Werewolves

John Krasinski’s dream, he has said, would be to have directed JAWS. It was Spielberg’s fish story that inspired him to create A QUIET PLACE and now its sequel, A QUIET PLACE PART TWO. (If you watch with extreme care, you might notice that the pizza place in the new film, the sign for which…

It’s a rarity, as you all know, to have a sequel be as good as the original film that preceded it. Rarer still to have one that exceeds the original. Does A QUIET PLACE PART TWO fall into that category? If the original A QUIET PLACE was THE GODFATHER, is the new one THE GODFATHER…

They moved deeper into the cluster of trees. The Blackmane crawled. Maribelle felt guilty for not trying to help him. She had been afraid to. The most dangerous animal is always a wounded animal, her father had told her on more than one occasion. The creature sat down with his back against a tree. A…

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,…