Like a Mournful Gust of Wind Watchers over the corpse of a young woman are haunted by a mysterious moaning noise.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 14, 2017
in Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged aural hauntings , Like a Mournful Gust of Wind , Like a Prolonged Mournful Gust of Wind , Massachusetts ghost story , mourning customs , New England ghost story , night watch , supernatural Massachusetts , wake , waking the corpse , waking the dead , watching the corpse
A Glorified Vision of Julia To whet your appetite for The Victorian Book of the Dead, an excerpt from that book about a strange Marian-type apparition seen by multiple witnesses at a wake.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 9, 2014
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Glorified Vision of Julia , ghosts , Julia Murray , Marian apparitions , The Victorian Book of the Dead , wakes , waking the dead
The Corpse Sat Up: Fearing the Dead The dead are dead. They cannot hurt us. (We hope.) So why are we so afraid of a corpse?
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Chris Woodyard
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October 17, 2013
in Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , vampires , Victorian
and tagged corpses , fear of death , lykewake , reanimated corpses , The Corpse Sat Up: Fearing the Dead , waking the dead , walking dead , watching the dead , zombies
