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Ghost-related posts every Friday. Extracts from ghostly stories; artwork; poetry; folklore; haunted places, accounts of hauntings - all will be welcome! Please use hashtag #PhantomsFriday for reposts and to join the feed. Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
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willmac23.bsky.social
Something different for #phantomsfriday - this HOT MALE ghost from the cover of Time Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown, 1989. Keep back ladies, he’s married! Sorry, “buried”. Because he’s dead.
A hot 80s ghost
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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mccartneyjoe.bsky.social
“The sooner we get out of this spooky old joint, the better I like it.” ~ The Three Stooges in 'The Ghost Talks'. This funny 1949 short starred Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, and Moe Howard.
#PhantomsFriday #40s
Four screenshots from The Three Stooges short 'The Ghost Talks'. Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard.
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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ruinsofdespair.bsky.social
Fragment of a Ghost Story by P.B. Shelley

Often mistaken for Percy's entry to the famous Villa Diodati ghost story competition of 16 June 1816, that saw the drafts for Polidori's Vampyre and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Sadly, no text by Percy survives.

#PhantomsFriday #poetry #gothic #booksky
An Old Woman with a Child Lighting a Candle', after Rubens. Circle of Godfried Schalcken, late 17th c. An oil painting with softly dark atmosphere. An old woman holds a candle, shielding her eyes from the candlelight. She has a slight smile on her face. A boy pressing against the woman's shoulder looks at her lovingly, holding a candle ready to be lit. Text: A shovel of his ashes took From the hearth's obscurest nook, Muttering mysteries as she went. Helen and Henry knew that Granny Was as much afraid of Ghosts as any, And so they followed hard— But Helen clung to her brother's arm, And her own spasm made her shake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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signemaene.com
'What do you want, dark ghost! Where are you going?'
-Guido Gezelle

🎨Moritz von Schwind
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Painting title: Apparition in the Forest (from Sleeping Beauty). A woman with long brown hair, wearing a white dress, walking in the forest (though it seems like she's floating. A man wearing purple clothes is looking at her from in the plants. Which is definitely creepy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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21rosa.bsky.social
"... hear my plaint of dead men's hate intolerable. Me, sternly slain by them that should have loved...Hewn down in blood by matricidal hands. Mark ye these wounds from which the heart's blood ran". Clytemnestra's spectre calls on the Furies to exact revenge on her killer/her son #PhantomsFriday
🎨 'The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies' John Downman (1781). The white clad, luminous ghost of Clytemnestra bids the 9 appalled and appalling Furies to pursue her son and avenge her murder
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
In Gilbert Watson's weird tale 'The Face In The Jungle' (Pall Mall Magazine, 1907), the weirdest things are actually the feet in the jungle - the ghostly echo of horrible cruelty meted out to an Indian dancing girl.
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #weirdtale
In a colonnaded temple, a man is shining a torch on the disembodied, dancing feet of a girl.
November 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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warksfolklore.bsky.social
In the early twentieth century there were a number of sightings of a ghost on the road from Shipston to Stratford nr the gates of Alscot Park. On one occasion a man saw it walk in front of his car and thru the park wall.
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Open wrought iron gates leading down a tree-lined driveway
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
Striking illustration of Oscar Wilde's 'Canterville Ghost' by the great Charles Keeping.
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts #OscarWilde #CharlesKeeping #BookChatWeekly #artsky
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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shoebillmansion.bsky.social
Beneath our feet are the corpses of trees, forests of coal like a subterranean fairy tale, the collective unconscious of a city. In underground rivers, the only fish are ghosts of drowned miners.

I hear them sometimes—men, boys—the lost voices echo in sunless streams.

#TinyStories
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Graffiti tag in white spray paint on a sloping brick wall: LOST BOYZ
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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beesincampanula.bsky.social
The spectral black dog pads its way across international folklore. In Flanders Die Roden Ogen, in Germany the Roggenwolf, in S America El Cadeho. Known by various names across the UK, in Suffolk we know him as the Shuck. His claw marks can still be seen on church doors…
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Shuck, commemorated by Royal Mail in a March 2025 issue. The design depicts a savage black hound baying in front of Blythburgh Church, the background gold as though lit by lightning. Deep gouges on the church door are said to have been left by Shuck in 1577…🐾
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
#PhantomsFriday again tomorrow, of course. I look forward to further fear-filled and fascinating #ghost stories old and new; #folklore; art; poems and bloodcurdling info on haunted sites. @phantomsfriday.bsky.social is the place to go.
#BookChatWeekly #booksky #artsky #legends #haunted
A crazed woman in a swirling gown holds aloft a skull as she approaches the viewer. An illustration for Fergus Hume's 'The Turquoise Skull' from Pall Mall Magazine, 1906.
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
Another spooktacular #PhantomsFriday yesterday. The Ghost Monk humbly thanks you.

