Prophetic Spiders There was a thread of prophetic spider messages written in webs in the 19th and early-20th centuries.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 9, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History , Victorian , War
and tagged educated spiders , First World War , Great War , New Orleans , orb weavers , prophetic spiders , spiders predictions , William McKinley , words in spider webs , World War I , writing in spider webs
Tales from the Presidential Crypts A look at some strange incidents at presidential tombs: the skull of Washington, a guard driven mad by standing watch at Garfield’s grave, shots fired and intruders at McKinley’s tomb, and poltergeist-like activities at the Harding holding vault.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 15, 2014
in Body Snatching , Crime , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Social History
and tagged bodysnatching , dead presidents , Garfield Monument , George Washington , grave desecration , graveyard ghouls , Harding holding vault , James A. Garfield , Lake View Cemetery , Marion Ohio , McKinley Tomb , Mount Vernon , presidential ghosts , presidential grave desecration , presidential graves , presidential tombs , Tales from the Presidential Crypts , Warren G Harding , Washington Tomb , William McKinley
