Shades of Blue Blue ghosts from Ohio and beyond.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 24, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Baldwin-Wallace College , blue ghosts , blue haze , blue spook lights , Bonnie Bonell , Dayton ghosts , Haunted Ohio , lightning daguerreotypes , Ohio ghosts , Olde Trail Tavern , Shades of Blue , spontaneous combustion , The Buxton Inn , window-pane ghosts , Yellow Springs Ohio
Orange You Scared? The color orange as a rare paranormal color, usually found only in spook lights.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 14, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Sky Mysteries , Spook Lights , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged orange , orange ghost , orange phantom , orange spook lights , Orange You Scared? , spook lights , supernatural orange lights , the color orange
Review: Central Ohio Legends & Lore Ohio legends from James A. Willis of The Ghosts of Ohio.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 16, 2017
in Crime , Cryptozoology , Death , Folklore , Ghosts , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Annie Aokley , bigfoot , Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery , Dr. Snook , Fort Amanda , Frankenstein's Castle , Gates of Hell , Grassman , Hatchet Man , Johnny Appleseed , Love Rollercoaster , Ohio folklore , Ohio ghosts , Ohio legends , Ohio Players , Ohio urban legends , Review: Central Ohio Legends & Lore , Stonewall Cemetery , Stuart Pierson , The Night The Ghost Got In , Thurber House , urban legends , William Quantrill , Witches' Tower , Woolyburger Cemetery
Death by Eclipse and Other Coronal Curiosities Strange deaths, insanity, and portents associated with the eclipse.
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 19, 2017
in 18th century , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Death by Eclipse and Other Coronal Curiosities , eclipse forteana , eclipse insanity , eclipse madness , eclipse of 1869 , eclipse suicide , Francis Bacon , Richard Mead
Buddha’s Butterfly A ghostly butterfly haunt’s Buddha’s statue.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 12, 2017
in Animal Tales , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spook Lights , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Buddha statue , ghost butterfly , ghostly butterfly , living creature enclosed in statue , luminous butterfly , phantom butterfly
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
Cholera Curiosities Fortean curiosities of cholera including blue fog, sulfurous stenches, vanishing birds. and Women in Black.
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 1, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged avian cholera , Carbondale Pennsylvania , Cholera Curiosities , cholera epidemic , Cholera Forteana , cholera in India , cholera in Italy , cholera in Russia , death omens , disappearing birds , fortean mysteries , Queen Theresa of Bavaria , strange cholera phenomenon , The Woman in Black , The Women in Black
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!
Posted by
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
Black Box Specters Two black box specters haunt travelers in Arizona and Ireland.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 13, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Alden R. Vining , black box phantoms , Black Box Specters , black box spectres , Black Coach , death coach , George W. Martin , hoaxes , Irish ghosts , Killeshandra , Mexico mines , mining schemes , Mrs. Burrell , phantom coach , San Francisco , scams
