by J.M. Plumbley | Apr 7, 2020 | Monster Meet
Hey everybody. I hope that you all are doing well out there and are practicing social distancing, washing your hands, and covering your face when you go out so as to not inadvertently kill anyone. I’m writing this in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, at the...
by J.M. Plumbley | Mar 9, 2020 | Monster Meet
The internet, as we well know, is whack. It offers an unimaginable amount of information, and also an unimaginable amount of B.S. I’m going to be straight with you from the start: the Rake is total B.S. We know where the legend came from. We’re able to track its...
by J.M. Plumbley | Feb 9, 2020 | Monster Meet
It was October 1966, around 9:45 p.m. Two boys–Martin Munov and James Yanchitis–were walking home along a chain link fence below the elevated New Jersey Turnpike. On the other side of the fence lay some shrub brush and a steep, nigh insurmountable slope up...
by J.M. Plumbley | Dec 12, 2019 | Monster Meet
In the spirit of the holidays, let’s talk about a monster that can leave you looking like Jack Torrance at the end of The Shining! Yuki Onna (which translates to “Snow Woman”) is a Japanese yokai that borders on the edge of being...
by J.M. Plumbley | Nov 12, 2019 | Monster Meet
About an hour outside of Prague, alone among thick forest, swamps, and mountains, there sits a 13th-century castle atop a sheer limestone cliff. The castle Houska (Hoe-skuh) has no outward-facing fortifications, and is guarded only by a lone statue of the saint...
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