Twin Moon Pictures Presents is a series of articles designed to give you things to use in horror games based in the 1970’s. Although the articles will be written for They Came From Beyond the Grave RPG, the articles should be system neutral enough for your own 1970’s era games or stories. This article uses the Bigfoot monster from the Monsters from the Crypt supplement from Onyx Path Publishing.

Bigfoot is a gentle giant who hangs out in deep forests and wild places. What people don’t understand is that Bigfoots are a manifestation of the forest itself created to protect itself. A Bigfoot steps out of the bush and does their mysterious business and then disappears back into the shadows. Sometimes they helps lost children or stop people about to start a forest fire but for the most part, they are gentle enigmas.

A year ago, Belgium Mold infected several trees and bushes located in Whitnall Park in Milwaukee. Park authorities cleared these infected plants but needed to fill in the barren stretch of land. They imported trees from a nearby state park and replanted them in Whitnall.

Unfortunately, these trees were part of a mystical forest protected by a Bigfoot. The magic in these trees attempted to manifest a Bigfoot for Whitnall park but something failed. Maybe it was the frequent trash or the presence of radio and television waves in the air that disrupted the magic. Heck, it might have been THE DEVIL HIMSELF! For whatever reason, the Bigfoot that manifested came out wrong. He’s mean, his hair falls off like he has mange, and he’s taking it out on any damn person he encounters.

Another sign of the magical disruption is the presence of blood red dandelions. These bright red weeds defy are unknown to modern science, though a Mystic may be able to identify them. They grow around the transplanted trees, which might be useful for the Heroes to discover.

The first attack will be a pair of park goers found dead on a trail. The bodies are ripped apart by someone with amazing strength. The woman will have a bunch of the red dandelions in her purse. A big ass footprint might stand out in the blood. On a tree, about seven feet up, will be a crater where the Bigfoot smashed the man’s face into the tree.

There will be a new attack everyday. The Bigfoot barely needs a reason. Urinating on a tree, leaving trash, or making out behind a bush could be a reason for the Bigfoot to attack.

If the Heroes ever gather any dandelions and remove them from the park, feel free to throw the Bigfoot at them. Bonus points if the Bigfoot inexplicably attacks them in the city at a dramatic moment. Don’t let logic restrain you. This is a corrupted creature, unbound by the laws of nature or physics. Let it manifest out of a closet if it freaks the Heroes out.

Once there is an eyewitness, the police will be on the lookout for hairy people. They may well bring in the Heroes for questioning. Any attempts to blame a Bigfoot will fail.

There are three possible solutions.

Balancing Ritual – The Heroes can perform a ritual that brings the area back with Nature. An appropriate NPC can inform the Heroes of the ritual and step them through it.

The ritual involves taking a strange mushroom while the NPC chants. Every Hero that takes a mushroom turns into a Bigfoot. They gain the full stats and abilities of a Bigfoot along with their normal minds. They must then hunt down the Evil Bigfoot and destroy it.

When the Evil Bigfoot is destroyed, the forest will try to convert the Heroes into a Bigfoot. Each Hero gets two rolls of the most appropriate type to retain their humanity. If they fail, their character becomes the new NPC protectors of the area. The red dandelions will disappear.

Killing – The Heroes can destroy the Bigfoot physically. Good luck with hunting one of the most elusive creatures on Earth. Once the Bigfoot is dead, the forest will create a new Bigfoot, one in balance with the area, almost immediately. This Bigfoot will not attack the Heroes. The red dandelions will disappear.

Destroy the Transplanted Plants – This enrages the Bigfoot and will induce an attack. Fire or poison might be your best bet, both of which are pretty serious crimes if the Heroes are caught. If the Hero succeeds in destroying the plants, no Bigfoots will manifest in the future. The closing scene should be the character most connected with nature shedding a single tear.

Twin Moon Pictures Presents is a series of articles designed to give you things to use in horror games based in the 1970’s. Although the articles will be written for They Came From Beyond the Grave RPG, the articles should be system neutral enough for your own 1970’s era games or stories.

Camp Sunshine is not your normal summer camp. It used to be a nudist camp back in the day until something terrible happened in the summer of 1956. Now it is re-opening as a summer camp for kids, but the ghosts of the missing nudists now haunt the camp.

One way the ghosts haunt the place is their urge to be naked. They will temporarily posses a living person and undress. The now-naked person will regain control of their bodies but will be unaware of their nakedness unless someone else points it out. The ghosts do this without malice and will never take over someone who is in a dangerous situation. That is small comfort to the person who finds themselves out in public in the buff.

Bill Burrow might be the first ghost campers meet. He appears as a very fit naked man in his late forties. He is always smoking a pipe and campers may smell the smoke before they see him. Bill used to own the camp with his wife and his primary reason for owning a nudist camp was to see some tits and ass. That remains his purpose as a ghost and he can often be found leering and ogling young attractive people. He prefers watching women but death has liberated him somewhat and he finds all genders attractive now.

