A Bewitched Farmhouse at Binbrook A farmhouse at Binbrook, Lincolnshire, is bewitched by a witch or a polt.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 6, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Witches
and tagged A Bewitched Farmhouse at Binbrook , Binbrook , English witches , Grimsby , incendiary poltergeist , John Dunn , Lincolnshire , Lincolnshire witches , poltergeist , Walk Farm , walking dead , William Drakes , witchcraft , witches
Walking in a Dead Man’s Bones Three witnesses tell of their encounters with a terrifying walking corpse at a haunted woods in Pennsylvania.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 20, 2016
in Crime , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian
and tagged Dr. Upton Lawrence Clemmer , Fallen Timbers , Fayette County Pennsylvania , ghastly ghost , haunted woods , murder ghosts , murdered peddler , New Geneva Pennsylvania , Osborne Hare , Pennsylvania ghost stories , walking corpse , walking dead , walking dead man , Walking in a Dead Man's Bones
A past Bishop of Liberia gives us an eye-witness account of a restless corpse determined to find her murderer.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 26, 2015
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Witches
and tagged A Corpse in a Terrible Frenzy , African missionary , African witchcraft , Bishop John Payne , Cape Palmas , Liberia , reanimated corpses , Sede , walking dead , zombies
Experienced morticians know that the dead do move, sometimes in shockingly natural ways, simply due to changes in muscle tension, rigor wearing off, or internal gases. But do certain bodies move in UNnatural ways?
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Chris Woodyard
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July 2, 2014
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Ambrose Bierce , blinking mummy of Palermo , buried alive , lynching , moving corpses , walking dead
Fearing the Walking Dead: Zombies and Draugr There is something horrifyingly fascinating about accounts of the dead who stubbornly refuse to lie down quietly, but continue to walk as they did in life. They may be called revenants, or vampires, draugr, ghouls, or the Undead. They scare us.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 24, 2013
in Body Snatching , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , vampires , Victorian
and tagged draugr , Fearing the Walking Dead: Zombies and Draugr , Malden Massachusetts , reanimated corpses , revenants , walking corpse , walking dead , zombies
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