Name for new MCF?

mandiee, look at wiki for ozarks. Did it too, very informative!

manndiee wrote:

Sinsaint wrote:There's a town called Rose Bud in Arkansas.

Do they have sleds??


Ok back to the topic at hand. What exactly is an ozark???

Maybe we have to hunt a werewolf in order to get more info about ravenhearst? I don't know, I'm just reaching for straws.

There is the legend about the Howler Wolf from the Ozarks. A college student decided to make it into a hoax, but the legend has been around since before the college student and his prank. Since the Native American times before any settlers. With all the descriptions I found, it could be called a shapeshifter, then again with the so called orange glowing eyes, could it be called a werewolf?

Cryptic Beast. Looks like a big cat, but more hairy, sounds like a wolf, cry of an elk, horns on it's head, said to be as big as bear on all 4's. Black. Shaggy

It is often referred to by locals as the devil cat. Its devilish appearance is matched by its loud and eerie howl that is often described as akin to a combination of the howl of a wolf and the cry of an elk. Aside from the creepy howl and horns, it is said to have glowing eyes which allow it to spot and perceive its prey even at a distance.

According to cryptozoologists, the Ozark Howler may be an unidentified or a new feline species. However, some anthropologists pose another theory. They speculate that this monster cat might not be a cat after all. Rather, they hypothesize that the creature might be another version of the dark dogs of death from the British legends.

Edit: I took a different route and did a search on myths and legends of the Ozarks. This one came up over and over even in a couple of short books, plus I read a couple of short books on google books. Interesting area surrounded in superstitions, myths, and legends.

This is going to get so confusing going from thread to thread! Picman has confirmed the game does not contain ravens (Ravenhearst has burnt to the ground) or bates and Charles isn't the only evil source in the world.

FairyonPegasus wrote:
There is the legend about the Howler Wolf from the Ozarks. A college student decided to make it into a hoax, but the legend has been around since before the college student and his prank.

That would fit in with Blair Witch!

RAVENHEARST.... The Begining

oh or,, Ravenhearst.. the Crows Nest

Purplerabbit wrote:

FairyonPegasus wrote:
There is the legend about the Howler Wolf from the Ozarks. A college student decided to make it into a hoax, but the legend has been around since before the college student and his prank.

That would fit in with Blair Witch!

I was thinking, "The dark dogs of death from the British legends" might also fit into the clue with British Royalty. Now found in the Ozark mountains.

Is it British royalty? Picman said British nobility, which is not the same.

Purplerabbit wrote:Is it British royalty? Picman said British nobility, which is not the same.

You're correct it's Nobility. I'll look up legends/myths/stories on Goner Wolf, Russian Circus, British Nobility and cross reference them to the Ozarks. Maybe I can find more.

{I get the strange feeling this isn't going to be a Ravenhurst continuation, that we're looking in the wrong direction. Leaning more toward Madame Fate.}

Found this:

Randolph was fascinated that Ozark “peasants” living in the early twentieth century as subsistence farmers in an isolated pocket of the United States were singing songs about British nobility and royalty that could be traced in a few cases to the late Middle Ages. These songs tell pithy, dramatic, often lurid stories of young women seduced by supernatural beings (“Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight”), intra-family murder (“Edward”), cruel young women who drive rejected suitors to their graves (“Barbara Allen”), and a woman so mean that the devil cannot stand to have her in hell (“The Farmer’s Curst Wife”).

and this:

Accounts of witchcraft (a subject often treated with extreme secrecy in the region).

Now I have to find these stories and lyrics.

This is getting interesting...

Another interesting fact:

John Quincy Wolf wrote several books on Ozark folklore. He was in poor health with crippling arthritis, so relied heavily on his students. He was born and raised in the Ozarks. Batesville.

Picman has already said that it isn't Batesville Fairyon but your research makes very interesting reading.

ETA

Sorry sweetie my fingers can't spell.

cherbtoo wrote:Picman has already said that it isn't Batesville Fairyon but your research makes very interesting reading.

ETA

Sorry sweetie my fingers can't spell.

It's Ok I do that also, I don't know if that's where he wrote the books from. Is there a college there? It just says that's where he was born and raised. That he had decided to put all the folklore from his youth together in books.

FairyonPegasus wrote:

manndiee wrote:

Sinsaint wrote:There's a town called Rose Bud in Arkansas.

Do they have sleds??


Ok back to the topic at hand. What exactly is an ozark???

Maybe we have to hunt a werewolf in order to get more info about ravenhearst? I don't know, I'm just reaching for straws.

There is the legend about the Howler Wolf from the Ozarks. A college student decided to make it into a hoax, but the legend has been around since before the college student and his prank. Since the Native American times before any settlers. With all the descriptions I found, it could be called a shapeshifter, then again with the so called orange glowing eyes, could it be called a werewolf?

Cryptic Beast. Looks like a big cat, but more hairy, sounds like a wolf, cry of an elk, horns on it's head, said to be as big as bear on all 4's. Black. Shaggy

It is often referred to by locals as the devil cat. Its devilish appearance is matched by its loud and eerie howl that is often described as akin to a combination of the howl of a wolf and the cry of an elk. Aside from the creepy howl and horns, it is said to have glowing eyes which allow it to spot and perceive its prey even at a distance.

According to cryptozoologists, the Ozark Howler may be an unidentified or a new feline species. However, some anthropologists pose another theory. They speculate that this monster cat might not be a cat after all. Rather, they hypothesize that the creature might be another version of the dark dogs of death from the British legends.

Edit: I took a different route and did a search on myths and legends of the Ozarks. This one came up over and over even in a couple of short books, plus I read a couple of short books on google books. Interesting area surrounded in superstitions, myths, and legends.

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Ah yes, much like the werewolf legend in France (I believe) in the 1700's. A gentleman shot and killed a creature, that was killing humans. Researches believe it to be a hyena relative and not so much werewolf. However the legend lives on in.

That could be a very good scenario to use in a storyline.

manndiee wrote:Ah yes, much like the werewolf legend in France (I believe) in the 1700's. A gentleman shot and killed a creature, that was killing humans. Researches believe it to be a hyena relative and not so much werewolf. However the legend lives on in.

That could be a very good scenario to use in a storyline.

I was watching a documentary on that yesterday I believe. Very interesting! Missed the end though so I never did find out what they determined as to who or what was doing the killings. I believe the animal was going through the bones? And they said it was impossible for a wolf or a dog to actually break through the leg bones with a bite.

Yes, there is a college in Batesville, Lyon College. Interestingly, it has a Scottish studies department. Go figure! There is also a junior college affiliated with one of the universities.

I actually live not too far from Rose Bud, LOL. Not much of a town, but pretty country. I find all this interest in my part of the country... refreshing! Arkansas is one of the nicest places to live that you can find (aside from half of it being "dry"), and with a low cost of living. The quality of life here is wonderful. But I seriously doubt that any new MCF will be set in Arkansas!

Where's Victor?

Or just maybe Where's Rose?

OrionsRose wrote:Where's Victor?

Or just maybe Where's Rose?

Both of the "Rose's" were killed

Victor was last seen jumping into a Machine of some sort... LOL

Yes, but both of those guesses (to a greater or lesser degree) match the clues given in this thread and the original one (from a year ago I think). But...I just found out he's gone and given others in other posts so I might be back to square one! LOL