Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…tussle with the Swiss guard and a human interest story on Rai 1. In 1658 though the papal states were very much sovereign in their own affairs and reactionary. God…

…harmless, innocent, and helpless; or if this be the duty of another, do you at least stand by while this human being dies before it has really lived; wait for…

…and then Allied occupation. Beach was so excited, by his recent playing around with this book, in that tale about Padre Pio the human anti-aircraft gun that he read many…

…human beings who worry constantly what their society looks like, rather than how that society operates: there is something far worse about someone who is worried about the dressage a…

…seemed impossible that the sounds heard could be of human origin. The only other explanation was the supernatural one. The horrified listeners sent word to the village of the strange…

…been locked up since the owner’s death. I never saw a sight that more impressed on me the vanity of human life and learning. No wonder writing blogs can be…

…a LARGE HUMAN HEART! And sundry large stains Of blood and of brains, Which had not been wash’d off notwithstanding the rains, Appear’d on the wood, and the handle, and…

…2013: This from Amanda, These might be of interest concerning rains of blood: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20028490 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/mar/05/spaceexploration.theobserver http://natgeotv.com/ca/paranatural/galleries/blood-rain-and-star-jelly http://paranormal.about.com/od/earthmysteries/a/Weird-Weird-Rain.htm http://natgeotv.com/uk/wild-x-files/galleries/blood-red-rain http://www.oddee.com/item_97047.aspx http://www.sott.net/article/238921-UK-Mysterious-Rain-of-Apples-Stuns-Drivers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9623778/Weird-weather-ahead-as-blood-rain-forecast-for-Halloween.html http://paranormal.about.com/od/earthmysteries/a/Weird-Weird-Rain_2.htm http://www.utaot.com/2012/11/11/rain-contained-human-white-blood-cells/ A rain of blood is mentioned in…

…not be discovered, at least no thief in a human form, for many were the stories afloat of a hideous monster having been seen, by different persons, in the dead…

The guillotine was originally invented as an act of humanitarianism to liberate criminal kind from the axe. It made sense, after all, to remove a criminal’s head from his or…

…globe, particularly from pre-Columbian Latin America, and that most of these legends are just that, legends. For reasons we do not understand there seems to be some human need –…

…their soul. Once a ghost has degraded down to a continual slumber state, he can be removed from his area of haunting by the spirits who deal with human souls…

…being unduly sanguine about his and his colleagues’ success with humans. But nevermind such details. Bernard announced that he was already considering writing up Amsterdam’s chart… A Virgo if ever…

…to accept that shamanism is not so much a Siberian religious habit, as part of the human condition; shamans arise in all civilizations at all times with their mysticism and…

…town-dwelling and rustics, believe that hail and thunder can be brought into being by human will. They say, as soon as they hear the thunder and see the lightning, that…