STRANGE PHENOMENON (4th s. iii. 125)– Mr. Baker has had the good fortune of seeing a sight rare indeed in these days of good draining and high farming, but common enough in the marshlands in our grandfathers’ days. He has see a Will-o’-the-wisp, or Jack-a-Lanthorn. This luminous gas is exhaled from swampy ground, and I ... [More »]
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Ghost Smells Like the Grave
The Daily Chronicle invites the Psychical Research Society to investigate the highly unpleasant manifestations of a unique ghost which haunts an old-time country cottage within twenty miles of London.
Several persons while sleeping in a certain bed room of the house have felt a cold, flabby, ghostlike hand placed on their mouths. But the most extraordinary feature of the spook is that the ghostly presence is always accompanied by the indescribable, suffocating smell of the charnel house.
Sometimes the ghost can be heard descending the stairs at noonday. He makes a noise like that of a huge, corpulent man whose slippers flap on each stair. The ghost goes into a room and seats himself at the luncheon table, driving everybody away by his malodorous presence.
There is a local story of an imbecile man of huge proportions who died in the garret of the cottage many years ago. The body being so large, there was unusual delay in getting it out of the house, and decomposition was far advanced before the burial.
Monster’s Abominable Practices, 1788
A MONSTER, hideous and disgusting in form has lately arrived from France. Its manners are brutal although its species is human. In this horrid being is exhibited a junction of both sexes, but its apparel is female. A girl of some beauty and address lives with it for purposes the most vile, and it has been visited by the first men in the country. Decency will not allow a more minute description, either of the MONSTER or its abominable practices.
Sermon
First Church of Christ, Scientist, 850 West Broadway, corner Excelsior avenue; first reader Mrs. Anna C. E. Crowley, No. 850 West Broadway residence–morning service at 10:45 o’clock; subject of sermon, “Ancient and Modern Necromancy, or Mesmerism and Hypnotism”
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