Wisconsin: Man-Wolf sightings
What the hell is going on in Wisconsin?
You all know how skeptical we here at GhostTheory are. Sometimes we even come off as being too tough on people. For example take the case with “Extreme Paranormal“.
The reason why is because in this field, criticism and misconceptions are harsh. It only takes a pair of fools to slip up and add another coat of tarnish to the the word parapsychology. Most of the public’s exposure to the paranormal has come from reality TV. Rarely do I meet someone who knows a thing or two about parapsychology or abnormal psychology. When I say parapsychology, they think “oh, you mean stuff like ‘Paranormal State’ ?”
So when I first started reading into the so called “Wisconsin Werewolf” mysteries I was assuming this would be a “chupacabra hysteria”. Something with no substance. Then I started corresponding with Linda Godfrey. She’s the investigator behind the these cases. The infamous Beast of Bray Road.
The more I talked with her, the more I start to think: “What if..?”
Drawing by Linda Godfrey
The more I learned that Linda Godfrey herself was skeptical of these things, the more I began to be open minded. Linda believes that what these credible witnesses are seeing is something not known to man. The possibilities of a wolf-hybrid seem possible. A mutated wold that can walk on it’s hind legs? Maybe. A werewolf? Not likely.
So why do people still continue to report sightings of these creatures?
Do you guys remember the “Gable film” & “Gable film 2″ saga ?
Those films only left more questions and the possibility of it all being a hoax behind. Then again we have the single eyewitness reports like that of government worker Steve Krueger from the Wisconsin DNR, who reported seeing this beast eating at a deer carcass he had just picked up. He described it as 6-7 feet tall, long snout (longer than a bear) and pointy ears.
Or like one of our reader’s account:
Eric says:
November 10, 2009 at 11:12 PMHello,
My name is Eric I spent many days {years} out on hospital rd as my best friend lived there when we were 11 until now. I am currently 30 yrs old and I guarantee that this bray road beast is very real. I cant even talk about it with-out tears coming to my eyes. First I will tell you that I really didnt believe in anything like this but this baby is the real deal.Ok there were three of us camping and we started a small fire and suddenly realised that we needed a couple of chairs. At this point two of us left on the tractor with a trailer to make the long trek back to the house to grab the chairs and a couple other needed items for camping. On our way back we encountered our good friend pale white running with everything he had to get somewhere safe! He told us there was something like a warewolf out there and there was no way he was ever going back out there nor back to this area. The farm boy we were with just laughed because he didnt believe in this type of thing either!!! The two of us went out there to the campsite only for a split second and right away the howling began. I couldnt believe what I was hearing but as the howling got closer and I caught a glimpse of what was out there with my spotlight and I totally freaked out, started my dirtbike and my big farmboy friend was screaming your not leaving me!! He jumed on the tractor and i have never rode so fast in my life across a fully tilled field with-out caring about anything but getting away!! He was so mad and scared at the same time because the tractor was not nearly as fast as a dirtbike but at this point i was saving my own ass!! Its true it stands on its hind legs and is vicious as hell looking and its howl is something so scary sounding that its unimaginable to say the least. Ill NEVER GO BACK OUT THERE NOT EVEN WITH A GUN.
I don’t know what people are reporting, but like Linda Godfrey, I believe that there is something out there that is causing these reports. Werewolf or not, there’s something out there.
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Hmm… with all the movies aside, reports of some creature sightings were heard and known long before it got turned into todays not-credible “you’ve been drinking too much today” story, those initial reports gave birth to current cinematic werewolf hype, not the other way around.
Even if you take the path of highiest scepticism, assume that only 1 in 10 cases is worth any investigating whatsoever and all others just mixed up their senses in the dark or so, there’s still plenty for you to work on for quite some time to come, something is causing all those people to say and believe in what they saw, just because we haven’t spotted or found yet means nothing, North America is a large continent, there’s a lot of space for such animal to live in and stay unnoticed for as long as it wants, the fact that its getting more noticed means it starts to get used to and adapt to human presence, instead of reacting like most wild animals do – with fear, quickly attempting to run away – it seems to slowly take raccoon’s approach, scavenging and investigating nearby.
Daily we’re discovering couple, sometimes tens of “new” species of insects, birds, monkeys, sea creatures of all kinds, does it mean they didn’t exist before? No, they are only NEW entries in our list of known species.
Who knows, it may be one off mutation, may be some foreign to those lands animal that got set free or ran away long ago and managed to adapt/multiply over the years, growing or changing accordingly, or it might be something native to those lands that just wasn’t discovered yet… all of the above is more likely than a massive conspiracy hoax ran by the locals and pass by’ers in the works for last nearly 200 years
I for one would love to go out there. I just don’t buy into these stories. On the other hand I would take along protection just in case, so much for my scepticism… Unfortunately I’m in Europe (Holland) so getting out there would be quite the undertaking. Can someone not convince that bigfoot hunter extraordinaire Lombardi character to stake out that spot? He seems to enjoy the spot lights and this could become his finest hour. And of course he can be missed (in my opinion) in case there really is a blood thirsty wolf-man/man-wolf out there.
People always assume that just bc you’re drinking, you’re not a credible witness. How many people here have gotten so drunk that they start to hallucinate. I for one, drink here and there, but I just don’t hallucinate from drinking or smoking for that matter. If I saw a hairy warewolf in the woods, I wouldn’t care if I was angle dust, I would know what I saw. Never in my life have I seen something I couldn’t explain, and that’s why I believe in so many folklores, bc humans beings are not that stupid, no matter how high we get.
