The Hairwork Bracelet A hairwork bracelet is materialized from the spirit world at Christmas.
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Chris Woodyard
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December 4, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Christmas , Christmas presents , hair jewellery , hairwork bracelet , memorial hairwork , memorial jewellery , mourning jewellery , Spiritualism , Strange Christmas presents , The Hairwork Bracelet , wreath of flowers
Ghosts Counting Oranges In 1908 The Metropolitan Psychical Society offered $5,000 to any medium who could get the ghosts to count the oranges spilled behind him.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 17, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism
and tagged Dr. Isaac Funk , Dutch ghost , Dutch ghost photograph , Ghosts Counting Oranges , James H. Hyslop , James L. Kellogg , Metropolitan Psychical Society , Spiritism , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud , Spiritualist tests , telepathy , W.S. Davis
Tick-Tock – A Medium Clock A mediumistic clock communicated accurate information by ticks and tocks.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 6, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged clocks as death omens , clocks as tokens of death , death omens , Durham England , E.T. Nisbet , John Lord , Objects of the Damned , premonitions , prophecies , prophetic clock , Society for Psychic Research , spirit guide , Spiritualism , Spiritualist communications , talking clock , Tick-Tock - A Medium Clock
Wizard Richardson “Wizard Richardson,” as Dr Elisha Richardson was called, a healer and perhaps “cunning man” of New Hampshire, locates the body of a missing man.
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 28, 2018
in Crime , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged adept , cunning man , Elisha Richardson , healer , Henry Hoyt , Jonathan Glass , murder , New Hampshire , second sight , seer , Spiritualism , unsolved murder , Wizard Richardson
Silk in the Super-Sargasso Sea A vanished roll of silk mysteriously reappears–had it been captured by Charles Fort’s Super-Sargasso Sea?
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 7, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Charles Fort , Charles Hoy Fort , Esther Cox , Great Amherst Mystery , Henry Phelps , missing objects , poltergeists , Sargasso Sea , seances , Silk in the Super-Sargasso Sea , Spiritualism , Stratford Poltergeist , Super-Sargasso Sea
Playing a Spirit A girl who played a spirit for a famous Spiritualist medium tells All.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 30, 2018
in Crime , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives
and tagged Amanda M. Cowan , mediums , Playing a Spirit , seance room fraud , Spiritualism , Spiritualist confederate , Spiritualist confessions , spiritualist exposure , spiritualist fraud , spiritualist mediums , The Girl Who Played a Spirit , Victorian spiritualism
A Photograph of Uncle William A photograph of long-dead Uncle William appears in a snap-shot taken of a little girl by her mother.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 26, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Spiritualism , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Photograph of Uncle William , born with a caul , born with a veil , ghost appears in photograph , ghost photograph , ghost photography , ghostly photograph , Isabella Haug , Mary Haug , Mary Vreeland , Pareidolia , simulacra , spirit photography , Spiritualism , William Henry Vreeland
Mr. Henderson Teleports Mr. Alexander Henderson, photographer, teleports at a séance with the famous levitating Mrs. Guppy.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 13, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Alexander Henderson , Alexander Lamont Henderson , Mr. Henderson Teleports , Mrs Guppy , seances , spirit photography , Spiritualism , teleportation , Victorian photographers , Victorian spirit photography
A New Year’s Parade of the Damned
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A New Year's Parade of the Damned , Black Country , Civil War ghosts , devil , Devil's footprints , dragon's ghost , Eating Holy Clay , flagellation , funeral flowers , kissing corpses , spanking machines , Spiritualism , spook lights , Victorian mourning , Victorian tear bottles , Wales , wild men , witch's curse , witchcraft
The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House The Spiritualist Eddy Brothers and their family see a phantom carriage sent as an omen of a death in the family.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 15, 2017
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged death coach , Eddy brothers , Henry Steel Olcott , Horatio Eddy , materialization mediums , mediums , People from the Other World , phantom coach , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House , Vermont , William Eddy