Wesley Ghost #9: Fairy, Witch or Demon? November 24, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : ModernIn previous posts Jeffrey has been explained by this blogger as a product of life in a strictly regulated religious setting, where adolescent girls were yoked to Samuel Wesley’s strict high Anglican ideals. There is a very good chance that this is the key to understanding the poltergeist events and that some sort of poltergeist […]
Dangers of Treasure Hunting in Sixteenth-Century Devon April 12, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : ModernAncient mounds and barrows evoked mixed feelings in your average yokel in the medieval and modern period. On the one hand you, might find treasure: gold, silver and coins from the Empire or even before. On the other, though, you were likely to get flattened by whatever dragon or spirit guarded the hole in question: […]
Treasure-Hunting in Lancs July 22, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : ModernToday is not a day to celebrate. Those bastards who provide Beach with his internet supply have been playing games for a week now. Beach finds himself, this morning, stranded without a signal. In desperation he has, therefore, been reduced to typing up the following post, putting it on a pen drive and giving it […]
Forgotten Kingdoms: August Gissler’s Cocos May 15, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, ModernWhen August Gissler (obit 1935) became, at last, governor of Cocos Island, off Costa Rica, in 1897, he was not interested in the tiny and transient population of tobacco growers there, most of whom he had brought over from his home country. The German was obsessed, instead, by the vast quantites of gold (allegedly) […]