The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster

[View this email in your browser]( [Nautilus logo]( Sunday, October 31, 2021 Dear Nautilus Reader, Happy Halloween! This year, we couldn’t resist getting in on the fun. So, we bring you a selection of our spookiest, most monstrous stories, including the tale of how a massive volcanic eruption changed global weather patterns—and contributed to the birth of Frankenstein’s monster. That story; what the hybrid monsters found in nearly every culture can tell us about our deepest fears and desires; why we’ll never be able to prove that Bigfoot isn’t real; the likely psychological leanings of zombies; and more, in some of the most haunting stories from our archives. [The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster]( [Gillen D’Arcy Wood]( [Two hundred years ago, the greatest eruption in Earth’s recorded history took place.]( [Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids?]( [Stephen T. Asma]( [I was 13 years old when the movie Alien was released. It scared me into a month-long spell of anxiety.]( BECOME A SUBSCRIBER Subscribe to Nautilus! We are a magazine of scientific ideas that matter. Join a community of curious readers exploring scientific subjects in profound, unexpected ways, and experience science, connected. Your subscription will get you six issues chock full of the narrative storytelling and beautiful art you know and love, along with digital copies and access to our full online archive. [SUBSCRIBE TODAY!]( [Oceans Channel]( [What Merpeople Say About Us]( [Vaughn Scribner]( [Merpeople’s hybridity has helped them maintain a presence in both scientific and mythological camps.]( [Why We Can’t Rule Out Bigfoot]( [Carl Zimmer]( [I recently got an email from an anthropologist commenting on a new report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The topic of that report was Bigfoot—or rather, a genetic analysis of hairs that people over the years have claimed belong to a giant, hairy, unidentified primate.]( [Zombies Must Be Dualists]( [Sean Carroll]( [David Chalmers, who coined the phrase “Hard Problem of consciousness,” is arguably the leading modern advocate for the possibility that physical reality needs to be augmented by some kind of additional ingredient in order to explain consciousness—in particular, to account for the kinds of inner mental experience pinpointed by the Hard Problem.]( [Horror Fans Have More Fun During a Pandemic]( [Coltan Scrivner]( [People running through the streets in terror, stores being looted for supplies, and, of course, people eating other people.]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [Web Site]( Copyright © 2021 NautilusNext, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to the newsletter from [nautil.us](. Our mailing address is: NautilusNext 360 W 36th Street, 7S, New York, NY 10018 Don't want to hear from us anymore? [Click here to unsubscribe.](