The Ghost Monk

A gigantic spooky figure rises up from nowhere, waving its claws at a terrified man in the remnants of a forest where many trees have been cut down, leaving just stumps behind.

Thanks again to all contributors to another phantasmagorical #PhantomsFriday! Particular congratulations to @chriswoodyard.bsky.social who absolutely stormed it with a single post (with a fascinating image I'd never seen before either).
Picture is 'The Incantation' by Anton Machek, 1931.

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The Lost Villages Museum in Long Sault, Ontario, Canada is known for its #hauntings, due to the many communities submerged for the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958. Reported activities include swinging chandeliers (!) footsteps, phantom voices, rocking chairs moving & unexplained bangs #PhantomsFriday

The Inn At The Falls in Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada, reputedly is #haunted by many spirits including a pregnant woman who died after tragically falling down a flight of stairs in the 1930s, "Bob" who throws pots & pans in the kitchen, and the elderly female owner from 1975. #PhantomsFriday

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An old photo of a ghost caught in a trap in the middle of field

'Ghost Trap'

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Illustration by J. H. Brown, from Spectropia: or, Surprising Spectral Illusions, Showing Ghosts Everywhere, and of any Colour (1863).

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A figurine of a sheet style ghost, holding an apple core. The ghost is a dark, almost black green, shifting to a pale red, and is covered in tiny house flies. He has a pair of fly-like wings on his back.

Let's start #ArtAdventCalendar with a little ghost I made for Fear Mall back in October. He's based on a sketchbook piece, a Fly Ghost. Will you have lunch with him?

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The so-called Robbers Grave in the churchyard in Montgomery, Powys. According to one trustworthy author, the bare patch of grass had shrunk down to a cross-shape when he saw it in 1911.

In 1821 John Newton was wrongfully accused of highway robbery by two men who had a grudge against him. After he was convicted, Newton said no grass would grow on his grave, and this would show his innocence. His grave in Montgomery churchyard did remain bare of grass for 100 years.
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And quite what she expected to happen within 5 days, goodness alone knows!

From the Washington Times Herald, 1920. #PhantomsFriday I hope she found one!😆

Bizarre figurine said to be a model of a ghost

#PhantomsFriday In 1908 The Metropolitan Psychical Society offered $5,000 to any medium who could get ghosts to count the oranges spilled behind him. In response, a Dutch author sent this photo, said to be of a ghost, and asked how he (and ghost) could be tested.
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Many ghosts are ascending. They are yellowish-green with glowing red eyes within large black eye sockets.

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Cover art by Virgil Finlay for Weird Tales, September 1952.

‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?’

~Jacob Marley
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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“I saw the Stone Rider turn in his saddle and look back as we raced after him; and a flash of flame seemed to shoot out from between the helmet-bars. ”

(Louis Creswicke "A Gruesome Wooer”, The Ludgate Magazine, London 1897)

🎨 John H. Bacon

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A man in a nightgown swirls up into the air as a man and a domestic servant look on, startled. The caption reads: 'To my surprise, I did not stop there, but passed imperceptibly right through the ceiling.'

'Jenkins' by Paul Glanville (Pearson's Magazine, 1907), is a humorous out-of-body experience tale in which the titular character temporarily turns into a ghost. The illustration is by the then-well-known comic artist H M Bateman.
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Art by Gustav Klimt. Painting of a swamp.

The sjoufert is a fiery ghost in Flemish folklore who often appears near swamps. In one tale, people who lived near a swamp whistled at him. They fled into their house as the very angry ghost flew behind them. He left four paw prints on their door that never disappeared.

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And she gets and Indian head massage into the bargain.

A black and white photo of a seated woman in a black dress. Behind her is the translucent figure of a man, his hand on her head.

A spirit photo taken by William H. Mumler, showing his wife, Hannah, a clairvoyant. Behind her stands her spirit guide, the Declaration of Independence signee Dr Benjamin Rush.

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Fascinating idea. Make me think of Edith Wharton's 'The Eyes'.

""Freeman's Phantoms." The Phantom Of His Youth Upbraiding The Sordid Phantom Of His Mature Age." - Drawn By A. Hunt."
The Illustrated London News 19.12.1863. #PhantomsFriday #1860s

Despite a huge newspaper trawl, I was unaware of this story until Alison Weir (a former Kings Lynn resident) told me of it. After much struggle I unearthed it, from 1974. The house is less than a mile from where I live.

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Ye Olde Salutation Inn, Nottingham

I don't doubt that there are reports of inexplicable phenomena here but the number of claimed ghosts (89) is ridiculous. On a positive side the pub has an excellent range of ales and does good food too.

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From 'An Episode Of Cathedral History'. The illustration is by Hannes Bok for something entirely different (by Clark Ashton Smith, I think, from 'Weird Tales').

"Well, did you see it?" "I see everything father," I said, "except when the noise came." "Did you see what it was knocked the Dean over, that what came out of the monument? You didn't? Well, that's a mercy. A thing like a man, all over hair, and two great eyes to it?"
- M R James
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Apple cider vinegar cures EVERYTHING, as is well-known.

An especially spooky picture: 'The Plague On The Stairs' by Theodore Kittelson, 1896.
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The Ghost of Blackbeard riding a motorbike, flanked by the companions.

Poster for the film 'Blackbeard's Ghost', pictured Peter Ustinov, and Dean Jones.

As it is the anniversary of Walt Disney's birth today, I give you 'Blackbeard's Ghost' (1968). The film starred Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, and Suzanne Pleshette. Here we have the Japanese brochure published to advertise the initial release of the movie.
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I'm very fond of bizarre ghosts. Two of the weirdest haunted villages in #Cheshire. Near Lostock Gralam an apparition in the form of a pig stuck all over with lighted candles used to be seen. Weirder still was the headless duck which used to potter up and down a lane at Stoak.
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