Speaking With The Dead: the Ouija Board
19th century humans had an acute relationship with death: the average life span was around 50 years, the infant mortality rate was roughly fifty-percent, with women dying in child birth, and men dying in war. Families often held days-long wakes for the departed’s body in the parlor rooms of their homes. It’s no wonder that seances and communing with spirits …
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.