The Victorian era is birthplace of many of our current views about hauntings. The Victorian cult of mourning heralded in an obsession with death and its remembrance. Viewing the corpse in the home was replaced by a new industry, that of funeral parlors. The public appetite for tales of the macabre was insatiable and the literature of the time reflected this. Penny Dreadfuls were inhaled by a huge readership bent on experiencing that unique chill a scary story produces. Spiritualists were celebrities. The common churchyards competed with palatial, spraying cemeteries replete with benches and picnic areas where mourners gathered to remember their lost loved ones.
The following is a story printed in the March 21, 1877 edition of The Grange Advance, a newspaper printed in Red Wing, Minnesota. Join us as we visit a haunted house.
The following is a story printed in the March 21, 1877 edition of The Grange Advance, a newspaper printed in Red Wing, Minnesota. Join us as we visit a haunted house.
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