Late 19th Century Paranormal History

[The_Universe]

All you history buffs, conspiracy theorists, and paranormal investigators - I have a request.

Tell me everything you know (and are willing to write about) about forteana (a fancy term for weird stuff) that allegedly REALLY happened in the latter half of the 19th century (though you're certainly allowed some leeway on the time frame). What crazy stuff do you know about that happened from 1850-1900?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Radio controlled sub was invented by Tesla to be used in the Spanish Americian War.

Some info on what Telsa was doing with remote control...
http://www.freesrpska.org/en/srbi/tesla/10_remote.html

KKK - a political party

Edward Cayce

 

[Bloodstone Press]

Check out the two Suppressed Transmission supplements from Steve Jackson Games, written by Ken Hite. They have quite a bit of stuff about the time period in question.....

 

[Rhialto]

Former New Hampshire resident Herman Mudgett, soon to become better known by his favored alias H.H. Holmes, kills an unknown, but probably sizable number of people between 1886 to 1894. Many of them are killed in his Chicago hotel, the Castle.

A fairly detailed look at the case.

 

[trancejeremy]

I'm not sure if Holmes was exactly "paranormal". But it is a very interesting case.

Well, you should really get Charles Fort's books (either buy them or borrow them from the library). I would give you some examples, but it's just horribly written (in terms of structure, it jumps all over the place, and a lot of it is devoted to insulting astronomers, who he really seems to have disliked)

 

[The_Universe]

I'm not sure if Holmes was exactly "paranormal". But it is a very interesting case.

Well, you should really get Charles Fort's books (either buy them or borrow them from the library). I would give you some examples, but it's just horribly written (in terms of structure, it jumps all over the place, and a lot of it is devoted to insulting astronomers, who he really seems to have disliked)

I already have some of Loren Coleman's books, which do a pretty good job of summarizing much of Fort's work.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was fond of mysticism and seances, I believe. And of course you're getting close to the time frame of Aleister Crowley.

 

[philreed]

Check out the two Suppressed Transmission supplements from Steve Jackson Games, written by Ken Hite. They have quite a bit of stuff about the time period in question.....

Those were a blast to work on. I was hoping to get a chance to put together a third book but it just never happened.

 

[WayneLigon]

Before people were seeing flying saucers, they were seeing Unidentified Flying Airships: large zepplin-like structures that sometimes belched fire and smoke. Some were brightly lit or glowed, but some were not.

People were still having 'mysterious rains', things like frogs, fish, wood, weird stuff like that. 'Ancient chronicles and etchings allude to rains of other absurd objects. During the year 746, crosses rained from the sky in Sicily. Fruit rained from the sky throughout the Middle Ages; Devonshire and Wansworth (U.K), Napa (California) and Reading and Chester (Pennsylvania) are allegedly the sites of ice storms that assume the shape of large blocks capable of inflicting heavy damage, whether by crushing cattle in the field or smashing the roofs of houses. Even more incredible are the rainfalls of blood seen during the 19th century in Paris, Granada and Bristol, or the nauseating chunks of meat that fell over Kentucky in 1876.'

 

[The_Universe]

Those were a blast to work on. I was hoping to get a chance to put together a third book but it just never happened.

I'll give them a look. Glad to know a familiar face was working on them.