Vampire Varieties A variety of vampire posts for World Dracula Day.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 26, 2018
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Social History , Strange Lives , vampires
and tagged blood drinkers , blood-suckers , Croglin Grange Vampire , haunted furniture , New York vampire , vampire furniture , vampire superstitions , Vampire Varieties , vampires , Welsh ghosts , white death
Curious Little People A Welsh house is haunted by curious little people who might be fairies or might be the ghosts of previous inhabitants.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 15, 2017
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged Curious Little People , fairies of Wales , miniature ghosts , Pembrokeshire , Tuatha Dé Danann , Tyhir , Wales , Welsh fairies , Welsh ghosts
When the Morfa Colliery exploded in 1890, 87 men died. Did they linger at the Pit of Ghosts, haunting their fellow workmen?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 24, 2015
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Prophecies , religion , Social History , Victorian
and tagged aural hauntings , coal mining disasters , haunted coal mines , haunted mines , Morfa Colliery , Welsh ghosts
The Ironworks at Cyfarthfa Dark, satanic mills suddenly come to life in a very strange Welsh ghost or time-slip story.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 5, 2015
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Scientific Oddities , Social History
and tagged Cyfarthfa Iron Works , ghostly sounds , hallucinations , iron mill , The Ironworks at Cyfarthfa , time slips , Wales , Welsh ghost stories , Welsh ghosts
There is a particular category of road ghost, often female, that is seen always from behind. No matter how much the pursuer (inevitably a single man) runs or lashes his horse, he cannot catch up to the creature and does not see her face–until it is too late… Two road horrors, from Wales and Mississippi.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 8, 2013
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Victorian
and tagged British Goblins , gwyllion , hags , Juan White , Llanhyddel Mountain , Mississippi ghosts , road ghosts , Welsh ghosts
You are walking in the twilight when you see a funeral procession approaching. You see the coffin on the shoulders of the bearers, the mourners following in their black clothes. You stand aside to let them pass. And then they disappear. You have seen a phantom funeral and it is an omen of death.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 21, 2013
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Victorian
and tagged death omens , Fairy Funeral , ghostly funerals , Goblin Funeral , phantom funerals , Teulu , Tolaeth , Welsh ghosts
