The most popular fortean posts on this blog for 2015.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
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 statue of a horned Satan which appeared mysteriously in Vancouver seems as good an excuse as any to revisit two posts on the Devil and his minions.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 11, 2014
in Folklore , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , religion , Social History , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Andrew Blaes , Detroit , devil fetish , devil statue , devil worship , Gertrude Blaes , Herman Menz , Rosamund Blaes , satan fetish , satan statue , satan worship , satanism , sexual fetishes , teufel
Please allow me to introduce Mr. Herman Menz, Detroit resident, stone-mason, and blasphemous free-thinker who erected a statue of the Devil in front of his home, to the dismay of his church-going neighbors.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 30, 2013
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Interesting People , News , religion , Social History , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Detroit , Detroit's devil statue , devil statue , devil worship , Herman Menz , Satan