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The 'Beast of Bray Road' (or the 'Bray Road Beast') is an unknown 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.

Contents

Description

Theories

Popular Culture

See Also

References

External links

Description

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

★ A hairy biped resembling Bigfoot

★ An unusually large and intelligent wolf apt to walk on its hind legs

★ Different hybrid forms between the two aforementioned.
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.

Theories

Paranormal researcher Todd Roll said that there may have been a connection with the werewolf to the occult activities and mutilated animals (which may have been animal sacrifices) in Walworth County.
A number of animal-based theories have also been proposed. They include:
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★ The creature is an undiscovered variety of wild dog
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★ It is a cryptid named the Shunka Warakin (a hyena or wolf-like beast)
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★ It is the waheela (a giant prehistoric wolf similar to Amarok)
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★ It is a wolfdog or a coydog, possibly one that had been trained to stand upright before becoming feral
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★ It is a living example of an actual werewolf.
Another paranormal theory is the Native American legends of the 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.

Popular Culture

The Beast of Bray Road appears in the television program ''Mystery Hunters'' as well as several books and a motion pictures. Articles about it have appeared in ''Weekly World News''. The sightings spawned a 2005 indie movie directed by Leigh Scott entitled ''The Beast of Bray Road''.

See Also

★ werewolf

★ Shunka Warakin

★ ''The Beast of Bray Road (film)''

★ The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

References

★ Godfrey, Linda S. ''The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf''. Black Earth, Wisconsin: Prairie Oak Press, 2003. ISBN 1-879483-91-2

★ Haunted Wisconsin: The Bray Road Beast

★ Interview with Linda S. Godfrey on American Monsters.com

★ IMDB Movie Page: The Beast of Bray Road

External links

★ BeastofBrayRoad.com — Site by Linda S. Godfrey

★ The Cryptid Zoo: Beast of Bray Road

★ Weird Wisconsin (this site is temporarily down due to renovations)

★ A depiction of The Bray Road Beast as the Shunka Warakin

★ A sighting in Quebec? (Photo)