Haunted Ice The people of Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, refused to use the haunted ice, fearing it harbored the spirit of a suicide.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 20, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Strange Deaths
and tagged cutting ice , ghost frozen in ice , Haunted Ice , ice houses , Port Clinton Pennsylvania , suicide frozen in ice , suicides , William Glassmier
Horses That Scent Death Can horses smell death? Do they shy from suicides? Can they see ghosts?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 21, 2016
in Animal Tales , Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Victorian
and tagged animals see ghosts , fear , ghosts , horses see ghosts , horses shy from suicides , Horses That Scent Death , panics , scent of death , suicides
While Washington DC and the White House attracted a wide variety of cranks, the Washington Monument was a shrine for the eccentric, the deluded, and the proto base-jumper.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 13, 2014
in Animal Tales , Crime , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged base jumping , cranks , delusions , eccentrics , Spiritualism , suicides , Washington Monument
While Washington DC and the White House attracted a wide variety of cranks, the Washington Monument was a shrine for the eccentric, the deluded, and the proto base-jumper.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 11, 2013
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged base jumping , cranks , delusions , eccentrics , Spiritualism , suicides , Washington Monument
