Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…acumen than their human opponents. Emus rarely formed into large groups and when they did it was difficult to predict where these big groups would come together. There were some…

…William Eamon – was convinced that syphilis had been caused by humans devouring human flesh: a strange early modern precursor of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. He was probably insprired by the rumours…

…the island of Canna, that they have seen the fish called Mermaids; that these animals had the upper parts resembling the human figure, and the lower extremities resembling a fish….

…learn about the man-bat, what passed for ‘human interest’ in this farrago. But whilst gazing upon [certain crags] in a perspective of about half a mile, we were thrilled with…

…of the non-human ‘cyclopia’ that occurs in the wild (alongside the human cases you mentioned) and how some areas may even produce whole batches of one-eyed creatures, and is also…

…claims that humanity evolved from the primates on an obscure timetable that saw the ‘aquatic monkey’ pushed out of Sub-Saharan Africa from where it colonised the world. C. 8000 BC…

…Theory’ – the idea that fairies were no more than a distorted memory of a now extinct small race of humanoid or human. Now there had been mutterings about a…

…were hung up around the digging monks – helpful if you want to carry out dishonest acts! But what were the bones? The hair suggests human remains, if hair is…

…better – related to humans! ‘It’s a very radical theory on human evolution, but we have approached an age-old myth and really chased its origins,’ Animal Planet honcho Charlie Foley…

…upon its belly, with its head towards the sea; that the upper half of it was white, and of the shape of a human body; and the other half, towards…

…with human ideas. His love for us, his human friends, was a thing of his own, as also was his sense of right and wrong. Ching could have understood why…

…through the generations, watching the changing nuances of human idiocy, the misleading crab walk of technology and the intolerable brightness of every new young generation who believe that they know…

…of the fish and human feet likewise had grown from the fish’s tail. It also had a human voice. A picture of it is still preserved today. He [i.e. Berossus]…

…beans that will render the eater briefly invisible. Ingredients: some black beans, a decapitated human head, a young child. Method Aubrey’s Spell (Aubrey 1881, 102-3) (i) Bury human head with…

…for a second in Bye Bye but he has no doubt that the human brain is capable of conjuring up the most extraordinary phantoms for our delectation and he suspects…