The crews of a British steamship and of its pilot boat see a giant fiery serpent in the sky, accompanied by an earthquake.
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October 13, 2015
in Creature Feature , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Sky Mysteries , Victorian
and tagged death omen , earthquake at sea , giant snake , H.M.S. Serpent , shipwreck , snake in the sky , snake vision , Trinacria
The deaths of rulers are often predicted or memorialized by Things in the Sky. Within a month of President James A Garfield’s death, some Demarva visionaries saw Garfield in Glory, escorted to his Heavenly reward by an honor guard of angels.
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September 19, 2015
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Sky Mysteries , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged angel visions , angels in the sky , James A. Garfield , marching angels , vision of President Garfield
Any sky-gazing culture has traditions about faces or figures in the moon: the proverbial Man, a hare, two children carrying water, a thief laden with cabbages or sticks. A lady miniature artist of Boston, a woman of keen, albeit sentimental vision, had a startling night-sky revelation in 1906 of the Madonna of Seven Moons.
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August 25, 2015
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged astronomy , figures on the moon , images on the moon , lunar pictures , madonna and child , man in the moon , moon , moon images , The Madonna in the Moon
The Death Curse of the Great Hunter. A hunter with a mania for slaughtering wild animals is marked for a terrible revenge.
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July 30, 2015
in Animal Tales , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Sky Mysteries , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged African wildlife , Buddhist curse , Cecil the lion , Ceylon , elephant hunting , fire from heaven , hunting , ivory poachers , lightning death , lightning strikes , Major Thomas William Rogers , Nuwara Eliya , retribution , Sri Lanka , The Death Curse of the Great Hunter. , Walter Palmer , wildlife hunts
Schoolchildren in Limerick spot the Virgin Mary up in the sky, accompanied by multi-colored orbs of light.
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July 14, 2015
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , News , Nuns , religion , Sky Mysteries , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Irish Marian apparitions , Limerick Ireland , Marian apparition , Mount Saint Vincent Limerick , Sisters of Charity
The Flagman and the Skeleton: A Vision in the Sun From the time of the War of 1812 comes a story of an unusually vivid three-day vision of a man with a flag and a skeleton, observed by many onboard HMS Majestic, then lying off Boston.
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June 13, 2015
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Captain John Hayes , eagle vision , flag vision , HMS Majestic , Napoleon , Sir Henry Hotham , skeleton vision , sky vision , solar vision , sun visions , The Flagman and the Skeleton: A Vision in the Sun , War of 1812
A strange and luminous bird caused a flap on a steam-boat in 1869–did it presage disaster?
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April 28, 2015
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged eclipse of 1869 , fire bird , firebird , firebird apparition , grey eagle , luminous birds , prophecies
In 1917 John Van Valkenburg, a Salt Lake City inventor, announced that he had conquered the laws of gravity and had an aircraft that could fly from Salt Lake City to the Pacific Coast and back in a night. It was reported that he had taken it to Washington and then turned it over to the US government for use in the War effort. Then, suddenly, Van Valkenburg found himself on trial.
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April 18, 2015
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Social History , Strange Lives , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged aircraft , airships , aviation , First World War , Great War , inventors , John Van Valkenburg , mysterious airplanes , mystery airships , World War I
“Edgewood,” a house designed by architect Ehrick Kensett Rossiter, is said to have a massive meteorite for a garden ornament.
It’s that time of year when mysterious pillars of light brighten the winter sky. Three examples of mystery lights and pillars.
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February 7, 2015
in 18th century , Fortean Mysteries , News , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged aurora borealis , fortean mysteries , ice crystals , light pillars , mystery lights , Newburyport Massachusetts haunted school house , northern lights , sky mysteries