The human nature to try to make sense of something that is not sensible, that we can’t grasp,” she says. As far as werewolves actually being real and living among us, Hafdahl says that while ...

Have you ever looked at a full moon and wondered if werewolves are real? If so, then you aren't alone. For thousands of years, people have been fascinated by the idea of a half-human, half-beast ...

A number of locals believe the unusual corpse to be a nagual, which, in Mesoamerican mythology, are humans with the ability to shapeshift into a frightening beast similar to a werewolf.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monsters may not be real, but the evil deeds that inspire their legends can be just as horrifying as the myths themselves. Stories about werewolves took ...

A howl pierces the air. At the University of Chicago, a new course explores how scary stories of wolfish transformations can spring from our deepest anxieties about being human. In “The Werewolf in ...