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
Dermographia on Face and Knee Today we peer into the face of Mrs. Marcil of St. Jean Baptiste, Manitoba, Canada, and onto the–well, knee–of a French schoolgirl for some mysterious markings.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 16, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Abbeville , Bussus-Bussuel , Canadian forteana , derm , dermatographia , dermographia , Dermographia on Face and Knee , French forteana , Mother Shipton , pictures on the skin , prophecy , skin writing , stigmata
The Lizard Cure A gypsy cures a sick Canadian farmer by purging him of lizards.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 7, 2016
in Animal Tales , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged bosom serpent , Canadian forteana , forteana , gipsy , Lacerta homo , lizards in the stomach , New Brunswick , Nova Scotia , sick with lizards , The Lizard Cure
Polt or Possessed on Prince Edward Island?A young Canadian girl is followed by mysterious rappings and fires. No, it’s not Mary Ellen of Antigonish–the case occurs a decade earlier and her family swore they saw her levitate.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 24, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Poltergeists , Psychic Research , religion , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Canadian forteana , Canadian paranormal , exorcism , incendiary poltergeists , levitation , mysterious fires , Polt or Possessed on Prince Edward Island? , poltergeists , possession , Prince Edward Island
