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  1. Yithian

    The Earl Of Dunraven's Record Of Experiences With D. D. Home

    Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dunglas_Home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Wyndham-Quin,_3rd_Earl_of_Dunraven_and_Mount-Earl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windham_Wyndham-Quin,_4th_Earl_of_Dunraven_and_Mount-Earl I recently bought privately bound volume of miscellaneous...
    • Yithian
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    • 1869 1924 daniel dunglas home mediums & mediumship physical mediumship proceedings of the society for psychical research part xciii psychical research seances the earl of dunraven the society for psychical research the victorians
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    • Forum: Parapsychology
  2. Yithian

    The Gbangbama Devil Of Sierra Leone

    While researching Sierra Leone during the Second World War, I stumbled over this striking image: It is captioned 'A Dancing Devil - The Gbangbama Devil - native type of Jester' and was produced c.1924 for sale at the British Empire Exhibition. 'Gbangbama', it seems, is a town in Sierra...
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    Mallory: First To Conquer Everest?

    So, what do you FTers think? Did George Mallory conquer Everest decades before Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing, despite dying in the attempt? Were you convinced by the FT story?
    • Anonymous
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    • 1924 explorers george mallory historical mysteries mount everest mountaineering mountains pioneers sandy irvine
    • Replies: 91
    • Forum: General Forteana
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    Spring-Heeled Jack, East-End Disappearances & Other Mysterious Characters

    East End Disappearances 1881-1890 I am trying to find information regarding unusual disappearances which began in the East End of London in 1881 and continued unsolved until January 1890. Apparently men, women and children from all classes disappeared into a 'Fortean void', never to be seen or...
    • Ali_Strachan
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    • 1838 1876 1881 1882 1890 1904 1920 1924 1926 1972 1978 1979 1986 2005 alan haley albert fish aldershot arthur machen attercliffe bearhind lane bow (london) bradford broughty ferry cassandra eason central railway station london charles wagner charlton lea child prostitution claude reignier conder clawed men colonel robert cook county durham crime & criminals david rodinsky disappearances dundee eliza carter everton fairies & magical beings (2001) flashers florida folly ditch fortean studies 3 gainesville ghazipur green dragon alley / yard harold schecter huddersfield human sacrifices india jack the ripper jai prakash paswan jan bondeson jane allsop john walters keogh road kerrin evans lawrence kusch lieutenant w.t. day limehouse liverpool london maria davis mark fraser mary seward maryland street mass hysteria mesopotamia mike ash mike dash millie jeffs missing persons mothman murder & murderers nannygoat bank new dehli norfolk park paul begg penny dreadfuls peter haining pikkhi pilot officer d.r.stewart piquerism polly adams ramsgate ripper street rivals of the ripper (2016) satanism & satanists sheffield spitalfields spring legs spring-heeled jack spring-heeled jack: to victorian bugaboo from suburban ghost stephen king steve moore strawberry spring the bermuda triangle mystery - solved the east end the education act of 1872 the halifax slasher the illustrated police news the legend & bizarre crimes of springheeled jack the monkey man the portway the press the south east london folklore society the standard the victorians tom slemen tow law tranmere urban myths/legends uttah pradesh walter sickert west ham whitechapel william henry street
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    • Forum: Urban Legends & Folklore
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