This week, we lift our spirits (oooOOOooo) with a round-up of monsters. We explore their origins and effects on us, with examples ranging from memories of very real things in the past to a hypothesis that doesn't quite have legs (unlike griffins).
Links
Why we'll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters (The Conversation)
Why the scariest monsters look almost human (Wellcome Collection)
Why do we want to feel sorry for monsters that scare us? (Gizmodo)
Neanderthals, Scandinavian trolls, and troglodytes (Norwegian American)
Why Protoceratops almost certainly wasn't the inspiration for the griffin legend (Mark Witton)
Andrewsarchus, "Superb Skull of a Gigantic Beast" (American Museum of Natural History)
Rare Book Library Summons Tales of World’s Oldest Monsters (Smithsonian)
The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII (Smithsonian)
The strange tale of ‘Monster Mash’, the graveyard smash that will never die (NME)
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