Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…From the late sixteen hundreds there is scientific writing about the possibility of human flight. 1783 the first balloon goes up and from there on there is understandable interest among…

…by a paranormal clause but we come closer to an apparently human experience. Any other thoughts on poltergeists: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com 29 Feb 2016: Bruce T: I think…

…our dimension would be a ball or sphere. The human characteristics they exhibit are chosen for their similarity to their function if they were human. Demons function differently depending on…

…of human sexuality: something that many university professors would take 30 years and as many books to do. Fundamentally, human beings have three possible reactions to sex acts: (i) intense…

…according to Julius Caesar, the Druids weren’t very pleasant at all), and our fairies were not supposed to be even partially human, let alone superior to normal humans.’ Thanks Count!!…

…extreme: some say that its skin is partly that of a lion, but intermixed with that of the leopard and hyaena; others, again, assert that its face is human, or…

…of thirteen-year-olds dragged some human bones out of the Coln river in Gloucestershire is hardly a world-stopper. Nor it is suprising that these bones turned out to be, not a…

…about in a more simple and straightforward fashion. Can a big enough group of rats attack and overpower a weak enough human being or are we in the same kind…

…couldn’t possibly weigh more than a human being who wasn’t three days old or the world’s tiniest midget. However, it contained the “weight” of God’s grace, and, this being entirely…

…walked erect, and had perfectly a human form. They were of a sallow white, without any hair, except in those parts in which it is customary for mankind to have…

…; in quo dum infixus uoluatur, portunus exiens cachinnum facit, et sic huiuscemodi ludebrio humanam simplicitatem deridet. Just as nature produces certain marvels in the world of humans, so spirits…

…not to harm them and tell them what kind of creature he was, who, although in the form of a beast, could speak human words. The wolf gave a Catholic…

…king’s retinue and marched by a European visitor. Beach particularly enjoyed the union jacks sandwiched between the muskets and human skulls. Note that this list is greatly curtailed to avoid…

…in the west. So much for the facts. Behind the disaster there is a longstanding conspiracy theory: namely that Churchill sacrificed Coventry to make sure that the Germans did not…

…ghosts to a parley. They demanded, as a condition of future quiet (the sacrifice of) a body and a soul. The spectators (who could not see the ghosts), on being…