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BEAST OF BRAY ROAD- WISCONSIN

You’re driving down a quiet rural Wisconsin road late at night. Fields of vegetation stretching out wide on either side. No street lamps. The only illumination coming from the distant yellow lights of scattered farmhouses. Suddenly your headlights catch something on the side of the road. Something stooped and hairy with a long snout. A dog, you assume.  Maybe a wolf? It’s awfully big and shaggy. But there aren’t any wolves around here. Could it possibly be a bear?

Then the creature stands up on its hind legs. It looks like a man now. A hairy man with a canine’s head. But you see that it has paws, not hands and feet. It glares at you. Challenging. Seeming to look into your mind. Its eyes glow green in the headlights. Then it strolls off, still on two legs, into the tall grass.

In your shock, you’re not sure just what you saw. Was it a hallucination brought on by fatigue? Was it a dog, as you first thought? Could it have been a genuine werewolf? Or have you just had an encounter with the infamous Beast of Bray Road?

The Beast first came to the world’s attention thanks to the writings of Linda S. Godfrey, once a freelance journalist for the Walworth County Week newspaper and nowadays a major collector and popularizer of American cryptid folklore.

Godfrey learned of the Beast during a slow news week in December 1991 when her editor asked her to write a piece about a series of alleged “man-wolf” sightings along a three-mile stretch of rural road near Elkhorn, Wisconsin in Walworth County. Though it originally seemed like nothing but a fun puff piece, Godfrey’s investigations turned up multiple sightings of the Beast and several genuinely frightened and perplexed witnesses. It soon became clear that something was lurking in the Wisconsin countryside. Something stranger than just a few misidentified dogs.

Witnesses described the Beast as looking more like a wolf than a man, with paws, powerful canine leg muscles and feet that balanced on the toes like an animal rather than the flat of the foot like a human. Overall the creature was said to look like a bipedal wolf rather than a half-man lycanthrope.

The story of the Beast quickly caught on in the public imagination. More people came forward with stories. Other newspapers consulted Godfrey for their own pieces about the creature. Several TV shows came to Walworth County to shoot footage. At one point a producer even approached Godfrey to write the screenplay for a film about the monster. Sadly, this movie was never made, though there IS another Beast of Bray Road film. I haven’t seen it, though, so I can’t say anything about its quality.

The Beast of Bray Road is not an isolated anomaly. Dog-men have been sighted in Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, and other areas throughout the Midwest. There was even a sighting in Point Pleasant, West Virginia- home of the infamous Mothman.

What IS the Beast, exactly? Some think it could be an actual werewolf or a Native American skinwalker. Others have speculated that it might be a Shunka Warak’in or other unknown large predator- perhaps even a prehistoric survivor.  Others have suggested it could be a regular wolf that has learned to walk on its hind legs. This latter explanation would explain why no one has found the Beast’s carcass, since a dead bipedal wolf is indistinguishable from a quadrupedal one.

SOURCES

Linda S. Godfrey’s website

The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin’s Werewolf by Linda S. Godfrey

American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends and Sightings in America by Linda S. Godfrey

Mysterious Universe article about Midwestern Dogmen

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An Endling is the last known member of a species or subspecies. The endling’s death means the end of the species as a whole. The word was supposedly coined by Robert Webster in the mid 1990s. The term is used, however, it still does not have an entry in The Merriam-Webster Dictionary despite Robert trying to get it into the dictionary before his death in 2004. The endling for the Thylacine was called Benjamin.

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The Black Eyed People

Modern mythology is riddled with unexplained phenomenon, but to this day I haven’t run into anything quite as unexplainable as the Black Eyed People.

They’re often called Black Eyed Kids or Black Eyed Beings, but what they really are is a complete and total mystery.

Most accounts of encounters follow a lot of the same patterns, though slight changes in each scenario only make the mystery of the Black Eyed People that much greater.

