Month: June 2015

Do Werewolves exist in America? Is the Wolfman just a myth? They may not exist. But people keep seeing ‘em anyway. We want it to be true. We WANT to believe. Even the hardline skeptic WANTS to believe; he simply can’t make himself believe in anything without physical, quantifiable evidence; there’s nothing wrong with that,…

A Florida woman has been charged with engaging in sexual activity with her pit bull, according to cops who found photos of the canine encounters stored on the suspect’s cell phone. I have a theory. Probably isn’t original to me; somebody out there has likely already given it a proper name and written a dissertation…

We all know St. Patrick loves a good drink, and that St. George killed a dragon. Or something. But these two only scratch the surface of the saintly back-catalogue: there are saints for almost every concept you can think of. There’s a patron saint for just about everything. Think up some obscure cause or problem…

Joss Whedon shares his thoughts on what it would take to bring a Hulk solo movie back to the big screen. Joss Whedon, the Maestro of all things Geek, recently said something that I’ve been saying for some time. Not the part about a PLANET HULK movie not working. I think it’s a great idea.…

These lycanthropic women attacked men, boys and cattle, adopting lupine form and slaughtering their victims until 85 of them were apprehended and burnt at the stake in Ostmilich on May 6th, 1591. It has been said that the European “witch craze” constituted nothing less than a war against women by the church. I’ve read lurid…

The largest canine that ever lived, the Dire Wolf was the scourge of Pleistocene North America. Here are 10 facts you may or may not have known about this fierce predator. With JURASSIC WORLD stomping on all its competition at the box office, it has rekindled the old (at least it seems old now) debate…

The cannibalistic practice helped the Fore tribe develop genetic resistance to a mad cow-like disease. It is commonly accepted as fact among biologists that the eating of meat led to our human ancestors developing bigger brains. Protein builds a body, and in this instance it built brains in particular, as brains—smarts—were, more and more, what…

Are evil people born or made? Is it Nature or Nurture? Is human personality determined by genetics or experiences? This is a question scientists have been asking for some time now; since the discovery of DNA, certainly, though in truth long before it. Our ancestors witnessed the behavior of an offspring mirror the behavior of…

Tennessee-based breeders used a domestic shorthair cat with a naturally-occurring genetic mutation to create the Lykoi (pictured) which has a ‘strong prey drive’. C’mon, now. You can’t really call it a wereWOLF if it is in fact a wereCAT. Even though they say it behaves more like a canine than a typical cat. This isn’t…

Other suggestions posted to my FB pages included bear, monkey, sloth, mole, turtle, and (albeit decidedly tongue-in-cheek!) chupacabra and werewolf! Karl Shuker is a rare beast, a scientist willing to not dismiss out of hand any claims of the fantastical, an occasional “believer” (Actually he’s just open to the possibilities, but the “establishment does like…