Neanderthal Cannibals

The skull of La Ferrassie Neanderthal, from France

Man, we keep trying to help the hapless Neanderthals with their image problem. We post articles on how scientists have made discoveries proving they were smarter and more cultured than previously believed, how they likely entertained spiritual beliefs and possibly practiced religion, how our own Homo sapiens forebears had sex with and reproduced with—and quite…

Finding Bigfoot

Ah, lists. How I enjoy a love/hate relationship with them. They give me things to report on, but in order to do so I have to navigate through their various pages plagued by pop-ups and tedious slow load times. This one, however, has all the topics on one page, and I didn’t have to fight…

Capwolf Action Figure

Remember when Captain America got turned into a werewolf? If you’re a comic book fan, you’re probably asking, “Which time?” Or you might even be asking, “Which Captain America?” (Both Steve Rogers and the-Falcon-dressed-up-as-Captain-America have both spent some time in lupine form.) There’s a new action figure available from the Marvel Legends line that pays…

Stay out’n them woods!

This article from the fine folks over at iHorror talks up three movies that will, according to them, make you think twice before going camping. My first thought was, only three? And not one of them a werewolf movie? Puh-leeze! Okay, I’ll go along with THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, sure. The other two suggestions offered…

Jughead’s a Werewolf?!

I never really read the Archie comics. If I were more of a fan, it might upset me more than it has, the way they’re screwing with the characters and the mythos. There’s that new television show, where they’re trying to turn it into BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. (Haven’t watched it.) Then there’s that comic…

King Terror

That’s what I’m choosing to christen the new giant bear fossil discovered in the Arctic. I’m taking it from the novel THE TERROR, by author Dan Simmons. Cleverly, the TERROR is the name of a ship, a real-life ship that carried a real-life expeditionary crew into the Arctic in the mid 1800s, a ship and…

Cursing Trump Conjures Demons?

This one had me giggling, thinking of Dana Carvey’s “Church Lady” character from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE back in the day. Yeah, I do love me some decade-specific pop culture references. “Could it be…Saaaaaa-tan?” Heh heh heh. Come on, tell me it doesn’t make you at least crack a smile. If not, it will, I bet,…

Pucker up!

We know for a fact that humans and Neanderthals—or more accurately Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, since BOTH are “human”—got their freak on. We have some Neanderthal DNA inside of us. Only one way it coulda got in there, folks. This caveman DNA has even been blamed for certain modern maladies from which some of us…

Man Eats Brain

How did I miss this? I didn’t, you could argue, in that I did stumble across the article, and am now reporting on it. But there was some lag time. I shoulda heard about it as it happened! There needs to be some kind of text update system in place for connoisseurs of the strange,…