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Werewolves and Vampires, Oh My!
Topic Started: Feb 1 2009, 11:28 AM (262 Views)
hunter207
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So I have heard countless tales of vampires and werewolves, but I was surprised to find that people actually witness what they believe to be real vampires and werewolves... one famous story (made into a SciFi channel movie) is the beast on bray road...
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The Beast of Bray Road (or the Bray Road Beast) is a cryptozoological creature first reported in the 1980s on a rural road outside of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The same label has been applied well beyond the initial location, to any unknown creature from southern Wisconsin or northern Illinois that is described as having similar characteristics to those reported in the initial set of sightings.

Bray Road itself is a quiet country road near the community of Elkhorn, Wisconsin. The rash of claimed sightings in the late 1980s and early 1990s prompted a local newspaper, the Walworth County Week, to assign reporter Linda Godfrey to cover the story. Godfrey initially was skeptical, but later became convinced of the sincerity of the witnesses. Her series of articles later became a book entitled "The Beast of Bray Road: Trailing Wisconsin's Werewolf".

Description

The Beast of Bray Road is described by purported witnesses in several ways:

* A hairy biped resembling Bigfoot.
* An unusually large and intelligent wolf-like creature apt to walk on its hind legs, right up to 7 feet, on all fours 2-4 feet, and weighing 400-700 lbs.
* A bear-like creature.

Although the Beast of Bray Road has not been seen to transform from a human into a wolf in most of the sightings, it has been labeled a werewolf in newspaper articles.

Explanations

Paranormal researcher Todd Roll said that there may have been a connection with the werewolf to occult activities involving mutilated animals in Walworth County.[1]

A number of animal-based theories have also been proposed. They include:

* The creature is an undiscovered variety of wild dog.
* It is a cryptid named the Shunka Warakin (a hyena or wolf-like beast).
* It is the waheela (a giant prehistoric wolf similar to Amarok).
* It is a wolfdog or a coydog, possibly one that had been trained to stand upright before becoming feral.
* It is a living example of an actual werewolf.
* It is a cryptid named the Wendigo.
* It is related to Native American traditions of skin-walkers.

It is also possible that mass hysteria has caused different creatures to be artificially lumped under the same label, since the Beast of Bray Road does not look the same from one sighting to the next. Concurrently with the sightings in Wisconsin, there was a rash of similar encounters in the neighboring state of Michigan. Following the release of "The Legend", a popular song about the Michigan Dogman in 1987, author Steve Cook received dozens of reports, including photograph and film evidence of the creature. There is no known link between the sightings in adjoining states, other than the similarity of the creature described.

Popular Culture

The Beast of Bray Road appears in the television program Mystery Hunters as well as several books and a motion picture. Articles about it have appeared in Weekly World News. The sightings spawned a 2005 exploitation movie directed by Leigh Scott entitled The Beast of Bray Road. The History Channel's TV series MonsterQuest launched an investigation on the beast, in which all witnesses were subjected to lie detector tests. The polygraph administrator could find no indication that any of the witnesses had fabricated their stories. In addition, an expedition found a large nest-like clearing in a bed of saw grass that seemed to be eaten ,an unusual food source because of the sharp serrations, along with several hair samples, identified as belonging to a black bear but that could not discount the footprints they found that seemed to bipedal and the nest in the eaten saw grass that bears don't eat in the first place.
Who knows... maybe theres more than bears stalking us in the night! "girlwolf"
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haha.......maybe so "Vampire1" "girlwolf"
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Cool read, thanx Hunter!

Stories tend to pop up just at the right time, throughout the ages society needs to blame something or are trying to graps at answers to explain such things. On that note the same stories where fabricated from what was known and used to create to scare kids, (wives tales) etc to teach their kids about the unknown or proven to portray the life outside at certain times and seasons. To protect their young they used fabricated tales of wonder to teach of lifes dangers etc.

Pardon my correlation but Manson said "If I had my way, you be all dead". i reckon the same thing about Werewolfs and Vampires, as they are portrayed in Hollywood anyways.

I loved this read lotsa new stuff to me and history Ill be happy to look into!


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Great read! I've read "Hunt For The American Werewolf" by Linda Goddfrey, and I'm still looking for her book on the Beast of Bray Road.
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While I've never heard of the "Beast of Bray road" "The Book" ..now you've spiked my interest and i will have to search for it. :lmao:

I'm sure there are many species we still haven't discovered. Whatever it is the hype that it's been given could be the ruination of ever finding it.
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Feb 2 2009, 09:13 AM
While I've never heard of the "Beast of Bray road" "The Book" ..now you've spiked my interest and i will have to search for it. :lmao:

I'm sure there are many species we still haven't discovered. Whatever it is the hype that it's been given could be the ruination of ever finding it.
Well I kinda get the feeling that allot that the ancient people wrote down may be real... that is, stuff dealing with earth, not all powerful deities... for example, like the dragon every single society through out history had tales about people rising from the dead and sucking the life force of the living... what did they believe the life force was? Why blood of course...
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I have to admit, for reasons of my own, I do believe in werewolves.
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