 In most cases, a human-looking being with pure black eyes (including the normally white parts) will approach a person at their home or car, asking to be let in.  They usually have a very dry personality, almost no personality at all, unless they are told that they can’t come in, to which they get very agitated.  Most people describe a feeling of intense dread and fear when in the presence of these Black Eyed Beings, but they can’t say exactly why.  

Usually, the Black Eyed Being has very pale or sickly-looking skin, and very dark hair.  They are usually men, but not always, and often wear all black or very dark clothes.

Not all cases go this way, though.  Some people have been approached in public by these beings.  One woman reported running into a female Black Eyed Being in a gas station restroom who just stood there and stared her down.

The term “Black Eyed Kids” is used very often as a generalization for this phenomenon because of the high number of cases involving children with black eyes.  

In almost every case, it will be one or two children around ten years of age that ask either for a ride home if someone is in a car, or ask to be let in to a home.  They often wear no shoes, and look dirty and disheveled.  They are just as devoid of personality as their elder counterparts, until risen to anger when being told no.

I’ve spent quite some time doing some intensive research on the topic and a couple of key things strike me as important.  I’m not sure exactly what these beings are or where they come from, but in this case, I’m going with my gut to provide some answers.

In every case, the Black Eyed People must get permission to enter a home or a car.

 They cannot come in without an invitation, even if they want to.  In one case, a young man reported a girl trying to get in through a doorway but was stopped by some invisible force when he wouldn’t give her permission to enter.

 Anyone who is familiar with vampire mythology will recognize that the invitation to come in is a classic trait of the vampire.

In a couple of the cases, one involving a man and one involving a young boy, the person encountering the Black Eyed Person drove away in their car, only to see the same person on the street two or three different times on the way home.  There is no physical way that the Black Eyed Being could have traveled that far that quickly.One of the Black Eyed People was caught on security tapes in an elevator.  When the man riding the elevator with him watched the tapes back, he appeared alone in the elevator - no Black Eyed Person to be seen.Almost every story of an encounter with Black Eyed People ends with the person feeling great fear and running away.  In a couple of stories, people have had very intense instinctive reactions telling them to not let the being know that it is affecting you.  In a sense, these people sense the ‘danger’, but have a ‘fight’ reaction, rather than a 'flight’ reaction.  Either way, it seems best to trust your instincts in these situations.Those who have spoken to them say that they often make reference to not having a home.  They seem to be wandering around, looking for… something.  I have an eerie feeling that their idea of “home” isn’t a house - it’s a body to live in.I only know of one story where someone actually did let one of these Black Eyed Beings in.  It was actually the first time I heard about them.  A visitor to this site named Carol who has had, and continues to have, experiences with a certain Black Eyed Person from which she senses no fear.  You can read her story here.  All I ask is that if you have any insight into Carol’s situation, you leave a comment on that page.

So what are these Black Eyed People?  Some think they are demons taking the form of humans in order to steal someone’s soul.  Others think they are vampires, looking to take someone’s blood or energy.  Another explanation is that they are alien life forms, trying to fit into society, and possibly find a place to live.

All are as 'reasonable’ an explanation as the other.  There are demonic traits, vampiric traits, and even alien traits to all of the stories, but not a lot of direct evidence to support any of them.

Source godsandmonsters.com

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What Kind of Creatures are Included in Cryptozoology?

According to Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans, there are 5 specifics that make creatures count as cryptids. From his paper “Annotated Checklist of Apparently Unknown Animals with which Cryptozoology is Concerned” published in 1986, a cryptid can be any of the following things:

“1) A species or subspecies apparently unknown to science, including alleged prehistoric survivors (e.g. mokele-mbembe).

“2) A species or subspecies presently unknown to science in the living state, but which is known to have existed in historical times and allegedly still persists today (e.g. thylacine). 

