Almanac for June 27th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for June 27th: https://ko-fi.com/post/June-27-Emma-Goldman-E1E81HQ7JE

French Republican Calendar Day Name (9 Messidor): Absinthe

Koroven, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Artist Birthday: H. Addington Bruce

Bummer June 27th

June 27, 2015: Colorful corn starch thrown into the air as an amusement at Formosa Fun Coast water park in Bali, New Taipei City, Taiwan, ignites, causing a fire. Performers on a stage throw the dust at guests who are dancing in a drained swimming pool. The dust ignites in a fire ball low to the ground, resulting in burns to many guests’ legs and lower torsos. More than 500 people are injured, 200 of them critically, and 15 people die.

Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters Audiobook Out Now

Who, or what, were the Devils of Loudun? 

Did Queen Elizabeth the First's friend and advisor John Dee know a man who talked to angels in their sacred language? 

Could Germany's so-called Seeress of Prevorst really find objects that had been hidden by the dead? 

These questions are explored, along with eight additional stories of history's celebrated (supposed) ghosts and what the author calls "human enigmas," in Historical Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

Everand (Scribd): https://www.everand.com/audiobook/920685344/Historic-Ghosts-and-Ghost-Hunters

Kobo/Walmart: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/historic-ghosts-and-ghost-hunters-14

Or stream on Spotify.

Henry (H.) Addington Bruce (1874-1959) was a newspaper journalist whose career began in his native Toronto. He moved to the United States, where he worked for the American Press Association. His primary areas of interest were the psychology of the day and alleged psychical phenomena. A trustee of the American Society of Psychical Research, he tended to be skeptical of poltergeist claims but was open-minded on the questions of telepathy and other powers of the human mind.