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- Another great #PhantomsFriday yesterday. A big thank you to everyone who contributed. I'm getting to the point where I'll be too lazy to make my own posts, I'll just settle back and enjoy everyone else's!
- #PhantomsFriday Midnight Movie: Two film posters for 'The Phantom Carriage' 1921. Some great early spectral effects & a scene that might have influenced Kubrick's 'Here's Johnny' sequence in 'The Shining'.
- A final touch of spook on this #PhantomsFriday reds-kingdom.blog/2020/05/01/t... #photography #ghost #uncanny
- Richard Westall, engraving by Edward Scriven, Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar (1802) #PhantomsFriday
- Monastery of the Devil (Seville) In the village of Carmona stands the gloomy-looking Monastery of the Devil. There is no mention of this Franciscan monastery anywhere in the municipality's bibliography. It is as if it did not exist. 1/3 #PhantomsFriday #folklore #horror #ghosts #paranormal
- Surfing skeletons in a Paul Hardy illustration of 1896 for 'The Story Hunter' by E R Suffling. OK, they're coffins not surf boards but I don't think that would make riding the waves any easier. #PhantomsFriday
- Ghost Stories magazine, April 1929 published by Macfadden The cover story Coins of Doom involves the search for a dead man's hidden stash of gold coins. It soon emerges that the former owner's spirit has cursed the coins themselves. #phantomsfriday
- On cold nights on the Tombigbee in Alabama, the Eliza Battle reappears, completely drenched in flames. Though no one died when it sank in 1858, the mysterious steam ship can still be seen, haunting that stretch of river. #PhantomsFriday 🖼️: Uncle Bunky
- #PhantomsFriday We have largely forgotten than objects can be haunted, for example an old door may have absorbed unspeakable horrors in the chamber it opened on to. Ghost hunter Elliot O'Donnell wrote that furniture made from Irish bogwood 'has from time immemorial been haunted by uncouth spirits.'
- The "Porthcawl phantom steam train" refers to ghost stories associated with the disused branch line in South Wales. The sound of a steam train can still be heard along the old rail route, with sightings frequently reported near the railway bridge on Moor Lane #phantomsfriday
- Murderers, suicides and suspected witches were once buried at crossroads, in the hope their restless spirits might stay put, unsure which way to go. Just two of many crossroads ghosts are murderer Black Toby in #Suffolk and a highwayman at Fright Corner (truly!), in #Kent. #PhantomsFriday #folklore
- “Then the bride put back her veil, and Betty, studying the white face, saw that this actually was not herself; it was her dead sister Letice.” (Sabine Baring-Gould “A Book of Ghosts”, 1904) 🎨 D. Murray Smith #phantomsfriday
- The household of the Ducal stablemaster in Coburg was once haunted by a strange spirit that looked indistinguishable from the stablemaster's wife. #PhantomsFriday wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Spirit_App…
- #PhantomsFriday January-April 1861 A "Man in White," described as being 5'8" to 25' tall, wandered about in the dark in Cleveland, Ohio, terrifying its residents. Posses were formed; the ghost complained in a letter to the papers of being persecuted by armed gangs when it just wanted a quiet stroll.
- #phantomsfriday Some small town ghostly malarkey. I grew up Pershore, Worcestershire. In August 1965 3 small boys claimed to have seen a ghost in a meadow by the river. Over the next 5 nights increasing numbers of ghost hunters gathered there, reportedly 200 by the final night
- According to the Sagas, #Viking ghosts were anything but incorporeal. A 'draugr' could emerge from its tomb and thump on hall doors demanding to join the feast. It could be gigantic, with bluish skin and reek of death, or could take animal forms, such as seals, bulls and cats #PhantomsFriday #legend
- "I am quite of the opinion that vulgar incredulity is a much more contemptible thing thing than vulgar credulity." - Catherine Crowe, 'The Night Side Of Nature' (1848) #PhantomsFriday #supernatural #paranormal #Victorian
- 'The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies' (1781), by John Downman. #PhantomsFriday
- A clergyman was once bothered in his chamber by the #ghost of one of his host's ancestors - who had been a notorious miser. He presents the ghost with a list of subscribers to a local charity, pointing out that as a long-term resident, he ought to pay up too. This frightens it off! #PhantomsFriday
- Oxney Bottom sits just off the Deal–Dover road in east Kent. Said to be haunted by a Grey Lady and worse, it’s long had a reputation for unease! reds-kingdom.blog/2020/12/31/o... #PhantomsFriday #photography #ghosts #Kent
- According to a Flemish folktale, a woman was followed by a ghost while she walked home late at night. The ghost had a skull instead of a head and a white beard. Overnight, a huge tree grew in front of her door. It had to be cut down because nobody could enter or leave. #PhantomsFriday
- 'A residence for woman, child, and man, A dwelling place — and yet no habitation; A House — but under some prodigious ban Of excommunication.' Gustave Doré 1882 #illustration for 'The Haunted House' by Thomas Hood #PhantomsFriday #gothic
- “‘Feel not after my clasping hand: I am but a shadow, come from the meadow Where many lie, but no tree can stand.” (Christina Rossetti) 🎨 Florence Harrison #phantomsfriday
- Pierrot and Death (1920) Ivo Salinger (1894-1987) #PhantomsFriday
- In Romagna, one story has endured through the centuries, shrouded in intrigue: the legend of the ghost of Azzurrina. This tale takes us back to 1375, when the Castle of Montebello, near Rimini, was home to a girl named Guendalina Malatesta. #PhantomsFriday 🧵
- “Take yourself out to the graveyard ... for a hilarious romp with the prettiest ... shapeliest Ghouls that ever traded in their bed sheets for Bikinis!” So went the advertising blurb for the 1966 American International Pictures film 'Ghost in the Invisible Bikini'. #PhantomsFriday #Film #60s
- "Now, as I sit here, it is nestling up to me, it is fawning upon me, like an animal or a sycophant, or a woman who has been beaten and still caresses the brute who ill-uses her. Man, man, can't you feel that it is here?" "No," I said. - Robert Hichens, The Man Who Was Beloved #PhantomsFriday [1/2
- In the heart of Marsamxett Harbour in Malta lies Manoel Island, home to the imposing Fort Manoel. Built by the Knights of St. John in the 18th century, the fort has a dark past that has given rise to several legends. One of the most famous stories is that of the “Black Knight,” #PhantomsFriday 🧵
- The apparition of an elderly woman who moved silently, face averted, was reputed to walk the corridors of Warwick Castle, . In his autobiography Francis Earl of Warwick (1853-1924), mentioned his wife had twice seen the ghost. #PhantomsFriday
- Lindisfarne has an interesting variation of the Shuck. Here, the spectral hound takes the form of a white dog, said to be seen around the ruins of the priory and the castle. Locals claim that the dog jumps down from the castle steps towards people and then runs off. #phantomsFriday
