#phantomsfriday — Public Fediverse posts

"Great Caesar's ghost!" And here he is indeed in an early 18th Century painting by Henry Tresham, reminding us all of the #PhantomsFriday feed on the morrow when ghostly posts of words, art, #folklore, popular culture, haunted sites etc etc will once gain be most welcome. #ghosts #hauntings

"Great Caesar's ghost!" And here he is indeed in an early 18th Century painting by Henry Tresham, reminding us all of the #PhantomsFriday feed on the morrow when ghostly posts of words, art, #folklore, popular culture, haunted sites etc etc will once gain be most welcome. #ghosts #hauntings

"Great Caesar's ghost!" And here he is indeed in an early 18th Century painting by Henry Tresham, reminding us all of the #PhantomsFriday feed on the morrow when ghostly posts of words, art, #folklore, popular culture, haunted sites etc etc will once gain be most welcome. #ghosts #hauntings

"Great Caesar's ghost!" And here he is indeed in an early 18th Century painting by Henry Tresham, reminding us all of the #PhantomsFriday feed on the morrow when ghostly posts of words, art, #folklore, popular culture, haunted sites etc etc will once gain be most welcome. #ghosts #hauntings

Robert is a terrifyingly haunted doll of Key West, given to painter Robert Eugene Otto as a child. Supposedly it can change its facial expressions, giggle, and move, and seems to resist attempts to get rid of it since 1904. #PhantomsFriday

Robert is a terrifyingly haunted doll of Key West, given to painter Robert Eugene Otto as a child. Supposedly it can change its facial expressions, giggle, and move, and seems to resist attempts to get rid of it since 1904. #PhantomsFriday

In the Mesopotamian afterlife, one became a ghost immediately after death, before descending and then being assigned a job. Not the worst, but your family had to make offerings to you to keep this bearable. If they failed, family members found themselves haunted. #PhantomsFriday

In the Mesopotamian afterlife, one became a ghost immediately after death, before descending and then being assigned a job. Not the worst, but your family had to make offerings to you to keep this bearable. If they failed, family members found themselves haunted. #PhantomsFriday

The forests near Ratingen experience some rather terrifying hauntings.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Rolled_Forest

The dead tend to frown upon petty thieves.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Don%27t_Steal_from_the_Dead!

UFOs, ghosts and archaeology all come together in a great account from #Llandetty parish, in #Powys. It was first recorded in 1813. One night a man saw near a chapel a light 'as big as a Church Tower', which shrank to 'the size of a small star', alternating between the two. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday

If you wait at the crossroads during the Dread Knellings, you will be approached by all sorts of dark figures - and finally, the Devil himself!

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Zither_Player

From time to time, a ghostly church appears on top of a pond in Kleines Clausthal valley.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Kleines_Clausthal

"There are extraordinary points of resemblance between the records of Poltergeist hauntings and the Nazi movement. Both are manifested in a subconscious uprush of desire for power. Both suck like vampires the energies of adolescents; both issue in noise, destruction & terror." [1/2 #PhantomsFriday

Encountering an ordinary bear in a forest can be terrifying enough - so what do you do when you meet one which breathes fire?

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Bear-like_Forest_Creature

A mother's love can transcend even death.

If that means ghosts breastfeeding newborn children, then so be it.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Love_after_Death

It is easy to be virtuous if you are rich.

But for others, poverty can even deny a peaceful stay in the afterlife.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Burial_Gown

If you dig too deeply, you might reach the realms of the dwarves.

Which... probably is something you want to avoid.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Realm_of_the_Subterraneans

Ghosts often require the assistance of the living in order to pass into the afterlife.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Cowherdess%27_Buttermilk

Many treasures are guarded by strange spirits who attempt to distract treasure hunters from their task.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Treasure_Hunters_in_Wesenberg

Deiniol's Ash Farm, a lovely, just-creepy-enough Tudor manor house at Mancot in #Flintshire, was haunted by the forlorn phantom of Rebecca, who died of a broken heart after her boyfriend was packed off on the Grand Tour in the 18th Century by his cruel father. #PhantomsFriday #haunted #folklore

Some ships are lost at sea.

But "lost" does not always mean "gone".

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghost_Ship_(Pellworm)

The Mary Celeste is a different kind of ghost ship: an American merchant vessel discovered adrift in the Mediterranean, the ship's cargo and provisions in place, its condition seaworthy, but every passenger was missing. The last log was dates ten days earlier. #PhantomsFriday

The Mary Celeste is a different kind of ghost ship: an American merchant vessel discovered adrift in the Mediterranean, the ship's cargo and provisions in place, its condition seaworthy, but every passenger was missing. The last log was dates ten days earlier. #PhantomsFriday

The wandering spirits found on Beltane are hungry: hungry for dairy products! Protect your churning butter with three lumps of coal, or tie May-blooming flowers to your milk pail, and the spirits will be forced to look elsewhere. #PhantomsFriday

The wandering spirits found on Beltane are hungry: hungry for dairy products! Protect your churning butter with three lumps of coal, or tie May-blooming flowers to your milk pail, and the spirits will be forced to look elsewhere. #PhantomsFriday

If you see a three-legged hare, something weird is going to go down.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Three-Legged_Hare

Stealing from the dead is generally considered to be unwise.

