A Casket 300 Feet Long A casket 300 feet long would be required to bring back the remains of all the US soldiers who died in the Great War in France.
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Chris Woodyard
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November 10, 2018
in Death , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , War
and tagged A Casket 300 Feet Long , American Undertakers' Association , Armistice Day , First World War , First World War cemeteries , Gold Star Mothers , Great War , Great War mourning , Howard S. Eckels , Mabel Fonda Gareissen , repatriation of soldiers' remains , returning dead American soldiers to the United States , The Purple Cross , WWI , WWI mourning
Cheiro and the Czar The society palmist Cheiro told Czar Nicholas II of Russia of his doom a decade before the Russian Revolution.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 17, 2018
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Social History , War
and tagged Cheiro , Cheiro and the Czar , Czar Nicholas II of Russia , Nicholas Romanov , palm reading , palmist , Romanov Death Prophecy , Romanov murders , Yekaterinburg
A Charm from Cheltenham A charm from Cheltenham is given to a young RAF flier who immediately recovers his lost nerve and, despite many crashes, lives a charmed life
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 10, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Social History , Strange Lives , War
and tagged A Charm from Cheltenham , A. Cosgrave George , First World War , Great War , Great War aviator , pilot mascot , RAF Centenary , RAF fly-over , RAF lucky charm , RAF pilot lucky charm , Royal Air Force , soldier lucky charm
Blue Flame Ghost Civil War troops are terrified by a headless blue flame ghost.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 13, 2018
in Crime , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Spook Lights , Victorian , War
and tagged blue flame ghost , Civil War ghost story , headless ghost , spook lights , Virginia ghosts
White Dogs of Death Celebrating the Chinese Year of the Dog with white dogs of death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 17, 2018
in Animal Tales , Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , War
and tagged banshee in the shape of a dog , death omen , dog apparition , dog as death omen , family banshee , tokens of death , white dog banshee , White Dogs of Death
Prophetic Spiders There was a thread of prophetic spider messages written in webs in the 19th and early-20th centuries.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 9, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History , Victorian , War
and tagged educated spiders , First World War , Great War , New Orleans , orb weavers , prophetic spiders , spiders predictions , William McKinley , words in spider webs , World War I , writing in spider webs
The Beckoning Soldier A beckoning soldier is seen by soldiers and their officer. But who does he want?
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 11, 2017
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , War
and tagged First World War , First World War ghosts , General Mangin , ghosts of the First World War , Great War , Great War ghost story , Great War ghosts , The Beckoning Soldier , Verdun , Veterans' Day
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 Rolling Shot Ghost A strange spherical visitant makes a metallic noise like shot bumping down stairs and rolls around a military encampment.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 23, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Spook Lights , Victorian , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged 155th Illinois Infantry , boggart , Civil War ghosts , elemental , Murfreesboro Tennessee , Murfreesborough , rolling shot ghost , spook , Tennessee ghosts , The Rolling Shot Ghost , Tullahoma
Aloysius John Williamson Leggepul’s Wonderplane A Wonderplane specially designed in the spirit of April Fool’s Day to avoid head-on collisions.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 1, 2017
in Ephemera , News , Social History , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Aloysius John Williamson Leggepul's Wonderplane , April Fool's Day , April Fool's hoax , April Fool's joke , John Van Valkenburg and his mysterious 1917 Wonderplane , Wonderplane