Spooky quicks October 2025

 

Hi and big howling for October. To start off the month with some recent unexplained news related stories, some weird and bizarre things that happened. 

A strange ball of hair fell from the sky. It landed in a field by Puerto Tirol, Argentina. The object resembles a massive hairy eyeball, but it's really a piece of debris from a Space X mission that broke off. The hair covering the metallic lump is fibre caused by glass heating up when entering the Earth's atmosphere. Space junk at it's most ludicrous! Have a look for yourself!

A video clip has been making lots of enthusiastic UFO fans excited. It features an unidentified flying object moving in the air, which also happens to resemble a person! It's been nicknamed "the witch" by the person who filmed it. The footage from France has been very popular. To watch the clip and judge for yourself go to Youtube: The flying witch

There's a legend of the Devil's Lagoon, which is believed to carry a ghost. Located in Willacy County, Texas. It's believed that if you spend the night there, you can hear the sounds of phantom horses and wheels of a carriage that isn't there. It was taken up by several teenagers who dared listen one night. However, it wasn't a ghost that shocked them but a gunman who pulled up in a car. Ghost hunting has many dangers! For that go here on Valley Central News. 

Now the next full moon (Harvest Moon) will appear on Tuesday, October 7th 2025. This will be a supermoon, which is the biggest and brightest moon of the year. As the supermoon rises, also in the sky will be visible Saturn visible and then both Jupiter and Venus shine later. 

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Harvest celebration of werewolves

 

There are some traditions during Harvest period, late Summer and early Autumn, connected to werewolves. Some I've included are the Green Wolf, Stirling wolves, Lame wolf and the Rodnovery "days of wolves". 

The Green Wolf is celebrated in Normandy. It's an ancient Pagan tradition. This occurs during harvest festivals, and the Green Wolf makes an appearance who leads a magical dance, until a fire is lit. The Green Wolf is a man dressed up in green decorated in foliage, sometimes leaves, moss and spruce. Before the ritual itself, a man is carefully chosen to play the part of the Green Wolf. He represents nature and the change of season, the wilderness and feral forests. Once a fire is created after games and crescendo, the Green Wolf is then symbolically thrown on the fire, which is probably a toy likeness made from plants. The Green Wolf burnings can help a future harvest and protect everyone from werewolves. 

Read Strange werewolves of Normandy on Normandy Then and Now.

This is probably linked to a legend of the Green Wolf of Jumièges. A story about a woman and a wolf. This was about a donkey that was eaten by a wolf, and the donkey belonged to a nun. Sainte Austreberthe soon made the wolf replace the donkey and carry out similar work, which was tamed and lost its primal instincts. The wolf even turned vegetarian. This caused a movement called the Green Wolf Brotherhood who celebrate during solstices and equinoxes. Today there's a carving of wolf and woman at the abbot church in Jumieges. A magical tour along the Green Wolf Hike in the location in Boucles de la Seine Nature Park. 

The Stirling wolves are based on a Scottish legend that wolves howling alerted people in the villages of approaching Viking raiders. It was in a village of Stirling that it happened when Vikings crept along using stealth to give a surprise attack during darkness. One Viking accidentally stepped on a hidden sleeping wolf, causing it to yelp in pain, followed by an entire chorus of wolves howling. The loud noise woke up the villagers including the prince brothers, who chased off the fleeing Vikings. In appreciation and thanks, the royal brothers made a wolf on their banners. Today Stirling has grown from a village to a city with the wolf as a guardian. You'll find wolf gems all over, symbolisms of wolves in the city of Stirling. Even their rugby union team are nicknamed "Stirling wolves."  Look at The Tale of the Stirling Wolf at Stirling City Heritage Trust.

The Lame Wolf appears in Romanian folklore as a symbol of misfortune and one of the most scariest entities of Autumn. The character is connected to the three fates, who decide a person's life and death, but the third Fate is the one said to the Lame Wolf. These would be the Ursitoare, three female spirits who are weavers of a person's entire life from birth. Unlike others in different mythologies, such as the Fates and Norns, the Ursitoare resemble beautiful fairies dressed in white. They're called Weaver, Spinner and Cutter. The wolf is the shadowy force creeping around the third fate, where death lingers with the Cutter lady. 

Rasturnyak or Dispersion is a celebration ritual of Summer and Autumn, honouring the Days of Wolves. During this time, souls of the dead take forms of wolves. This unnerves the living, who fear the threat of wolves and so they put out offerings for them to keep them away for the cold months. These would be bread, sometimes meat or mutton, also sacrifices. This is similar to the mystical Benandanti werewolves from Italy who were actually protectors and guardians of harvest.   

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The Gandillon family

The 1500's were a truly brutal and frightening time. Mostly because of werewolves and especially the dreadful werewolf trials. An entire family of werewolves became known about and they were the Gandillon family. There is a very eerie true story about them that sends chills.

In 1598 two small children were picking wild strawberries beside the Juan Mountains, France. They were attacked by a large ferocious wolf, even though the kids tried to defend themselves. The screams alerted some men out hunting in the forest, who quickly ran towards the scene but it was too late. The men saw the wolf bounding away through the trees. They chased in the direction the wolf took, but once they soon reached the location and cornered it, the wolf became human! 

The men were shocked by what they saw. They were chasing down a wolf and once they reached it, the beast was in the form of a woman. They recognised her as a local resident of St Claude named Perrenette Gandillon. She was considered strange by other people. She displayed bleeding knife wounds on her arms, which was caused by the unfortunate children that just lost their lives by a wolf attack. That wolf had been Perrenette. 

This enraged the villagers who got wind of it. The people were angry, sickened and grieving the deaths of the children. So they sought Perrenette out and once they found her, they killed her. However, the people as well as the authorities didn't finish. They turned their attention upon Perernettes' own family! 

Perrenette's brother, sister and nephew were all targets, and something convinced everyone that they were all werewolves. Antoinette, sister of Perrenette, dabbled in sorcery and witchcraft. She was taken into custody, while the brother (Pierre) and nephew (George) mentioned having dealings with the Devil and were arrested. Both father and son walked on all fours and became wolves. It was then decided that the Gandillon family would be put to death and they were all burned at the stake. A violent ending to depravity. 

In more details and conclusion, read more on the Gandillon family of werewolves at The Horror Collection. I personally know they were scary times. 

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