Author archive for J.W.H

  • Dec262024
    ghosts

    The obscure side of Christmas: the terrifying legend of Père Fouettard of Lorraine

    About one of the many evil helpers of St. Nicholas, coming at Christmas time to punish children, we find the…

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  • Dec252024
    ghosts

    The Dim Side of Christmas: The Legend of Frau Perchta

    At Christmas time, stories were told about Mrs. Perchta visiting people's homes and checking whether they were doing well or…

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  • Dec242024

    Violent Spirit

    ABOUTOne evening I was watching TV in my room and I felt something watching me. Out of the corner of…

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  • Dec232024
    ghosts

    The Dim Side of Christmas: Hans Trapp – A Child Eating a Scarecrow

    The children of Alsace are often reminded to watch out for Hans Trapp, the cursed baron now disguised as a…

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  • Dec232024
    ghosts

    An unpleasant side effect of time travel: memory loss

    Imagine you had the ability to go back in time. But when you returned to the present, you discovered that…

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  • Dec222024

    Pinch

    Myour name is Alinah-Jo and I never believed in ghosts until one day at school I was talking to my…

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  • Dec222024
    ghosts

    Christmas at the Lefferts-Laidlaw home at 136 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn

    Before Christmas, uninvited guests arrived at the Lefferts-Laidlaw House at 136 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn and knocked on the door.…

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  • Dec212024
    ghosts

    Many faces of Santa Claus for Christmas

    Valerie M. Fridland: Everyone has heard of Santa Claus, that chubby, white-bearded guy in a red suit who delivers Christmas…

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  • Dec202024
    ghosts

    Haunting the plastic Christmas tree at the Dorrington Hotel

    The original owner of the Dorrington Hotel in California is said to be haunted by it. One Christmas, the ghost…

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  • Dec202024

    A slumber party gone wrong

    MYour friend was having a slumber party for her birthday and she invited me. It was me, Anna, Jodie and…

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