The Spectral Well of Virginia It began playfully, with a fortune-telling game: hold a mirror over a well and you will see the face of your future husband. But the young woman on her father’s Virginia plantation never dreamed of the ghostly sights and strange visions that would arise from those waters
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 9, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Col. John J. Deyer , Elizabeth Deyer , hydromancy , Lizzie Lee Deyer , mirror gazing , prophecy , scrying , The Spectral Well of Virginia , Virginia forteana , visions in a well , wishing well
Racing Tips from the Astral Plane The author describes the racing tips he received from the Astral Plane via luminous letters and images.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 5, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged Hermis , mental impressions , mental vision , occult science , predicting horse race winners , Preen , prophecy , prophetic visions , psychic phenomena , psychic research , Racing Tips from the Astral Plane , Savable , Sheepshead Bay Race Track , Suburban , Suburban horse race , visions
Predicting Lincoln’s Death by Horoscope, Trance, and Manual Alphabet Lincoln’s death predicted by a variety of seers including an astrologer who cast a horoscope, a trance medium, and a student using the manual alphabet
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Chris Woodyard
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April 14, 2018
in Crime , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Abraham Lincoln , D D Home , Lincoln's assassination , omens of death , predicting Lincoln's assassination , Predicting Lincoln's Death by Horoscope Trance and Manual Alphabet , Profssor Thomas Lister , prophecy , prophetic dreams , tokens of death , trance
Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings Sad stories of the death omens of King Charles I.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 30, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Social History
and tagged Bernini , death of King Charles I , death omens , execution of King Charles , King Charles I , portents of royal death , prophecy , Sad Stories of the Death of Kings , Sortes Virgilianae , The White King , tokens of death , Van Dyck
Weeping Willow The life of the Weeping Willow went out with the life of its owner.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 22, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged prophecy , tree dies when owner does , trees as omens of death , Weeping Willow , willow tree death
Queen Victoria’s Funeral Foreseen Queen Victoria’s funeral procession, seen in a vision by a medium four months before her death.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 21, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Social History , Spiritualism
and tagged J.J. Vango , prophecy , Queen Victoria , Queen Victoria's funeral , Queen Victoria's Funeral Foreseen , Spiritualist medium
Four Thanksgiving Geese A woman’s prophetic dream of four Thanksgiving geese
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 23, 2016
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged American Society for Psychical Research , dreams , Four Thanksgiving Geese , geese , goose breastbone , James H. Hyslop , preminatory dreams , premonitions , prophecy , prophetic dreams , prophetic geese , Thanksgiving
Cheiro and Mata Hari Society Palmist Cheiro tells of his encounters with dancer and alleged spy, Mata Hari.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 15, 2016
in Death , Ephemera , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian , War
and tagged Cheiro , espionage , Great War , Louis Harmon , Mata Hari , palm reading , predictions of death , prophecy , spy
Dermographia on Face and Knee Today we peer into the face of Mrs. Marcil of St. Jean Baptiste, Manitoba, Canada, and onto the–well, knee–of a French schoolgirl for some mysterious markings.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 16, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Abbeville , Bussus-Bussuel , Canadian forteana , derm , dermatographia , dermographia , Dermographia on Face and Knee , French forteana , Mother Shipton , pictures on the skin , prophecy , skin writing , stigmata
Dreaming of Death for the Romanovs A lady has a series of prophetic dreams: first, that an heir will be born to the Tsar; and also that his family faces death and destruction if he goes to war.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 16, 2016
in Death , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Social History , War
and tagged A Romanov Death Prophecy , Dreaming of Death for the Romanovs , Madame Nita O’Sullivan Beare , prediction of birth of Alexei , prophecy , Romanov murders , Russian Revolution