday , Dr Machette , face in the window , face in the window ghost , forteana , Hardin A Tucker , Hudson Tuttle , images not made with hands , lightning daguerreotype , Milton Laughlin , mysterious images , Pareidolia , Sydney Australia , The Face in the Window , window pane ghost , window pane specters
Cholera Curiosities Fortean curiosities of cholera including blue fog, sulfurous stenches, vanishing birds. and Women in Black.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 1, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged avian cholera , Carbondale Pennsylvania , Cholera Curiosities , cholera epidemic , Cholera Forteana , cholera in India , cholera in Italy , cholera in Russia , death omens , disappearing birds , fortean mysteries , Queen Theresa of Bavaria , strange cholera phenomenon , The Woman in Black , The Women in Black
Joan of Arc Returns And she’s brought her friends…. Children in a small French village see visions of Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 30, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , Prophecies , religion , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Alzonne , apparition of Joan of Arc , Cecile Lamillot , First World War , Henriette Jambert , Jeanne d'Arc , Jeanne Marie Claret , Joan of Arc , Joan of Arc Returns , La Pucelle , Maid of Orleans , Marian apparitions , Marie Louise Flouret , religious apparitions , The Maid of France Returns
The Woman in Black – Victorian Mourning as Criminal Disguise A look at the rogues’ gallery of crimes committed in the United States from about 1860 to 1929 under the cover of crape by The Women in Black.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 25, 2017
in Costume History , Crime , Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Panics , Social History , Victorian
and tagged criminal disguises , The Woman in Black , The Woman in Black - Victorian Mourning as Criminal Disguise , Victorian mourning , Victorian widows , widows weeds
My Fatal Valentine Stories of fatal or threatening valentines.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 14, 2017
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged brothel valentine , cruel valentines , gruesome valentines , Mrs Sarah Sweeney , Mrs. Philip Sweeney , My Fatal Valentine , severed human ear , threatening valentine , Valentine's Day , vicious valentines , Vinegar Valentines
Feeding the Fairies After scaring away a child’s fairy playmates a coachman “has trouble” with the angry Little People.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 1, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Panics , Social History
and tagged American fairies , Cleveland , fairies , fairy belief , fairy faith , feeding the fairies , gentry , Irish fairies , little people , placating the fairies , Rockefeller Park Cleveland Ohio
Feather Superstitions Superstitions about feathers, witches, and death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 12, 2016
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , News , Occultism/Magic , Panics , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged dead feathers , feather folklore , feather superstitions , feather wreaths , folklore , live feathers , plucking geese , superstitions , witchcraft
