The Flame Game A flaming phantom throws balls of fire and belches flames at ghost hunters.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 19, 2018
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spook Lights , Victorian
and tagged fiery apparitions , fire ghosts , fire spooks , Pennsylvania forteana , Pennsylvania ghosts , rolling boggarts , rolling bogies , shape-shifters , shape-shifting spook lights , Solstice , spook lights , St John's Eve , The Flame Game
The Rolling Bogey of Pogue’s Run A rolling bogey and/or a shape-shifting ghost haunted residents of Pogue’s Run, Indiana.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 27, 2018
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Victorian
and tagged boggarts , bridge ghosts , fairy census , Indiana ghosts , Indianapolis ghosts , Pogue's Run , Pogue's Run Bottoms , rolling Pooka , rolling wool bogey , shape-shifters , shapeshifters , The Rolling Bogey of Pogue's Run
Thomas Perks raised spirits in 18th century Gloucestershire. At first they seemed like benign fairies who sang to him; but then came the terrifying and uncontrollable shape-shifting entities…He was “acquainted with spirits to his own destruction.”
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 20, 2013
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Strange Deaths
and tagged entities , fairies , fire balls , Gloucestershire , magic circle , raising spirits , shape-shifters , spirit summoning , Thomas Perks
