Ghost-related posts every Friday. Extracts from ghostly stories; artwork; poetry; folklore; haunted places, accounts of hauntings - all will be welcome! Please use hashtag #PhantomsFriday for reposts and to join the feed. Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
Phantoms Friday
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Here’s a great post from @jessnevins.bsky.social about The Skeleton Horseman, a character from a penny dreadful published in 1865. Is The Skeleton Horseman a true phantom or is he just a guy who dresses up as one to fight injustice? Read on to discover the truth.
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Ghost in the Sky Above the Trees, by Franz Sedlacek, 1933
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The McPherson Playhouse theatre in Victoria, BC, Canada has received visits from the "Grey Lady" over the last 75 years. This ghost wears a long, blue-grey dress and wanders the theatre's balcony; sometimes she floats above the actors. No one knows her true identity.
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This must be the only painting by John Constable of a haunted house: the magnificent Tudor Cowdray House, #WestSussex, which burnt down in the 18th C (due to a curse, states #folklore). Researcher David Scanlan noted reports of two ghosts, both of women who walk about near the ruins.
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Thomas Rowlandson, 'Giving Up The Ghost', 18th Century. Always good fun, Rowlandson. I'm not sure who the One Too Many is - the physician who may have incompetently poisoned him, the undertaker (?) or Death himself. Can anyone make out the words on the label and floor?
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After Flight 401 crashed in 1972, parts salvaged from the wreckage were refurbished and installed in other Eastern Air Lines L-1011 aircraft. Shortly after, flight attendants and pilots began reporting highly realistic apparitions of Captain Bob Loft and Flight Engineer Don Repo
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Busy today, but can't forget #PhantomsFriday. Another find from my hunt for such things on the Internet Archive, and I must admit this one has a weird premise. Ever wonder what would happen if NBC did a ghost documentary in the 1960's UK, starring celebrity ghost hunters? Yeah. Me neither until now!
M.H.Urban
Michael But Getting Warmer in June
The Ghost Monk
The Ghost Monk
The Black Monk of the Danube was a terrifying specter of doom.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Black_Monk
The Stately Ghosts of England is a 1965 NBC documentary-style television special that explores the legendary hauntings of three historic British estates....
Most ghosts seek salvation. A few attain it.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Ghosts_Reaching_Salvation
Sunday Children can see invisible spirits - even when they desperately wish that they didn't.
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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/How_People_Can_See_Spirits
