Beachcombing

A pen name, and a patient one. Beachcombing writes Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog at strangehistory.net, digging old ghost scares out of the papers. In January 2015 the blog retold the Golden Lane Ghost Riot of 1880, setting it among British ghost riots from 1867 to 1921. A 2015 series on the Jewel House apparition questioned its dating and traced later embellishments as unsourced. In 2016 a seven-part series on the Souther Fell spectral army weighed Fata Morgana as perhaps the only credible theory. In 2017 came the Dundee Ghost Scare, its 1883 reports transcribed.

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The Souther Fell spectral army

c. 1745 · Souther Fell, near Mungrisdale, Cumbria (historically Cumberland), England

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources

25Thinly documented

Blogger whose 2016 seven-part series reconstructed the sources

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The Canna Mermaid Testimonies

c. 1803 · Canna and the sea between Canna and Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

United Kingdom

Cryptid · Creature · 12 sources

17Thinly documented

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The Jewel House apparition: the glass-tube ghost of Martin Tower, Tower of London

October 1817 · Keeper's lodging, Jewel House, Martin Tower, Tower of London, London

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 23 sources

17Thinly documented

Historian blogger at strangehistory.net; 2015 series questioning the dating and tracing later embellishments

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The Coker Hill Knocking Ghost

June 1880 · Coker Hill, between East Chinnock and West Coker, near Yeovil, Somerset, England

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Other · 15 sources

18Thinly documented

Author of the 2018 four-part reconstruction on Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

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The Golden Lane Ghost Riot

September 1880 · Black'n Boy Court, between Golden Lane and Whitecross Street, St Luke's, London

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 11 sources

22Thinly documented

Author of Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog, which retold the case in 2015

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The Dundee Ghost Scare: Blackness Quarry's "Big Black Man" and "Springheels" (1882-83)

c. 1883 · Blackness Quarry, the Hilltown and north-east Dundee, Scotland

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 14 sources

17Thinly documented

Author of Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog (strangehistory.net), who transcribed the 1883 reports in 2017

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The shadowy woman of 27 Lamb's Conduit Street: a London ghost crowd of 1921

c. 1921 · 27 Lamb's Conduit Street, Holborn, London

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 15 sources

14Thinly documented

Writer of strangehistory.net who resurfaced the 1921 report in 2015