Damned Desks Damned desks, in the Fortean sense, that are haunted or hoodooed.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 9, 2018
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Coe I. Crawford , cursed furniture , Damned Desks , Elmer Burkett , haunted desk , haunted furniture , hoodoo desk , hoodoos , Karoshi , Objects of the Damned , United States Senate , unlucky 23 , Washington DC
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.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
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
Holiday Horrors A medley of holiday hits.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 20, 2017
in Christmas , Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged Abby Warner , bad Santas , Christmas Eve ghosts , English ghosts , Holiday Horrors , killer Christmas trees , Mary Queen of Scots , Ohio poltergeists , Strange Christmas presents , Tower of London
The Gobblers’ll Git You, If You Don’t Watch Out! Ghostly gobblers who tap at your windows and gobble in the garret…
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 21, 2017
in 18th century , Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Victorian
and tagged Epworth Rectory , fairy turkey , ghostly gobblers , ghostly turkeys , headless turkey ghost , king of the fairies , poltergieists , Thanksgiving , The Gobblers'll Git You If You Don't Watch Out! , turkey as messenger of death , turkey as omen of death , turkey ghost , white turkey
Shades of Blue Blue ghosts from Ohio and beyond.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 24, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Baldwin-Wallace College , blue ghosts , blue haze , blue spook lights , Bonnie Bonell , Dayton ghosts , Haunted Ohio , lightning daguerreotypes , Ohio ghosts , Olde Trail Tavern , Shades of Blue , spontaneous combustion , The Buxton Inn , window-pane ghosts , Yellow Springs Ohio
Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg Fortean tales from Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg, all celebrated on July 1. Choose your own Fortean adventure!
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 1, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Poltergeists , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , War , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged and Gettysburg , Battle of Gettysburg , Battle of the Somme , Canada , Canadian forteana , Canadian ghosts , Canadian witchcraft , exorcism , Gettysburg prophecy , Great War , horse ghost , poltergeists , possession , Prince Edward Island , Quaker prophetess , the Somme , Thiepval
Jimmy Squaretoe, Devil or Fairy? Jimmy Squaretoe, the little man in leather, made himself right at home with a family in New Hampshire.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 4, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists
and tagged Devil or Fairy? , General Jonathan Moulton , Hampton New Hampshire , Jimmy Squaretoe , Jimmy Squaretoe - Devil or Fairy? , Nathanial Johnson , New England fairies , New Hampshire fairies , New Hampshire folklore , poltergeists
The Devil in the Nightcap A Welsh woman sees a devilish apparition who insists that she unearth an object from a wall behind her house, then levitates her to a bridge where she is directed to drop it into the river.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 7, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Victorian
and tagged levitation , Morien , Owen Morgan , poltergeists , Rhondda Fach River , The Devil in the Nightcap , Welsh ghost , Welsh ghost stories , Ynyshir
Some Discontented Daemon torments a young servant in 17th-century Devon with shredded clothes, apparitions, bodily contortions, and levitation.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 16, 2016
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , News , Poltergeists , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Andrew Paschal , clothes-slashing poltergeists , devil , Devon ghosts , flying , Francis Fry , John Aubrey , levitation , poltergeists , possession , Some Discontented Daemon
Skrats and How to Make Them Skrats! You too can make your own helpful domestic spirit from a few common household objects!
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 5, 2016
in Creature Feature , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Poltergeists , Victorian
and tagged brownies , helpful fairies , household spirits , skrat , Skrats and How to Make Them