When spotted, Bill will smile and maybe wave. If treated in a friendly way, he will linger and watch but will make no attempt at communication. He truly doesn’t care about anyone except in a voyeuristic manner. If shouted at, or threatened, he will vanish.

Ellen Burrow is another common ghost. She appears as a naked attractive woman with a blonde rolled updo. Unlike her husband, Ellen is constantly on the move, tidying up and putting things away. If she sees someone, she will smile and continue on her way.

If addressed, she will smile pleasantly and appear to be listening but after a few moments, she will wander off to do more chores. If asked a simple question like “Where are the bathrooms?”, she will point the way but otherwise she does not speak.

However, if someone is in danger and appears upset, Ellen will take notice of the person and may even answer questions about what happened back in 1956.

The last significant ghost is James Nemeth. He appears as a naked young man with a mop of brown hair. Deathly skinny and a bit pale, people might think he was some sort of monster. He stands out as looking very glum and unhappy. Campers might find him reading their books. If they find him holding his hands over his face, then beware, someone is about to be killed.

James is always present when someone dies.

Unlike the other ghosts, Jimmy will talk if approached in a friendly manner He feels responsible for what happened here and would love to unburden himself of his guilt. If he is threatened or bullied, the campers might not see him again until it is too late.

There are other nudist ghosts but their connection here is weaker and they often vanish after a few seconds. There is the gorgeous redhead who swims in the lake. Three older men play horseshoes where one of the bunkhouses stand now. Sometimes a crowd of naked women will play volleyball by the restrooms.

The ghosts leave artifacts behind that it remarkably real. Old soda bottles, 50’s magazines and suntan lotion are common. The most curious item is a film reel. A film projector can be found in the storage shed and if the reel is played, the campers will discover it is the nudist movie, “Blondes Prefer Nature.” Ellen can be easily recognized if they have seen her ghost, as well as Bill. No other ghosts are recognizable.

Twin Moon Pictures Presents is a series of articles designed to give you things to use in horror games based in the 1970’s. Although the articles will be written for They Came From Beyond the Grave RPG, the articles should be system neutral enough for your own 1970’s era games or stories.

Missy Swanson might be the smartest person in the entire United States. She has an innate understanding of biology and chemistry. Completely self-taught, Missy has made breakthroughs in medical procedures that defy explanations from lesser minds. Previously, she has used her brilliance to improve her father’s dairy farm but lately, Missy is starting to think about improvements that can be made on the human body. She just needs some raw materials to experiment with.

It should be noted that Missy is 10 years old.

Missy’s mother, Carol, always knew there was something strange about her only child. Instead of dolls, Missy was more interested in taking apart and reassembling the chickens. Carol tried to teach her daughter things like God, charity and cooking, but Missy was a willful child who had no time for superstitions, empathy for test subjects and domestic chores. They frequently fought with only Missy’s respect for her parents keeping her in line.

As for the father, Jim, he delighted in the improvement to the cows and was proud to have a farm that produces more milk than any other farm in the state. He takes an insane amount of pride in Missy’s accomplishments and thinks the girl can do no wrong.

Things changed when Ma passed away last year. It was a brain aneurysm, just one of those things that happens suddenly and without warning. Missy was surprised by how little she felt over her mother’s passing. If anything, she felt relieved that she no longer had to listen to speeches about “messing with God’s designs.” It was time to get some work done.

Pa was devastated by his wife’s passing and now spoils Missy even more. She is his Little Doc Missy and he will do anything to make her happy. If that means laying out some spikes on the nearby country road to blow out some tires and then lure stranded travelers to the farmhouse for Doc Missy to experiment on, well then he better get to sharpening some spikes.

Pa isn’t the only problem unwary travelers have to deal with. Missy has been making improvements to the local animals for years. A flock of attack chickens patrol the grounds and will savagely peck any strangers unaccompanied by Jim or Missy. A two-headed goat with spider legs can climb walls and keeps watch from the roof of the barn. In addition to producing four times as much milk as normal cows, these cows can also talk and will raise an alarm unless suitably bribed or offered interesting gossip.

As for the farm cat, you do NOT want to fuck with it.

So, what is Doc Missy up to? First and foremost, Missy would really like to reanimate the dead. She also wants to do a few brain transplants, maybe into one of her talking cows. Her father has been complaining about doing all the cooking now that Ma is gone, so Missy might modify someone to be a cook, perhaps with multiple arms and a superior sense of smell. Finally, Missy would never admit it but she is starting to think about boys so she might take the smartest unlucky traveler and de-age them to that of a ten year old boy so she can have someone her age to talk to.

