The Road to Perdition – Hell Located Various Hell locations around the world; New Jersey leads the pack.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 25, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged damnation , Darvasa Gas Crater , devil , geography , Hell , Mount Etna , Mount Heckla , New Jersey , Perdition , purgatory , St Patrick's Purgatory , The Rev. Caesar Andrew Augustus Taylor , The Road to Perdition: Hell Located , William Whiston
A priest is summoned to confess a dying man–only to find himself absolving a corpse.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 5, 2015
in Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Strange Deaths
and tagged animas , confessing a dead man , confession , damned souls , ghosts of Mexico , Mexican ghost story , poor souls , purgatory , religious ghost stories , walking dead man
In a shameless bid to ride the coattails of publicity for Dan Brown’s new book Inferno, and since I have previously covered Hell and its geography as well as some fiery relics of the Poor Souls in Purgatory, let’s look at some stories about Purgatorial pranks, where the living impersonate the dead for their own purposes.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 21, 2013
in Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Dominicans , Franciscans , hoaxes , impostures , Ireland , Lewis Brabant , purgatory , Tragedy of Berne , ventriloquism , Wigand Wirt
The Fiery Hand of Doom A selection of stories about mysterious fiery hands and scorched hand-prints–are they a religious or a paranormal phenomenon?
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 19, 2013
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , religion
and tagged Catholic , incendiary poltergeists , poltergeists , poor souls , purgatory , SHC , spook lights , The Fiery Hand of Doom , Wizard Clip
The Road to Perdition: Hell Located In this Geography of Sin, I point the way to a few North American Gates of Hell.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 12, 2013
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged brimstone , Geography of Sin , Hell , Location of Hell , Looking for Hell , New Jersey , purgatory , Rev. Zed Hetzel Copp , Texas , The Gates of Hell , The Road to Perdition: Hell Located , where is hell?
