Since is the Halloween season, I thought it might be worth posting about our local haunting. Rumor has it (although I am having trouble documenting this) that a werewolf lives in Sacred Heart Cemetery just up the road from MVCC. I have driven up Kean Avenue for many years, and I have never come across a werewolf. But, what if the local werewolf was just a guy with a genetic defect? Author Lisa Seachrist Chiu’s book,
When a gene makes you smell like a fish– and other tales about the genes in your body discusses this is her chapter entitled “The Werewolf Gene.” It may be more exciting to think that our neighborhood has its own werewolf, but the science may not support it.
