Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg Fortean tales from Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg, all celebrated on July 1. Choose your own Fortean adventure!
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 1, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Poltergeists , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , War , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged and Gettysburg , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of the Somme , Canada , Canadian forteana , Canadian ghosts , Canadian witchcraft , exorcism , Gettysburg prophecy , Great War , horse ghost , poltergeists , possession , Prince Edward Island , Quaker prophetess , the Somme , Thiepval
Some Discontented Daemon torments a young servant in 17th-century Devon with shredded clothes, apparitions, bodily contortions, and levitation.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 16, 2016
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , News , Poltergeists , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Andrew Paschal , clothes-slashing poltergeists , devil , Devon ghosts , flying , Francis Fry , John Aubrey , levitation , poltergeists , possession , Some Discontented Daemon
The narrative of a clergyman of the Church of England who exorcised a man haunted by an unearthly creature; what he believed to be an “unclean spirit.”
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 21, 2015
in Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , religion , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Church of England , demonic possession , exorcism , Oxford Movement , possession
Polt or Possessed on Prince Edward Island?A young Canadian girl is followed by mysterious rappings and fires. No, it’s not Mary Ellen of Antigonish–the case occurs a decade earlier and her family swore they saw her levitate.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 24, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , religion , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Canadian forteana , Canadian paranormal , exorcism , incendiary poltergeists , levitation , mysterious fires , Polt or Possessed on Prince Edward Island? , poltergeists , possession , Prince Edward Island
John Wesley, founder of Methodism, gives an account of the exorcism of a young woman physically tormented by the devil.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 9, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Poltergeists , religion , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged convulsions , demon-possession , exorcism , John Wesley , Methodists , obsession , poltergeists , possession
