The Death of the Queen of Bohemia Writer Zoe Anderson Norris, the Queen of Bohemia, is warned by the ghost of her mother that she is next to follow her in death.
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Chris Woodyard
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November 6, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths
and tagged death omens , death tokens , Land of the White Lilies , mother returns to warn of death , omens of death , prophetic dreams , The Death of the Queen of Bohemia , The Land of White Lilies , tokens of death , Zoe Anderson Norris
The Glitter and the Ghoul The glittering Cheapside Hoard of jewels was haunted by a tall Elizabethan ghost.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 30, 2018
in Costume History , Crime , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Interesting People , News , Social History
and tagged Cheapside Hoard , Elizabethan ghosts , English ghosts , ghost haunts jewels , haunted gems , haunted jewels , Museum of London , Stoney Jack , The Glitter and the Ghoul
Wizard Richardson “Wizard Richardson,” as Dr Elisha Richardson was called, a healer and perhaps “cunning man” of New Hampshire, locates the body of a missing man.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 28, 2018
in Crime , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged adept , cunning man , Elisha Richardson , healer , Henry Hoyt , Jonathan Glass , murder , New Hampshire , second sight , seer , Spiritualism , unsolved murder , Wizard Richardson
Cheiro and the Czar The society palmist Cheiro told Czar Nicholas II of Russia of his doom a decade before the Russian Revolution.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 17, 2018
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Social History , War
and tagged Cheiro , Cheiro and the Czar , Czar Nicholas II of Russia , Nicholas Romanov , palm reading , palmist , Romanov Death Prophecy , Romanov murders , Yekaterinburg
The Spirit of Mary Surratt The spirit of Mary Surratt is believed to haunt her old boarding house and was said to have returned to write a bitter message during an 1890s séance slate-writing session.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 7, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Abraham Lincoln , assassination of Abraham Lincoln , Dr Theodor Hansmann , execution of Mrs Surratt , hanging of Mrs Surratt , John H. Surratt , John Wilkes Booth , Lincoln's assassination , Mary Surratt , The Spirit of Mary Surratt , Washington ghosts
Playing a Spirit A girl who played a spirit for a famous Spiritualist medium tells All.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 30, 2018
in Crime , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives
and tagged Amanda M. Cowan , mediums , Playing a Spirit , seance room fraud , Spiritualism , Spiritualist confederate , Spiritualist confessions , spiritualist exposure , spiritualist fraud , spiritualist mediums , The Girl Who Played a Spirit , Victorian spiritualism
The Veil Between The veil between the living and the dead is torn when a father returns for his young daughter.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 16, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , Victorian
and tagged dead father returns , dead father visits child , Edwardian ghost stories , English ghost stories , Father's Day , ghostly father , The Veil Between , Victorian ghost stories
Racing Tips from the Astral Plane The author describes the racing tips he received from the Astral Plane via luminous letters and images.
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Chris Woodyard
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May 5, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged Hermis , mental impressions , mental vision , occult science , predicting horse race winners , Preen , prophecy , prophetic visions , psychic phenomena , psychic research , Racing Tips from the Astral Plane , Savable , Sheepshead Bay Race Track , Suburban , Suburban horse race , visions
Mr. Henderson Teleports Mr. Alexander Henderson, photographer, teleports at a séance with the famous levitating Mrs. Guppy.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 13, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Alexander Henderson , Alexander Lamont Henderson , Mr. Henderson Teleports , Mrs Guppy , seances , spirit photography , Spiritualism , teleportation , Victorian photographers , Victorian spirit photography
Ashes a la carte Ashes of the dead eaten by the living.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 6, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , Mourning Customs and History , News , Strange Lives , vampires , Victorian
and tagged Ashes à la carte , brushing teeth with human ashes , cremains , cremation , eating human ashes , human ashes , Mark Twain , Matilda Francefort , mistakes with human ashes