The Haunted Cab The London cab haunted by the bloody, cut-throat ghost of a suicide.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 23, 2018
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged growler , hackney carriage , haunted cab , London cabby , London ghost story , The Haunted Cab
The Waxen Effigy of a Child The horribly realistic waxen effigy of a child, created to commemorate a murder.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 16, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News
and tagged cursed object , family curses , haunted effigy , haunted object , haunted statue , Isle of Wight , Objects of the Damned , Priory Bay Hotel , screaming skulls , The Waxen Effigy of a Child , wax effigy , wicked stepmother
The Haunted Rocking Chair Stories of haunted rocking chairs in our October series of “Objects of the Damned.”
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Chris Woodyard
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October 2, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Halloween , haunted furniture , haunted museum , haunted objects , haunted rocking chair , Objects of the Damned , possessed possessions , The Haunted Rocking Chair , tokens of death
The Black Ghost – Part Two The Black Ghost at Castel-a-Mare encountered by Lord St Audries and his friends.
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September 15, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News
and tagged Beverley Nichols , Devonshire ghosts , English ghost stories , faceless ghosts , Lord St. Audries , murder ghosts , suicide ghosts , The Black Ghost , The Black Ghost - Part Two , Torquay ghosts , violent ghosts , Violet Tweedale
The Black Ghost – Part One The Black Ghost met by Lord St. Audries, as told by several different newspapers.
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September 11, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News
and tagged black ghost , dangerous ghosts , Devonshire ghosts , faceless ghost , haunted house , Lord St. Audries , murder ghosts , suicide ghosts , The Black Ghost - Part One , violent ghosts
Dead as a Doornail -The Carpenter of Doom Over the space of a lifetime, a man was haunted by recurring visits from a mysterious carpenter, whose presence meant death.
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Chris Woodyard
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August 14, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged banshee , Dead as a Doornail: The Carpenter of Doom , death angel , death omens , mysterious carpenter , personifications of Death , phantom carpenter , psychopomp , spectral carpenter , tokens of death , unearthly carpenter
Called by the Dead The living are called by the dead to join them, even if it means committing suicide. The dead can be so demanding…
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Chris Woodyard
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August 11, 2018
in Death , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Called by the Dead , demanding dead , fetch , ghost urges suicide , ghostly children , ghostly father , ghosts urge suicide , living called by the dead , Massachusetts ghost stories , Mrs Charles Lee , Mrs Oliver Pettit
An Overwhelming Odour of Corruption was the main feature of the haunting of “Holly Cottage” The stench of corruption, flabby hands, spitting in the dark, and the sound of a coffin being moved. No wonder the rent was so low.
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August 4, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged an overwhelming odour of corruption , dangerous ghosts , elementals , English ghost stories , ghostly smells , ghostly stench , ghosts , horrors , olfactory hauntings , poltergeists , smell of corruption , smell of decomposition , sound of a coffin being moved
The Fatal Glass of Beer Mrs Hubbard was mysteriously poisoned by a fatal glass of beer. In the aptly named Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, a railroad flagman has an unexpected encounter with the dead woman.
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July 31, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Bartlett McGettrick , Gravesend Brooklyn , Gravesend New York , Maria L. Hubbard , murder ghosts , Samuel Hubbard , strychnine poisoning , The Fatal Glass of Beer
Something Baleful on the Bridge Something invisible and baleful on the bridge evokes awful feeling of horror, sickness, and impending death in the witnesses.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 14, 2018
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged bridge ghost , evil aura , evil spirits , ghost on bridge , haunted bridges , invisible animal , panic , phantom animal , phantom dog , Something Baleful on the Bridge