Silk in the Super-Sargasso Sea A vanished roll of silk mysteriously reappears–had it been captured by Charles Fort’s Super-Sargasso Sea?
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Chris Woodyard
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August 7, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Charles Fort , Charles Hoy Fort , Esther Cox , Great Amherst Mystery , Henry Phelps , missing objects , poltergeists , Sargasso Sea , seances , Silk in the Super-Sargasso Sea , Spiritualism , Stratford Poltergeist , Super-Sargasso Sea
Damned Images – Happy Birthday, Charles Fort! A selection of damned images for Charles Fort’s birthday celebration
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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
Stiffs at the Cliff Mysterious skeleton images appear on a Colorado window.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 21, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Charles Fort , face in the window , John Skivington , lightning daguerreotypes , mystery images on window glass , Silver Cliff Colorado , skeletons in the window , Stiffs at the Cliff , window-pane ghosts
Superfluous Snakes Today is the birthday of Charles Hoy Fort and what better way to celebrate than with a shower of snakes?
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 6, 2016
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Charles Fort , Charles Hoy Fort , fish falls , fortean falls , frog falls , John H. Tice , rain of snakes , shower of snakes , snake falls , Superfluous Snakes , weather prediction
Cloudy, With a Chance of Maggots An Iowa physician reports on an 1846 shower of maggots. Eww.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 23, 2016
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Sky Mysteries , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Charles Fort , Cloud with a Chance of Maggots , forteana , maggot shower , rain of maggots , shower of maggots
Weekend Compendium of this week’s posts on Mrs Daffodil and Haunted Ohio, plus extras!
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 9, 2016
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged adultery , alcoholism , bosom serpent , brownies , Charles Fort , DTs , forteana , Haunted Ohio , ice carnival , Mrs Daffodil , psychic research , skrats , weekend compenium
Damned in Danville: Happy Birthday, Mr Fort The quintessential fortean event is a rain of frogs or fish or some other damned precipitant. In 1926 Danville, Virginia was the site of the Great Frog Rain. It was recalled that similar falls occurred in 1884 and 1904, exciting the interest of one Charles Fort, of London, England.
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 5, 2014
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Sky Mysteries , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Charles Fort , Damned in Danville: Happy Birthday , Danville Virginia , fish falls , forteana , frog falls , Mr Fort , rain of frogs , shower of frogs
