Strange Deaths

Predicting Lincoln’s Death by Horoscope, Trance, and Manual Alphabet Lincoln’s death predicted by a variety of seers including an astrologer who cast a horoscope, a trance medium, and a student using the manual alphabet

Embalmed alive Horrific tales of ingestion of embalming fluid or premature embalming.

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?

A Corpse on Eggs A mysterious infant corpse found on a layer of eggs in a chimney.

Consumption Cottage An Illinois cottage where an unusually large number of tenants died of consumption.

Death by Owl A young wife is scared to death by an owl that had been following her.

The Phantom Teeth of Knightsbridge After a man died from swallowing his teeth, the phantom teeth began to haunt his widow and his flat.

Haunted Ice The people of Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, refused to use the haunted ice, fearing it harbored the spirit of a suicide.

White Dogs of Death Celebrating the Chinese Year of the Dog with white dogs of death.