![]() ![]() What follows are some examples of spooky, scary, or weird events from the 1800s which became legendary. And it seems that every place on earth has some version of a 19th-century ghost story. Some of them, like legends of silent ghost trains gliding past startled witnesses on dark nights, was so common that it's impossible to pinpoint where or when the stories began. The 1800s spawned countless tales of ghosts and spirits and spooky events. ![]() Or perhaps some really weird things were actually happening and people simply recorded them accurately. Perhaps the 19th-century fascination with the otherworldly was a way to hold on to a superstitious past. Even a new technology was coupled with the public's interest in ghosts as "spirit photographs," clever fakes created by using double exposures, became popular novelty items. Yet in a century seemingly built on reason there arose a profound interest in the supernatural. The 19th century is generally remembered as a time of science and technology when the ideas of Charles Darwin and the telegraph of Samuel Morse changed the world forever. ![]()
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