A Haunted Library A library is haunted by the sinister ghost of a former librarian.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 28, 2017
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged A Haunted Library , Albert J. Edmunds , American Society for Psychical Research , haunted library , library ghost , library ghost stories , M.R. James , Sir John Young Walker MacAlister , The Tractate Middoth , Vincent Thomas Sternberg
Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 brings you the week’s posts: the Witch of Leadville, eye-lash history, the ghost of a living woman, a discontented and destructive daemon, as well as creepy crawlies in hair and jungle.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 20, 2016
in Animal Tales , Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Panics , religion , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Witches
and tagged astral projection , Colorado , demons , false eyelashes , false hair , ghosts of the living , giant spiders , gregarines , Leadville , M.R. James , poltergeists , Spiritualism , Valentines , Victorian hairpieces , Victorian humor , Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 , witchcraft , witchcraft trials
A story of life imitating art in an excerpt from Julian Duguid’s Green Hell, about a meeting with a giant spider. Shades of “The Ash Tree” by M.R. James….
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 5, 2013
in Animal Tales , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged bird-eating spiders , Bolivia , giant spider , giant spiders , Green Hell , Julian Duguid , M.R. James , The Ash Tree
