Month: July 2018

This made me think of the old GARFIELD AND FRIENDS Saturday morning cartoon series, one of my favorites from back in the day. There were numerous running jokes on the show, sly enough for the adults to appreciate as well as the kids. The Klopman Diamond. The riffs on professional wrestling. And the use of…

TEN DAYS AGO: WAXING CRESCENT MOON Hank Frye stood at the head of the classroom, leaning on the instructor’s podium, looking out over the rows of desks, the faces of the students who occupied them, men and women of varying ages and appearances. The majority of them were there because the University required it, of…

Any of you remember that TV show IN SEARCH OF…? It ran from the late 70s to early 80s and was hosted by Leonard Nimoy, chronicling all manner of unexplained phenomena. The show was a spinoff of the special IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS and its sequels, and inspired a series of books of the…

First things first. If you’re ever in the area and are thinking about seeking out the grave of Emily Isabella Burt for yourself, DON’T. Just don’t. For one thing, the grave is located on private property. I had permission to be there. Also, if you’re thinking you can find the cemetery where Ms. Burt is…

This character may or may not get his own comic book. I hope he does. Out of all the character mash-ups that have been released as of late as part of the Marvel Comics “Who Gets Warped?” line, Ghost Panther is my favorite and by far the most interesting to me. (The others thus far…

I mention this episode over on our sister site vampires.com this week, too, for reasons that you will have to visit said site to learn. Here we will focus on the program itself, and why it is important from a scientific point of view. Science has advanced to the point that DNA can be recovered…

I must give credit to my online pal Margot Juby for this one. Margot is a fellow Gilles de Rais scholar—she has a book coming out wherein she argues, quite persuadably, that Gilles de Rais was innocent, that he was the victim of a medieval frame-up. (This is an idea I explored in my original…

One of the shows I recorded (and only recently got around to watching) from this year’s MONSTER WEEK on Animal Planet was an episode of “Extinct or Alive”. On the show, scientist-slash-host Forrest Galante leads a film crew around searching for living animals officially declared extinct, and in this particular episode he was down in…

We receive such questions so frequently here and at out sister site vampires.com that I’m going to create this post and then simply cut-and-paste it in the future. People are always writing in, asking whether or not werewolves are real. They may be seeking a simple yes or no answer, but unfortunately neither of those…

So we know that the tradition goes back at least a couple’a-three centuries. Folklore from Germany and England in the1800s tells of werewolves felled by silver. A story from the Brothers Grimm involves a witch being killed by a silver bullet. But what’s the origin of this belief, that silver is a “holy” metal, useful…