The Laughing Jack-o’-Lantern A hopping jack-o-lantern terrifies a young man, and adds insult to injury by laughing at him.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 22, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Halloween , Jack-o-Lantern , spook lights , The Laughing Jack-o'-Lantern , will-o-the-wisp
A Pillar of Fire by Night A mysterious fiery phenomenon in the desert between Suez and Cairo as described by an English traveller
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 24, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Pillar of Fire by Night , Cairo desert , Egypt , Fortean , John Gadsby , luminous phenomena , spook lights
A Light of Peculiar Color A Civil War soldier tells how he was lost in a cave and saved by some luminous being.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 17, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Scientific Oddities , Spook Lights , Victorian
and tagged A Light of Peculiar Color , Alabama caves , caves , luminous ghosts , mysterious lights , Russell Cave National Monument , spook lights , warning ghosts
The Wago Owanhan: A West Virginia Wonder. A report on a strange luminous cloud or fog from “Pat Wess Canyon” in West Virginia.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 2, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged I.E. Christian , luminous cloud , luminous fog , mysterious lights , Oceana West Virginia , spook lights , The Wago Owanhan: A West Virginia Wonder , Wago Owanhan , West Virginia spook lights , Wyoming County West Virginia
“Clothed in Light:” Sidhe Sightings Early 20th-century sightings of the Gentry.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 15, 2016
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Social History , Spook Lights
and tagged "Clothed in Light:" Sidhe Sightings , angels , Arthur Machen , fairies , Irish fairies , Listowel , Sidhe , spook lights , The Gentry , Tuatha Dé Danann
The Kniveton Stone Spook lights lead searchers to a stone marked with mysterious hieroglyphics.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 5, 2016
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Derbyshire , Fortean , Kniveton , mystery stone , mystery writing , psychometry , spook lights , The Kniveton Stone , will-o-the-wisp
Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016 with a fashion editor out of his depth, spook lights in New Zealand get up close and personal with a traveler, flappers and their corsets, and the ghosts of two murder victims.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 23, 2016
in Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged corsets , executions , fashion magazines , flappers , ghostly murder victim , hanging ropes , hangman , Haunted Ohio , Mary Seneff , New Zealand , Ohio ghosts , spook lights , Victorian fashions , weekend compendium , Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016
“Uncanny Meteors:” Spook Lights in New Zealand, where a gentleman finds he is being escorted by several mysterious lights.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 19, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged "Uncanny Meteors:" Spook Lights in New Zealand , corpse candles , ignis fatuus , mysterious lights , spook lights , will-o-the-wisp
Rainbow Orbs for Luncheon As a Victorian family gathered around the dinner table, the room was filled with colored balls of light, which turned into the likeness of dead relatives.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 19, 2014
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged ball lightning , fairies , mediums , orbs , Rainbow Orbs for Luncheon , seance , shape shifting , Spiritualism , spook lights
The Phantom Light of Deakin’s Woods: Part 1 A mysterious red phantom light haunts a woods on the outskirts of Columbus Grove, Ohio.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 25, 2014
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Columbus Grove Ohio , Deakin's Woods , fire balls , fire bird , mysterious fires , mystery lights , phantom light , spook lights , The Phantom Light of Deakin's Woods: Part 1 , UFOs