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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
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Another great #PhantomsFriday yesterday. A big thank you to everyone who contributed. I'm getting to the point where I'll be too lazy to make my own posts, I'll just settle back and enjoy everyone else's!
A D M Smith illustration from Sabine Baring-Gould's 'Book Of Ghosts' showing a boy in a churchyard being helped to his feet by a ghostly woman. His head is bandaged and he is holding a violin. It's years since I've read the book and have entirely forgotten what it's all about but it's very sweet.
January 31, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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#PhantomsFriday Midnight Movie: Two film posters for 'The Phantom Carriage' 1921. Some great early spectral effects & a scene that might have influenced Kubrick's 'Here's Johnny' sequence in 'The Shining'.
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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A final touch of spook on this #PhantomsFriday

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An apparition holding a parasol
January 30, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Richard Westall, engraving by Edward Scriven, Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar (1802)
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January 30, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Surfing skeletons in a Paul Hardy illustration of 1896 for 'The Story Hunter' by E R Suffling. OK, they're coffins not surf boards but I don't think that would make riding the waves any easier.
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January 30, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Ghost Stories magazine, April 1929
published by Macfadden

The cover story Coins of Doom involves the search for a dead man's hidden stash of gold coins. It soon emerges that the former owner's spirit has cursed the coins themselves. #phantomsfriday
Painted cover of Ghost Stories magazine, April 1929, showing a frightened man kneeling beside an open chest overflowing with gold coins in a dark, candlelit room. Looming above him is a large, translucent ghostly figure, reaching toward the man. The logo “Ghost Stories” is at the top, and at lower right a list of story titles includes “Coins of Doom,” “She Walks in Beauty,” and “Did the Ghost of Bismarck Warn the Kaiser?”
January 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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On cold nights on the Tombigbee in Alabama, the Eliza Battle reappears, completely drenched in flames. Though no one died when it sank in 1858, the mysterious steam ship can still be seen, haunting that stretch of river. #PhantomsFriday

🖼️: Uncle Bunky
Uncle Bunky's painting of the burning of the Eliza Battle, showing the Tombigbee River full of lifeboats as the steam ship burns in the cold night.
January 30, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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#PhantomsFriday We have largely forgotten than objects can be haunted, for example an old door may have absorbed unspeakable horrors in the chamber it opened on to. Ghost hunter Elliot O'Donnell wrote that furniture made from Irish bogwood 'has from time immemorial been haunted by uncouth spirits.'
January 30, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Murderers, suicides and suspected witches were once buried at crossroads, in the hope their restless spirits might stay put, unsure which way to go. Just two of many crossroads ghosts are murderer Black Toby in #Suffolk and a highwayman at Fright Corner (truly!), in #Kent.
#PhantomsFriday #folklore
An old engraving of a burial at a crossroads on a moonlit night. A stone has been removed from beneath the way marker, which one man is struggling to hold on to. A man with a spade and another with rocks to pile on top are also present, as are mourners standing by the coffin.
January 30, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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The "Porthcawl phantom steam train" refers to ghost stories associated with the disused branch line in South Wales. The sound of a steam train can still be heard along the old rail route, with sightings frequently reported near the railway bridge on Moor Lane

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January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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“Then the bride put back her veil, and Betty, studying the white face, saw that this actually was not herself; it was her dead sister Letice.”

(Sabine Baring-Gould “A Book of Ghosts”, 1904)

🎨 D. Murray Smith

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When the bride lifts her veil and your first thought is ‘open casket’—D. Murray Smith illustrates the ultimate wedding crasher. Letice didn’t RSVP, but she did bring a lifetime of sibling rivalry to the afterlife. Betty’s face says it all: ‘I did not sign up for this family reunion.’ A masterpiece in how to ruin a honeymoon before it even starts.
January 30, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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The household of the Ducal stablemaster in Coburg was once haunted by a strange spirit that looked indistinguishable from the stablemaster's wife.

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The Spirit Appears as the Wife
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January 30, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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"I am quite of the opinion that vulgar incredulity is a much more contemptible thing thing than vulgar credulity."

- Catherine Crowe, 'The Night Side Of Nature' (1848)
#PhantomsFriday #supernatural #paranormal #Victorian
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A nocturnal shelfie. Which book would you read?
January 30, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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#PhantomsFriday January-April 1861 A "Man in White," described as being 5'8" to 25' tall, wandered about in the dark in Cleveland, Ohio, terrifying its residents. Posses were formed; the ghost complained in a letter to the papers of being persecuted by armed gangs when it just wanted a quiet stroll.
A scowling figure in a sheet/cape and a tall pointed hat points a clawed hand at a cowering figure on the ground.
January 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Self Portrait With Death Playing the Fiddle - Arnold Bocklin
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Self Portrait With Death Playing the Fiddle - Arnold Bocklin
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January 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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A strange spectral figure glimpsed in the woods one night...

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#PhantomsFriday #photography
January 30, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Some small town ghostly malarkey. I grew up Pershore, Worcestershire.
In August 1965 3 small boys claimed to have seen a ghost in a meadow by the river. Over the next 5 nights increasing numbers of ghost hunters gathered there, reportedly 200 by the final night
A very battered black and white photograph clipped from a local paper reporting on the “ghost hunt”. A crowd of people in a dark field. In the foreground a young boy stares at the camera.
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Some people are willing to use underhanded means to attain a piece of real estate they want.

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https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Poltergeist_in_Hildesheim
The Poltergeist in Hildesheim
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January 30, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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Recycling for #PhantomsFriday
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#WyrdWednesday In 1584, in Somerset, Margaret Cooper was possessed by the Devil and took to her bed. One night after weeks of torment a phantom headless bear materialised in her room, grabbed her, shoved her head between her legs and rolled her round like a hoop for 15 minutes.
Woodcut from a 1614 pamphlet called A Miracle of Miracles published by John Trundle. It shows a room with a window and a large bed in the middle with a lady (Margaret Cooper) lying in it. Five other people surround the bed reacting in terror at a large black bear with no head and clawed paws menacing them. On the left is a winged angel holding a cross.
January 30, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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A clergyman was once bothered in his chamber by the #ghost of one of his host's ancestors - who had been a notorious miser. He presents the ghost with a list of subscribers to a local charity, pointing out that as a long-term resident, he ought to pay up too. This frightens it off!
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An Irving Montagu illustration of the wily clergyman holding out his list of subscribers to the skinflint's ghost, which is wearing Tudor costume and clutching a bag of what would have been sovereigns. The ghost is hurrying away, a sour look on its face.
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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According to a Flemish folktale, a woman was followed by a ghost while she walked home late at night. The ghost had a skull instead of a head and a white beard. Overnight, a huge tree grew in front of her door. It had to be cut down because nobody could enter or leave.

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Art by Thomas Satterwhite Noble. A skull wearing a wreath.
January 30, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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'The Ghost of Clytemnestra Awakening the Furies' (1781), by John Downman.

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An ethereal. glowing figure raises her hand to the air, while several other around her figures cower away.
January 30, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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"Ghosts At Sidley.
Another Visit Expected."
Bexhill Chronicle 13.1.1898. #PhantomsFriday #1890s
January 30, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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philipgomm.bsky.social
Oxney Bottom sits just off the Deal–Dover road in east Kent. Said to be haunted by a Grey Lady and worse, it’s long had a reputation for unease!

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Oxney Bottom (2020)
Oxney Bottom (2020) - a late December visit to the haunted woods of Oxney Bottom, Kent, photography by Phil Gomm.
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January 30, 2026 at 11:04 AM