(Painting of St Francis In His Tomb by de Zurbaran)
A monk in a brown habit with a peaked cowl gazes down at an inverted skull he holds in his hands.
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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mhurban.bsky.social
Not a new read but a re-read because I love this book so much and I never get tired of it.
Hell House, by Richard Matheson.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...
If you like ghost stories, this is a must-read.
#FridayReads #BookSky #AmReading #horror #ghosts #PhantomsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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mhurban.bsky.social
Parador de Cardona
In Cardona Castle, about 100 km from Barcelona, there is a four-star parador with wonderful views and unbeatable surroundings. It is a place to stay and relax—except in room 712 (1/3)
#PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #ParanormalSky #HorrorWriter
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy
In central Europe, the souls of the dead would often dwell beneath hills and mountains - and the living might stumble across their abodes by accident.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Goatherd_Boy_in_the_Illgraben
The Goatherd Boy in the Illgraben
wiki.sunkencastles.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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missscarlett2024.bsky.social
(From Muncie Press, 1882) It's a matter of opinion! 😆#ghosts #PhantomsFriday
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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21rosa.bsky.social
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kellyamangan.bsky.social Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · Nov 20
#FolktaleWeek! Day 3 Prompt: BLIGHT
The Fear Gorta is the "man of famine" in Irish legend, a phantom of the starvation brought on by the potato blight, and by the brutal colonial oppression by the British.
#folktaleweek2024 #folktaleweek2024BLIGHT
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A skeletal man in tattered clothes holding out his hands for alms.
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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drpaullee.bsky.social
Testwood House near Southampton has a pair of terrifying phantoms
even though the basic story of a servant murdered by another employee after embarking on an affair is something of a cliche in ghost circles!

#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings

Ghost Map Info: www.paullee.com/ghosts/ghost...
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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whatters2.bsky.social
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
M.R.James

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🎨Les Edwards
November 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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missscarlett2024.bsky.social
The Round School House in Bibai City, Hokkaido, Japan (1906) was an elementary school from the 1940s-70s. Stories about the nearby woods include lights, shadows
blood curdling screams & demonic sounds.There are stories of people going to the ruins and never
returning. #PhantomsFriday #FolkyFriday
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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markseifert.bleedingcool.com
One of the more interesting #phantomsfriday news items I've run across, this from Illustrated Police News (of Boston), Sept. 10, 1874.

13-year-old John Nolan of New Martinsville, West Virginia, was plagued by an angry, stone-throwing phantom only he could initially see. More details in alt text.
An engraving from Illustrated Police News (of Boston), Sept. 10, 1874 shows two men with rifles and a frightened boy confronting a glowing, ghostly figure in a thicket of bushes at night. The apparition appears as a tall, bearded old man with long, flowing hair, emerging from dense undergrowth and lifting one arm two throw a stone. Stones and debris lie scattered around the men’s feet, and a small cabin stands in the distance. The scene conveys fear and surprise as the armed search party reacts to the supernatural ghost that has been tormenting a local boy. The article recounts a reported ghost near New Martinsville, West Virginia. John Nolan, a thirteen-year-old boy, begins experiencing strange phenomena in early spring. While he first only sees the phantom near him around his house, the matter soon progresses as the phantom hurls stones at him no matter where he stands, inside the house, in the yard, or in the nearby fields. Only the boy can see his attacker, an old gray-haired man who repeatedly appears and vanishes. As the disturbances intensify, neighbors become alarmed and organize an armed party, thinking this the work of some mortal attacker. But stones rain down on them as well, seemingly from nowhere. Eventually the men see the ghostly figure themselves, an elderly man in blue trousers and a loose shirt, with long white hair. The apparition repeatedly eludes the party, disappearing behind bushes and reappearing elsewhere. Their guns prove useless, as bullets either miss or the figure vanishes. For two days the men pursue the ghost without success. A strange smoke later rises from bushes “from whence the stones came,” adding to the mystery. After multiple failed attempts to corner the spectral old man, the community abandons the investigation. The article concludes that while the events sound incredible, the story was vouched for “by citizens well known in the neighborhood,” leaving the haunting unresolved and the ghost’s identity unknown.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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cwreeve.bsky.social
The Haunted Room, Painted at a Farmhouse on Exmoor

🎨 by Alfred James Munning, circa 1950

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A woman sits on a four poster bed, mouth agape in horror as a pale apparition points at her. On the floor, a man looks up in shock.
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
Unfortunately, something's just come up, so I shall be an invisible presence on #PhantomsFriday for a while. But I promise to repost like mad when I'm back! Meanwhile, you can just follow the feed using the hashtag and clicking 'Latest'. But then, as Nigel Molesworth had it: 'Any fule kno that.'
theghostmonk.bsky.social The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · Apr 7
Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, a former lord of ancient Brede Place in #Sussex, is said to have been a cannibal with a taste for eating babies. Eventually, the local children had the courage to gang up and overpower him - and then sawed him in half! Kids, eh?
#legend #folklore #horror #tradition #FolkTale
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
This drawing by John Hookham from Harry Price's 'Poltergeists Over England' is intended to illustrate that poltergeist activity often centres round young girls. But I find it an especially creepy image. One can almost imagine the girl turning round to welcome it...
#PhantomsFriday #ghost #ghosts
Drawing of a little girl seated at a mirror and tying bows in her hair. Behind her looms an ominous shadow. Presumably the girl can see it in the mirror but seems weirdly unconcerned.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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drpaullee.bsky.social
An interesting account about Narford Hall in Norfolk. The owner of the house was Andrew Fountaine who died 10 days after this visit to his property in 1997.

#phantomsfriday #ghosts #hauntings
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM