Scooby Doo Crime 4#: The Skeleton Robber October 17, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
This is a story about the countryside around Portsmouth in the UK in 1825. It belongs to our Scooby Doo series of crimes: i.e. local hoodlums using the supernatural while carrying out illegal activities. A curious attempt at robbery took place a short time since, near this town. A Gentleman, returning home after spending the […]
Scooby Doo Crime 3#: the Good Ladies Rob a Peasant September 17, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
Imagine a single story that manages to combine three favourite Beachombian tags: crime, fairies, and practical jokes. Enjoy. And similarly, as people in a certain parish in the diocese of Besançon [north-east France] believed in parallel things, some jokers dressed up as women and, appearing in this way, they entered the house of a rich peasant […]
Scooby Doo Crime 2#: Shag and the Bleachworks July 5, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
This is a weird little story from a nineteenth-century Lancashire history. You remember the Scooby Doo formula: kids turn up, find that their local fun park is haunted by a ghost, who keeps tripping on the white sheet, and then, finally, they unmask the janitor? Well, this is a Bury equivalent. The story dates to […]
Scooby Doo Crime 1#: Headless Coachmen and Crime August 7, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval, Modern
In the Middle Ages they had the wild hunt, the insanely nasty cavalry that rode across the sky. Then, come the early modern period, when everyone had ‘grown up a bit’ and men with shag and swords were so, well, ‘medieval’, that they moved on. They started seeing, instead, headless horsemen out on the toll […]