Especially if you've seen the dead person in question wandering around.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/A_Dead_Man_Searches_for_his_Gown

Do not mock a hanged man, or else he might make a house call!

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Visit_of_the_Hanged_Man

Draconic familiar spirits enter homes through the chimney.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Glowtail_in_Velstove

'The Chocolate Ghost' - dark chocolate, presumably. Other than the fact it was drawn by the ever-wonderful W Heath Robinson in 1923, I know nothing about this. Feel free to tell me or speculate as you wish. #PhantomsFriday #HeathRobinson #illustration #artsky

Alleged 'phantom monk' photographed by antiquarian T W Latchmore at Minsden Chapel, #Hertfordshire, in 1907. It's no-one I know and looks like a lump of masonry to me, but I imagine Mr Latchmore would know the difference. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #ghostphoto #paranormal #Edwardian

'A Nun Being Frightened By A Ghost Playing The Guitar' by Francisco Goya. The poor bloke really did go bonkers, didn't he? #PhantomsFriday #ghost #Goya #SpanishArt #artsky

'A Nun Being Frightened By A Ghost Playing The Guitar' by Francisco Goya. The poor bloke really did go bonkers, didn't he? #PhantomsFriday #ghost #Goya #SpanishArt #artsky

'A Nun Being Frightened By A Ghost Playing The Guitar' by Francisco Goya. The poor bloke really did go bonkers, didn't he? #PhantomsFriday #ghost #Goya #SpanishArt #artsky

'A Nun Being Frightened By A Ghost Playing The Guitar' by Francisco Goya. The poor bloke really did go bonkers, didn't he? #PhantomsFriday #ghost #Goya #SpanishArt #artsky

'A Nun Being Frightened By A Ghost Playing The Guitar' by Francisco Goya. The poor bloke really did go bonkers, didn't he? #PhantomsFriday #ghost #Goya #SpanishArt #artsky

Anonymous cartoon from 1895 satirizing the whinging of the upper classes over their claims of impoverishment. The ghostly figure is presumably the spectre of hardship they imagine looming over them - but he's clearly making fun of them. #PhantomsFriday #satire #posterart #Victorian

Marc Alexander was one of the top collectors of #ghost accounts in the 1970s. These two beauties date from 1973 and 1975 respectively. I'm pretty sure the inn pictured is The Bird Cage in Thame, #Oxfordshire, which was supposedly haunted by a leper. #PhantomsFriday #haunting #BookChatWeekly #pubs

Marc Alexander was one of the top collectors of #ghost accounts in the 1970s. These two beauties date from 1973 and 1975 respectively. I'm pretty sure the inn pictured is The Bird Cage in Thame, #Oxfordshire, which was supposedly haunted by a leper. #PhantomsFriday #haunting #BookChatWeekly #pubs

Marc Alexander was one of the top collectors of #ghost accounts in the 1970s. These two beauties date from 1973 and 1975 respectively. I'm pretty sure the inn pictured is The Bird Cage in Thame, #Oxfordshire, which was supposedly haunted by a leper. #PhantomsFriday #haunting #BookChatWeekly #pubs

Marc Alexander was one of the top collectors of #ghost accounts in the 1970s. These two beauties date from 1973 and 1975 respectively. I'm pretty sure the inn pictured is The Bird Cage in Thame, #Oxfordshire, which was supposedly haunted by a leper. #PhantomsFriday #haunting #BookChatWeekly #pubs

Staying in #Avebury: the church had an eerie reputation during the 70s & 80s. A Mrs Wilkinson reported 'a feeling of sheer malevolence and evil' near the altar. Author Graham McEwan felt a 'hostile atmosphere' and said some of his photo gear failed to work inside the church. #PhantomsFriday #spooky

One of Hokusai's prints for 'Hayaku Monogatari' (100 Ghost Stories), created in 1831-2. It shows the ghost of an actor, Kohada Koheiji, about to take revenge on his wife and her lover, who murdered him. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #Hokusai #JapaneseArt #artsky

One of Hokusai's prints for 'Hayaku Monogatari' (100 Ghost Stories), created in 1831-2. It shows the ghost of an actor, Kohada Koheiji, about to take revenge on his wife and her lover, who murdered him. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #Hokusai #JapaneseArt #artsky

One of Hokusai's prints for 'Hayaku Monogatari' (100 Ghost Stories), created in 1831-2. It shows the ghost of an actor, Kohada Koheiji, about to take revenge on his wife and her lover, who murdered him. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #Hokusai #JapaneseArt #artsky

One of Hokusai's prints for 'Hayaku Monogatari' (100 Ghost Stories), created in 1831-2. It shows the ghost of an actor, Kohada Koheiji, about to take revenge on his wife and her lover, who murdered him. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #Hokusai #JapaneseArt #artsky

One of Hokusai's prints for 'Hayaku Monogatari' (100 Ghost Stories), created in 1831-2. It shows the ghost of an actor, Kohada Koheiji, about to take revenge on his wife and her lover, who murdered him. #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #Hokusai #JapaneseArt #artsky

And it's goodnight from me... #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #supernatural #weirdtales

'Marguerite's Ghost Appearing to Faust' - an early 19th Century French print. #PhantomsFriday #ghost #engraving #artsky #Goethe