 Horror/Scary: March 10, 2021 Issue [#10652] |
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Nature Monsters
Understanding the world around us has been a human past-time since the earliest beginnings of thought. Gods, myths, habits, and most of all irrational fears come from the lack of understanding of the scientific reality of the natural world. Along with the creation of fun explanations for the world, like that we all live on a giant turtle or that sunflowers are a woman in love with Apollo, there are plenty of scary monsters that lurk in the water, in the ground, and in the sky.
Bigfoot is a North American favorite. Bigfoot, who is somewhat larger than a human, but not quite a giant is a furry fella who makes his home in the forested Pacific Northwest. However, you might run into Bigfoot just about anywhere in North America. This means that adding Bigfoot to your stories is fair game no matter where you are in the United States or Canada.
Sasquatch is similar to Bigfoot. Sasquatch belongs to the First Nations of British Columbia. So you should really know what you are doing if you use him in your stories.
The Kraken is a giant octopus-like sea monster from Nordic folklore. The Kraken actually exists in real life as a 60 foot long octopus. There are no reports of an octopus swallowing whole ships and its crew along with it, but that did not keep the Kraken legend from telling just that story. The Kraken is a great scary monster for just about any horror story involving the ocean. Even if you don't have an actual Kraken in the story, it can be part of the things that the characters in the story fear.
Hands down the scariest water monster out there is the mermaid. Lovely to see and even more lovely to hear, she will drag you to your water death for sure. Stay well clear of her in real life, but use her in your stories. She is so attractive.
Some people say that the Loch Ness Monster photo from 1934 was a hoax. Oh yeah? Were you there when the photo wasn't taken? I don't think so! So don't you go and discredit a monster that was first sighted in the 6th century just because it doesn't fit your narrative. Use the Loch Ness Monster or its cute nickname Nessie anytime you see fit in your stories.
Dragons could be dinosaur fossils. It's much more likely that they are fierce sky predators that burn the land with their fiery breath. The only reason we find their fossils on the ground is that dead dragons don't fly and fall to the ground. There used to be a saying that you could save any plot by adding a spaceship. That is clearly nonsense as spaceships do not exist. However, I assure you that you can save a horror story plot by adding a dragon.
If you keep goats in Puerto Rico or in Mexico or Texas, be on the lookout for attacks from the Chupacabra as it will drink all of your goat's blood. This will mean certain death for the goats. The Chupacabra is going to be a great natural monster to include in horror and scary stories that take place in the named locations, or much worse, as an export and newly invasive species.
Europeans have some pretty scary forest monsters too. Cernunoos is a horned god of the Celtic world. He primarily showed up in ancient Gaul, that is modern day France. Able to take predator and prey, he is a perfect nature monster to use in your horror fiction because most of his original mythos has been lost. If his name is too hard to remember, you may call him by his other name, the Horned One because he sports and impressive set of deer antlers on his otherwise humanoid form.
As I said, spaceships are not real.
It should be visible if it were real. No? |
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