Posts tagged
‘William Shakespeare’

“Attend, ye braves!” Shakespeare Speaks from the Beyond

“Attend, ye braves!” Shakespeare Speaks from the Beyond If you have tears, prepare to shed them now…Today we look at some of the post-mortem communications purporting to come from Shakespeare. Hard on the heels of 19th-century “Bardolotry” came the Spiritualists, who couldn’t leave his bones undisturbed, but summoned the departed Bard from the vasty deeps to channel wit, wisdom, poetry, plays and unmitigated blather.

Tales of Heads: Famous and Infamous

Tales of Heads: Famous and Infamous An article about a gruesome experiment with the consciousness of severed heads reminded me of my file of mummified head stories. Here is a cabinet of mummified curiosities–merely because I am interested in the grim and gruesome. An upcoming post will share stories of hauntings involving disembodied heads.