Acid-wash genes

Maybe the reason you like horror movies, and you can laugh off the fright and gore, is that you have a specific gene activated. Or more accurately, deactivated. Turns out humans had a gene to scare more easily. Between fight and flight, flight made more sense for survival.
In other words your DNA has not advanced if you don’t like horror. Makes sense to me.
Read the interesting article.

Grim Reaper identity theft

The Grim Reaper doesn’t like it when you try to impersonate him, so you better believe he’ll get his revenge on you if you go around cutting your lawn with a sickle. I guess since he wasn’t donning a cloak, old Grimmy let the man live.
Clicky.

Handsomest Vampire

My poll results for the handsomest vampire are in. Note that Brad Pitt was left out of the poll. That was intentional. I didn’t want a slaughter.
Here are the results:

25% • Christopher Lee
25% • Kiefer Sutherland
14% • James Marsters
10% • Bela Lugosi
10% • David Boreanaz
7% • Wesley Snipes
7% • Max Schreck
0% • George Hamilton
0% • John Carradine

2% error.

Actually, I think it’s 100% error because I believe Max Schreck is the most handsome vampire ever. I can live with Christopher Lee as the winner, though, so I take back what I said about 100% error.

Rabies, rabies, stick your head in gravy!

According to this article, 38 people in Venezuela have died from being bitten by vampire bats. They think the bats may have had rabies, but I think the “victims” are faking it. Everyone is hating on the vampires these days.

Ghostly graduate

Here's a link to a video report showing what is supposed to be a ghost. The report is a little flaky, but the video is interesting. They think it’s the ghost of a former high school student who has come back to haunt a teacher. That, or it's the shadow of the bat. I don’t think it’s actually a ghost or a bat. I think it’s a shadow person from a different dimension who’s just messing around.

Ants in a scanner

The Building of an Ant Colony A massive colony of ants builds their lair inside guy`s printer/scanner.

Eeeeeyyyeeewwww! Avert your eyes if you don’t like bugs. Here’s a video showing a creepy-crawly find in the scanner part of one of those all-in-one printer thingies.

Grim Undertakings

Seems like everyone’s jumping on the “ghost hunting” band-wagon these days. The good news is anyone jumping on is not really likely to be doing it for the monetary value of it as much as the thrill that is present for people who are interested in ghostly happenings.
Truly, ghostly happenings are mostly boring. They throw the worst parties, and they’re not very gracious guests. I can’t remember the last time one offered to pay for dinner.

Anyway, I have to give some kudos to The Chronicle Herald since it seems as if I find a lot of good information in their features and articles. This one about Grim Undertakings based in Nova Scotia was particularly entertaining and informative.

And if you find their studies interesting, I’ve done the Googling for you. Here’s their official site:
Grim Undertakings.

Montauk monster follow-up

I’m getting mixed messages about this poor thing. According to this most recent article the original photo set was shot by Jenna Hewitt. So why did my link yesterday give credit for the photo to Alanna Nevitski? Well that's neither here nor there. Credit schmedit.

What I’m really bringing this back for is this:

1 • Apparently the remains are still in the hands of someone less secret than the Men in Black.
2 • I never even made the Plum Island connection! There have been rumors for decades that there’s more to Plum Island than meets the eye.

Montauk Monster

Photo by Alanna Nevitski

Holy crow! I have no idea who this fella was. He must go to different monster meetings, Apparently he or she washed ashore on a Montauk beach, and this is the only photo (that I know of). Some creepy old taxidermist supposedly took it away, but you and I know it was the Men in Black or the FBI.
Read more about the Montauk Monster.

It’s sad to think how it died. Please comment if you know anything more about this...

It ain’t cool news

Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that MTV is doing a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Are there really no writers out there with bright imaginations for new ideas, or are producers so lazy that they will only invest in existing franchises?
Before you know it The Rocky Horror Picture Show (redeux) will inspire a new Broadway Musical. Now that would be original. Not.