A Christmas Tree on the Chimney A Christmas tree mysteriously appears on a glass lamp chimney and cannot be washed off.
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Chris Woodyard
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December 11, 2018
in Christmas , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Christmas Tree Mind Photograph , A Christmas Tree on the Chimney , Christmas , figures on glass , lightning daguerreotypes , Mrs. Charles H. Bender , mysterious Christmas tree picture , mysterious picture on glass , psychic phenomena
The Hairwork Bracelet A hairwork bracelet is materialized from the spirit world at Christmas.
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Chris Woodyard
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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
on
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
The Spiritual Telegraph Stories of spirits speaking through the medium of the telegraph.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 13, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged EVP , ghostly messages , ghostly telegraphy , ghosts in the machine , ghosts on the phone , haunted telegraph , telegraphy , The Spiritual Telegraph
The Death of the Queen of Bohemia Writer Zoe Anderson Norris, the Queen of Bohemia, is warned by the ghost of her mother that she is next to follow her in death.
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Chris Woodyard
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November 6, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths
and tagged death omens , death tokens , Land of the White Lilies , mother returns to warn of death , omens of death , prophetic dreams , The Death of the Queen of Bohemia , The Land of White Lilies , tokens of death , Zoe Anderson Norris
Cremated Alive We fire up the retort as we look at the third of a terrifying triumvirate of Victorian death-fears: being embalmed alive, dissected alive, and cremated alive.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 3, 2018
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged 19th-century cremation , cremated alive , cremation , premature burial , premature cremation , Victorian cremation
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 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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Chris Woodyard
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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
Wizard Richardson “Wizard Richardson,” as Dr Elisha Richardson was called, a healer and perhaps “cunning man” of New Hampshire, locates the body of a missing man.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 28, 2018
in Crime , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged adept , cunning man , Elisha Richardson , healer , Henry Hoyt , Jonathan Glass , murder , New Hampshire , second sight , seer , Spiritualism , unsolved murder , Wizard Richardson
Called by the Dead The living are called by the dead to join them, even if it means committing suicide. The dead can be so demanding…
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Chris Woodyard
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August 11, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Called by the Dead , demanding dead , fetch , ghost urges suicide , ghostly children , ghostly father , ghosts urge suicide , living called by the dead , Massachusetts ghost stories , Mrs Charles Lee , Mrs Oliver Pettit