Ghosts of Winter Poems
The only ghost I ever saw
Was dressed in mechlin, — so;
The Cottingley Fairies & Sherlock Holmes
“The Cottingley Fairies” appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright (b. 1901– d. 1988) and Frances Griffiths (b. 1907– d. 1986), two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in Northern England.
The Fox Sisters
Spiritualism, a religion that at it’s peak claimed over eight million followers in the United States and Europe, has very humble beginnings indeed. In late March of 1848, in a small cottage, on a small piece of land in Hydesville, New York, the two youngest daughters of John and Margaret Fox changed the Western notions of the Beyond forever.