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
Two Skulls at Thiepval British war artist William Orpen and a French painter have strange encounters with unburied skulls at the Somme.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 30, 2016
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Bodies , War
and tagged Battle of the Somme , First World War , ghosts , Great War , Sir WIlliam Orpen , Two Skulls at Thiepval , World War One , WWI
A Fairy Tale from the Trenches: 1916 A most awfully jolly tale from the trenches of the Great War. The fairies do not wear boots, but have ordered unusual pants for their spring costumes.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 4, 2014
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , War
and tagged A Fairy Tale from the Trenches: 1916 , Battle of the Somme , fairies , First World War , Great War , soldier superstitions , soldiers' folklore , Somme centenary , trench warfare , World War One , WWI
