Painting in the Dark with Raphael Painting in the dark was only part of the artistic talents of Mr. Abel Taylor, psychic artist, who worked under the influence of the painter Raphael.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 6, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Abel Taylor , automatic painting , fairies , Good Neighbors , Good People , healing , miracles , Painting in the Dark with Raphael , psychic artist , Raphael , Scottish folklore
Joan of Arc Returns And she’s brought her friends…. Children in a small French village see visions of Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 30, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , Prophecies , religion , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Alzonne , apparition of Joan of Arc , Cecile Lamillot , First World War , Henriette Jambert , Jeanne d'Arc , Jeanne Marie Claret , Joan of Arc , Joan of Arc Returns , La Pucelle , Maid of Orleans , Marian apparitions , Marie Louise Flouret , religious apparitions , The Maid of France Returns
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
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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
The Fairy in the Box. A child, challenged by her skeptical sister to capture one of the little people she saw in her bedroom at night, catches a fairy in a box.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 20, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Fairy in the Box , capturing a fairy , catching a fairy , catching a fairy in a box , fairies , Florence L. Barclay , The Fairy in the Box , The Little People
The Tower: Celebrating Atlas Obscura Day in Ohio A mysterious stone tower, rumors of witches and ghosts, and of a lightning tragedy.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 6, 2017
in Death , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Atlas Obscura Day , Dayton Ohio , Frankenstein's Castle , lightning death , Patterson Tower , The Stone Tower , The Tower: Celebrating Atlas Obscura Day in Ohio , Witches' Tower
Lassie Came Home Lassie’s owner believed that the beloved dog was reincarnated in an English setter puppy.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 2, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged dog reincarnation , Lassie Came Home , reincarnation in animals , soul transmigration , transmigration of souls
The Burbank Bat Light A fiery spook light with bat wings is seen near Burbank and San Fernando.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 29, 2017
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Sky Mysteries , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged ball lightning , bat winged entity , Burbank , California spook light , earthquake lights , San Fernando , spook light , The Burbank Bat Light
Weeping Willow The life of the Weeping Willow went out with the life of its owner.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 22, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged prophecy , tree dies when owner does , trees as omens of death , Weeping Willow , willow tree death
A Sinister Easter Rabbit and an Accordion I have no idea….
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Chris Woodyard
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April 15, 2017
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Sinister Easter Rabbit and an Accordion , accordion , Easter , Easter bunny , Easter chick , Easter eggs , Easter greetings , Easter Hell--A Sinister Rabbit and an Accordion , Easter wishes , Happy Easter
Lincoln’s Haunted Death Mask The haunted Lincoln’s death mask, which hung in the Indiana State Library.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 11, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Abraham Lincoln , assassination of Abraham Lincoln , death mask , haunted library , Indiana artists , Indiana State Library , Lincoln death mask , Lincoln's Haunted Death Mask , Louis H. Reed , Louis Henri Reed , National Library Week , State Library of Indiana