Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…to perpetuate their genes, their name and their line. The reverse for the winners. If it weren’t for that fact, the human race could use a spectacle such as the…

…to watch the mob of human wrecks they’d gathered there, I just wonder why they keep them alive… Afterwards we visited the famous concentration camp Dachau and saw it from…

…assurance, that they have seen this creature sometimes at a distance, and at other times close to their boats, erect and formed like a human creature down to the middle;…

…that MP never even made it to China. But apart from the unpleasant human connotations of the kite flight there is surely no physical reason for thinking that it could…

…beings whom the many regard as lamias and hobgoblins. These beings fall in love, and they are devoted to the delights of Aphrodite, but especially to the flesh of human…

…eggs are to be taken only on a particular point in the lunar cycle, as though it was up to human beings to determine the snakes’ role in this procedure….

…human imagination from sacrificial oaks – Beach has a ‘book’ memory of a German tribe that use to hammer one part of their victim’s guts to an oak and then…

…also recall occasional starving humans on boats, in plane wrecks or beseiged cities obliged to eat each other. But cannabilism does not, surely, figure in mainstream western history? Well, in…

…Such a voyage appeared to be beyond the range of human exploration and one from which there could be no return. And so it happened, after the tenth hour of…

…am inclined to believe they all (reptile or mammal) receive special assistance, since the human race also seems to receive much more assistance than it deserves.’ Thanks SY and KMH!…

…all ended? Well, for most of humanity yes. But there were those unlucky souls who ended up far from home with no hope of a fast return. Beachcombing has previously…

…and that he badly hurt himself. Not the least incredible part of this is that Eilmer even tried. The Christian tradition ascribes flying to two human beings: Christ with his…

…and there are passages where even the reader hardened to human folly will laugh aloud or shake their heads. The finest blunders include: GR’s tour de force description of the…

…north of the Humber. It is the emptiness. The desolate, Ozymandian silence, the record-high brick-to-human ratio… You don’t believe Beachcombing? Then consider the following. Estimates for the population of Imperial…

…too closed, on the other hand, is the debate over the date of human settlement in North America. It is only now that some light pre-Clovis settlement in America is…