The Beast of Bray Road This cryptid gets a spot on the list for a few reasons: 1). It’s from Wisconsin, which just seems weird. Nothing about Wisconsin strikes terror into my heart, but apparently they have a beast. 2). It’s got an awesome alliterative name. The Beast of Bray Road sounds very badass. 3). It’s basically a straight-up werewolf. That seems unoriginal at first, but how many cryptid stories have the guts to just go right to “werewolf”? In truth, some of the reports from the 1980s suggest more of a Bigfoot type creature, or even just a crazed bear, but some describe a giant, upright, seemingly intelligent wolf creature. One witness saw a wolf creature with muscular arms, “jointed like a man’s,” holding food with its palms turned upward. The Wisconsin Werewolf! Incidentally, the name “Beast of Bray Road” makes me think, for some reason, of the Bay City Rollers, which brings to mind an image of rollerskate wearing disco werewolves. This is turn brings me to the realization that somewhere there is a Hollywood producer utterly bereft of ideas (more than one, probably), sitting there working on 300 Part 2: 600!, or a gritty, angsty remake of My Mother the Car, when instead she could be pushing a rollerskate wearing disco werewolf project. This is why I don’t believe in god.Photo Credit: In April of 1992 a national tabloid had a mystery out of Wisconsin splashed across its headlines. In a segment called “The Beast of Bray Road” Reporter Art Hackett set out to confirm the sightings of a “Wolfman” in Walworth County. He tracked down those residents quoted in the tabloid to document the story of a hairy man like creature lurking around Elkhorn.

The Beast of Bray Road

This cryptid gets a spot on the list for a few reasons: 1). It’s from Wisconsin, which just seems weird. Nothing about Wisconsin strikes terror into my heart, but apparently they have a beast. 2). It’s got an awesome alliterative name. The Beast of Bray Road sounds very badass. 3). It’s basically a straight-up werewolf. That seems unoriginal at first, but how many cryptid stories have the guts to just go right to “werewolf”? In truth, some of the reports from the 1980s suggest more of a Bigfoot type creature, or even just a crazed bear, but some describe a giant, upright, seemingly intelligent wolf creature. One witness saw a wolf creature with muscular arms, “jointed like a man’s,” holding food with its palms turned upward. The Wisconsin Werewolf!

Incidentally, the name “Beast of Bray Road” makes me think, for some reason, of the Bay City Rollers, which brings to mind an image of rollerskate wearing disco werewolves. This is turn brings me to the realization that somewhere there is a Hollywood producer utterly bereft of ideas (more than one, probably), sitting there working on 300 Part 2: 600!, or a gritty, angsty remake of My Mother the Car, when instead she could be pushing a rollerskate wearing disco werewolf project. This is why I don’t believe in god.

Photo Credit: In April of 1992 a national tabloid had a mystery out of Wisconsin splashed across its headlines. In a segment called “The Beast of Bray Road” Reporter Art Hackett set out to confirm the sightings of a “Wolfman” in Walworth County. He tracked down those residents quoted in the tabloid to document the story of a hairy man like creature lurking around Elkhorn.

7 ♥ / 23 November, 2011 / Source: io9.com
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