Bouncing Beds Reports of beds that vibrate, rock, and bounce by themselves.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 27, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Victorian
and tagged Bouncing Beds , haunted bed , haunted house , poltergeists , psychokinesis , renting a haunted house , rocking bed , Society for Psychical Research , Texas ghosts , Waco ghosts , Waco haunted house
A Bewitched Farmhouse at Binbrook A farmhouse at Binbrook, Lincolnshire, is bewitched by a witch or a polt.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 6, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Witches
and tagged A Bewitched Farmhouse at Binbrook , Binbrook , English witches , Grimsby , incendiary poltergeist , John Dunn , Lincolnshire , Lincolnshire witches , poltergeist , Walk Farm , walking dead , William Drakes , witchcraft , witches
Cairo’s Devil in Clogs A devilish ghost wearing clogs haunts a family in Cairo until shot by a servant.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 4, 2017
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Victorian
and tagged afrit , bathing clogs , Cairo , Cairo's Devil in Clogs , demons , efreet , haunted house in Cairo , Middle Eastern ghosts , The Clog-Wearing Devil of Cairo , Turkish clogs
Polts Afloat Two men in a boat have uncanny experiences off Sfax, Tunisia.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 6, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Sky Mysteries , Victorian
and tagged lithobolia , Polts Afloat , rain of stones , Sfax , showers of stones , stone-throwing poltergeists , Tunisia
Halloween Mystery Box of Ghost Books Offer! Order yours today!
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 11, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged forteana , ghost book sale , ghost stories , ghosts and hauntings , Halloween Mystery Box of Ghost Books Offer , Invisible Ink: Books on Ghosts & Hauntings , mystery boxes of ghost books
The Case of the Levitating Law Books Law books levitate before multiple witnesses in open court at the Civil Court at Port Elizabeth, 1912.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 31, 2015
in Death , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Cape Town , ghosts in court , Henry Glasse , levitation , PK , poltergeist , Port Elizabeth , South Africa , Spiritualism , telekinesis , The Case of the Levitating Law Books
The Phantom Light of Deakin’s Woods: Part 2 The conclusion to the story, but perhaps not the final word, on the mysterious red spook light seen at Columbus Grove.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 27, 2014
in Cryptozoology , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , Poltergeists , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Columbus Grove , fire bird , foreana , Great Black Swamp , mystery light , Ohio mysteries , phantom light , spook light , The Phantom Light of Deakin's Woods: Part 2 , Trenton Gas Field , UFOs
John Wesley, founder of Methodism, gives an account of the exorcism of a young woman physically tormented by the devil.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 9, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Poltergeists , religion , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged convulsions , demon-possession , exorcism , John Wesley , Methodists , obsession , poltergeists , possession
The Haunt-Hunter Haunted Psychic researcher Dr. Walter F. Prince, the man who studied the fire-spook of Antigonish and the multiple personalities of “Doris Fischer,” found that his own house was haunted and that the vector was again a young woman.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 16, 2013
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Poltergeists , Psychic Research
and tagged Antigonish , Doris Fischer , Dr Walter Franklin Prince , hauntings , Mary Ellen MacDonald , multiple personalities , poltergeists , psychic research , The Haunt-Hunter Haunted , Theodosia Prince
Who Hears a Horton? Froissart’s Helpful Spirit The classic story from Froissart about “Orton” or “Orthon,” a helpful spirit or demon who brought news from afar to the Lord de Corasse.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 28, 2013
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Occultism/Magic , Poltergeists , Poltergeists , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Bell Witch , demons , Froissart , Gef the talking mongoose , medieval ghosts , medieval supernatural , Orthon , talking spirits , Who Hears a Horton? Froissart's Helpful Spirit