Sceptical Commentary on Pseudohistory and the Paranormal
Having said that I d prioritise posting on r/badhistory, I really haven t had time to do much there either, and what I d like to say about the movie Last Voyage of the Demeter wouldn t fit there anyway, as it s a fictional spin-off of a piece of fiction. However, given that the ship Demeter from the novel Continue reading Last Voyage of the Demeter
I ve taken to posting BSH-style articles on Reddit s r/badhistory because, frankly, it s quicker, it gets a LOT more views than this blog (I m down to maybe a dozen of you per post), and people looking for commentary on historical nonsense are more likely to find it there than relying upon Google s increasingly terrible indexing to Continue reading r/badhistory
This is really cool. I never thought we d get an answer to this one. My friend Rich Fisher at the Vickers Machine Gun Collection Research Society posted a video on the old chestnut that the whole nine yards refers to the length of machine gun belts. As he shows for the Vickers and I ve Continue reading An Answer for The Whole Nine Yards
Ever since I covered the interpretation of the Kelvedon Hatch nuclear bunker I’ve been meaning to go back and watch the predictably terrible ‘Most Haunted’ episode filmed there (Series 13 Episode 6 from 2009). If you’re as much of a masochist as me, you can find a copy on YouTube. Here goes! The introduction as Continue reading Least Haunted Kelvedon Hatch Bunker
Sorry to those of you still reading this page it s been ages I know. Over the Christmas period I ve had some time to come back and revisit a documentary on the werewolf that I was involved with. This was the series ‘Mythical Beasts’, produced by Windfall Films for the Discovery Science channel in 2018 Continue reading Call of the Werewolf
You can’t beat King Arthur for some good BS history (see my previous piece on the supposed bronze origins of the Sword in the Stone here). Unfortunately today’s complaint is aimed at the subscription TV service History Hit, which is nearly always excellent. I’ve worked with them myself (not that this is necessarily evidence of Continue reading King Arthur didn’t exist, and neither did his sword!
In 2019 Ukraine’s Special Operations Command officially adopted a new unit patch featuring the head of a wolf with two arrows in its mouth. This was no ordinary wolf, however it was explicitly identified by the unit as a вовкулаку or werewolf and the patch explained as follows: “According to legend, Cossacks with supernatural Continue reading Werewolves of Kyiv?
The Guardian have released this article about a document that’s supposedly been identified as Geoffrey Chaucer’s own handwriting. For one thing, that remains to be seen the scholar making the claim hasn’t even published his research yet, let alone had it accepted. For another, despite making the highly specific claim that it’s a “note Continue reading Chaucer s Day Off?
I’ve just come across this cool piece of art on Facebook (I like the use of the memento mori as used on period headstones) with the following Revolutionary War quote above it; the shirt-tail men, with their cursed twisted guns, the most fatal widow and orphan makers in the world. London Paper -1775 It’s Continue reading Did the British call American riflemen the most fatal widow and orphan makers…
I’ve been aware of Scientology’s history at Saint Hill Manor near East Grinstead, Sussex, UK for many years. What I hadn’t realised is that several other occult/esoteric/religious organisations are also located in the area as this recent Facebook video and this Telegraph article relate. That is, the so-called Church of Scientology, the Church of Jesus Continue reading East Grinstead Hub of Weird?