The Devil is a Tenor A sorceress conjures up a musical Prince of Darkness to sing the destinies of her clients.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 11, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Social History , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged devil , divination , Duisburg , fortune telling , prophecy , Prussian witch , The Devil is a Tenor , witchcraft
The Funeral Men A woman and her maid see a pair of funeral mutes standing silently on the balcony outside her husband’s dressing room as a token of his death.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 4, 2016
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged death omens , funeral mutes , ghosts , Men in Black , predicting death , The Funeral Men , tokens of death
The Rabbit of Doom: Was the little white rabbit an angel sent to bring a little soul, hippety-hoppety, to the garden of Heaven?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 21, 2016
in Animal Tales , Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged death omens , rabbit as death omen , The Rabbit of Doom , tokens of death , victorian death omens
The Consumption Letters: Decomposing Correspondence: A physician makes the case that the letters of the ill or dead give off the smell of death and decomposition.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 31, 2016
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged death omens , death scent , odor of decomposition , psychometry , smell of decomposition , The Consumption Letters: Decomposing Correspondence , tokens of death
A Vision of the Flood. Two women see a mysterious vision of a house sitting in the middle of their street, prophetic of the Great Dayton Flood of 1913
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 29, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History
and tagged A Vision of the Flood , Curt Dalton , Dayton history , Dayton History Books Online , Great Dayton Flood of 1913 , premonitions , prophecy , prophetic vision
The Wizard and the Kidnapper. World-renowned Wizard of Graphology, Rafael Schermann analyses the ransom notes in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 1, 2016
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Social History , Strange Deaths
and tagged Bootlegger , Charles Lindbergh Jr. , graphology , handwriting analysis , kidnapping , Lindbergh kidnapping , Rafael Schermann , Richard Hauptmann , The Wizard and the Kidnapper
Predictions for January 1839 Startlingly accurate!
A late traveler sees an apparition surrounded by a blizzard on a cold, clear winter’s night.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 10, 2015
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged blizzard death , crisis apparition , frozen to death , ghosts of the living , road ghost , snowstorm ghost
When the Morfa Colliery exploded in 1890, 87 men died. Did they linger at the Pit of Ghosts, haunting their fellow workmen?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 24, 2015
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Prophecies , religion , Social History , Victorian
and tagged aural hauntings , coal mining disasters , haunted coal mines , haunted mines , Morfa Colliery , Welsh ghosts
Creature Feature: The Woman in Black of New Orleans. A macabre entity that terrorized the citizens of New Orleans, believed to be an omen of death.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 24, 2015
in Creature Feature , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged banshees , Creature Feature: The Woman in Black of New Orleans , ghost panic , New Orleans , New Orleans ghost , omens of death , omens of disaster , The Woman in Black