Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…fairies: a potential new fairy fake with thanks to Mike! ‘It’ looks suspiciously like the Virgin to Beach. *** 16 March 2012: Invisible very kindly sends in fragments from a…

…God let me find rest in this grave.’ Don’t believe it? Invisible has, true to form produced a photograph. Thanks SM and Invisible! 27/Feb/2012: Mike L writes in with this…

***Dedicated to Andy the Mad Monk and Invisible*** Beach has, since the early days of this site, shown a persistent interest in mermaids. It would be outrageous then to pass…

…fully understanding revolutions. And Jaryd sent in this amazing illustration (his copyright) based on MdB’s last words. Amazing Jaryd! Thanks to you both! Clipping the Church: Invisible writes in: Seeing…

…sturdy boats and trips to Greenland. Beachcombing, on the other hand, sees burnt monastic libraries, lines of children being brought to slavery in the fiords and a couple of kings…

…fully got rid of it.’ As Invisible goes on to note this is a classic changeling tale. It would be fascinating if this was recorded in the US!’ Thanks Invisible!…

…women ghosts or better still an explanation? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** 29 March 2012: Invisible sets off the chase with what a very useful handlist: all hail Invisible!…

…him on your ‘HP Lovecraft’s invisible library’ page, you may be interested. This novella is freely available on the web. Search ‘ghosts’, but in fact the theme runs throughout the…

…for the humorous debunking of ghost stories: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** 15 Dec 2011: Invisible writes: Dipping into my file of 19th and early-20th-century ghost hoaxes, I find…

***Dedicated to Invisible who sent in two of these fakes*** Beachcombing apologies because he does normally try and limit his fairy nonsense to a post a week. But this was…

Invisible writes in with the news that the Lewis Chessmen are about to go on exhibition in New York. And Beach took this as a prompt for one of his…

…Invisible writes in with a sensible objection: ‘My question arising from your post is: is Amerindian DNA the same as Inuit? Since you’ve got Inuit settlements in Greenland from (approx)…

…attention to the net itself one notices the meshes. If one was accustomed to always looking through a net it would become invisible. Or again one may look through a…

…about Dixie. Abe Lincoln was said to be rather fond of Dixie Invisible writes in with an example of the Battle of the Bands also from the CW: See Battle…

…threatened to give back her sweetheart’s ring because he called her Hunny. [thanks to Invisible for this one] 9) And from the trenches just to remember what violence does to…