HOW TO TELL IF YOUR NEIGHBOR OR FRIEND IS A WEREWOLF

Werewolves live amoung us today, but unless you know what to look for, they
are impossible to identify.

Except when they're suffering an attack of the rare illness that turns them
into crazed beasts, they look like any of your friends or neighbors,
experts say.

Dr. Werner Bokelman, an Austrian anthropologist who has studied werewolves
for 30 years, has developed a test to help identify the werewolves amoung
us. Here's how he says you can tell if your friend or neighbor is a
werewolf:

* Does he smell like a mixture of stale hay and horse manure? Werewolves
have extra glands that emit nasty smells.

* Does he have eyebrows that meet in the middle of his forehead? Doctors
in Denmark say that's a certain sign of the beast inside. Werewolves'
arms, legs, and bodies are extremely hairy, especially the backs of
their hands and the tops of their feet.

* Does a neighbor's child seem unusually attracted to little girls by
the age of 7 or 8? Werewolves reach sexual maturity at that age --
five years ahead of normal humans.

* Is the ring finger on both of his hands longer than the middle finger?
Experts say a long ring finger is a sure sign a person is a werewolf.

* Does he own large pets that often disappear and then are replaced by
other large pets? Werewolves have enormous appetites and like to sink
their fangs into large, fleshy animals. It would take 100 chickens a
week, for example, to satisfy the average werewolf.

* Do you hear strange howling and moaning in the neighborhood when there
is a full moon and no dogs around? If so, you are living close to a
werewolf.

* Does his skin slowly change color? It takes a few hours for a werewolf
to change from human to animal form. The first sign is a gradual
darkening of the skin.

* Does he wander around graveyards, mortuaries or turn up at the scene
of fatal accidents? Corpses are a ready source of nourishment for
young werewolves.

* Is his blood bluish red and his urine a deep purple? If you can trust
yourself to be alone with a suspected werewolf in the daytime, try to
find out without being too obvious. Following him into a men's room
might be a good idea, but be careful.

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