Month: December 2016

Old video game properties never die. They just get refurbished and re-released in new, high-tech versions. I remember playing SONIC THE HEDGEHOG on the original Sega Genesis system. Nowadays we have SKYLANDERS. The success of the latter may have helped get another old Sega chestnut an upgrade. Remember ALTERED BEAST? It had werewolves and all…

I seem to be on a nostalgia kick this week. More than usual, I mean. I didn’t plan it this way, not consciously. Is my subconscious secretly at play? Probably. It usually is. I’ve learned it’s best to just go with it, if that’s the case. So this week my subconscious recalled to memory something…

If you picked up the title for this article being an homage to the Bela Lugosi classic (ALL Bela Lugosi films are classics, in one sense of the word or another!) THE CORPSE VANISHES, give yourself a gold star! This is a story I heard firsthand during my recent visit to the EXPEDITION: BIGFOOT museum…

Police in the little town of Gardner, Kansas—One wonders how small a town it is; do they have at least one Walmart? A Dollar General? If so, they aren’t THAT small—were concerned after some citizens reported seeing a mountain lion, aka a cougar, aka a puma, aka a panther, on the loose. (Note: Please don’t…

I recall a series of commercials from my childhood; they had the slogan “It’s not nice to mess with Mother Nature” or something like that; but I can’t remember what product the commercials were shilling. Anybody know what I’m talking about? Oh! Now I remember! Butter! Or margarine, actually. Chiffon Margarine. (Yeah, I just did…

Show of hands. Who’s seen the movie THE BOY WHO CRIED WEREWOLF? No, not the one done in 2010, which I understand was a Nickelodeon children’s movie. (Or is that redundant?) I’m talking about the one from 1973, which actually was a Horror movie. It’s actually a decent little film. Or at least I remember…

Yes, that’s Gross Pointe, MICHIGAN. And as we all know, Michigan is the home of the Michigan Dogman, a real-life (maybe) werewolf that likely had nothing to do with the legend chronicled in this article. Then again, if the Dogman has been appearing regularly for centuries, it might have helped inspire this legend. Who knows?…

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, they say. Seldom have I found opportunities to do this in my life; typically I just end up throwing the lemons and shouting obscenities at the top of my lungs. This past holiday weekend, though, I found an opportunity to squeeze some tasty juices into the pitcher of…

Here’s a list of “the creepiest things” reported by train conductors. I perused the list, hoping to find something akin to a Dogman sighting, something to put me in mind of the exquisite werewolf flick HOWL, where a group of passengers on a stranded train are besieged by a pack of hairless werewolves. The closest…

Oh, the nostalgia! The longing for those golden halcyon days of my childhood engendered by this article! Oh, how I miss those days, my own personal Wonder Years. Yeah, Millennials, I hear ya grousing, but don’t be too quick to label me a crybaby. I assure you, it won’t be too long before you start…