In the Grip of la Grippe A few posts from the past.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 15, 2016
in Animal Tales , Crime , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Occultism/Magic , Sky Mysteries , Strange Bodies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged alligator , Captain Smith , carnival gaffs , devil fish , feejee mermaid , In the Grip of la Grippe , R.M.S. Titanic , resurrection , sailor cat , skeleton , sky visions
Vision of Seven Moons A gentleman sees some lunar oddities–multiple moons over the course of eighteen consecutive months.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 25, 2016
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged crescent moon , full moon , John M. Sandidge , lunar phenomena , multiple moons , sky visions , Vision of Seven Moons
Fearing the Walking Dead, The Undertaker’s Revenge, and the Lost Art of the Coffin Threat A compendium of popular posts.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 26, 2016
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apparitions , banshees , death omens , elephant ghost , Fearing the Walking Dead , ghosts , Mrs Daffodil , Romeo the elephant , sky visions , The Lost Art of the Coffin Threat , The Undertaker's Revenge , The Victorian Book of the Dead , tokens of death , Women in Black
Were images of the Virgin Mary beamed into the sky by airborne stereopticon to try to save a besieged city? And would these images explain the Angel of Mons and other Great War visions?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 10, 2015
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Angel of Mons , First World War , Great War , Marian apparitions , Our Lady of Czestochowa , Our Lady of the Stereopticon , Siege of Przemysl , sky visions , World War I
