Wizard Richardson “Wizard Richardson,” as Dr Elisha Richardson was called, a healer and perhaps “cunning man” of New Hampshire, locates the body of a missing man.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 28, 2018
in Crime , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged adept , cunning man , Elisha Richardson , healer , Henry Hoyt , Jonathan Glass , murder , New Hampshire , second sight , seer , Spiritualism , unsolved murder , Wizard Richardson
Ghosts in Grave-clothes Ghosts who appear in Grave-clothes, usually archaic in style.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 7, 2017
in Costume History , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Panics , Social History , Victorian
and tagged ghosts in burial garments , Ghosts in Grave-clothes , ghosts in shrouds , omens of death , second sight , shrouded spooks , shrouds , tokens of death
Second Sound. A sound like the report of a gun means death on the Isle of Skye.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 10, 2016
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged ghostly sounds , phantom gunshots , phantom shooters , second sight , tokens of death
The Lying Ghost. A dead man gives a warning about reindeer in peril, but is ignored, due to his reputation as a liar.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 12, 2016
in Animal Tales , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Lapland , Lapps , lying ghost , Sami , second sight , spiritualistm , The Lying Ghost
An unassuming little man who worked for an insurance company found that he had a strange gift. He had only to touch a writing sample for it to conjure up accurate visions of the person who had written it. Sometimes those visions solved crimes.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 13, 2015
in Crime , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Lives
and tagged character reading , graphology , handwriting analysis , psychic , psychic graphologist , psychometry , Rafael Schermann , second sight
The Phantom Tombstone For Memorial Day: a story of a very specific prophetic vision of a graveyard monument.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 23, 2015
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged cemeteries , ghostly tombstone , graveyard , Milford Haven , Pavin Phillips , Pembrokeshire , phantom funeral , phantom tombstone , premonitions , prophetic vision , second sight , The Phantom Tombstone , tombstones , visions