Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…Mrs Nicholls, and one day before the discovery of the body of Mrs Chapman. ‘The medium, Mrs C. Spring, was controlled, and appeared in great pain all over her body,…

…of items were excavated there. This was an Indian trading hub on the Atlantic Coast. The discovery of a Viking penny in New England would be remarkable, exciting and worth…

…had been mummified for 20 years at the time of his discovery. He is on exhibit now in “Forest World” in Georgia. Chris from Haunted Ohio Books 29 Jan 2018…

…hell is this, messing around in Canada in the thirteenth or fourteenth century? We must be dealing with a European and the most common European visitors to this part of…

The Ness of Brodgar is one of the most impressive Neolithic sites in Britain and, indeed, in Europe. It includes a series of massive buildings that have been interpreted as…

…of her discoveries (an understandable precaution!) she claimed to have made revolutionary finds. These included an early document about the discovery of a ‘new land’ in the Atlantic, prior to…

Here is one of these sources that Beachcombing just doesn’t know that to do with. It seems to show knowledge of southern Australia/ Antarctica being shared with a European in…

…bring the traveller over the starting point outside the belt and ultimately back to the original position. Put on a cosmic scale, ships sailing westward before the European discovery of…

…us but that do not require us to rewrite our text books. For example, those Roman glass beads in Japan point to lines of communication between Europe and Asia in…

…what self respecting journalist would let that little detail stop him or her from taking a hatchet to the Mother Church?: The discovery, if it is validated, could have major…

…victim, who has since become known as ‘Oldcroghan man’ (Grice 2006: 20). “The circumstances of this discovery were not unique. In 1983, Andy Mould, working on the processing line at…

Margaret Murray (obit 1963) was a brilliantly creative and ill disciplined scholar who not satisfied with the mysteries of the pyramids (she was an Egyptologist) decided to sort out European…

…the 2011 American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Read through the miasma of low-key, lead on sentences and consider what an extraordinary discovery has allegedly been made here by Drs. Cole…

…is one of nine crocodiles designated as ancient monuments in France . With stuffed ‘dragons’ hung in churches all over Europe , it is frustrating to report that I cannot…

…assurances of the existence of another animal among the same mountains, of immense size, and equally unknown certainly to the naturalists of Europe. The fact of its existence rests upon…