Fearing the Walking Dead, The Undertaker’s Revenge, and the Lost Art of the Coffin Threat A compendium of popular posts.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 26, 2016
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apparitions , banshees , death omens , elephant ghost , Fearing the Walking Dead , ghosts , Mrs Daffodil , Romeo the elephant , sky visions , The Lost Art of the Coffin Threat , The Undertaker's Revenge , The Victorian Book of the Dead , tokens of death , Women in Black
The most popular fortean posts on this blog for 2015.
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Chris Woodyard
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December 31, 2015
in Animal Tales , Crime , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , medical oddities , News , Strange Deaths , Strange Lives , Victorian , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged auto-decapitation , bizarre deaths , death by hair , Detroit Devil statue , elemental , elephant ghost , forteana , German war toys , ghost impersonator , Great War toys , Herman Menz , lost children , Missing 411 , phantom car , Romeo the circus elephant , the Phantom of Rt. 40
The Ghost of Romeo, the Circus Elephant The announcement that Ringling Brothers Circuses will eliminate elephant acts gives rise to a look back at the mistreatment and death of Romeo, an elephant in Forepaugh’s Menagerie, who was said to appear after his death.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 12, 2015
in Animal Tales , Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged Asian elephant , circus elephants , elephant ghost , Forepaugh's Menagerie , ghostly elephant , haunted by an elephant , Juliet the elephant , Musth , Old Canada , Romeo the elephant , the Circus Elephant , The Ghost of Romeo , the ghost of Romeo the elephant
