The Hairwork Bracelet A hairwork bracelet is materialized from the spirit world at Christmas.
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Chris Woodyard
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December 4, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Christmas , Christmas presents , hair jewellery , hairwork bracelet , memorial hairwork , memorial jewellery , mourning jewellery , Spiritualism , Strange Christmas presents , The Hairwork Bracelet , wreath of flowers
Silk in the Super-Sargasso Sea A vanished roll of silk mysteriously reappears–had it been captured by Charles Fort’s Super-Sargasso Sea?
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Chris Woodyard
on
August 7, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Charles Fort , Charles Hoy Fort , Esther Cox , Great Amherst Mystery , Henry Phelps , missing objects , poltergeists , Sargasso Sea , seances , Silk in the Super-Sargasso Sea , Spiritualism , Stratford Poltergeist , Super-Sargasso Sea
Miss Neas’s Bones of Contention Doctors and other witnesses reported seeing hundreds of bones working their way through Sarah Neas’s skin
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 11, 2017
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , bone disease , bone infection , Dr Benjamin F. Bell , Dr. Charles M. Drake , exfoliation , fairy blast , Fairy Flick , hoaxes , Mary Toft , medical frauds , Miss Neas's Bones of Contention , mystery diseases , Sallie Neas , Sarah Neas , Tennessee forteana
Mrs Guppy the Snow Queen Mrs Guppy was not only apport queen of the seance room, on several occasions she proved herself a snow queen with seance snow-falls.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 2, 2014
in Christmas , Fortean Mysteries , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , frost apport , Mrs Guppy , Mrs Guppy the Snow Queen , seances , snow apport , Spiritualism , Spiritualist medium
The Spirits Giveth and the Spirits Taketh Away I’ve previously written about an apparent religious materialization of cash in “The Bridgnorth Shilling.” Here is a similar, if rather less ethereal story about apporting money from Dr. Silas J. Chesebrough, New York State Spiritualist enthusiast, featuring his protégé, young Joe Caffrey
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 22, 2014
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Joseph A. Caffray , Joseph A. Caffrey , money apports , pennies from heaven , Silas J. Chesebrough , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , The Spirits Giveth and the Spirits Taketh Away
A St Patrick’s Day tale of a séance-room shamrock apport and comic turn by a stage-Irishman spirit guide.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 17, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , Dr Thomas D'Aute Hooper , ghostly Irishman , Indian spirit guides , Irish spirit guide , mediums , shamrocks , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , St Patrick's Day , stage Irishman
Large-scale flower apports from materializing medium Elizabeth d’Esperance and her spirit guides. And some less impressive floral offerings from Mrs Guppy.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 23, 2013
in Fortean Mysteries , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged apports , d'Esperance , flowers , fraud , golden lily , Ixora Crocata , materialization mediums , medium , Mrs Guppy , spirit guides , Walter , Yolande