Month: November 2015

“Rougarou” is a sort of Cajun werewolf. (The word derives from the French Roux-Ga-Roux, which is itself a conflation of the more familiar term “loup garou,” or werewolf.) It is unique among lycanthropes, however, and deviates from the standard myth in many key ways. As with Bigfoot-type creatures that are said to inhabit swamps and…

Other than nasty and doubtless smelly, that is. Discovered by persons unknown near the Parana River in Carmen del Paraná, Itapúa, Paraguay, the decomposing corpse looks a little like an alien. Or a Chupacabra. Or a skinned orangutan. Or a miniature version of the Flukeman from my favorite episode of THE X FILES. Or the…

He’s the biggest and the baddest Bigfoot around. Probably the smelliest, too. They call him Thunderfoot. “They” in this case being the producers of the Destination America TV show ALASKA MONSTERS. (I hear they’re planning on doing a show later this season on the Palin family called “White Trash from Hell.”) I’m not sure if…

So the story goes, workers in meat processing plants would fall to their deaths inside the vats, wherein they were ground up into unrecognizable pink globs and become intermixed with the bologna or hamburger or whatever. No customer ever noticed, as humans taste similar enough to cattle or pigs. This happened so often that it…

You know, almost every day when scanning social media, I am taken aback by something that some friend or other has shared, believing it to be genuine. Most of my friends are not idiots, and so are educated enough and savvy enough that they should recognize fallacy when they see it. I suspect their confirmation…