A Walking Dead Man in Rotuma. The ghost of a murdered man returns to walk the small Pacific island where he lived and was hacked to death.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 8, 2016
in Crime , Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged A Walking Dead Man in Rotuma , Fiji Islands , ghosts , Hugh Hastings Romilly , Kimueli , murder , Pacific Islands , Rotuma
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.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
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
Weekend Compendium: 6 January 2016: The Ladies’ Man, A Fluttering in the Vault, A Woodsy Costume (barking), Begotten by a Ghost, Hairdressing for the Dead.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 6, 2016
in Animal Tales , Costume History , Cryptozoology , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged costume history , dressing the hair of the dead , ghost bird , ghost gets woman pregnant , ladies' man , sex with ghost , Weekend Compendium: 6 January 2016
Begotten by a Ghost: Madame Lasalle and her etherealized spouse produce a bouncing baby boy
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
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: 30 January 2016 including levitating chicken-creature.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 30, 2016
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged barber's ghost , dissection room , DIY surgery , ghost hoax , hospital ghosts , Irish ghost , lady detective , Mrs Daffodil , post-mortem room ghost , scrofula , tattoos , theatrical special effects , Weekend Compendium: 30 January 2016
The Lesser (King’s) Evil: A desperate woman, suffering from scrofula, submits to a gruesome home surgery.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 28, 2016
in Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Victorian
and tagged 19th century medicine , 19th-century surgery , sawing off the skull , scrofula , surgery without anesthetic , The Lesser (King's) Evil
A Post-Mortem Room Ghost. A student doctor meets someone unexpected in the post-mortem room of a Dublin hospital.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 26, 2016
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Strange Bodies , Victorian
and tagged A Post-Mortem Room Ghost , dead patient , dissection , doctor's ghost story , hospital ghost , Irish ghost story , Irish ghosts , morgue , post-mortem room , teaching hospital
Weekend Compendium: 16 January 2016
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 16, 2016
in Costume History , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , lethal clothing , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , extravagant funerals , French couture , French models , frozen ghosts , frozen to death , funeral jobs , funeral service , mannequins , Minnesota ghosts , mourning customs , mourning professions , poisoned stockings , Spiritualism , weekend compendium
Dr. Slade, the Medium and the strange stories whispered about him.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 12, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , Dr. Slade , Dr. Slade the Medium , homosexuals , shamans , slate writing , spirit messages , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , the Medium , transsexuals , Victorian spiritualism
The Lizard Cure A gypsy cures a sick Canadian farmer by purging him of lizards.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 7, 2016
in Animal Tales , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged bosom serpent , Canadian forteana , forteana , gipsy , Lacerta homo , lizards in the stomach , New Brunswick , Nova Scotia , sick with lizards , The Lizard Cure
