The Dead Travel Fast Traveling fast, a mysterious buggy and its dead ? rider approach a house, but never arrive.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 12, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Colorado ghosts , forerunner , ghost buggy , ghost horse , ghostly horse , mysterious apparition , The Dead Travel Fast , vardoger
The Road to Perdition – Hell Located Various Hell locations around the world; New Jersey leads the pack.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 25, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged damnation , Darvasa Gas Crater , devil , geography , Hell , Mount Etna , Mount Heckla , New Jersey , Perdition , purgatory , St Patrick's Purgatory , The Rev. Caesar Andrew Augustus Taylor , The Road to Perdition: Hell Located , William Whiston
The Little Stone Book A miniature stone book is found in Wyandotte County, Kansas, by local antiquarian George U.S. Hovey.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 17, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged carved stone book , George U.S. Hovey , Kansas missionaries , Kansas wonders and curiosities , miniature stone book , Mormon , Native American artifacts , pipestone clay , Quindaro township , The Little Stone Book , White Church Kansas , Wyandotte County Kansas
A Corpse on Eggs A mysterious infant corpse found on a layer of eggs in a chimney.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 27, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Corpse On Eggs , chimney burial , corpse on eggs , Easter , Easter eggs , egg magic , hidden charms , hidden objects , mummified infant , mysteries , Paris , witchcraft
The Expenses of Necromancy Sandwiched in a savage review of The Occult Sciences by Arthur Edward Waite is this cutting analysis of the expenses of necromancy.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 10, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , News , Occultism/Magic , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Arthur Edward Waite , Histoire de la Magie , necromancy , occult rituals , raising the dead , The Expenses of Necromancy , The Occult Sciences
Farmer Burrows’s Stone Corpses Farmer Burrows finds stone corpses tied together in a dead tree.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 24, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Bodies , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Farmer Burrows's Stone Corpses , incorrupt bodies , John L Burrows , mummified bodies , Ohio Forteana , petrified bodies , petrified corpses , stone corpses , Warren County Ohio
A New Year’s Parade of the Damned
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A New Year's Parade of the Damned , Black Country , Civil War ghosts , devil , Devil's footprints , dragon's ghost , Eating Holy Clay , flagellation , funeral flowers , kissing corpses , spanking machines , Spiritualism , spook lights , Victorian mourning , Victorian tear bottles , Wales , wild men , witch's curse , witchcraft
The Frost Coffin A coffin and mourning scene is seen on a frosty window of a house of death by four police officers and a watchman.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 12, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Cleveland face in the window case , Cleveland forteana , Cleveland ghosts , frost etchings , frost pictures , image appears in frost , Ohio Forteana , Pareidolia , The Frost Coffin , window daguerreotypes , window ghosts
Greek Fire at the Parthenon A visitor to the Parthenon is shown a mysterious fire or light.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 28, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Social History , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Greek Fire at the Parthenon , Greek forteana , mysterious lights at the Parthenon , mystery lights , Parthenon , spook lights
Here, Mr Hotfoot The Devil is hotfooting it around the Black Country, searing footprints into the soil.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 4, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , religion , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Black Country , devil's foot prints , devil's foot-marks , Devil's Hoofmarks , Eagle Colliery , Great Devon Mystery of 1855 , Here Mr Hotfoot , Mike Dash , Mr Hotfoot , mysterious footprints , Rosley Regis , Satan's Spoor , Spring-heel-Jack , the devil