Monster Blog
J.M. Plumbley’s monster blog offers over 80 posts that explore weird, real-life monster mythology. Explore the latest posts below, or scroll down to browse the posts by tags.
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The most frightening thing of all
Is our limited time on this earth. To focus further on original fiction (my first love), I am letting Monster Meet lie in wait for a little while. Sign up for updates if you want to get a hint when it might come bursting out of the soil again.
You spin me right round, baby: Wheelie monsters
It’s a themed post about wheel-related monsters! Just roll with it.
Peekaboo! Hide-and-Seek Alone
Don’t have anyone to play hide-and-seek with? Necromancy is here to help.
Rockin’ around the cold pine trees: White Otter Castle
For our Christmas ghost story, let’s explore the Canadian legend of White Otter Castle.
Check out, but never leave: Tulloch Castle
An overview of one of the most haunted places in Scotland…where I’ll be reporting back from in less than a month.
Double double: The doppelgänger
The science and lore around your pesky evil twin.
Everybody poops: 5 bathroom horrors from 5 continents
We may live in a grim world, but we can take solace that something still unites us across cultures, times, and continents: the fear of what might get us when we’re seated on the porcelain throne.
Deck the halls or lose your innards: Frau Perchta
What grim specter comes to haunt us when the Christmas lights go out, and the heartburn sets in, and tomorrow comes knocking? Frau Perchta, that’s who.
The big bad wood: Nahanni Valley
If you’re into human folly, eerie deaths, forbidden forests, and unsolved mysteries, this one is for you.
Beauty hurts: Madam Koi Koi
Learn about a boarding school ghost so powerful that she’s become a superstar of Nigerian (and sometimes Ghanaian) urban legend.
A shift in the schedule
I’m updating the Monster Meet posting schedule!
Never let you down: The Elevator Game
I’ve decided to try something experimental to teach you about the wonders of the Elevator Game–a try-at-your-own-risk, internet “ritual” to take you to another dimension. Let’s play here live.
17 stories below: Myths of the Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro system is considered to be one of the most beautiful underground systems in the world. It’s also one of the scariest.
Epistolary horror: Ghosts of Ancient Rome
One of the reasons that I’m so into ghosts is how they represent history encroaching upon the present: literally, they can’t be ignored. So let’s talk about some historical ghosts: specifically, some ghosts from ancient Rome.
Hippity hoppity: the Jiangshi
The Jiangshi vampire is pretty special, so let’s hop to it.
Black bird shrieking in the dead of night: Nachtkrapp
In this German-Austrian legend, the crows don’t have eyes.
Full moon AND Halloween AND 2020 edition: Thinning the veil
On Halloween (or Samhain), the veil between this world and the next lifts, and the dead (and worse) walk. Rather than exploring a specific monster, let’s explore lots of them at once by poking at that boundary and what’s on the other side.
Backseat driver: Bride of the 13 Curves
Bride ghost legends are so common (and so irritating in their implications) that I have ignored them on this blog so far. But now, I figured that it was about time that I gave one a shot.
Webs of deceit: Tsuchigumo
Content warning: spidey bois.
Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody–
I had always assumed that the Bloody Mary “game” was just shallow fun, with no real meat behind it in terms of meaning or actual sightings. Hot damn, was I wrong.
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