The smell arrives first. It drifts across the road at dusk, thick and sour, something between a skunk, a wet dog and a rotting swamp. Then, at the edge of the headlights, a tall shape covered in reddish-brown hair steps out of the saw grass, crosses the road on two legs, and is gone into […]

Two men on horseback round a bend in a dry creek bed in the mountains of Northern California. On the far bank, something tall, dark and covered in hair is walking away from them. One man’s horse rears. He grabs a rented movie camera, jumps down and starts running, filming as he goes. The figure […]

A couple are driving home along the shore of a Highland loch. The water is flat and gray. Then something huge breaks the surface, rolls like a whale, and slides back under, leaving only a spreading ring of foam. They drive on, shaken, and tell no one but a friend who writes for the local […]