An Overwhelming Odour of Corruption was the main feature of the haunting of “Holly Cottage” The stench of corruption, flabby hands, spitting in the dark, and the sound of a coffin being moved. No wonder the rent was so low.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 4, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged an overwhelming odour of corruption , dangerous ghosts , elementals , English ghost stories , ghostly smells , ghostly stench , ghosts , horrors , olfactory hauntings , poltergeists , smell of corruption , smell of decomposition , sound of a coffin being moved
Some Irish Elementals A look at some half-human half-animal Irish elementals. Ape-like or sheep-like–they’re terrifying and malign.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 14, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged elementals , haunted Irish castle , horrors , Irish elementals , Irish ghosts , Kilman Castle , Leap Castle , monsters Irish monsters , Rev. Frederick T. Bennett , Some Irish Elementals
Creature Feature: The Maggot in the Churchyard Man-sized in Maggot. A Yorkshire postman is confronted with a human-sized maggot haunting a churchyard and spreading disease to the neighborhood.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 29, 2015
in Creature Feature , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , vampires , Victorian
and tagged Creature Feature: The Maggot in the Churchyard , Elliott O'Donnell , giant maggot , haunted church , horrors , maggot horror , vampire maggot , Yorkshire ghost
Stories of poisonous spiders are much in the news. Here is a terrifying tale of being trapped and tortured by tarantulas.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 16, 2014
in Animal Tales , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged horrors , spider attack , spiders , tarantula attack , tarantulas , venomous spiders