War correspondent Paul Scott Mowrer reports on the gruesome war toys indoctrinating the youth of Germany during the Great War.
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Chris Woodyard
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December 12, 2015
in Christmas , Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , War
and tagged First World War , German war toys , Great War , Lusitania , Paul Scott Mowrer , Spanish American War , World War One , WWI
Weird tales from the trenches of the Great War: Spectral bloodhounds, a ghostly old soldier, a reconstituted corpse.
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Chris Woodyard
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November 12, 2015
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , War
and tagged Franco-Prussian War , ghostly dogs , ghosts of the First World War , Great War , phantom soldiers , spectral dogs , trench ghost stories , Verdun , World War I ghosts
Were images of the Virgin Mary beamed into the sky by airborne stereopticon to try to save a besieged city? And would these images explain the Angel of Mons and other Great War visions?
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Chris Woodyard
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November 10, 2015
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Angel of Mons , First World War , Great War , Marian apparitions , Our Lady of Czestochowa , Our Lady of the Stereopticon , Siege of Przemysl , sky visions , World War I
The Dead of Antietam A macabre change was reported among the Confederate dead of Antietam.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 17, 2015
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian , War
and tagged Battle of Antietam , Battle of Sharpsburg , casualties at Antietam , Civil War casualties , Civil War dead , corpses at Antietam , The Dead of Antietam
A mysterious map of the battlegrounds of Europe appears on a sooty ceiling in a Texas house in 1919. The face of a man and a coiled serpent also materialized. What did it all mean?
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Chris Woodyard
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September 10, 2015
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History , Spiritualism , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged European theatre , First World War , Gainesville , Great War , mysterious mpa , Nathaniel Vice , Pareidolia , simulacra , simulacrum , snake , Texas , World War I
Professor Muenter’s Metaphysical Murder In the wake of talk about German occultists after the head of F.W. Murnau was stolen from his tomb, today we examine another Interesting Person, the learned Professor Erich Muenter, polyglot, German instructor at Harvard University, metaphysician, mad bomber, and murderer.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 21, 2015
in Crime , Death , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Social History , Spiritualism , War
and tagged arsenic poisoning , Erich K. Muenter , Frank Holt , J.P. Morgan , metaphysics , occult practices , Professor Muenter's Metaphysical Murder , wife murder
Recovering a Corpse at Gettysburg: A Marvellous Dream A strange incident after a man recovers his brother’s corpse from a temporary grave at Gettysburg.
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Chris Woodyard
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July 2, 2015
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Victorian , War
and tagged Civil War , Gettysburg , Gettysburg battlefield , Gettysburg casualties , prophetic dreams , Recovering a Corpse at Gettysburg: A Marvellous Dream , soldier's temporary grave
The Battle of Waterloo replays at midnight for an English visitor.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 17, 2015
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian , War
and tagged A Clairvoyant Vision of the Battle of Waterloo , Battle of Waterloo , Battle of Waterloo ghosts , battlefield ghosts , replaying the Battle of Waterloo , soldier ghosts , time slips , Waterloo ghosts
What would have happened had Napoleon triumphed at Waterloo? Lumen knows….
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Chris Woodyard
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June 16, 2015
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , War
and tagged alternate history , Battle of Waterloo , Camille Flammarion , Lumen , Napoleon , Refighting the Battle of Waterloo , refighting Waterloo , reversing time , revisionist history , rewriting history , time travel , Victorian science fiction
The Flagman and the Skeleton: A Vision in the Sun From the time of the War of 1812 comes a story of an unusually vivid three-day vision of a man with a flag and a skeleton, observed by many onboard HMS Majestic, then lying off Boston.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 13, 2015
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Captain John Hayes , eagle vision , flag vision , HMS Majestic , Napoleon , Sir Henry Hotham , skeleton vision , sky vision , solar vision , sun visions , The Flagman and the Skeleton: A Vision in the Sun , War of 1812