Something unnatural was stalking the Bray Road area in Wisconsin. This beast was about 6 feet tall, built like a muscular man, had shaggy hair covering its body and three long claws on its hands. When the creature is seen in the beams of headlights, its eyes glow ed yellow.
Sightings of the Wisconsin Werewolf
- 1936: Mark Schackelman was driving along Highway 18, when he saw something digging in an old AmerIndian mound. The figure was covered with hair, stood erect and was over six feet tall. Its face was lupine. The hands had a twisted thumb and three fully formed fingers. The beast emitted a putrid smell, like decaying meat. He returned to the site the next evening, hoping to see it again. He did. It spoke in a three-syllable growling way that sounded like “gadara.” Schackelman was a religious man and after seeing what he believed to be an evil creature, he began to pray. The creature disappeared.
- 1964: Dennis Fewless had a similar sighting less than two miles away. He was driving home around midnight when he saw an animal running across the road in the beam of his headlights. It was dark brown, hairy, weighed about 450 pounds and was about seven or eight feet tall. It ran across the highway, jumped over a barbed wire fence, then vanished.
- 1972: A woman in Jefferson County called the police to report an attempted break in. According to a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources investigation, she said the intruder was a large, unknown animal with long, dark hair, was about eight feet tall, walked upright, had long arms and claws on each hand. The beast returned a few weeks later. After it tried to break into the house, it went to the barn and attacked a horse, clawing a deep gash on the equine.
- 1989: Lorianne Endrizzi was driving on Bray Road when she saw what she thought was a person hunched over by the roadside. She slowed down to take a closer look. She was no more than six feet away from it. Endrizzi clearly saw a beast with grayish brown hair, fangs, pointed ears and glowing yellow eyes. Later, she saw a picture of a werewolf that looked like the creature she saw.
- 1989: Scott Bray reported seeing a strange dog in his pasture near Bray Road. It was larger and taller than a German shepherd, had pointed ears, a hairy tail, a coat of long gray and black hair. He followed it to a large pile of rocks, but the creature vanished. He found huge footprints.
- 1999: Doristine Gipson was driving along Bray Road when she felt her right front tire leave the ground as if she had hit something. She stopped the car, got out and looked into the darkness. She saw dark, hairy form racing toward her. She jumped back into the car and tried to drive away when the beast jumped onto her trunk, but it was too wet for the creature to hang on and it fell.
Wisconsin Werewolf Still a Mystery
The sightings continued. There were a number of bizarre encounters between 1989 and 1992. The creature looked like no known animals. Eventually, the sightings died out, leaving many unanswered questions. Big Foot? No, because this cryptid doesn’t attack animals or humans, only the juveniles are quadrupedal and they are sighted in many different places. The mystery of the Beast of Bray Road remains unsolved.
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Sources
Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Clark, Jerome, (New York, 1999)
Unexplained!, Jerome Clark, (Visible Ink, 1999)
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