A New Year’s Parade of the Damned
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A New Year's Parade of the Damned , Black Country , Civil War ghosts , devil , Devil's footprints , dragon's ghost , Eating Holy Clay , flagellation , funeral flowers , kissing corpses , spanking machines , Spiritualism , spook lights , Victorian mourning , Victorian tear bottles , Wales , wild men , witch's curse , witchcraft
Wild Men of North Wales On holiday in North Wales, a clairvoyant sees a vision of wild men.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 4, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged ape men , bigfoot , hairy men , missing link , North Wales , spirit guides , Wales , Welsh elementals , Welsh fairies , Welsh folklore , wild men , Wild Men of North Wales , woodwose
Jack the Stripper The story of “Jack the Stripper,” who shocked a Cincinnati, Ohio neighborhood from about 1875 to 1878, wore nothing but a coat of grease, caused a rather prurient panic, and evaded both bullets and arrest with ease. No one knew where he came from; he simply melted away in the dark, to the despair of the police force and the titillation of the ladies.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 1, 2015
in Crime , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Cincinnati ghost , CIncinnati Ohio , ghost hoaxes , ghost hunts , ghost panics , J. Christ Hearting , Jack the Stripper , naked ghost , panics , wild man , wild men
