A Photograph of Uncle William A photograph of long-dead Uncle William appears in a snap-shot taken of a little girl by her mother.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 26, 2018
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Spiritualism , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Photograph of Uncle William , born with a caul , born with a veil , ghost appears in photograph , ghost photograph , ghost photography , ghostly photograph , Isabella Haug , Mary Haug , Mary Vreeland , Pareidolia , simulacra , spirit photography , Spiritualism , William Henry Vreeland
The Gourdian Blot A widower finds the face of his dead wife on her drinking gourd.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 29, 2016
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged drinking gourd , face of the dead , gourd , mystery image , Pareidolia , simulacra , simulacrum , The Face on the Gourd , The Gourdian Blot
A mysterious map of the battlegrounds of Europe appears on a sooty ceiling in a Texas house in 1919. The face of a man and a coiled serpent also materialized. What did it all mean?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 10, 2015
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History , Spiritualism , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged European theatre , First World War , Gainesville , Great War , mysterious mpa , Nathaniel Vice , Pareidolia , simulacra , simulacrum , snake , Texas , World War I
Reading about the astonishing variety of figures and faces recently seen on Mars, I was reminded of this topical foray into cartographical simulacra: faces of British politicians found in the maps of the world.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 20, 2015
in Ephemera , News , Prophecies , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Edward Terry , geography , Joseph Chamberlain , Li Hung Chang , Lord Salisbury , map faces , map simulacra , Mr Punch , simulacra , Sir William Harcourt , White House shadowgraphs
Hell has frozen over so let us look at frost portraits–images in icy windows with mystic or prophetic significance.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 26, 2015
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged frost etchings , frost pictures , frost portraits , Jack Frost , Pareidolia , simulacra , simulacrum
Today is the anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria. Here are several odd visions of the Queen–in the sky, in shadows, and with American presidents.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 22, 2015
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Sky Mysteries , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged cloud pictures , Pareidolia , President Grover Cleveland , President William McKinley , simulacra , the Fortean White House , visions , White House shadowgraphs
The White House Shadowgraphs: The Fortean White House Part 2 In 1901, Washington DC was excited by mysterious shadows on the columns of the east and west porticoes of the White House. Prophetic images or pareidolia?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 12, 2013
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Sky Mysteries , Social History , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged forteana , Pareidolia , President McKinley , Queen Victoria , shadowgraphs , simulacra , simulacrum , The White House Shadowgraphs: The Fortean White House Part 2 , Theodore Roosevelt , White House
A mysterious map of the battlegrounds of Europe appears on a sooty ceiling in a Texas house in 1919. The face of a man and a coiled serpent also materialized. What did it all mean?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 30, 2013
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged European theatre , Gainesville , Great War , mysterious map , Nathaniel Vice , simulacra , simulacrum , snake , Texas , World War I