“3) A species or subspecies known to science but allegedly existing as a natural occurrence in a location outside its scientifically-recognised current geographical distribution (e.g. pumas in eastern USA).

“4) A species or subspecies known to science but allegedly existing as an artificial occurrence (i.e. due to human intervention) in a location outside its scientifically-recognised current geographical distribution (e.g. alien big cats in Britian).

“5) An unrecognized non-taxonomic variant of a known species or subspecies (e.g. Fujian blue tiger; prior to its scientific recognition, the journal [of Cryptozoology]’s logo creature, the king cheetah, was another example from this category).”

In addition to these 5 criteria, there was a note in one paper that states that “mythological beasts will be considered […] if their subjects have direct relevance to cryptids (e.g. the similarity between a given lake monster from folklore and cryptids reported in the same lake in modern times).”

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Real animal or just a legend? What do you think? #cryptid #africa #elephantkiller #paranormal

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Could it just be an aquatic rhino?

Cryptomundo’s Loren Coleman Puts In His Bit

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Interesting story! What do you think it could be?

In 1903, during several nights in October, many prominent and respectable men in the community of Van Meter, Iowa, put their reputations on the line by claiming to see a strange creature in the sky. This creature was reportedly half-human and half-animal with gigantic bat-like wings. It also had a horn atop its head, could shoot a beam of light from its head and had a terrible smell that followed it. One witness even said that when on the ground, the beast hopped like a kangaroo. This creature was later called the Van Meter Visitor. Legend has it that the monster emerged from an old coal mine that is located just outside the town. 

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What do you think? Could this be a real creature or a hoax?

This video of the Lagarfljót Worm (or Lagarfljótsormur) was taken in February of 2012 by a man named Hjörtur Kjerúlf. He stands firm by his claim that the video is not faked in any way. There has been much disagreement over if this video is genuine or faked. While some people believe the object in the video is an inanimate object (perhaps plastic or a fishing net) that is moving with the currents of the water; other people believe it to be the monster that has been sighted since the 1300s. A panel of 13 people, the Truth Committee, came together to judge if the creature was real or not and ultimately decided that it was a real creature.

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Did you know......?

Contrary to popular belief, the Yeti is not white. People that have encountered the Yeti describe it as having brown or reddish-brown fur rather than white fur like it is commonly depicted with.

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During the early 1970s, something horrible stalked the small town of Enfield, Illinois. Although Illinois is already home to phenomena such as strange lights, phantom black panthers, and Thunderbirds, something even stranger briefly haunted the people of this town. On April 25, 1973, Henry McDaniel was among the first to encounter this terrible aberration, the Enfield Horror.

At about 9:30pm that night, McDaniel and his wife had returned home, and were greeted by their two children, Lil and Henry. The kids proceeded to tell him a tale about how some “thing” had tried to get into the house by scratching on the door. Shortly thereafter, Henry was alerted to a peculiar scratching sound at his front door. He expected to see a dog or a cat, but what he met instead was far stranger.

What Henry found, to his terror, was a creature that “had three legs on it, a short body, two little short arms, and two pink eyes as big as flashlights. It stood four-and-a-half-feet tall and was grayish-colored. It was trying to get into the house!” Henry was completely mortified by the sight of this horrible apparition, slammed the door, and rushed to grab his .22 pistol and a flashlight. Henry proceeded to fire on the creature four times, and according to him, “When I fired that first shot, I know I hit.” The beast hissed at him (most sources say that it sounded rather like a wildcat) and proceeded to bound away in long leaps across the yard, eventually becoming lost to McDaniel’s sight as it made its way towards the railroad and the cover of the trees. He asserted that he had seen the thing cover fifty feet in three leaps. Stunned by the encounter, Henry proceeded to call the police.

Upon investigation, the state troopers discovered a series of scratches in the siding of the house, and footprints that were very similar to a dog’s, but having six toes instead of four. Two of the tracks were four inches wide, while the print left by the third foot was smaller.