Month: July 2018

Probably it’s inevitable. Probably it’s even a GOOD thing. But it sure makes people nervous, myself included. We’re talking about meat created in a laboratory. Yes, it’s possible. In fact it’s happening already. Everybody’s afraid of eating meat that came from an animal treated during its life with hormones, but here we’re talking about meat…

Something that struck me recently is the similarity between the Skinwalker of Native American lore and the Djinn of Arabic legend. They are both known for being shapeshifters, and both tend to be nefarious entities in league with the powers of darkness. The Djinn—from which we get our word “genie”—were beings created by Allah out…

This is something I’ve encountered repeatedly online. There is a real hostility towards the notion that Bigfoot is a supernatural being, rather than just some animal. There are groups on Facebook devoted to all things Bigfoot, but if you were to join in a discussion and suggest that Bigfoot is anything other than some undiscovered…

Larry Talbot is, as you will all be aware, the alter-ego of the Wolfman. The Bruce Wayne to the werewolf’s Batman. Last week I went off in search of the gravesite of the “Werewolf of Georgia”—and found it!—which is located in Talbot County, Georgia. This got me to thinking: could Curt Siodmak, who wrote the…

[Note: When chapters are really long, I will be breaking them up into smaller sections.] The Kidde home, located just within the city limits of Ironwood, off Randolph Street, would be difficult to find for anyone unsure of the local geography. A brick wall surrounded the large yard, with a wrought iron gate that opened…

Our hulking, hirsute cousins are in the news a lot this week. First I reported on the growing of Neanderthal mini-brains in petri dishes, with the end goal being to wire them into little robots that they will then start to control, and now there’s this. Neanderthals killed their prey with spears. We knew that…

I initially thought this was an article from THE ONION. But no, it appears to be for realz. Scientists are growing mini-Neanderthal brains, called “Neanderoids,” in petri dishes, with the next step being to hardwire them to miniature, crab-like robots. Go ahead and read that last sentence again. See why I thought it was a…

I was kept away from my local comic shop for some few months—with “local” being a relative term—due to my not having the time to visit nor having the disposable income to procure my reading material of choice. (I’ve been too busy buying toys, since Toys R Us announced that it was going out of…

She knew sign language. She had a vocabulary of over 2000 words and could even use them creatively. She displayed a sense of humor. She had pets, with a special fondness for kittens. She was friends with Mr. Rogers and Robin Williams. When she was informed of the latter’s death, she mourned for him. Let’s…

It looks like something out of one of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan novels, but it’s real. The city of Gedi is in ruins today and is being slowly swallowed by the surrounding Kenyan jungle. Gedi was a thriving trade point originally settled in the 11th Century AD and had a population of up to 2500…