Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

***Dedicated to Invisible who sent the Notts example in*** Beach has slowly become aware that Roman remains in Britain were misinterpreted by imaginative yokels. Of course, already by the seventh…

…Scott. Paranormal Smells: James G sent in a great article about fear and smells. Place of Stillborn Children: Invisible sends in an article on buried children from across the Atlantic….

…14 Feb 2014: One of these posts where we advance the cause of knowledge. Invisible has pointed out that (yah boo sucks to the steppes warrior) there is a third…

…case. Poisonous Tomatoes : Jo remembers her Gran. Terracotta Army: MC puts all this in context with reference to the Greco-Bactarian Kingdom. Strange Camera Obscura: Invisible has a solution and…

…I felt a distinct tension creep into the atmosphere at this point. It was as if we have shifted some invisible levers, and were awaiting the result. I squinted narrowly…

…in the presence of the rev. Thos. Fisher and Mr. Chas. Prideaux Brune is now (1877) pents Mr. Spencer Walpole.’ Thanks Wade! 30 April 2015: Invisible sends SP’s mourning rings…

…they folded about him, his whole Body was covered with it except his Head, and so left in this Posture all night until his invisible Friends reliev’d him, by giving…

***Thanks to Invisible for sending this one in*** Damien Hirst, media-savvy horseman of the post modern art apocalypse and the Madonna, mother of Christ, eternal sweetness and light, whose breasts…

…thieves? The best explanation I’ve ever heard for an Axis attack arrived, though, in an email from Invisible (thanks!) just the other day and involves Japan: ‘in 1983 [John] Fleming…

***This story came from Invisible for which many thanks*** In 1613 a group of Japanese soldiers and diplomats undertook an extraordinary journey that would end with blue spots on the…

…poetry of Edward Leer. Special thanks not only to the emailers (represented below) but also to Wade, Invisible, Chris S, Ricardo, Andy and Amanda who have sent me link upon…

…was to allow navigation while maximising the security of the Zeppelin itself, which could hover safely above the cloud base, invisible to searchlights and anti-aircraft guns, while still steering towards…

…a suffering family. As his girl spoke to spectral witches, invisible familiars and demons Edward was there with his quill. This account is little written about by historians of the…

…they tend to be invisible, simply because they don’t particularly want to be noticed. Yet anyone who has ever written a historical work will know they are lurking: they are…

…birth? It hardly seems the sort of thing our austere and stoic Roman forefathers would have gone in for. Total fabrication is another equally viable theory.’ Thanks Invisible and Tacitus!…