Body snatchers and werewolves.

Can bears be the creatures behind the werewolf myth? 

Werewolves are mythic creatures. They are humans that turn into wolves in the full moon. There is suspicion that behind the werewolf stories is some kind of serial killer. When those stories are told the mental disorders were not well-known things. Those things like mental disturbing, sociopathy, and other kinds of things were curses, made by witches. In some cases, the Bear can be behind the werewolf stories. 

Bear who rises to its back feet are terrifying and dangerous animals. And when we think about the modern horror stories that involve things like vampires. We can conclude that vampire or modern vampire stories are formed in theatre because actors are easier to portray civilized vampires than madly screaming werewolves. 

But in modern versions. The thing that makes the vampires and werewolves viruses can turn the human or animal into another one. Cosmologists and astrobiologists made models of creatures that can change their shape. That creature requires the double-stranded DNA. And the thing that can turn the cell to read another strand. 

"The new fungus Gibellula attenboroughii on the orb-weaving cave spider. Credit: CABI" (ScitechDaily, Not Science Fiction: Scientists Discover Mysterious “Zombie” Fungus Infecting Spiders in Ireland’s Caves)

The fungi that transform spiders into zombies are not sci-fi anymore. 

Researchers found fungi in Ireland that turn spiders into zombies. This is not the first time that fungi have turned animals, like ants or snails, into zombies. They will not behave normally. There is a fungus. That makes ants travel to the top of the hay so that birds and other predators can find it. That helps fungi spread. 

The fungi that turn animals into zombies are not new. But the new thing is that this kind of fungi is found in Europe. There are many sci-fi movies. That tells about alien organisms. That can turn humans into zombies. The Zombie Apocalypse and Resident Evil are the most well-known cases of those horror movies. 

There are also horror stories of the body-snatching aliens. Maybe, the origin of those stories was in images from Ancient Egypt where pharao used psychedelic fungi. That transformed into stories of the body-snatching aliens. The body snatchers can be like neuron-fungi hybrids that tie their axons around victims' nervous systems. And then it starts to give orders to its victim. 

The thing is that there is quite a small fish in the sea that creates poison called tetrodotoxin. That poison makes a person into a zombie that makes everything that master says. Tetrodotoxin removes the brain filter. There is the possibility that the genetically engineered fungi can also create tetradotoxin. But can the body-snatcher alien be true? It's possible to create alien organisms in the laboratory. There is research or theoretical models of the hybrid cells where fungus and neurons are connected. This thing is a fascinating idea for horror movies. 

And then back to the real world. 

Those things are researched for some other reasons. The ability to take the human nervous system under control makes it possible to exchange information with it. That ability can be useful in cases of large-scale brain damage. The cloned neurons can replace the physical damage. But then the data that those cells include is gone. 

That makes makes those fungi interesting. That thing can be used to transmit data to the cloned brain tissues. The lost information includes the data about the routes. How the neuron must transport data into the precise right position. 

https://scitechdaily.com/dont-miss-mars-and-the-wolf-moon-align-in-epic-sky-spectacle/

https://scitechdaily.com/not-science-fiction-scientists-discover-mysterious-zombie-fungus-infecting-spiders-in-irelands-caves/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraodontidae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin