The Road to Perdition – Hell Located Various Hell locations around the world; New Jersey leads the pack.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 25, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged damnation , Darvasa Gas Crater , devil , geography , Hell , Mount Etna , Mount Heckla , New Jersey , Perdition , purgatory , St Patrick's Purgatory , The Rev. Caesar Andrew Augustus Taylor , The Road to Perdition: Hell Located , William Whiston
A New Year’s Parade of the Damned
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A New Year's Parade of the Damned , Black Country , Civil War ghosts , devil , Devil's footprints , dragon's ghost , Eating Holy Clay , flagellation , funeral flowers , kissing corpses , spanking machines , Spiritualism , spook lights , Victorian mourning , Victorian tear bottles , Wales , wild men , witch's curse , witchcraft
The Pirate-Wrecker and the Death Ship An ex-pirate turned wrecker is summoned by a dark death ship.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 19, 2017
in Crime , Death , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , Strange Deaths
and tagged Cape Cornwall , Caraglose , devil , Lands-End , pirates , Priest's Cove , The Pirate-Wrecker and the Death Ship , Tregaseal , Whitesand Bay , wreckers
The Devil is a Tenor A sorceress conjures up a musical Prince of Darkness to sing the destinies of her clients.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 11, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Social History , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged devil , divination , Duisburg , fortune telling , prophecy , Prussian witch , The Devil is a Tenor , witchcraft
Beelzebub in New York Devil panics in New York’s East End.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 19, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , religion , Social History
and tagged Beelzebub in New York , demon-possession , devil , devil panic , devil possession , exorcism , Houston street , mass hysteria , New York , New York tenements , New York's east side , Satanic panic
Some Discontented Daemon torments a young servant in 17th-century Devon with shredded clothes, apparitions, bodily contortions, and levitation.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 16, 2016
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , News , Poltergeists , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Andrew Paschal , clothes-slashing poltergeists , devil , Devon ghosts , flying , Francis Fry , John Aubrey , levitation , poltergeists , possession , Some Discontented Daemon
The Devil crashes an ice-skating party in 19th-century Ohio.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 17, 2015
in Cryptozoology , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , religion , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Dante's Inferno , Dayton Ohio , devil , devil entity , devil goes skating , devil in Ohio , Devil on ice , horned entity
In 1895 the skeletal remains of the Devil were smuggled out of Japan, then put on exhibit in New York.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 15, 2013
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , religion , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies
and tagged carnival gaff , devil , devil's skeleton , Japan , Oni , skeleton
A Whiskey-Drinking Devil Visits Mr Guppy Samuel Guppy, husband to medium Agnes Nichol Guppy, was an ardent advocate of Spiritualism. When the famous American mediums Ira and William Davenport came to England to spread the truths of that religion, a session with Ira brought a naughty devil to Guppy’s door.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 28, 2013
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Interesting People , News , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged A Whiskey-Drinking Devil Visits Mr Guppy , Davenport Brothers , devil , evil spirit , Ira Davenport , poltergeists , Samuel Guppy , Spiritualism , William Davenport
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