“I wouldn’t care if I was angle dust, I would know what I saw.”
Apparently you’ve never taken PCP. I took it by mistake just once and hallucinated things that should have made my heart explode from fear.
Don’t ever assume that you know what would happen or how you’d react. You don’t know anything until you’re there.
Okay, you’re right, I have never tried PCP, so maybe I shouldn’t of used that as an example. The point I’m trying to make is that everyone can’t be on PCP, especially the ones that see things they can’t explain. Skeptics claim that the majority of people who claim to winess strange events are made to feel like they’re not credible due to drinking.
Tazz,
You have a point.
I think skeptics/non-believers tend to downplay the ability of the average witness to observe.
Explanations like “swamp gas” or “the planet Venus” or just pure imagination gone awry, seem to be what many people use as a means of justification for their strong believes.
Sometimes when someone reports a 6-7 foot hairy creature with pointy ears and a long snout, does not mean that they are attention seekers.
I would assume a mangy bear on its hind legs would be an explanation.
-Javier
“Explanations like “swamp gas” or “the planet Venus” or just pure imagination gone awry, seem to be what many people use as a means of justification for their strong believes.”
Glad that you’ve brought it up Javier
I love it how the above, relatively often referred to by the “debunkers” of all sorts of things, is among many other “believable explanations” of things that couldn’t be and often still can’t be explained.
Too often those who try to “solve” given case, remarkably go to even further and more imaginary extents and solutions for an answer, than those who, branded “believers”, initially came seeking an answer to what they think they saw/heard/felt.
I’m polish, living in New Zealand, no idea about typical wildlife in Wisconsin so not even going to try and guess, but a hungry, skinny looking bear could easily be the culprit of at least a few of those sightings for sure
wish very step become me at times
I have always been skeptical of Sasquatch reports, even the one’s i have investigated over the years, But the last report i investigated change that for me. I seen more evidence pointing to a unknown big crature. I can’t say 100% that it is a sasquatch, but so far it’s pointing that way. There are parks here in Vermont that close up for the fall,winter and spring..And that’s when we get the most reports from people walking in the woods in our state parks alone.
Javiar said…
“I think skeptics/non-believers tend to downplay the ability of the average witness to observe.”
Now…..
When the Titanic investigators were interviewing the survivors, as I recall it was about a 50/50 split on the condition of the ship as it went down: Half the survivors claimed it went down in one piece and the other half said it broke in half.
They were ALL there, they ALL saw it. Yet half of them missed it breaking apart as it went down? It sits in THREE big pieces on the bottom of the Atlantic,….. how does someone miss something like that?
….. Credibility is relative, the truth will vary from person to person.
Hell, even if you carry a MOVIE CAMERA….. you STILL might not be able to convince people of what you saw.
(I’m sure the thing in “The Gable Film” is Manbearpig!!!)
…..(I’m SURE of it)!!!
You all make very good points fact is Im a Homegrown wisconsin Boy who is on the hunt for one of these creature. I have had encounters with other things in woods but yet no werewolf. Hell I even made broadheads of solid silver! but in my reseach i dont think it takes silver these days my 500mag will take any animals head clean OFF!!!
If anybody knows something I havent already found please let me
Know. the Twilightbowhunter…
My mother and aunt were in “hunting the american werewolf” for their sightings of the Bray Road beast in northern Illinios. This happened about 4 years ago. It’s a strange story but my point is I’ve kepts my ears open for strange sightings since then. My mother saw this strange creature between the towns of Freeport and Cedarville, IL. Just ONE month ago my friend (who knew about my mothers sighting) heard his friend say he saw a very muscular upright wolf-dear creature in the SAME spot my mother saw it 4 years ago (around the same time of year as well). I told my sister who posted this on facebook, and one of her friends on facebook and he said he saw this thing also and described it almost exactally the same way as the other guy and my mother.
I haven’t seen it but half the descriptions I’ve heard say it’s upright, muscular, and menicing looking (basically a werewolf). The other half describe it as lanky, deer-like, with a very long neck and giant wolf head. (almost like a lama?)
Either way if this thing is paranormal, a misplaced animal, or some mutant, the Bray Road Beast is deffinatly not a hoax.
I realy think that this animal is real. i mean look at the gilbart video i just watched it and i was shocked it was like seeing the 1978 Bigfoot footage all over again.
Skepticism related to stories like this is natural and what we are taught from childhood. My thoughts on this subject are aas follows: Early native Americans talked of skinwalkers, which we know as werewolves. Stories of werewolves abounded in Europe in the 14th Century. Think about the time frame and ask how two totally different cultures with virtually no contact with one another would believe that similar creatures existed. For centuries cultures believed these creatures existed- cultures that did not have contact with one another.
Now what would happen today if all of a sudden werewolves were to be accepted as real. There would be mass hysteria and a phenomena that if such a creature exists then things are as we have been taught since childhood. Our world would end as we know it so governments have an interest in maintaining a belief system where everything fits into nice little boxes. I am not saying there exists some great cover up by world governments to keep us from knowing “what is out there”. I am saying if such creatures exist it would be in their own self interest to remain hidden.
This is the first post of this type I have ever made but one question I think is relevant to this and many other topics here is the following: Take a look at all the missing persons throughout our country and the world. Where did they all go? If these missing persons could be explained by foul play wouldnt we always be finding dead bodies turning up?
I am also not saying I believe in werewolves but I am saying that everything is life can’t be eplained and the factors I briefly touch on along with some others have led me to a belief system of never ruling anything out.