#phantomsfriday — Public Fediverse posts

Frau Gauden haunts the skies above Mecklenburg, forever on a hunt.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Frau_Gauden

If ghosts are not willing or able to go in Heaven's light, then they can always be forced to go in the Devil's name.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Banished_Villain

Landlords never tell you the whole story about the apartment you are renting.

Even though things like "there is a ghost that stalks young mothers in the house" is pretty vital information!

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Woman_in_Childbed

The processions of the dead wind through the high mountains of the Valais.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ridge_Trains

There are some inns inhabited by phantoms - and some inns themselves are phantoms.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Night_Hunt_near_Wolfratshausen

'The Spookissimus' is here to remind everyone about #SpookySunday, the new feed for posts on all things ghost (replacing #PhantomsFriday, which has been cast into the Outer Darkness). Ghost-related words, art, haunted sites, #folklore, popular culture will all be reposted: @[email protected]

Modern vampire lore will tell you that you should use a stake to dispatch of a vampire.

But German folklore tells us that a peat spade will do in a pinch.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Unh%C3%AEr_in_Trzebiatkow

The phantoms of the night are willing to teach others their music - under the right conditions.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Mouth_Harp_Player

Some people would disturb departed souls in order to win the lottery.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Another_Summoning

The Isle of the Dead (1883) by Arnold Bocklin. The painting is partly based on the English Cemetery in Florence, near where Bocklin had a studio and where his daughter is buried. (Bocklin lost eight of his 14 children). The painting may have also been inspired by Pontikonisi, a lush islet near Corfu boasting a cypress grove and chapel. Other possible sources of inspiration include the forbidding volcanic islet of Strombolicchio off Sicily and St George Island off the coast of Montenegro. Fans of the painting included Sigmund Freud, Lenin and Hitler. Vladimir Nabokov wrote that every Berlin home had a print of the picture. #PhantomsFriday #art #arthistory #folklore #mythology #death #weird #symbolism #graveyard #gothic #history

The malice of some mother-in-laws is so great that it endures even in death.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Banished_Paper_Miller%27s_Wife

Our understanding of supernatural creatures would be greatly expanded if more people were like this farmer, and chased after such entities instead of fleeing from them.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/An_Irrlicht_with_Long_Legs

Many strange spirits haunt the German countryside at night.

Including quite a few unwelcome... hitchhikers.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Back-Squatting_Spirit

Once, a boy from Sabert saw a terrifying parade of specters in the forest at night when he was separated from his father.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Procession_of_the_Irrlichts

Here's hoping everyone got the memo about #PhantomsFriday having been moved forward to become #SpookySunday (I will repost any contributions posted today on Sunday). Still the same theme - ghosts. Encounters with weird things OK provided not considered cryptids or belonging to fairy-lore. Avanti!

Thank you all for another phantasmagorically fabulous #PhantomsFriday. The feed has now disappeared into the ether and been replaced (easily, which amazed me) as #SpookySunday. I was going to take a break but I'm being confusing enough already - so the hauntings will begin again Sunday August 2.

The Northern Line ticket hall in Bank Tube Station was once the notoriously overcrowded crypt of St Mary Woolnoth's Church, which was cleared of bodies and reinforced when the station was built. Passengers often feel a sense of desolation and some have smelt putrid odours wafting through the tunnels. One ghost sometimes glimpsed in and around the station is the 'Black Nun', a woman whose brother worked at the nearby Bank of England and was executed for forging a cheque. St Mary Woolnoth was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a mysterious figure known as the 'Devil's Architect' for embellishing his buildings with 'pagan' adornments like pyramids and obelisks. In 'The Wasteland', T.S. Eliot wrote: "St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours, with a dead sound on the final stroke of nine." #PhantomsFriday #folklore #history #London #gothic #psychogeography #weird #paranormal #architecture #ghosts #poetry #poets

A color-changing poodle can be seen at the road from Waldwimmersbach to Dilsberg.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ghostly_Dog

The spirits of the dead come to Odysseus when he visits Hades, being comrades from the war regaling him with regrets and fates after the Trojan War, but also family who died waiting for him, including Anticlea, his mother who died of grief waiting for him. #PhantomsFriday

The spirits of the dead come to Odysseus when he visits Hades, being comrades from the war regaling him with regrets and fates after the Trojan War, but also family who died waiting for him, including Anticlea, his mother who died of grief waiting for him. #PhantomsFriday

Some ghosts need a little help to get them to leave the house.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/God%27s_Reward

A headless horseman roams the Ziegenberg hill, condemned by the murder he committed in a fit of rage.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Rider_without_a_Head_on_the_Ziegenberg_hill_near_Zw%C3%B6nitz

Some ghosts have no concept of personal space.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_White_Cap