Doc Missy’s greatest strength and weakness is her age. At ten years old, she is unrestrained by what can and can’t be done. She is utterly without remorse when it comes to getting what she wants, but also tends to having a crying fit if even slightly inconvenienced. Although brilliant, Doc Missy has been coddled by her Ma and Pa and has not had much experience with other people. She can be quite naïve and deceptions have a high chance of working on her, at least for the first time.

Treating Doc Missy like a child is a sure way to get on her bad side and questioning her intelligence will make you an enemy for life.

Like all naughty children, Doc Missy’s greatest fear is her Mother coming back to discipline her.

It is a common misconception that Men in Black are something that only appears after a UFO sighting. These strange not-quite humans also appear after instances of the supernatural and other strangeness. Most people believe that Men in Black are aliens in disguise or super-secret government agents. That is what THEY want you to believe.

The truth is a bit more variable. Here are seven alternative origins for the Men in Black of your world.

The Vatican: The 70’s are a busy time for the Catholic Church. Exorcisms are being requested by New England psychics, satanists are in the anti-christ baby raising business and sinister folks from Lake Geneva are publishing RPG manuals with the names of unholy demons. There is a lot of bad shit going around and the Vatican wants to keep an eye on it all. They send their agents, usually an old one and a young one, dressed in all black, to investigate. Most of the time they arrive too late but they stick around to collect any demonic artifacts or to give words of comfort to Final Girls. They rarely have any official power, but their connections to Catholic members of the local police department give them an inside track. Vatican Men in Black also function as excellent Deus Ex Machina for desperate need of a rescue.

Pleasure Demons: These Men and Women in Black Leather are mortal incarnations of terrible cosmic beings. They arrive to subtly mock the survivors of terrible events and to point the authorities in the wrong direction. They might hide evidence or supply an instrument of torture to someone agony-curious. Some are genuinely curious as to what has happened and will question survivors in such a way that their glee is apparent. Unlike other Men in Black, these creatures are always touching something or each other. They can appear in the prologue, acting as sexy Johnny Appleseeds of ecstasy and terror as they give the main villain a crucial plot device.

Hunters: If the Winchester brothers taught us anything, it is that it is remarkably easy to impersonate a government agency. These Men in Black are usually ruggedly handsome, fond of diner food and drive cars that are far cooler than you would expect FBI agents to drive. They flash badges too quick to read and ask really unusual questions about whether the suspect avoided daylight or if the survivor experienced any cold spots recently. They appear infrequently during the story and may even serve as a love interest before getting horribly murdered.

Golems of the Atlanteans: Atlanteans are too busy practicing their dark magic and debaucheries to do the grunt work. That is what the Men in Black are for. Created from ancient arts, these barely humans will go out and search for lost artifacts of Atlantis. Deeply intelligent in matters or science, magic and stalking, they lack common knowledge of how to act normal. They use slang inappropriately and might have a hat on backwards. They never sweat and often forget to blink or breath. When recharging, they will go into a closet and enter into an inactive state that resembles mannequins.

Renfeilds: You know who else is too busy to do things, especially during the day time? That’s right, Dracula. There are only so many hours in the night and it really helps if some wide-eyed, nervous men in black suits do the tedious work. These Men in Black are more proactive than your usual Men in Black as they attack heroes and follow nubile high school teens home from their schools. Most of them have already been fed on and exhibit sensitivity to sunlight which requires them to always were sunglasses.

Doctor Frankenstein: Hunchbacks and grave diggers of loose morals can only do so much. Dr. Frankenstein decided to do away with crappy mortal help and build his own. The Men in Black are his own creations and they have proven quite useful. He sends them out to dig up graves and recover body parts from summer camp massacres. To head off any of the Men in Black demanding brides or rights, he limited their ability to speak or in some cases, made them eunuchs. Since they are reanimated corpses, they smell a bit which is why they all wear way too much cologne.

Future People: Centuries from now, man’s civilization has been cast in ruins. Terrible monsters roam the earth and no one knows how to stop them. Maybe the secret lies in the ancient past of the 1970’s? It was known to be a time of vampires, near-immortal serial killers and mutated flesh and body horror. These Men in Black come from a time when humanity doesn’t like, sound or act like we know it. They have evolved or devolved to something else. They wear dark clothes to cover their mutations and sunglasses to hide their radioactive eyes. Their misuse of slang would be hilarious if they weren’t so menacing. Are they here to gather information or are they here to stop events from happening? Maybe the cataclysmic event that ends civilization starts with the wrong Final Girl surviving and living to tell the tale to the wrong people?

Twin Moon Pictures Presents is a series of articles designed to give you things to use in horror games based in the 1970’s. Although the articles will be written for The They Came From Beyond the Grave RPG, the articles should be system neutral enough for your own 1970’s era games or stories.