Phenomena Collection (page 10)

Man with Ghosts head in his lap
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

Mrs Lincoln with Spirit of Abraham Lincoln
From: Photographing the Invisible: practical studies in supernormal photography, script and other allied phenomena, James Coates, Fowler, 1921

Record rainfall, Ealing Common, West London
Record rainfall on the evening of 15 June 1903 at Ealing Common, West London. 1903

The Niagara Falls Frozen in winter, NY State, USA Date: circa 1890

Halleys Comet over Hampstead Heath, London, May 1910
Star-gazers watch Halleys Comet near the Flagstaff on Hampstead Heath, London, May 1910. Date: 1910

Eruption of Mount Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 17 November 1909. The eruption was from the El Chinyero vent on the Santiago Ridge. Date: 1909

View of the Misti volcano, Arequipa, Peru, South America
View of the Misti stratovolcano (also known as Putina) near the city of Arequipa, southern Peru, South America. Date: circa 1908

Lunar Landscape Demisun
A lunar landscape in half sunlight : the Earth in the distance is half in sunlight, half in darkness. Date: circa 1890

Descartes System
The Planetary System of Rene Descartes, with the sun at centre, and with orbits shown for Earths Moon, and for the Satellites of Jupiter and of Saturn. Date: circa 1640

Book illustration -- January, with a robin on a bare branch and a snowy country scene. Date: circa 1880

Meteorite fall at Ensisheim, Germany (now France)
Depiction of a Donnerstein (thunderstone), a 250 pound meteorite which fell into a field near the town of Ensisheim, Germany (now in north east France, near the border with Germany)

Bolide meteorite with a serpentine shape
Bolide forming a serpentine shape due to the influence of gravitational forces on the fragments forming the tail Date: 1954

Floods at Youngs Park, Goodrington, Paignton, Devon. Strong east winds and high tides caused waves 50 feet high to break over the sea wall, flooding the park to a depth of eight feet

Lyall Watson, South African scientist and author
Lyall Watson (1939-2008), South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and author. Through his work he attempted to make sense of natural

Alan and Iris Owen, psychical researchers
Alan Robert George Owen (1919-2003), mathematician, psychical researcher and author, associated with poltergeist investigation and the Philip experiments (Toronto)

RAIN GAUGE
Checking a rain gauge machine at Kew, near London, England. Date: early 1930s

Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway Date: circa 1910s

Getting the Wind up - Waverley Steps, Edinburgh, Scotland
Getting the Wind up - Pedestrians suffer the consequences of a sudden gust of Scottish wind on the Waverley Steps, Edinburgh, Scotland. Date: circa 1930s

Aftermath of Earthquake and Fire at Messina, Sicily, Italy. The devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 measured 7.5 on the richter scale and claimed 100, 000-200

London Snow
Oxford Street, central London, covered in snow. Date: 1987

Footprints in the Snow
Footprints in the snow - a Yeti perhaps? Date: 1960s

Storm Clouds at Sea
Ominous storm clouds at sea, shortly before a rainstorm. Date: 1950s

Bovey Tracey Snow Scene
Winter snow on the church at Bovey Tracey, Devon, England. Date: 1950s

Bumpy Lunar Landscape
The craters of extinct volcanoes testify to the violent past of the Moon. Date: circa 1880

A view of Erzurum - Turkey
Erzurum (Armenian - Karin), is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The name " Erzurum" derives from " Arz-u Rm" (literally The Land of the Romans i n Persian)

Life on Ganymede
The Cat-Women of Ganymede, one of Jupiters moons : our artist has drawn both from science and from imagination (a gram of the former, a tonne of the latter...)

Life on Venus is certain to be largely based on its extensive oceans : we can expects its inhabitants to be aquatic creatures of various kinds

Life on Titan, one of Saturns satellites - a world of swamps and of ferocious beasts and giant plants. Scientists speculate that it may be warm enough to support life

Spooky Street
A night scene on the kind of spooky street which would make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck

Spooky Alley
A rather eerie courtway in Leicester.. but who (or what?) lurks in the shadows... ?

Stormy Seaside Weather
A schoolgirl and her dog enjoy the rough sea and stormy weather at New Brighton, Cheshire, England

Jack Frost in Germany
He strides over the wintry countryside

RAINSTORM Rain laden clouds appear over a mountain range, converging with the brighter weather over a coastal village

Cetus Star Map
Cetus (sea monster) and chemical factory and electrical machinery constellation

Venezuela / Orinoco 1894
VENEZUELA - The banks of the Orinoco teem with picturesque wildlife, but some it can be dangerous, too - note that leopard prowling nearby

Meadow in Summer 1904
A profuse proliferation of dandelion heads in a German meadow in high summer

Lightning and Ship 1
During a storm, a shaft of lightning strikes the topmost tip of the mainmast of a sailing vessel while another bolt hits it halfway down and runs down to the deck

Lunar Corona (Arctic)
Lunar halo observed by Arctic explorers - a cross-like effect centred on the Moon, with a surrounding ring

Atmospheric Refraction
A diagram explaining atmospheric refraction using pictures of ships at sea to illustrate the concept

Gems Embedded in Rocks
Various types of gemstones embedded in rock of mixed with sand, including rubies, garnet and topaz

Spanking Breeze 1922
A young woman reveals more than she expected to on a very windy day

Jasper Tornado USA
Near Jasper, Minnesota, USA, a dramatic tornado looks set to destroy the vulnerable wooden house sitting directly in its path

Blunt / Moon Gibbous 1849
The moon gibbous - in a decreasing state

Sf Earthquake Cartoon 1
The San Francisco earthquake gives the globe a splitting headache

Car on Wet Street
A mysterious car lurks at night beside a wet pavement on the corner of North Barrack Road... spooky

Man and Mars
Man contemplates Mars and considers the possibility of life there

Diagram of a Whirlpool
The form of the whirlpool at the south-east of Sumbo, Sunderoe Island, Faeroe Isles, aka Monck Rock whirlpool, with the soundings

Solar Eclipse 1919
The eclipse of the sun - a photograph taken by British observers in Brazil, showing the prominence, like an explosion, which passed around the sun

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