Strangetastic

Possibly True Tales of Ghosts and the Supernatural

Doors Are Strangely Opened

from The Night Side of Nature (1850) by Catherine Crowe

A Puritan Spirit

from Charleston: The Place and People by Harriot Horry Ravenel

Complete Satisfaction

from A Thought-Reader’s Thoughts by Stuart C. Cumberland

A Fierce Ghoul

from The Heathen Woman’s Friend published by Methodist Episcopal Church. Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society

Of Finer Quality

from The Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle

Beneath a Spreading Oak

from Signs Before Death and Authenticated Apparitions by John Timbs

 

Photograph, 1892

from The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments of Spirit Photography by John Traill Taylor

Murdered a Peddler

from Ozark Superstitions by Vance Randolph

Phosphorescent

from Living Lights: A Popular Account of Phosphorescent Animals and Vegetables (1887)

Princess Wynona

from The Photographic Times, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Artistic and Scientific Photography (1895)