2015 British Film. A stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger are held hostage by two outlaws on the run from the law but events take an unexpected turn when the travellers are stalked by a mythical beast that only appears on the night of a blood red moon. No, I am NOT talking…
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A Book about Boogers and Beasts
I received this book in the mail to read and review. STRANGE WEST VIRGINIA MONSTERS, written by Michael Newton and published by Schiffer Publishing of Pennsylvania. It was a quick read, which is either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your personal preference. While Newton covers all the bases, even managing to…
Bears in revolt?!
Black bears overrun a town in Russia, polar bears terrorize an Arctic weather station and grizzly attacks are up in the U.S. Is this a bear uprising? Bears and wolves evolved from the same stock species. Take a close look at a bear and you can see the family resemblance. They are essentially giant canines,…
The Were-Pig!
ANN O’REGAN tells how a prison in 18th Century Dublin was terrorised by a murderous demonic pig Different cultures have their own version of the dreaded lycanthrope. In the US, our culture is largely of European derivation, and as such we inherited the supernatural beast of the “Old Country,” where wolves were the most widespread…
Maneaters in the Trenches
Born of the horrors of trench warfare, a ghoulish tale of scavengers and scofflaws took hold 100 years ago I’ve written before on the Hellhounds of World War One. These fiery-eyed brutes, large and more fearsome than any common dog roamed the “No Man’s Land,” the areas between those trenches dug out and occupied by…
The Wild Man of Ontario
In January of 1914, there was a “wild man” on the loose near Kenosha, Ontario. There are three possibilities where reports of “wild man” sightings are concerned. One, the sighting is a hoax, or the report is, or the former is a case of mistaken identity and the latter is simply spreading the disinformation. The…
Michigan men lay claim to TEEN WOLF
The pair, both from Genesee County, are makeup special effects artists on the MTV “Teen Wolf” series, now spending their days turning young actors into savage-yet-sexy wolf people. In Genesee County, Michigan, they love their “local boys done good.” Erik Porn (poor guy, stuck with that last name; he got teased a lot in middle…
Does Bigfoot eat people?
In 1965, a journalist named George Draper – who worked for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper – interviewed one O.R. Edwards about a startling and highly disturbing Bigfoot sighting that Edwards had back in 1942. This one goes in tandem with my previous post. Sometimes people who claim to have encounters with the creature or…
Howlin’ Mad
A recent recording of a howl in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Cleveland could have been made by a Bigfoot or the legendary Ohio Grassman. Science demands physical evidence. For anything, and certainly for claims of a more fantastical nature. Bodies, bones. Photographs won’t do it. Neither will video or audio recordings. But are…
Where’d the Werewolf Come From?
Name a culture somewhere on Planet Earth and more than likely the werewolf stalks its folklore, from African and Asian tribes all the way up to the classic (and confusing) Altered Beast of Sega Genesis. This is a good article to read for the layman who doesn’t know that much about werewolves outside of what…