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Chris Woodyard
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Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghosts in Ohio and elsewhere. Death, mourning, costume, ghosts, Forteana. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com: Blog
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It's been 50 glorious episodes of nattering and squabbling and dramatic readings about all forms of the supernatural. Chris and Simon answer readers' questions about how they met, their favorite episodes, personal supernatural encounters, and why Simon hates Gef.
www.buzzsprout.com/1859647/epis...
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Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Maria of Orange, making so many dreadful fashion errors in assembling her hunting gear, 1665. Hunting! The mind boggles. By Jan Mijtens, whose day is also today.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Goodnight from Faith Milbury, noticing the Dark Glam night at The Shambala Rooms is more akin to Murky Garishness. Goodnight from Sadie Ringrose, wishing yet again that her second sight wasn’t interfering with her attempts to enjoy first dates. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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💀🪦📚 All Pocket Cemeteries are 20% off through the end of the month, along with everything else in my shop. #CemeterySaturday www.etsy.com/shop/LandisB...
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I’m thrilled to be giving this year’s Kelmscott Lecture, the annual lecture hosted by the William Morris Society. I’m excited to be dipping my toe into the world of the Arts and Crafts movement. Join us in person or online! Tickets are here: williammorrissociety.org/events/the-k...
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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All this bright red silk chiffon cocktail dress needs is an egg nog and a high heel. Ceil Chapman liked to ruche her gowns and this mid #1950s gown gathers the fabric around the body then lets it flow with a matching shoulder stole #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead With the holiday season coming up, let me tout one of my books on Victorian mourning: "Long-lost tales of the morbid, mournful, and macabre from the Victorian era." Available worldwide. Please ask your local bookstore or library to order it.
November 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Daughter'd be interested in these as Anything Agatha Christie and the Mr Men books are her Thing ....
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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For a pre- #Thanksgiving #ForteanFriday The Gobblers’ll Git You, If You Don’t Watch Out!
Ghostly gobblers who tap at your windows and gobble in the garret…
hauntedohiobooks.com/news/animal-...
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Here in Pembrokeshire, overnight, the snow has nearly vanished. It clings on in the small places where the sun hasn’t reached. Like clumps of sea campions making a patchwork of white beneath our toes. Out at sea, do the puffins dream of warmer calmer days on Skomer Island speckled with campions?
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Zeppelin Cats soaring high on #Caturday.
1914 illustration from "American Cookery"
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Above the high tide mark the shore was a confusion of rope scraps, nets beyond mending and broken boats. To go omen hunting in this zone could only produce prophecies of woe. The augury walker had to go beyond this and search the sand for wave-gifted signs. – #DAKilroy
November 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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🪦 lunch with the locals 🪦
November 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Three strange deaths linked to the same field in Staffordshire. Grass that doesn’t grow where a deadman’s feet rested. Will o’the wisps flickering.

Full story via my post ‘And Then Another’ here >> lichfieldlore.co.uk/2025/11/22/a...

Any explanations welcome, be they supernatural or scientific.
And Then Another
Three men, three deaths all seemingly linked. Somewhere in the story there must be a clue to tell us whether it was coincidence or if something creepier was at play here. Engraving. An Ignis Fatuus…
lichfieldlore.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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#SkullSaturday 💀

📍St Tydfil's Church • Llysworney ⛪️

#Wales #History
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Goodnight from the abandoned Rocket Test Centre at RAF Nook, where police have yet again been called about a group of teens indulging in Scooby-Dooing trespass. Goodnight from Samantha Rendell, gripping her cave wolf snow globe as talisman against the dark. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Frazzled.
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
For a pre- #Thanksgiving #ForteanFriday The Gobblers’ll Git You, If You Don’t Watch Out!
Ghostly gobblers who tap at your windows and gobble in the garret…
hauntedohiobooks.com/news/animal-...
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#PhantomsFriday A giant ghost at Benton, Indiana, 1896. "The Weird Visitor is Eight Feet High and Wears White Robes Shooting Parties Fill It With Buckshot With Harmless Results Carries a Club and Haunts the Cemetery"
"Killed by a Specter" chapter in The Ghost Wore Black, available worldwide.
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Ghost is sorrow in Wordsworth's 'Lucy Gray', 1799.

William heard the story from his sister: Near Halifax, a young girl lost her way in a snow-storm. The parents traced her footsteps in the snow to the middle of the lock of a canal, where they stopped.

#PhantomsFriday #poetry #romanticism #booksky
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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John Dee and Edward Kelley invoking the spirit of a deceased person whilst safe inside their magic circle. 🪄 👻 #Ghost #PhantomsFriday

🎨 Engraving by Ebenezer Sibly, ca 1806
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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A spectral nun in a brown habit has been seen a number of times in Nun’s Wood and Wappenbury Woods. On one occasion she actually approached one eyewitness and walked straight through him.
#PhantomsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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One of the creepiest illustrations among the many by Felix Kelly that enhance Joseph Braddock's classic 1956 book 'Haunted Houses'.
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #haunted #illustration
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM