Spook Wants a Coroner A young lady ghost (?) asks to give an ante-mortem statement about the cause of her death. Was she a spook or an insane woman?
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Chris Woodyard
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April 7, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Chief Medical Examiner , coroner , Criminal Courts Building , forensics , ghosts , haunted coroner's office , New York City Coroner , New York City ghosts , New York Morgue , Spook Wants a Coroner , suicide museum , suicide poison closet
Midnight Grange and Bogey Park – Haunted Houses To Let A report on haunted houses available from the estate agents of the Society for Psychical Research.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 3, 2018
in Folklore , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged estate agents , Haunted House and Estate Agents , haunted house rental agency , haunted houses , haunted real estate , letting agents , MESSRS. EDMUND GURNEY & CO. , Midnight Grange and Bogey Park - Haunted Houses To Let , real estate and ghosts , Society for Psychical Research , stigmatised properties , Victorian humor
Death in Nightingale Vale – A Japanese Ghost Story Nightingale Vale was haunted by the ghost of an old woman luring people to commit suicide.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 20, 2018
in Animal Tales , Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News
and tagged bewitched cat , Cherry Blossom Festival , Death in Nightingale Vale - A Japanese Ghost Story , haunted cemetery , haunted forest , Japanese ghost story , Mikawashimura , suicide forest , Uguisudani , Yanaka Cemetery
Blue Flame Ghost Civil War troops are terrified by a headless blue flame ghost.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 13, 2018
in Crime , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Spook Lights , Victorian , War
and tagged blue flame ghost , Civil War ghost story , headless ghost , spook lights , Virginia ghosts
A Bewitched Farmhouse at Binbrook A farmhouse at Binbrook, Lincolnshire, is bewitched by a witch or a polt.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 6, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Witches
and tagged A Bewitched Farmhouse at Binbrook , Binbrook , English witches , Grimsby , incendiary poltergeist , John Dunn , Lincolnshire , Lincolnshire witches , poltergeist , Walk Farm , walking dead , William Drakes , witchcraft , witches
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
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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 Bijli of the Flaming Torch A deadly spirit with a flaming torch is encountered by a British Colonel in India.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 10, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged Bijli , evil spirits , ghosts in India , India ghosts , Olympic torch , skeletal spirits , The Bijli of the Flaming Torch , the Rev. H. Mayne Young , Winter Olympics
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
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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
A House Afire Two young men see a mysterious house afire near Amsterdam New York, only to find themselves in the dark.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 23, 2018
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Spook Lights , Victorian
and tagged A House Afire , Amsterdam New York , burning building , ghost house , New York ghosts , railroad ghosts , railway ghosts , spook light , train ghosts
A Hollow Tree Ghost A legendary burial in a hollow elm and a haunted tree.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 20, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian
and tagged A Hollow Tree Ghost , hanged man ghost , haunted elm tree , haunted tree , hollow tree , Indiana ghosts , Indianapolis ghost , Pogue's Run Bottoms , treasure ghost , tree burials