Damned Images – Happy Birthday, Charles Fort! A selection of damned images for Charles Fort’s birthday celebration
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 5, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Berlin Heights Ohio , Bourbon Indiana , Charles Fort , Charles Hoy Fort , Damned Images , Damned Images - Happy Birthday , Dr Machette , face in the window , face in the window ghost , forteana , Hardin A Tucker , Hudson Tuttle , images not made with hands , lightning daguerreotype , Milton Laughlin , mysterious images , Pareidolia , Sydney Australia , The Face in the Window , window pane ghost , window pane specters
The Voluntary Lunatic A Spiritualist tells lady mediums how to avoid involuntary commitment to lunatic asylums.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 29, 2017
in medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged George Boole , involuntary committal , Mary Everest Boole , Mrs George Boole , Spiritualism and lunacy laws , The Voluntary Lunatic , Victorian insane asylums , Victorian spiritualism
The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House The Spiritualist Eddy Brothers and their family see a phantom carriage sent as an omen of a death in the family.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 15, 2017
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged death coach , Eddy brothers , Henry Steel Olcott , Horatio Eddy , materialization mediums , mediums , People from the Other World , phantom coach , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House , Vermont , William Eddy
Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg Fortean tales from Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg, all celebrated on July 1. Choose your own Fortean adventure!
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 1, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Poltergeists , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , War , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged and Gettysburg , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of the Somme , Canada , Canadian forteana , Canadian ghosts , Canadian witchcraft , exorcism , Gettysburg prophecy , Great War , horse ghost , poltergeists , possession , Prince Edward Island , Quaker prophetess , the Somme , Thiepval
The Fortean Bride Fortean tales of brides and wedding weirdness
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 27, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged bridal forteana , cursed brides , ghosts who stopped a wedding , hoodoo weddings , spirit bride , The Fortean Bride , wedding forteana , wedding weirdness
Too Much Prudence – Spirit Weddings A very prudent man thinks he can save trouble and money by marrying a spirit bride.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 17, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged marrying a ghost , marrying a spirit , mediums , seances , spirit bride , Spiritualism , spiritualist bride , spiritualist fraud , spiritualist wedding , Too Much Prudence , Too Much Prudence - Spirit Weddings
Wild Men of North Wales On holiday in North Wales, a clairvoyant sees a vision of wild men.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 4, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged ape men , bigfoot , hairy men , missing link , North Wales , spirit guides , Wales , Welsh elementals , Welsh fairies , Welsh folklore , wild men , Wild Men of North Wales , woodwose
Crystal-Seers in Lancashire Lancashire folk gazed into glass eggs and crystals to spy on their friends and scry the future.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 28, 2017
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged clairvoyance , crystal ball , crystal gazing , crystal-seeing , Crystal-seeing in Lancashire , Crystal-Seers in Lancashire , glass eggs , Lancashire , Lancashire witches , psychic powers , scrying , Spiritualism
A Haunted Library A library is haunted by the sinister ghost of a former librarian.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 28, 2017
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged A Haunted Library , Albert J. Edmunds , American Society for Psychical Research , haunted library , library ghost , library ghost stories , M.R. James , Sir John Young Walker MacAlister , The Tractate Middoth , Vincent Thomas Sternberg
A Death’s Head Photograph A young woman draws a death’s head invisible to the naked eye to fool a photographer.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 21, 2017
in Ephemera , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged A Death's Head Photograph , fake spirit photography , quinine , skull and crossbones , spirit photography , spiritualist hoaxes
