Late 19th Century Paranormal History

[BOZ]

In India, the Thugee cult was being exterminated.

i did not realize that they were not made up for indiana jones!

 

[BOZ]

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.

thank you very much. very odd case, this one.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

i did not realize that they were not made up for indiana jones!

Really?

Huh. Yeah, they're not quite as they are presented in IJ, but they were certainly not a nice bunch o' guys. They're the root of the English word "thug."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thugee

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Interestingly, before Jack The Ripper started up in 1888, there were a series of disppearances in the East End in 1886-1887, IIRC. Two were younger children, one was an elderly lady. IIRC, one of the vanished, a young girl, reappeared a few months later then disappeared again. Hunt "West Ham Disappearances" on Google.

http://casebook.org/forum/messages/4927/5780.html
Here's a discussion on the Casebook boards. It's mostly about the disappearance of John Bachert of Whitechapel (London) in late 1887, but also mentions West Ham. I had forgotten a few of the disappearances were solved.

Also, in 1892, there was allegedly a fall of worms during a snowstorm in Lancaster, Pa.

I'll check my Fort tonight and get back to you. Victorian was a good time to be a Spiritualist.

 

[Rhialto]

Yes. Afterwards, they developed that pesky lowlight photography. It certainly kept us from seeing a second DD Home...

 

[MonsterMash]

Edward Cayce

Should that be Edgar Cayce? - links http://www.edgarcayce.org/
http://skepdic.com/cayce.html

 

[Hand of Evil]

Should that be Edgar Cayce? - links http://www.edgarcayce.org/
http://skepdic.com/cayce.html

and yes it should be...

 

[The_Universe]

I found this, as well:

http://ufocasebook.com/Aurora.html

A UFO/Airship crash in Aurora, TX in 1897.

 

[grodog]

If you dig up a copy of Pagan Publishing's The Golden Dawn, it's filled with all sorts of useful suggestions, as is Chaosium's Cthulhu by Gaslight.