The Wild Cat’s Portrait The eyes of a life-sized wild cat portrait brought destruction to the drawing’s owners. A tale of a haunted drawing.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 13, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Dr. Franz Hartmann , elementals , German occultism , haunted art , haunted drawing , haunted painting , Justinus Kerner , Objects of the Damned , The Wild Cat's Portrait , Theobald Kerner , wild cat drawing
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.
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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
Harold the Goblin Boss Young Harold bosses a group of goblins at the bottom of the garden.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 12, 2018
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Victorian
and tagged elementals , fairies , fairies at the bottom of the garden , gnomes , Goblin Boss , goblins at the bottom of the garden , Harold the Goblin Boss , helpful elves , helpful goblins , helpful spirits , sprites , tutelary spirits
Some Irish Elementals A look at some half-human half-animal Irish elementals. Ape-like or sheep-like–they’re terrifying and malign.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 14, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged elementals , haunted Irish castle , horrors , Irish elementals , Irish ghosts , Kilman Castle , Leap Castle , monsters Irish monsters , Rev. Frederick T. Bennett , Some Irish Elementals
Past Praying For – Something Sinister in an Irish Field Sinister encounters with bizarre and fiery animals in an Irish field.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged barguests , Black Dogs , boggarts , Cornish Bear Monster , dragon , elementals , fairies , ghost of a dragon , Irish folklore , North Antrim , padfoot , Past Praying For - Something Sinister in a Field , Rev. Samuel Drew , souls in purgatory
The Little Man with the Soiled Handkerchief A little man haunts a sick woman, taunting her with his soiled handkerchief.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 24, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Spiritualism , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged carpenter of doom , elementals , fairies , fever hallucinations , hallucinations , little people , sickness , The Little Man with the Soiled Handkerchief
Rocky Mountain Cry – A Colorado Banshee Two girls in Colorado follow a strangely human wailing, which leads them to a bizarre giant apparition.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 17, 2016
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged A Colorado Banshee , angel , angel of death , banshee , Colorado apparition , elementals , ghost , mountain spirits , Rocky Mountain Cry: A Colorado Banshee , Rocky Mountains , That Singular Wailing , wailing spirit
Today we look at two accounts of goat-men, one in Windsor Great Park; the other, a satyr-sighting near Wemyss Castle in Scotland.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 27, 2015
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Countess of Cromartie , Creature Feature: The Goat Man , elementals , faun , goat man , goatman sightings , Lady Henry Grosvenor , Lilian , Pan , satyr , satyr sightings , Violet Tweedale , Wemyss Castle , Windsor Great Park
Creature Feature: The Varua Ino: The Ravening Watchers For today’s creature we venture into the tropical paradise of the South Seas: a place of warm, hospitable people, blue seas, palm-trees swaying in the trade-winds–and blood-thirsty elementals: the Varua ino.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 8, 2015
in Creature Feature , Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , vampires , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Charles Nordhoff , Creature Feature: The Varua Ino: The Ravening Watchers , devils , elementals , evil spirits , James Norman Hall , Papeete , Polynesia , ravening watchers , South Pacific , South Sea islands , Tahiti , tupapau , Varua ino
We open a new October series–Creature Feature, with a lurid goblin orgy.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 1, 2015
in Creature Feature , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Spiritualism , Victorian , Witches
and tagged Creature Feature , demons , devils , elementals , evil spirits , goblin orgy , goblins , green demons , green devils , Massachusetts folklore , pararnormal Massachusetts , poltergeists