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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 nine posts per year
  • First post on

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Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Feb 2022 1
Mar 2022 1
Apr 2022 1
May 2022 3
Jun 2022 3
Jul 2022 2
Aug 2022 2
Sep 2022 1
Oct 2022 1
Nov 2022 1
Dec 2022 1
Jan 2023 2
Feb 2023 1
Mar 2023 0
Apr 2023 1
May 2023 1
Jun 2023 1
Jul 2023 1
Aug 2023 1
Sep 2023 1
Oct 2023 1
Nov 2023 1
Dec 2023 1
Jan 2024 0
Feb 2024 1
Mar 2024 0
Apr 2024 0
May 2024 1
Jun 2024 1
Jul 2024 1

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