The Leech Imposture A picture hung in a Catholic church in France begins to bleed, baffling people, priests, and scientists alike.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 5, 2016
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , medical oddities , News , religion , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged bleeding image , bleeding painting , Catholic miracles , miracles , Rose Tamisier , stigmata , The Leech Imposture
REM Sleep Repercussions Can dreams physically influence someone besides the dreamer?
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 19, 2016
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Witches
and tagged dreams , John William Brodie-Innes , REM Sleep Repercussions , stigmata , theory of repercussion , witchcraft
The Man Who Talked to Monkeys at San Francisco’s Woodward’s Gardens.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 12, 2016
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged monkey language , monkey speech , primate communication , simian language , speaking with monkeys , The Man Who Talked to Monkeys , Woodward's Gardens
The Kniveton Stone Spook lights lead searchers to a stone marked with mysterious hieroglyphics.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 5, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Derbyshire , Fortean , Kniveton , mystery stone , mystery writing , psychometry , spook lights , The Kniveton Stone , will-o-the-wisp
Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 brings you the week’s posts: the Witch of Leadville, eye-lash history, the ghost of a living woman, a discontented and destructive daemon, as well as creepy crawlies in hair and jungle.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 20, 2016
in Animal Tales , Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Panics , religion , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Witches
and tagged astral projection , Colorado , demons , false eyelashes , false hair , ghosts of the living , giant spiders , gregarines , Leadville , M.R. James , poltergeists , Spiritualism , Valentines , Victorian hairpieces , Victorian humor , Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 , witchcraft , witchcraft trials
Begotten by a Ghost: Madame Lasalle and her etherealized spouse produce a bouncing baby boy
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Chris Woodyard
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February 4, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Begotten by a Ghost , sex with ghosts , spectrophilia , spirit materialization , woman made pregnant by ghost
Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016 with a fashion editor out of his depth, spook lights in New Zealand get up close and personal with a traveler, flappers and their corsets, and the ghosts of two murder victims.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 23, 2016
in Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged corsets , executions , fashion magazines , flappers , ghostly murder victim , hanging ropes , hangman , Haunted Ohio , Mary Seneff , New Zealand , Ohio ghosts , spook lights , Victorian fashions , weekend compendium , Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016
Weekend Compendium of this week’s posts on Mrs Daffodil and Haunted Ohio, plus extras!
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 9, 2016
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged adultery , alcoholism , bosom serpent , brownies , Charles Fort , DTs , forteana , Haunted Ohio , ice carnival , Mrs Daffodil , psychic research , skrats , weekend compenium
A Paranormal Photo from Portsmouth Mr Grice and his clerk find themselves mystified by a ghostly paranormal photograph in Portsmouth, Ohio.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 17, 2015
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Paranormal Photo from Portsmouth , forteana , ghost photography , paranormal phenomenon , paranormal photograph , Portsmouth Ohio , W.B. Grice
The Freak Man describes how he creates carnival gaffs and “natural specimens” for dime museums.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 7, 2015
in Cryptozoology , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged carnival gaffs , demon children , dime museums , double baby , fake sea serpent , freak maker , panoramas , The Freak-Man