Dead as a Doornail -The Carpenter of Doom Over the space of a lifetime, a man was haunted by recurring visits from a mysterious carpenter, whose presence meant death.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 14, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged banshee , Dead as a Doornail: The Carpenter of Doom , death angel , death omens , mysterious carpenter , personifications of Death , phantom carpenter , psychopomp , spectral carpenter , tokens of death , unearthly carpenter
The Old Lady with the Nails An old lady with a hammer and nails menaces a dormitory of schoolboys in a nightmarish vision.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 12, 2017
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches
and tagged Augustus Hare , banshee , murder by nail , old woman spirit , omen of death , phantom carpenter , spectral carpenter , Stewart Mackenzie , The Old Lady with the Nails , token of death , witchcraft
