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Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

The outlandish, the anomalous and the curious from the last five thousand years.

  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly five posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 17
2023 12
2024 4

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Are Mermaids Fairies?
Chris starts our new podcast episode (Mermaid 101) with this question (see title) and I answer ‘yes’. Mermaids (which have featured for over a decade on this site) are social supernatural beings who happen to …
On , by Beachcombing, 59 words
Early Modern Fairy Sex Spell
This month’s podcast is on sex and the supernatural. The most extraordinary text I ran across in preparing for our hour ride is the following spell from an early modern English text, edited by Frederika …
On , by Beachcombing, 61 words
Karl Banse: The Man Who Made the Case for Mermaids
Just a quick post as we move towards the summer. The podcast goes on with me and Chris recently talking about fairy artifacts, the Philip experiment (‘how to invent a ghost’) and this month ‘spectral …
On , by Beachcombing, 66 words