Month: May 2021

When the creature opened his eyes, Maribelle almost gasped. This time she stopped herself. “Judi!” Judith Mocker knelt down beside her. The creature lay on its back on the flattened grass in the shade of the little copse of trees. It raised its head. “No, no!” Judith said. “Stay still! They’re looking for us!” The…

As the old Milli Vanilli song goes, blame it on the rain. As part of my recent trip to Louisiana in search of the Rougarou, I intended to visit the one place I would for sure be able to see one. No, not the haunted Manchac Swamp. I did visit there, and there have been…

If you want to see the swamp, it’s easy. Just drive down, or up, Interstate 55 between Ponchatoula, Louisiana and Laplace, where a 22 mile stretch of bridge (the third longest in the world) traverses the swamp. If you want to see it more up-close and personal, you either have to take a swamp tour…

Since none of the locations were described exactly, and thus none of them are marked, we can only indicate the basic area where each sighting allegedly took place. 1. Hemp’s Creek. The creek is actually just on the other side of that ridge, but as the area was marked as private property, and it was…

I relied on the work of Dr. Terry Jones, professor emeritus of history at the University of Louisiana in Monroe, for this article, letting him do the heavy lifting of research. Read his summation of the legend and the alleged sightings, of the “Wild Girl” of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana here before progressing. Now, then. Let’s…

After the series of dog killings near the town of Bladenboro, North Carolina back in the 1950s set off a sort of panic, resulting in a whole buncha armed rednecks traipsing through the woods packing heat, and the police chief, Roy Fores, planning to stake out some dogs as bait for the Beast (which earned…

Per Wikipedia: “The Beast of Bladenboro refers to a creature responsible for a string of deaths amongst Bladenboro, North Carolina animals in the winter of 1953–54. According to witnesses and trackers, it was likely a wildcat, but its identity was ultimately not definitively confirmed. According to reports, the animal commonly crushed or decapitated its victims,…

In a lot of ways it seems contrary to logic. Yet it’s now a proven fact. Warner Brothers choosing to release all their 2021 movies to livestreaming via their platform, HBO Max, on the same day they release them to theaters, may have given a nice boost to the streaming service, but it hasn’t taken…

Are they for real? “Why did the Tasmanian tiger go extinct?” asks the headline of this linked article. And again I must ask, are they serious? We know exactly why. It’s a simple, one-word answer. Why did the Tasmanian tiger go extinct? Us. That’s why. Who killed the thylacine? We did. Human beings. When I…

Here’s today’s horseshit headline for ya. “Extraordinary’ Italian Neanderthal remains put to rest theory they were cannibals” says the headline, which technically is accurate yet is phrased in a way that is misleading. Was this deliberate or just a result of negligence? Laziness? Probably more the latter two, I would think. See, the headline suggests…