During a recent visit to Texas Health Hospital in Fort Worth, I noticed a paramedic whose facial features caught my attention. He had a long white beard that stretched way down to his belly button.

A painting bought for $50 at a Minnesota garage sale may be valued at $15 million, possibly being a work by Vincent van Gogh.

Far from looking like any of the more monstrous versions of the figure we’ve seen in cinema, this character looks like a grizzled old man with a white beard and large, wolf-like claws.

He had a long white beard that stretched way down to his belly button. The journalist in me couldn’t help but ask a question. “What’s the story behind your beard?” I asked, to which he ...