The Night-Walker causes a ghost-panic in Newbury, Massachusetts.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 16, 2016
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apparitions , ghost in a pea coat , ghosts , Massachusetts ghosts , New England ghosts , Newbury Massachusetts , road ghosts , The Night-Walker
“Here I Am Again!” Two terrifying visitations from the same malign entity, twenty years apart.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 9, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Victorian
and tagged "Here I Am Again!" , English ghost stories , Ghost Book of Lord Halifax , ghosts , Old Hag , sleep paralysis
The Funeral Men A woman and her maid see a pair of funeral mutes standing silently on the balcony outside her husband’s dressing room as a token of his death.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 4, 2016
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged death omens , funeral mutes , ghosts , Men in Black , predicting death , The Funeral Men , tokens of death
Fearing the Walking Dead, The Undertaker’s Revenge, and the Lost Art of the Coffin Threat A compendium of popular posts.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
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
A Walking Dead Man in Rotuma. The ghost of a murdered man returns to walk the small Pacific island where he lived and was hacked to death.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 8, 2016
in Crime , Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged A Walking Dead Man in Rotuma , Fiji Islands , ghosts , Hugh Hastings Romilly , Kimueli , murder , Pacific Islands , Rotuma
The Tooth-Snatcher A father’s dire dream exposed a shocking crime of tooth-snatching.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 3, 2016
in Body Snatching , Crime , Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian
and tagged bodysnatchers , bodysnatching , corpse teeth , dead man's teeth , dead men's teeth , ghosts , The Tooth-Snatcher , tooth snatchers
Weekend Compendium: 27 February 2016 Clubwomen behaving badly, Ghosts that smell like death, Leap Year Proposals, A Munich morgue, and more!
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 27, 2016
in Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged Dead house at Munich , Edwardian motoring , Frederik Ruysch , ghosts , Lady Washington Tea , Leap Year , Leap Year proposals , Little Visits to the Great Morgues of Europe , morgue , mortuary , Munich dead house , Pocahontas , Weekend Compendium: 27 February 2016
A Ghost With the Smell of a Charnel-house A family in a house near London is haunted by ghost giving off a horrendous stench of decomposition.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 23, 2016
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged A Ghost With the Smell of a Charnel-house , decomposition , ghostly smells , ghosts , hauntings , odor , stench
How were the mysterious, ghostly “faces in the window” images made? I invite my readers to try their hand (or face) at creating their own. Prizes for the best (non-photo-shopped) examples.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 14, 2015
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged electric photography , faces in the window , flaps , ghosts , lightning daguerreotypes , San Francisco , window-pane ghosts
A Minister Tests His Dead Wife’s Spirit One Sunday morning in 1919, Dr. Russell H. Conwell, founder and President of Temple University, stood before his congregation in the pulpit of the Philadelphia Baptist Temple and dropped a bombshell–revealing that his dead wife had visited him repeatedly.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 17, 2015
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Interesting People , News , religion , Spiritualism
and tagged A Minister Tests His Dead Wife's Spirit , Acres of Diamonds , dead wife , Dr. Russell H. Conwell , ghosts , Spiritualism , Temple University , testing the spirits , visited by a dead wife