Sep 21, 2026 · 52 min · 13 segments
In this episode, we meet Tim Fowler, the creative mind behind one of Southern California’s most inventive and beloved home haunts: *The Farm Haunt*. What began as a neighborhood passion project has…
Ted DohertyHost
Tim FowlerGuest
In European legends, the werewolf was often a cursed soul, sometimes punished for sin, sometimes transformed by dark magic.
In literature, we see traces of this in medieval tales and later in Gothic works, where the werewolf embodied the tension between civilization and primal instinct.
Now, when it comes to cinema, traces of werewolves go way back to 1913 with an 18-minute movie named The Werewolf, a lost film destroyed at a Universal Studios fire in 1924.
But in 1925, Wolf Blood was released, which is apparently the oldest surviving werewolf film about an injured logger in a logging camp who has a blood transfusion with wolf blood, which may or may not have turned him into a wolf that began attacking the camp.
It was not a huge hit, but it planted the seed, the idea of transformation, of a man cursed to become something savage under the moonlight.
But the real breakthrough came in 1941 with the legendary, the iconic, The Wolfman, starring Lon Chaney Jr., written by Kurt Sedamak.
Siedmach invented the famous poem, even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.
He also introduced the pentagram mark on victims and the idea that silver was the ultimate weapon against a werewolf.
In European legends, the werewolf was often a cursed soul, sometimes punished for sin, sometimes transformed by dark magic.
In literature, we see traces of this in medieval tales and later in Gothic works, where the werewolf embodied the tension between civilization and primal instinct.
Now, when it comes to cinema, traces of werewolves go way back to 1913 with an 18-minute movie named The Werewolf, a lost film destroyed at a Universal Studios fire in 1924.
But in 1925, Wolf Blood was released, which is apparently the oldest surviving werewolf film about an injured logger in a logging camp who has a blood transfusion with wolf blood, which may or may not have turned him into a wolf that began attacking the camp.
It was not a huge hit, but it planted the seed, the idea of transformation, of a man cursed to become something savage under the moonlight.
But the real breakthrough came in 1941 with the legendary, the iconic, The Wolfman, starring Lon Chaney Jr., written by Kurt Sedamak.
Siedmach invented the famous poem, even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.
He also introduced the pentagram mark on victims and the idea that silver was the ultimate weapon against a werewolf.
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