The misguided statements on the likes of Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) were some of the bloopers submitted by university lecturers to the Times Higher Education magazine.

Is this a black panther or an overgrown domestic cat stalking across this field in Louisiana? The general consensus is that it’s just a cat with the perspective thrown off by zooming in, but it is extremely difficult to tell because, as Jay Cooney shows us, the body structure and posture is identical to a […]

Odd eviction letter sent to Melbourne grandmother. View Fullscreen. A Melbourne grandmother has received a bizarre eviction letter from her real estate agent asking if she was in jail or if aliens had abducted her after she was three days behind with rent.

Now here’s a strange one. Show pony Tyrone has had his dreams of competing cut short because someone pulled a nasty prank and cut his mane above show-approved levels. It’s not clear how witches became involved in this story because we’re pretty sure it’s 2013 over in England and not 1613. Sure, it would have […]

Surprise! Dr. Beachcombing has worked in his favorite field, fairies, into his ongoing Magonian treatise. Part eight kicks off with an entreaty for all of mankind to wed elemental fae, followed by a tale of abduction to make peace with the populace, and a lesson that no good deed goes unpunished. The Myth Continues but […]

Emphasizing the Magonia legend is folklore, not fakelore, Dr. Beachcombing begins with a clever little ditty about Agobard’s aliens before jumping headfirst into the works of Charles Leland. He’s got tales of tempting tempestarii, cloud vessels, and other bits supporting ancient accounts of Magonia. Beach doesn’t stop there, relating a tale of a cattle-killing poisonous […]

Everybody knows the name “Magonia” but what does it mean? Is it a bowlderized bastardization of a real place? Noted etymologist and historian, Dr. Beachcombing, mulls over the unusual suspects and if one gives a clue to Magonia’s historicity. Further up the timeline, one Jason McClellan of the clan McClellan, shares an account of an […]

If you missed it, here’s your chance to catch up. For the past month, Dr. Beachcombing has been one-upping Jacques Vallee with weirder concepts than mere medieval aliens. Beach decides to take the folklore literally presenting a curious cosmology for our planet, giving a twist to the flat earth theory. By all means, catch up […]

Beach digs up a brownie story–brownies are solitary fairies–from Wales in 1909 in which little men with big eyes and long ears had been seen playing among the tombstones. He is struck by the parallels with a famous Leprechaun case from Liverpool, 1964. And speaking of “little people,” Mark OC provides links to some tiny […]

This is a very strange and unusual UFO sighting over Richmond Virginia. An extremely large fast moving oval object can be seen a startling .