Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…was rescued by a band of mermaids. Finally, some non-human kindness: These fairy creatures, she represents, bore her to their homes in the rocky caverns along the seashore, and showed…

…same key. In the mean time, we observed something, about one hundred yards from us to windward. We all imagined it to be some human being, though at the same…

…Louis XVII, a ‘fact’ that muddies the water just a little bit more. All this begs a question: if historians cannot keep track of a simple human organ over two…

Beachcombing has, over the months, given some publicity to meteorite history, the intrusion of bolides into human affairs, and today he thought he would do tribute to a rock that…

…to end your life at all costs. Beach was musing on this last night (as you do) and he wondered, human ingenuity being what it is, how individuals have got…

…religion which cannot demonstrate that solid, physical specimens of their spiritual beings can actually exist on the surface of the planet, is at best not truly relevant to human life…

Messianic religions have long faced a simple problem with final calamity. If you predict the end of the world you are going to get lots of new members: that’s humanity….

…celiacs among populations that have had less time to adapt to the use of cereals in our diet. All this is relatively well known. What is less discussed is humanity’s…

…country and the castle, an extraordinary man was seen – if indeed it be right to call him a man. He had all the parts of the human body except…

…which it was sitting been dangerous for bathing I would have been constrained to have regarded it as really an human form, and to an eye unaccustomed to the situation…

…if you don’t say anything unwise about the developing world or human rights. In the meantime, you have fawning doctoral students, colleagues sending you sixty emails a day, groupees with…

…settle that no human agency within my knowledge could bring music of that kind into that place; and more mature reflection still leads me to believe that this conclusion was…

…humans have, for the most part, relied upon reason to help us out of our difficulties while the animal world, so far as we can see, takes the more passive…

…supra. Many ‘fairy stories’ (as opposed to fairy tales) involve human interlopers accidentally sealing their eyes with a fairy cream that allows them to see fairies. Typically, they see fairies…

…he was at last beginning to be housed like a human being. Non in alia re tamen damnosior quam in aedificando domum a Palatio Esquilias usque fecit, quam primo Transitoriam,…