| abstract | - Origins unrevealed, a certain type of ethereal entity took on the form of totemic creatures from the physical realm known as chickens and became known as Werechickens. The Werechicken ghost exclusively seeks out chickens as its host body. After possession is achieved, the Werechicken conducts ectoplasmic metastasis which spreads its presence throughout the host's body and exerts its will over the muscles of the host. Also at this point, the host is transmogrified into a free-standing chicken monstrosity. The Werechicken then engages in obsessive repetitious behavior patterns, haunting locales populated by both chickens and people. The Werechicken then stalks and attacks human victims. Once bitten, the victim themselves is infected as if by some ecto contagion that transmogrifies them into a Werechicken, as well. The human-transmogrified Werechickens can only appear during a full moon and engage in their own ritual and seek out the nearest high point to lay a Werechicken Egg. This unique spectral spawning husk is for all intent and purpose is a giant pink egg as the entity chooses to reproduce in a similar fashion to the chicken. Somehow the Werechicken spawn is born already possessing an animal host. The spawn then rapidly matures and also seeks the highest nearby point to spawn another Werechicken. In the late 1980's, in the month of August, a Werechicken appeared somewhere in rural New York at the farm residence of a couple named Zeke and Maude during a full moon. It raided the couple's chicken coop then waited for a human to investigate the noise. Maude searched the chicken coop and was infected by the Werechicken. After transmogrifying into a Werechicken, she terrorized Zeke and left their home to lay a Werechicken Egg atop the roof. Zeke called the Ghostbusters and reported a giant chicken ate his wife. The Ghostbusters believed this to be a false alarm but were keen on taking on any form of distraction from Egon's Weather Balloon project. While Ray and Winston remained on the farm to continue searching for the Werechickens, Peter and Slimer confiscated the Werechicken Egg and transported it back to the Firehouse. Egon remarked it was the second largest egg he'd seen but was too busy to study it. The Egg was placed in the refrigerator. Meanwhile, Ray and Winston were able to locate the first Werechicken and trapped the ghost with two Proton Streams. At some point later, Slimer tried to make an omelet out it by placing the Egg in the oven. This prematurely birthed the Werechicken spawn and it wandered the Firehouse in search of a victim. It bit and infected Egon then left the grounds. Egon transmogrified into a Werechicken but changed back to normal when the full moon was obscured. Ray quickly gathered the evidence at hand and found an entry for the Werechicken. For human victims, the Werechicken transmogrification can be eliminated with Chicken Bane Soup. The antidote calls for one tablespoon of paprika, one clove of garlic, parsley for color, one cup of gelatin, and one tablespoon of chicken bane. However, there was no chicken bane present. After Egon ingested the partial antidote, only his head would remain in its normal state. Undaunted, they went after the Werechicken spawn. Peter and Slimer used Ecto-2 while Ray and Winston drove Ecto-1. They arrived at a local supermarket where witnesses claimed the Werechicken was in the range of 10–30 feet tall. It was soon confirmed when the spawn, now 50 feet tall, marched down 34th Street toward the Empire State Building. It intended to lay its Werechicken Egg atop the famous building. The Ghostbusters managed to wrangle and confine the ghost in three streams but they soon found out their only trap was full, Egon was too busy to empty it earlier that day. They improvised and utilized Egon's Weather Balloon to produce an intense snowstorm and freeze the giant Werechicken before it spawned. It is assumed that the Ghostbusters later returned to the Empire State Building and trapped the ghost. They then were able to exorcise both Egon and Maude with servings of Chicken Bane Soup.
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