Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…modern India. Invisible, meanwhile, (as is her wont) has the States covered. Charley McCartney, “The Goat Man” is said to have sold his wife in 1939 to a farmer for…

…Michigan. Then Invisible: ‘You’ll find many tales of zombie planes here including the 20 Spitfires found buried in Burma [see Wade above] and the remains of an RAF pilot discovered…

…behind him, painting Contradiction. *** 30/April/2012: Invisible writes in: You undoubtedly have run across the fairy art of Charles Altamont Doyle (father of Arthur Conan Doyle). Also mad (he was…

…com *** 26/4/2012 Invisible writes in on a sceptical note and Beach can’t bear it. Don’t know about the other ingredients in this concoction, but I was told by a…

…yahoo DOT com *** 18 April 2012: Invisible writes with this calling into question the anecdote and its identification with Owen: I’m sorry to say that Ms. Cadbury seems to…

…he would like to offer some ‘internet museum’ sites put together by Invisible on that old obsession of his: fairies. The Fairy Museum (virtual), the Renaissance Faire Pictorial (mobile), the…

…the brains of the outfit. The Zanesville SWAT team got a lot of good stories to tell.’ Invisible has four New York Times archive stories: (1), (2), (3) and (4)….

…thrifty matron no one will yet dare to quarrel. Any parallels to breathing out your power? Drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** Invisible writes: ‘On the subject of last breaths,…

…of China!? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com. Special honours for anyone finding this custom in modern or contemporary East Anglia (another very unusual part of the world). *** 29/2/12: Invisible…

…on the Gyants in the Physic Garden in Oxon: page 108 in Hyder Edward Rollins’s 1927 Pack of Autolycus:’ This is then picked up by Invisible though as she (and…

…efforts to do the same. I hope this feeds your interest in the topic– but be prepared for heartbreak’. Then Invisible: ‘You asked for other slave adverts. The Virginia Gazette,…

…AT yahoo DOT com *** 26 Sept 2011: Invisible immediately trumps the original post with this impressive list. Can anyone add to it? ‘Where to start? I have a couple…

…or abroad: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** 11/2/12: Invisible is all a flutter with fairy names. There’s a database of US place names. Here are the fairy ones (mostly…

…move it. Laurence has Teetering Rock in Dog Patch in mind. Invisible writes in: I had to laugh out loud at the Admiralty getting involved with the Lieutenant and the…

…hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead. Invisible writes in with this: On March 8, 1782 96 Moravian Christian Indians…