The Psychic Howler – Vintage Ghost-hunting Tools Vintage ghost-hunting tools including the psychic howler or ululometer to detect spirits and spirit energy.
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September 29, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Spiritualism
and tagged American Psychical Institute , dynarruostograph , galvanometer , ghost hunting , ghost-hunting tools , ghosts , Hereward Carrington , lastrometer , National Ghost Hunting Day , oscillograph , parnanormal research , psychic howler , psychic research , spirit dictaphone , sthenometer , The Psychic Howler: Vintage Ghost-Hunting Tools , ululometer , vintage ghost hunting , volometer , World's Largest Ghost Hunt
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
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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
Spook Wants a Coroner A young lady ghost (?) asks to give an ante-mortem statement about the cause of her death. Was she a spook or an insane woman?
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Chris Woodyard
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April 7, 2018
in Crime , Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Chief Medical Examiner , coroner , Criminal Courts Building , forensics , ghosts , haunted coroner's office , New York City Coroner , New York City ghosts , New York Morgue , Spook Wants a Coroner , suicide museum , suicide poison closet
That Missionary Spirit A religious spirit on a mission returns from beyond the grave to urge his friends to repent.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 18, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Interesting People , News , religion , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Arthur H. Wright , Carthage Illinois , ghosts , Illinois ghosts , Lewis Boston , Louis Boston , Louis Lunsford Boston , missionary ghost , Reuben Boston , That Missionary Spirit
What the Cat Saw. A cat sees a hideous apparition while her mistress believes her pet has gone mad.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 22, 2017
in Animal Tales , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged animals who see ghosts , cats see ghosts , ghosts , hag , suicide's ghost , What the Cat Saw
Uncanny Hallowe’en Guests. Phantom horses and shrieking men and women are heard outside a Cincinnati house. Then uncanny Hallowe’en guests arrive to wreak havoc.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 25, 2016
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged brownies , fairies , ghosts , Halloween , Halloween party , monsters , supernatural tales , Uncanny Hallowe'en Guests
The Psychic Howler: Vintage Ghost-Hunting Tools In honor of National Ghost Hunting Day, a look back at some of the tools of psychic researchers of the past.
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Chris Woodyard
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October 1, 2016
in Ephemera , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged American Psychical Institute , ghost hunting , ghost-hunting tools , ghosts , Hereward Carrington , National Ghost Hunting Day , paranormal research , psychic howler , psychic research , The Psychic Howler: Vintage Ghost-Hunting Tools , ululometer
The Woman in Black in the Window A group of men whose veracity cannot be questioned sees the apparition of a Woman in Black in a Primghar, Iowa window.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 8, 2016
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged ghosts , Iowa forteana , Iowa ghosts , Primghar Iowa , The Woman in Black in the Window , window ghosts , Woman in Black
Horses That Scent Death Can horses smell death? Do they shy from suicides? Can they see ghosts?
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Chris Woodyard
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July 21, 2016
in Animal Tales , Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Panics , Victorian
and tagged animals see ghosts , fear , ghosts , horses see ghosts , horses shy from suicides , Horses That Scent Death , panics , scent of death , suicides
Two Skulls at Thiepval British war artist William Orpen and a French painter have strange encounters with unburied skulls at the Somme.
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Chris Woodyard
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June 30, 2016
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Bodies , War
and tagged Battle of the Somme , First World War , ghosts , Great War , Sir WIlliam Orpen , Two Skulls at Thiepval , World War One , WWI