Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…to milk, saw a human head above water, but believed their eyes deceived them, till the repeated sight confirmed their assurance, whereupon they resolved one night to watch her, and…

…human over a hundred yards, it would beat a human convincingly over a mile, it would win a marathon too… But from there on one horse against one human (particularly…

Beach prides himself in getting together some of the most striking photographs possible to show his students at uni. However, he is dismayed how often good photographs require dead bodies:…

…plugging some religion about an all-powerful God who started out as a human being, went away, and would return at some future date. I am not the first person to…

…using deception on the humans with whom they interact.Vallée also proposes that a secondary aspect of the UFO phenomenon involves human manipulation by humans. Witnesses of UFO phenomena undergo a…

…behaviour. These behaviour changes are well charted in some mammals. But in human beings they remain difficult to chart: not least because no study yet has managed to capture the…

Is there such a thing as a ‘good execution’: after all the extinction of human life should never or almost never be a cause for celebration? Well, historians have used…

…place. It is also true that human sacrifice was practiced in Hinduism and isolated instances occurred into the early twentieth century. However, there is something perhaps a little too pat…

…negotiations with the Germanic savages ‘settling’ the Thames valley who were already indulging in the occasional bout of human sacrifice. But can we prove that Calleva survived in this fashion?…

…down a high set of stairs (250). The intervening decade cannot have been pleasant… Beachcombing is always open to human sacrifice stories: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** Next came…

…of this than the way that most archaeologists looking away on coming across any evidence of mass killings or human sacrifice in Dark Age Britain? Indeed, despite there being straightforward…

                    Beachcombing has recently had a bit of a thing about human sacrifice and capital punishment. But it is. he promises,…

…his recent visit to the Medical Forensic Service in Mérida (the great human sacrifice controversy of June 2010), and as, more importantly, he is intrigued by Jesuits he welcomes on…

…human head (in fact, decapitated human heads coated with rubber may sometimes have been used). It is estimated that these balls would have weighed as much as eight pounds (3.5…

…reflects, for example, on modern druids attempting human sacrifice: ‘If any bold spirit among [the revivalists] were to try and make a return to primitive doctrine and ritual as recorded…