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October-ganza Day 16: The Blackburn Cult
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October 16, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

A dispatch from California describes a theosophist colony as donning white robes en masse for some “glorious fulfillment” which never …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: California, Cults, Great Eleven, May Otis Blackburn, Rita Wieland Rickenbaugh Rizzio, Samuel Fort, Ward Sitton Blackburn, Willa Rhodes
October-ganza Day 15: New England’s ‘Haunted’ Cemeteries, part 2
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October 15, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

We’ve covered the ‘haunted’ cemeteries of Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts so far, now we turn to New England’s other three …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Abel Blood, Ballou Cemetery, Black Agnes, Blood Cemetery, Erastus Hubbard, Gilson Road Cemetery, Green Mount Cemetery, Haunted Cemeteries of New England, Pine Hill Cemetery, Pukwudgies, Stones and Bones of New England, Thanatos, Thanos, Vale End Cemetery
October-ganza Day 14: New England’s ‘Haunted’ Cemeteries, part 1
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October 14, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

There is a contradiction, to my mind at least, between the traditional lore of how ghosts are created (violent murder, …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Central Burying Ground, Dean Hill Road Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Four Corner's Cemetery, Giles Corey, Hannah Cranna, Howard Street Cemetery, Mary Nasson, Midnight Mary, Old Burying Ground, Old Hill Burying Ground, Quaker Cemetery, Red Eyes, Spider Gates, Union Cemetery, White Lady
October-ganza Day 13: “[A] prodigious war, made by the spirits of the invisible world”
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October 13, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

It is fascinating to watch the gradual evolution of various odd and curious tales from the past be repurosed by …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Cotton Mather, Gloucester, John Emerson, October-ganza, Phantoms
October-ganza Day 12: The Club of Odd Volumes
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October 12, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

We turn today from murder and gruesome executions in greater Boston to the genteel chambers of an unusual social club …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Bookhounds of London, Boston, Club of Odd Volumes, October-ganza
October-ganza Day 11: The Executions of Phillis and Mark, 1755
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October 12, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

I have, adding ever on to my browser’s very odd search history, been looking at the use of gibbets in …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Bird Island, Burned at the stake, Charlestown, Daniel Allen Hearn, Executions, Gibbet, Jack, King Philip, Legal Executions in New England, Maria, Mark, Massachusetts, Nixes' Mate, October-ganza, Phillis, Phoebe
October-ganza Day 10: Robert Ellis Cahill and Weird New England, one booklet at a time
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October 10, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

When you are a collector of weird New England lore, you notice a few names appearing again and again on …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Robert Ellis Cahill, Salem
October-ganza Day 9: Lovecraft Country Scenario List and my favorite scenarios for each location
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October 9, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

For today’s post I thought I would talk a little bit about the body of scenarios that have been written …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: A Painted Smile, Behold the Mother, Dreams and Fancies, Dust to Dust, Ghosts of the Florentina, Lovecraft Country, Lovecraft Country Scenario List, October-ganza, Proof of Life, Return to Dunwich, Spirit of Industry, The Condemned, The Hopeful, The Queen of Night
October-ganza Day 8: ‘Vikings’ in New England, part 2
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October 8, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

Recap: Yesterday we surveyed the historical and (mostly) pseudohistorical evidence for the presence of Vikings in New England. Today we …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Baffin Island, Escape from Innsmouth, Helluland, L'Anse Aux Meadows, Markland, Mi'kmaq, October-ganza, The Dark Woods, The Ravenar Sagas, Trail of Tsathoggua, Vinland
October-ganza Day 7: ‘Vikings’ in New England, part 1
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October 7, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

Professor Webb had been engaged, forty-eight years before, in a tour of Greenland and Iceland in search of some Runic …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Antiquitates Americana, Carl Christian Rafn, Dighton Rock, Edward Rowe Snow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Newport Tower, Noman's Land, Norumbega, October-ganza, Rainsford Island, Skeleton in Armor, Spirit Pond, Thorvald's Stone, Vikings, Vinland Map, Yarmouth Stone

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Author Archives: Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

October-ganza Day 16: The Blackburn Cult

October-ganza Day 15: New England’s ‘Haunted’ Cemeteries, part 2

October-ganza Day 14: New England’s ‘Haunted’ Cemeteries, part 1

October-ganza Day 13: “[A] prodigious war, made by the spirits of the invisible world”

October-ganza Day 12: The Club of Odd Volumes

October-ganza Day 11: The Executions of Phillis and Mark, 1755

October-ganza Day 10: Robert Ellis Cahill and Weird New England, one booklet at a time

October-ganza Day 9: Lovecraft Country Scenario List and my favorite scenarios for each location

October-ganza Day 8: ‘Vikings’ in New England, part 2

October-ganza Day 7: ‘Vikings’ in New England, part 1

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