We stay in chilly British waters for today’s crypto-round-up, beginning off the coast of County Clare in Ireland, where the sighting of a fishy female with “well-shaped hands” occurred just before the death of Edward VII. Further north, Glasgow Boy heats things up a little with A Review of “The Loch Ness Mystery Reloaded” (Part […]
Some find hunting to be a fun sport, while others find it reprehensible, but in England in 1127 it was just plain scary, according to these accounts reproduced by Dr. Beach. Was it demonic disapproval of the newly-intalled Abbbot, or disgruntled locals who staged a hoax to get rid of him? Of course, felines are […]
Any Francophiles out there might want to help Dr. Beach find the French version of this fishy tale of a bearded mermaid in the waters off Brittany. And on the shores of chillier waters, Glasgow Boy wonders if the pleasures would outweigh the perils of Retirement at Loch Ness? The comments following his musings seem […]
Dr. Beach casts his net back to an unknown date when one Captain Stedman mused over the identity of what may have been a manati (manatee) seen in tropical waters. And in regard to much chillier waters, Glasgow Boy gives us A Review of “The Loch Ness Mystery Reloaded”, by Roger Binns. GB is less […]
The Fairy Census consists of 500 reports of fairy sightings from around the world, received between 2014 and 2017. It’s available as a free pdf on the Fairist website. The census can be viewed as a kind of follow-up to Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society, Authentic Reports of Fairies […]
What exactly is a fairy tree? Dr. Beachcombing has an idea, based on several accounts buried in history, but he has yet to see one. One thing to consider is the tradition may have persisted into the 20th century as Bing Crosby sung I’ll Be Home For Christmas, wistfully remembering “presents on the tree”. Of […]
The good doctor takes us on a fun trek through some ghostly photographic hoaxes and dares us to determine which among them is the real spook. Anyone with “other ghost fake photographs of quality” should know that Beach would welcome an email from you: drbeachcombing At yahoo DOT com. Next up in the ectoplasmic realm […]
On the anniversary of the Cottingly Fairies photographs, the good Doctor Beach shares with us a well worn but still clever method to keep the media guessing and the newspapers selling. Then, he both regales and repulses with a tale of Eating Mermaids. Dating back to 1827 this story makes one wonder just how bad […]
Christmas is right ’round the corner, and anyone who’s watched It’s A Wonderful Life knows every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings. Not too long ago, Dr. Beachcombing proposed a theory regarding the origin of fairy wings, and now he’s keen to root out the origin of devil wings. With a little […]
Lots of watery wonders to get through today. Dr. Beach shows us an image from a Welsh manuscript created around 1350 which seems to depict a mermaid with a “selfie-stick.” Surely not, but the Doc would like to know what you think. Glasgow Boy is no less curious about Land Sightings: The Basis of the […]