Month: July 2021

I now have two degrees of separation to Skinwalker Ranch. Or two one-degrees of separation, I should say. I don’t actually *know* Dr. Travis Taylor, but we’re from the same basic geographic area, grew up just a few miles from each other, and have several friends in common. Now I have an even more direct…

In the interest of journalistic accuracy, I must admit that I am uncertain as to the provenance of this image featured above. With that being the case, I can’t guarantee that it is 100% accurate. It does look accurate, and certainly it is, if not exact, a reasonably close approximation of the actual sizes involved.…

John Steinbeck’s heirs don’t want us to ever read his original werewolf novel. Why? Are they afraid it will sully his posthumous reputation as a literary legend if his name becomes associated with a lowly werewolf story? Steinbeck wrote MURDER AT FULL MOON way back in 1930. So what’s it about? It is a mystery…

A new species, heretofore unknown, of the human family has been discovered in China. Dubbed “Dragon Man”, this prehistoric human may be the most closely related to us yet—with “us” being modern humans, Homo sapiens. The remains—a skull—have been described as “massive”. Dragon Man, or Homo longi, is more closely related to us than to…

We now know that Rob Zombie, for better or for worse (and there’s no telling at this point which of the two it will end up being) is going to be directing a new version of THE MUNSTERS. We do know that Zombie is a fan of the show. His song “Dragula”, which is so…

On a driving trip through the wilds of Alabama the other day, I chanced upon an oasis. In the midst of a land of cow pastures, pickup trucks, and rednecks by the score, it sat there on the side of the road as a hidden gem, nondescript, camouflaged. No one would ever suspect, looking at…