Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…200-foot-long Hideous Ice Worm‘ with hat tip to Invisible. But in this case local tradition seems to have done the job for them. I think it was in the summer…

…hear a sweet response from heaven. The latest intelligence they have received from the invisible world is to the effect that the Wandering Jew is in some part of Lancashire,…

…place.) All this got Beach thinking about ‘history-that-dare-not-speak-its-name’. Two readers (thanks to Invisible and James W) sent in this extraordinary article on another twentieth-century dare-not (to coin a phrase), the…

…represent a belief that witchcraft was most problematic when performed by males because it represented a transgression of gender roles and a failure to be sufficiently masculine.’ Wade, Invisible and…

Dear Readers, it is that time again. The ten-thousand best words on this blog from June are summarized below. We have everything from Invisible on BVM and Fairies, Splendid Chap…

…Run Rabbit Run: Don’t Play with Fire: True Lies: Eating Flags: Future of English: Laughing to Death: H.P.Lovecraft’s Invisible Library: Bearded Saints: Fairies and Smells: Syphilis: Faun’s Library: Fairies and…

…to find this? Invisible has also recently put him onto catastrophic attempts to combine rocket science and the postal service in Scotland in the 1930s: ‘Some letters singed from the…

***Dedicated to Mac, Invisible and Southern Man who sent the latest British curse tablet in*** The Romans were, as is well known, good at everything. They could start land wars…

…reads: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** 9 Feb 2010: Invisible has been busy proving Beachcombing wrong on his silly claim that this work is rare. ‘I checked this out…

…along the coverlet and all my fear was turned to joy, and they put me to sleep again. The fairies then seem to have fulfilled the role of an invisible…

…pine forest. For most of the year the larches are invisible, but, in the winter, when the larches change colour the swastika stands out (for anyone who happens to be…

…is the risk that they may too be invisible to us, not having been reported by (our few) contemporary writers except in special circumstances. Dark thoughts about the past… drbeachcombingATyahooDOTcom…

…is especially difficult and God hesitates, but after ‘all creatures visible and invisible, including the twelve apostles, begged Him’ it too is granted. At this point Patrick sensibly leaves the…

…noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries. For a long interval they seem likely to prove victorious. Several horses sink beneath the violence of the invisible…

…and he disappeared from his adopted city or at least became invisible there. What happened in the next months no one has been able to establish: it was presumably a…