Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016 with a fashion editor out of his depth, spook lights in New Zealand get up close and personal with a traveler, flappers and their corsets, and the ghosts of two murder victims.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 23, 2016
in Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Wonders and Curiosities
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Weekend Compendium: 16 January 2016
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Chris Woodyard
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January 16, 2016
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