Something Baleful on the Bridge Something invisible and baleful on the bridge evokes awful feeling of horror, sickness, and impending death in the witnesses.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 14, 2018
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged bridge ghost , evil aura , evil spirits , ghost on bridge , haunted bridges , invisible animal , panic , phantom animal , phantom dog , Something Baleful on the Bridge
The Bijli of the Flaming Torch A deadly spirit with a flaming torch is encountered by a British Colonel in India.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 10, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged Bijli , evil spirits , ghosts in India , India ghosts , Olympic torch , skeletal spirits , The Bijli of the Flaming Torch , the Rev. H. Mayne Young , Winter Olympics
The Devil’s Fire-Proof Chain A strange gold chain protects a noble Swedish house from fires.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 8, 2016
in 18th century , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Occultism/Magic , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Carl Edward Vilhelm Piper , Count Piper , Count Sparre , evil spirits , fire elemental , fire spirits , lucky charms , Sweden , Swedish forteana , The Devil's Fire-Proof Chain , vardoger
Mrs Hopper’s Mysterious End A woman known for her “strange powers” goes missing and is found dead under mysterious circumstances.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 22, 2016
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches
and tagged 411 , David Paulides , disappearances , evil spirits , Leah Underhill , Missing 411 , Mrs Hopper's Mysterious End , New York state , Spiritualism , witchcraft
Creature Feature: The Varua Ino: The Ravening Watchers For today’s creature we venture into the tropical paradise of the South Seas: a place of warm, hospitable people, blue seas, palm-trees swaying in the trade-winds–and blood-thirsty elementals: the Varua ino.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 8, 2015
in Creature Feature , Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , vampires , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Charles Nordhoff , Creature Feature: The Varua Ino: The Ravening Watchers , devils , elementals , evil spirits , James Norman Hall , Papeete , Polynesia , ravening watchers , South Pacific , South Sea islands , Tahiti , tupapau , Varua ino
We open a new October series–Creature Feature, with a lurid goblin orgy.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 1, 2015
in Creature Feature , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Spiritualism , Victorian , Witches
and tagged Creature Feature , demons , devils , elementals , evil spirits , goblin orgy , goblins , green demons , green devils , Massachusetts folklore , pararnormal Massachusetts , poltergeists
