English teenager Mitch Glover was on a school trip to the Neauville-St Vaast German war cemetery in France, when he caught a spectre on his Iphone. The ghost you can see in the image (to the left) appears to be wearing the uniform of the Seaforth Highlander regiment - a kilt and a tam o'… Continue reading Seaforth Highlander
Art installation in St George's Church in the Czech village of Lukova. Installation by Jakub Hadrava.
If you are a regular follower of Wyrd Words & Effigies you may have come across a new photography project of mine titled 'Haunted.' It's a project exploring the paranormal. If you would like to check out all of the images so far, just float over to my new photography page Burial Chamber Photography. For… Continue reading Haunted – Latest Images
The eerie world of Riitta Päiväläinen.
I'd like to share with you a sample of photos from my latest photography project - Haunted.
I don’t know much about Old Hag, only that her actual name is Darby Lahger and she’s married to Shamaatae of Arckanum. I do have a great fondness for her evocative photography though.
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you’ll know that I’m an enormous fan of the fabulous Enchanted World books, published by Time Life Books in the 1980’s. In the past, I’ve reviewed Night Creatures and Ghosts and have done so with lashings of praise. Seekers and Saviours is the final book in my… Continue reading Book Review: Enchanted World – Seekers and Saviours
‘Up here a man becomes aware of things that he can’t perceive further south.’ I read most of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, but got bored after a while. The series started off great, but then they got a bit, well, ugh. I reckon that’s why it’s taken me a while to pick this… Continue reading A Review of Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 