Mummy and Child In 1885, G.F. Martindale and his party made an amazing discovery in a cave in the Yosemite Valley: the mummified body of a giant woman, still holding an infant.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 7, 2016
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Dr. Larry W. Cartmell , G.F. Martindale , giant mummy , Martindale Mummies , mother's day , Mummy and Child , Yosemite Valley
Vexed With Orders for Dead Monkeys. A baby giraffe chair, a swan table lamp, a door-stop made from an ostrich leg. Abominable animal art.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 3, 2016
in Death , Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged animal cruelty , animal furniture , bear , black swan , dead monkeys , emu , monkeys , ostrich , parrot , taxidermy , tiger , Vexed With Orders for Dead Monkeys , Victorian animal furniture , wild boar
A Benares Lady Magnet A visitor to India finds a “Devil Woman” with the power to levitate and magnetically attract man and beast.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 9, 2016
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Benares Lady Magnet , Benares India , conjuring , conjuring tricks , fakirs , illusions , Indian magic , Indian subcontinent , interesting people , lady magnet , levitation , magnetic women
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
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.
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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
Begotten by a Ghost: Madame Lasalle and her etherealized spouse produce a bouncing baby boy
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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
A Post-Mortem Room Ghost. A student doctor meets someone unexpected in the post-mortem room of a Dublin hospital.
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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
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Chris Woodyard
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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.
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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 Devil crashes an ice-skating party in 19th-century Ohio.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 17, 2015
in Cryptozoology , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , religion , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Dante's Inferno , Dayton Ohio , devil , devil entity , devil goes skating , devil in Ohio , Devil on ice , horned entity