Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

A history blog with a taste for the strange. Several old cases in this archive survive today largely because Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog went looking for them. In January 2015 it retold the Golden Lane ghost riot of 1880, placing it in a run of British ghost riots reported between 1867 and 1921. That same year it transcribed the report of the De Beauvoir Town crowd at St Peter's in 1898. It also read the Greene County wild man of 1851 as a bridge between the traditional hermit or outcast and modern cryptozoology.

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The Greene County Wild Man, Arkansas (1851)

March 1851 · Greene County, Arkansas

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 19 sources

19Thinly documented

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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

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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

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The St Peter's, De Beauvoir Town Ghost Crowd

September 15, 1898 · St Peter's Church (St Peter de Beauvoir), De Beauvoir Road, De Beauvoir Town, Kingsland, Hackney, London

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Other · 9 sources

14Thinly documented

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The Somercotes Ghost Scare

July 1930 · Coupland Place, Somercotes, near Alfreton, Derbyshire

United Kingdom

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 12 sources

17Thinly documented