And it's a goodnight from #PhantomsFriday, too, with grateful thanks for another spiffing selection of frights and fancy.

Castelinho do Flamengo is a symbol of eclectic architecture, as the building features different references, such as art nouveau, neo-baroque, rococo, French neo-gothic, among others. #PhantomsFriday 🧵

Paranapiacaba is a misty, British-built railway village in Santo André, Brazil, famed as the "Brazilian Silent Hill". Its abandoned train yards, Victorian architecture, and dense, rolling fog #PhantomsFriday 🧵

As the term "mancy" originally referred to divination, originally "necromancy" was less about raising zombies and more about using the dead to predict the future, such as by throwing bones, studying entrails, or summoning a prophetic ghost for questioning. 🎨Ebenezer Sibley #PhantomsFriday

In the 70s, a deadly fire broke out at the Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brasil, killing many people. Later, the building is reported haunted, and the ghosts of the victims are crying for help from beyond the grave. moonmausoleum.com/the-joelma-b... #PhantomsFriday

#PhantomsFriday New acquisition found earlier today in a charity bookshop, 'Ghosts of the Lake Counties' by Gerald Findler from 1977, with a number of line drawings by E. Gower of the ghosts within.

#PhantomsFriday Vintage Falconware 'Ghosts & Ghoulies' jug. (1940's-50's?)

Another striking example of the spirit photography of William Hope, taken sometime in the late 1920s. #PhantomsFriday

Strange, fiery apparitions can be seen in certain parts of the German countryside at night. #phantomsfriday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Fiery_Men_of_Uckerath

Elizabeth "Lizzie" and Mary "May" Bangs were sisters who specialized in slate-writing and spirit portrait seances. Trouble with the law and scandals led to investigations which revealed the tricks the sisters used to con clients (including Isaac Funk, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls). #PhantomsFriday

Ghost Bride #PhantomsFriday ~painted on wood using acrylic and ink

'The Haunted Mirror' by Odilon Redon, 1890. #PhantomsFriday #haunted #ghost #OdilonRedon #art

#PhantomsFriday The Spectre on the Line, P. Hardy. From The Biography of a Locomotive Engine, Henry Frith, 1891. While I haven't found the story it illustrates, there is a genre of ghost stories with the theme "ghost flags down train when bridge is washed out/about to collapse."

Night watchman mistakes telegraph operator for dead wife's ghost and shoots him dead... ... I have questions. — from the Kendallville Standed, December 23rd, 1892 #PhantomsFriday

Captain John McNeill Boyd died off Dublin's coast rescuing others at sea. When his body was recovered, his dog refused to leave his side, even after burial. Even after death by starvation, the dog remains, haunting Glasnevin Cemetery in eternal vigil. #PhantomsFriday

"The Cottage was older than Dorset House and local superstition had it that it was haunted. not by a nightmare apparition but by an old lady dressed in grey, and even she had not been seen in modern times." From "Tales of Old Bexhill" by Phyllis Burl. #PhantomsFriday #Bexhill #Sussex

#ForteanFriday #PhantomsFriday The Photograph of a Spectral Dog A Spiritualist “infidel” tells of a photograph taken of his long-dead dog with a mysterious ghostly woman. hauntedohiobooks.com/news/photogr...

The Haunted House Deserted long ago, But everyone knows why, It's left to rot beneath A lonely haunted sky. No pathway leads to it, For none risk being seen By the creeping figures With faces dead and green #PhantomsFriday Painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw, verse by Jim Moon

“Intense malignity in an intense will and aided by natural means within the reach of science may produce effects… It might thus haunt the walls of a human habitation with spectral revivals of all guilty thoughts and guilty deeds once conceived and done within those walls.” [1/2 #PhantomsFriday

If you would steal from the dead, you should be willing to accept the... consequences. #phantomsfriday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Ring

#PhantomsFriday theme today is about #ghosts. The Devil's Backbone is one of my favorite movies about them. So much so that I quoted it in my book.

