A Christmas Ghost Story – The Crown Derby Plate Revive the tradition of the Christmas ghost story with “The Crown Derby Plate,” by Marjorie Bowen.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 15, 2018
in Christmas , Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Short Story
and tagged A Christmas Ghost Story - The Crown Derby Plate , Christmas ghost stories , Christmas ghosts , Marjorie Bowen , olfactory hauntings , The Crown Derby Plate
The Rector’s Ghost The ghost of a long-serving rector appears in his old church at Christmas.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 1, 2018
in Christmas , Ephemera , Ghosts , News , religion , Victorian
and tagged Ambrose Hunt , Christmas ghost stories , Christmastide ghosts , Dorset ghosts , English ghost stories , ghostly clergyman , Rectors of St Peter's Church , St Peter's Church Dorchester , The Rector's Ghost , The Rev. Henry John Richman , The Rev. Nathaniel Templeman , Thomas Hardy
Tucked Up A narrator is tucked up by an invisible humming horde.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 9, 2017
in Christmas , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News
and tagged alien abduction , auditory hauntings , bedroom invaders , Christmas ghost stories , Christmas paranormal , fairies , fairy abduction , Tucked Up
The Ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots Wails of Death on Christmas Eve A Christmas ghost story from the Tower of London with an omen of death for Queen Victoria.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 22, 2016
in Christmas , Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged banshee , Christmas ghost stories , Christmas ghosts , death omen , Queen of Scots Wails of Death on Christmas Eve , Queen Victoria , The Ghost of Mary , Tower of London , Victorian Christmas , Victorian Christmas ghost stories
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 3, 2016
in Ghosts , News
and tagged book sale , Christmas ghost stories , FINAL DAYS -- Mystery Box o' Ghost Books Offer , forteana , ghost book sale , ghost stories , ghosts at Christmas , ghosts for Christmas presents , mystery box of ghost books
Down with Christmas Ghosts; Up with Christmas Fairies! An 1880s rant against unwholesome Christmas ghost story horrors with a surprising suggestion for a supernatural substitute.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 20, 2014
in Christmas , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Ghosts , News , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Christmas ghost stories , Down with Christmas Ghosts; Up with Christmas Fairies! , fairies , fantasy , Shakespeare , Spiritualism , superstition
The Ghost With One Hand The folktale “The Golden Arm,” is a classic ghost story long told at sleepovers and around the campfire. It is paralleled in this ghost story linked with an Ohio River steamship disaster. Steam packets United States and America collided in the Ohio River December 4, 1868, two miles above Warsaw, Kentucky.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 4, 2014
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian
and tagged America steamboat disaster , Christmas ghost stories , disaster ghosts , Ohio river , steamboat collisions , steamboats , The Ghost With One Hand , United States steamship disaster
Two Black Dogs: Stories to Read at Christmas Stories of two phantom (?) Black Dogs, one from Ohio and one from Minnesota, for your traditional Christmas ghost story reading pleasure.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 20, 2012
in Animal Tales , Christmas , Cryptozoology , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged animal ghosts , Black Dogs , Christmas ghost stories , devil , devil dog , folklore , Two Black Dogs: Stories to Read at Christmas
