1) Just catching up with #TheWitchFarm case update after having had 2 days of sparklers, roman candles, bonfire toffee & rockets. Marion Holbourn was a very interesting lady, writing for Fate Magazine including a feature about the haunted church of Avenbury
2) The church had three bells the largest of which was said to ring whenever danger threatened the parish. It was heard in 1931 on the night that the last vicar of the church, The Reverend E.H. Archer Shepherd, died (Marion's Father). His death was unexpected
3) His daughter, Marion, later said that they should have known he was dying because "everyone knows that bell never tolls for nothing."
The Revered also had a few strange experiences himself, writing about the church organ being played when no one was in the church.
4) Her Father heard the church organ when no one was around, he died suddenly. Marion wrote about spooky stuff, and lived at Heol Fanog, is she now haunting the place? Maybe Marion & her family 'attract the paranormal' or have 'strange and bizarre' things happen to them.
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1) I guess it's standard for an art institution to have a close relationship with its founder, but employees of the @SpeedArtMuseum in Louisville, Kentucky, are in the unique position of apparently extending that relationship beyond the veil.
2) Hattie Bishop Speed founded the institution in 1927 but died in 1942, some workers there say they continue to feel her presence.
Mostly, supernatural occurrences are limited to feelings of a presence, shadowy figures, or unexplained movements in one’s peripheral visions.
3) However, a more undeniable incident, and one with many witnesses, appropriately took place during the member’s preview for the exhibition Supernatural America in October 2021 an event that seems to have been attended by more than just living patrons of the arts.
1. In November 1883, the gentleman bandit known as Black Bart the poet—because of the poems he left behind at the scenes of two of his crimes—robbed his last stagecoach before being apprehended by the authorities.
2. By then, Black Bart had been robbing stagecoaches in California’s gold country for 8 years, unbeknownst to the San Francisco high society who knew him as Charles Bolton, a courteous middle-aged mine owner who sported diamond accessories. a cane, a derby hat & gold watch.
3. Black Bart avoided violence, some say his shotgun was never loaded & declined to steal from the passengers of the stagecoaches he robbed taking just the Wells Fargo express box & the mail. His first robbery, July 1875, he politely requested the Wells Fargo box.
1) This year, #DayOfTheDead observances are celebrated beginning on the evening of Monday, October 31, 2022 and end on Wednesday, November 3, 2022.
With some similarities to Halloween, Dia de los Muertos is a festive celebration which survives from ancient Mexico.
2) It was only when the Spaniards arrived in the 16th century that the festival was paired with the Catholic All Souls Day & All Saints Day, celebrated on Nov 1 & Nov 2.
As they still say in Mexico, "Nobody truly dies unless they are forgotten".
3) The day is still a very special one, helping to keep family memories alive.
Children are remembered on the Day of the Innocents ("Día de los Inocentes") on November 1, followed by other loved ones who are counted among the dearly departed on November 2, the Day of the Dead.
1) 💀Happy Halloween!💀
In December 1884, workers trying to solve an issue with the drains at Welbeck Abbey found 2 skeletons under the floor of the Steward’s room. They were thought to be from the Premonstratensian Abbey, which formerly stood on the site.
2) This made the skeletons between 350 and 700 years old. As far as we know, no more excavations took place at the time, so there are likely to be more ancient human remains lying in wait under the floorboards for the next time the plumbing goes awry.
3) An article in the Mansfield Reporter on Friday, 19 December 1884, said:
DISCOVERY OF SKELETONS AT WELBECK ABBEY.
Some excitement was occasioned at Welbeck on Wednesday & Thursday, consequent upon the finding of 2 perfect skeletons at some distance below a room at the Abbey.
1) “There’s no legacy as rich as honesty” so wrote Shakespeare in All’s Well That Ends Well in 1623.
Somehow this excellent advice was overlooked some 300 years later when the British Empire was ending, not that well.
2) Cut to North Borneo, 1963, the cusp of independence for what was soon to be the Federation of Malaysia. A British officer is overheard yelling “What’s burnt won’t be missed!” as he chucks over 500 classified documents into an incinerator.
3) His orders were to disappear all evidence that “might embarrass Her Majesty’s government”. You may have heard of Operation Legacy. This was the secret code-name the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office gave to their messy attempt to save face at the end of empire.
1) Royal Mob was the term Queen Victoria herself used to describe her huge, extended family; 9 children, 42 grandchildren & 87 great-grandchildren. Starts on @HISTORYUK Monday 7th November
2) Her “favourites” were the glamorous and strong-willed Hesse sisters – the four daughters of her second daughter, Princess Alice; the first of Victoria’s children to predecease her, dying tragically young of diphtheria aged just 35.
3) Through the eyes of these 4 remarkable young women; Princesses Victoria, Ella, Alix & Irene, each of whom married into one of the great Royal houses of Europe, this series lifts the lid on the family tensions & rivalries which set cousin against cousin, monarch against monarch