The Old Lady with the Nails An old lady with a hammer and nails menaces a dormitory of schoolboys in a nightmarish vision.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 12, 2017
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches
and tagged Augustus Hare , banshee , murder by nail , old woman spirit , omen of death , phantom carpenter , spectral carpenter , Stewart Mackenzie , The Old Lady with the Nails , token of death , witchcraft
Phantom Coaches at the Door Phantom coaches pull up to the door, bringing death or mystery.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 8, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Augustus Hare , Brentford , Carham , dead coach , death coach , death omens , Ealing Park , family ghosts , Irish ghosts , Lady Victoria Kirwan , Limerick Ireland , Marquis of Hastings , Mount Coote , phantom coach , Phantom Coaches at the Door , tokens of death
The Thing in the Cemetery There is a horrific tale called “The Croglin Grange Vampire” told by Augustus Hare in The Story of My Life (1896/1900). The hideous Thing in this story from Van Wert, Ohio is strongly reminiscent of Hare’s unearthly creature found in a churchyard vault.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 30, 2014
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , vampires , Victorian
and tagged Augustus Hare , cemetery ghost , cemetery wraith , Croglin Grange Vampire , ghosts , haunted cemetery , Ohio ghosts , The Thing in the Cemetery , vampire , Van Wert Ohio
