The Hairwork Bracelet A hairwork bracelet is materialized from the spirit world at Christmas.
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December 4, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Christmas , Christmas presents , hair jewellery , hairwork bracelet , memorial hairwork , memorial jewellery , mourning jewellery , Spiritualism , Strange Christmas presents , The Hairwork Bracelet , wreath of flowers
Ghosts Counting Oranges In 1908 The Metropolitan Psychical Society offered $5,000 to any medium who could get the ghosts to count the oranges spilled behind him.
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Chris Woodyard
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November 17, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism
and tagged Dr. Isaac Funk , Dutch ghost , Dutch ghost photograph , Ghosts Counting Oranges , James H. Hyslop , James L. Kellogg , Metropolitan Psychical Society , Spiritism , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud , Spiritualist tests , telepathy , W.S. Davis
Damned Desks Damned desks, in the Fortean sense, that are haunted or hoodooed.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 9, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Coe I. Crawford , cursed furniture , Damned Desks , Elmer Burkett , haunted desk , haunted furniture , hoodoo desk , hoodoos , Karoshi , Objects of the Damned , United States Senate , unlucky 23 , Washington DC
Tick-Tock – A Medium Clock A mediumistic clock communicated accurate information by ticks and tocks.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 6, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged clocks as death omens , clocks as tokens of death , death omens , Durham England , E.T. Nisbet , John Lord , Objects of the Damned , premonitions , prophecies , prophetic clock , Society for Psychic Research , spirit guide , Spiritualism , Spiritualist communications , talking clock , Tick-Tock - A Medium Clock
The Haunted Rocking Chair Stories of haunted rocking chairs in our October series of “Objects of the Damned.”
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Chris Woodyard
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October 2, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Halloween , haunted furniture , haunted museum , haunted objects , haunted rocking chair , Objects of the Damned , possessed possessions , The Haunted Rocking Chair , tokens of death
The Psychic Howler – Vintage Ghost-hunting Tools Vintage ghost-hunting tools including the psychic howler or ululometer to detect spirits and spirit energy.
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September 29, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Spiritualism
and tagged American Psychical Institute , dynarruostograph , galvanometer , ghost hunting , ghost-hunting tools , ghosts , Hereward Carrington , lastrometer , National Ghost Hunting Day , oscillograph , parnanormal research , psychic howler , psychic research , spirit dictaphone , sthenometer , The Psychic Howler: Vintage Ghost-Hunting Tools , ululometer , vintage ghost hunting , volometer , World's Largest Ghost Hunt
An Overwhelming Odour of Corruption was the main feature of the haunting of “Holly Cottage” The stench of corruption, flabby hands, spitting in the dark, and the sound of a coffin being moved. No wonder the rent was so low.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 4, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged an overwhelming odour of corruption , dangerous ghosts , elementals , English ghost stories , ghostly smells , ghostly stench , ghosts , horrors , olfactory hauntings , poltergeists , smell of corruption , smell of decomposition , sound of a coffin being moved
Playing a Spirit A girl who played a spirit for a famous Spiritualist medium tells All.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 30, 2018
in Crime , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives
and tagged Amanda M. Cowan , mediums , Playing a Spirit , seance room fraud , Spiritualism , Spiritualist confederate , Spiritualist confessions , spiritualist exposure , spiritualist fraud , spiritualist mediums , The Girl Who Played a Spirit , Victorian spiritualism
The Spectral Well of Virginia It began playfully, with a fortune-telling game: hold a mirror over a well and you will see the face of your future husband. But the young woman on her father’s Virginia plantation never dreamed of the ghostly sights and strange visions that would arise from those waters
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Chris Woodyard
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June 9, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Col. John J. Deyer , Elizabeth Deyer , hydromancy , Lizzie Lee Deyer , mirror gazing , prophecy , scrying , The Spectral Well of Virginia , Virginia forteana , visions in a well , wishing well