The Wolfman in US

I wasn’t sure at first whether the mask worn by the little boy in Jordan Peele’s US was meant to represent the Wolfman or Chewbacca. A little careful scrutiny confirmed for me that it was indeed a representation of the classic Universal Monster. We know that Jordan Peele is a Horror fan. As he has…

North Carolina Woman Killed By Mystery Canine

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - APRIL 12: Remnants of crime scene tape lay on the ground near the spot where 16-year-old Pierre Loury was shot yesterday by a Chicago police officer on April 12, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Police have said Loury took off running when the vehicle he was in was pulled over by police because it matched the description of a vehicle used in an earlier drive-by shooting. The chase, according to police, ended with an "armed confrontation". (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Initial reports in this case made it sound more exotic than it probably is. A 77-year-old woman named Brenda Hamilton was killed in her backyard in Pantego, North Carolina, in Beaufort County by an animal or animals. At first they only issued a statement saying that the DNA taken from the scene didn’t match that…

Science and the Werewolf

If you know any policemen (or women) or hospital workers, chances are they’ll tell you that things get crazy on nights of the full moon. Yet statistics don’t bear this out. Is it strictly a psychological thing? A sort of anti-placebo? There is no scientific reason why the full moon would affect human beings or…

ABC Attack—Not

This. This right here is why we can’t have nice things. When a credible sighting of an ABC (an Alien Big Cat, or a big cat in some place where a big cat ought not to be) occurs, the mainstream is always skeptical. Scientists dismiss it out of hand. And it’s because of assclowns like…

New STRANGER THINGS Trailer

A picture is worth a thousand words, and the same is true of trailers. Watch the latest for the forthcoming season of STRANGER THINGS, then, and you will know as much as I do, or as much as anyone does who isn’t directly involved in the production of the series. (Or isn’t clairvoyant.) That doesn’t…