#PhantomsFriday #JapaneseFolklore

Not a ghost you'd want to meet on a dark beach. #PhantomsFriday

RT @ghostlytales.bsky.social #PhantomsFriday

The Hound of Roslin Castle is the ghost of a huge dog. It's English master was killed during a battle, and the dog attacked his killer but was swiftly killed by Scottish soldiers. The dog's ghost still walks the Castle grounds #PhantomsFriday #Scotland art: Barry Moser

“The corpses ranged themselves in an immense circle round the toad” (Ernest Louis Victor Jules L’Epine "The Days of Chivalry; Or, The Legend of Croquemitaine”) 🎨 Gustave Doré (1863) #PhantomsFriday

Pevensey Castle, #Sussex, is one of the oldest in the UK - most of its outer walls are #Roman. It saw the first battle of the Norman Conquest. All its #ghosts are martial. They include: A Roman centurion, a medieval army rushing up from the beach and the sounds of ancient fighting. #PhantomsFriday

Jonathan Martin attempted to burn down York Minster in 1829 by setting fire to the woodwork in the choir before escaping through a window. He's still said to wander the cathedral, still attempting to destroy the building. #phantomsfriday

An old pirate hideout on Rügen island is still haunted by their ghosts. #phantomsfriday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Maiden_at_the_Waschstein_Rock_near_the_Stubbenkammer

Cock crow sends spirits back to their cemeteries, in this illustration by the great Arthur Rackham. #PhantomsFriday #ArthurRackham #ghosts #art

Daffy Duck's "Quackbusters" (Warner Brothers, 1988). Daffy Duck establishes a ghost-busting business. It was the last time Mel Blanc provided the voices of the various Looney Tunes characters before his death on July 10th, 1989. #PhantomsFriday #LooneyTunes #MelBlanc

Ghosts was an anthology comic published by DC from 1971 through 1982. Each issue featured a few original stories and, occasionally, a one page true ghost encounter drawn from the files of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. The covers were almost always bangers like this one. #PhantomsFriday

A male ghost carrying a pack wanders from the lane behind St Peter’s church, Barford, and through the yew-lined churchyard. Visiting some years ago I saw that the phantom was mentioned on the church’s notice board. #PhantomsFriday

Cotehele in the Tamar Valley is a medieval house with Tudor additions and its own White Lady legend. The apparition is said to descend the main staircase. Guests report sensory phenomena including phantom smells of herbs and mysterious footsteps echoing through the medieval rooms… #PhantomsFriday

#PhantomsFriday tomorrow, when the theme will be GHOSTS! Please join us for more manifestations of ghostly lore, legend, yarns, art, culture and cool stuff from the archives. I'm thinking of changing this to a SpookySunday. Better for me because no buses run and I'm stuck in the house. Also...

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to #PhantomsFriday this week. Another fun, informative and varied selection of ghostly goodies. A couple weren't reposted because the folklore wasn't about ghosts but on the other hand, a good many lost posts were unearthed! Next stop - #MorbidMonday maybe?

#PhantomsFriday THE GHOSE OF GREYSTONE GRANGE, by Arthur William À Beckett. Artist: A.B. Frost (1851-1928). Frost is best remembered for his illustrations of Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories.

El Caleuche or The Caleuche (Spanish pronunciation: [kalˈeutʃe]), also known by other names such as Buque de Arte (the Magic Ship) or the Barcoiche, is a legendary ghost ship from Chilote mythology in southern Chile. #PhantomsFriday 🧵

#PhantomsFriday There is a tradition of creepy supernatural types emanating in corners. This probably harks back to the belief that evil spirits & bad luck lurked in the sharp corners of a room. Those intent on banishing the devil & his shadowy agents built round houses & churches.

Another Spirit Speaker has sent an army of phantoms to attack Madreville. Orion Labauve must channel hundreds of ghosts to the other side to save the town. Does he have the strength? #PhantomsFriday youtu.be/TTLJSIMsK0g

Gustave Dore: 'Shades Of French Soldiers From The Past Exhort Soldiers To Victory On The Rhine'. Drawn in 1875, the subject shows that the 'Angels Of Mons' idea accidentally over-popularised by Arthur Machen during World War 1 had been around for some time. #PhantomsFriday #Machen #ghosts #art

Do you not know me? The Quiver Magazine 1877 #PhantomsFriday

David Alleno was an Italian immigrant who worked as a night watchman at La Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires in Argentina. Obsessed with being laid to rest alongside the wealthy elite he served, he spent his entire life savings to buy a plot #PhantomsFriday 🧵

An invisible cow stalks the village of Schlitters in Austria. #phantomsfriday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Lake_Cow

His final role at Melbourne's Princess Theater was that of Mephistopheles in Faust: finishing his finale, he descended into the floor and had a heart attack. Now Frederick Federici haunts the theater, returning to the stage, looking for applause. #PhantomsFriday

The nameless Völva of Völuspá is Norse myth's most famous ghost, summoned by Odin to give prophecy. She speaks of Ragnarok and all that leads to it, dooming Odin and the gods. Many suggest she is Angrboda, jotun mate of Loki and mother of monsters #PhantomsFriday 🖼: GAVade