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- Long ago the ancient Greeks
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told the tale of Lycian and of Arcadia,
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a cruel King and father of many children.
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A man with no time for authority figures
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and contempt for the Gods.
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So it was that one night, in order to test
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the omnipotence of the great Zeus
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he invited him to dinner
and served him a meal
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he would never forget, the boiled flesh
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of his youngest son, Niktamus.
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But Zeus of course was all knowing,
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and straight away restored
the dead child's life,
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and in his rage Zeus
cursed Lycian, damning him
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to wander the Earth as a savage beast,
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the Lycan, a wolf.
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- The Beast of Bray Road
was not even my first book.
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I had one that I'd been
researching for six years
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about a true crime poison
murder in Walworth county
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that happened in the
1920's and I really wanted
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to get that story out too,
so I wrote that one first,
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that was my second book,
the Beast of Bray Road,
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tailing Wisconsin's
werewolf, and that really,
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again I thought it would settle things
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kind of once and for all and it just
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brought the whole thing to life again.
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Elkhorn is a very pretty nice, little town
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right in the center of Walworth county,
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it's where the court
house and everything is,
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it has a beautiful town square
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that was the subject of some famous
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Christmas cards years ago.
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It's just a very nice
conservative little town,
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it's just a great place
to raise my family,
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and it doesn't look
like a place that would
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harbor a werewolf.
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- Situated in Walworth County,
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the city of Elkhorn is comprised of nearly
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eight square miles of
land and has a population
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of just over 10,000 people.
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It was founded in the early 1800's
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and acts as the county seat, due in part
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to it's location at the
geographic center of the county.
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Elkhorn has become a thriving little town
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thanks to its proximity to the
nearby tourist destinations
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of Lake Geneva and Delavan
Lake, both home to resorts
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and considered popular vacation get aways.
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Nevertheless the area also has its share
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of local legends and lore.
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- I'd never considered that
it was particularly weird
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but when you start looking at
all the variety of terrain,
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we have hauntings everywhere,
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everything about the state
is what you don't picture
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when you initially here
the term Wisconsin.
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Also, a very long time and
special Native American presence
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that isn't necessarily just weird,
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you know it just makes
Wisconsin a very different
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sort of place and maybe sets the stage
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for some of the other things
that come later that are weird.
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- The state is actually
one of the hottest states
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of paranormal activity, number one.
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I don't know if it's
the Native American's,
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the history there, but there's
also a lot of UFO sightings,
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just in our state that I've
even seen just down here
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in South East Wisconsin,
as well as a lot of other
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crazy things, so I definitely
think it is something special.
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Wisconsin welcomes you.
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- Elkhorn got it's name
because someone saw an elk horn
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hanging in a tree, but it
wasn't from around here,
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there weren't elk in this area.
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So the theory is that someone coming back
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from the west had an elk horn
and threw it up in the tree.
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I guess that's the
rumor I've heard anyway.
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- In her books Linda Godfrey
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has detailed a number of
Wisconsin's more infamous
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tall tales, from hair covered forest elves
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that roam the northern regions,
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to mysterious aberrations
that haunt it's numerous
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abandoned buildings.
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An aquatic monster is
said to lurk in the depths
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of Lake Winnebago, while
hitch hiking phantoms
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have been seen by a number
of unsuspecting motorists
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traveling Highway 12 late at night.
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Amongst all the legends and fables
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that make up the folk
law of the badger state,
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you'll also find records of encounters
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with ape like creatures that
date back to the mid 1800's,
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particularly in the wooded
sections of a state,
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mostly known for it's prairies.
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It's also been home to a handful of cults,
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most often near the city of Milwaukee
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which lies 46 miles north east of Elkhorn.
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Strangely the state of Wisconsin has also
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found itself embroiled in Satanic
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and ritualistic activity over the years,
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as recently as 2011 it
made national headlines
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when two women attempted to murder a man
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they'd lured to their Milwaukee apartment.
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They stabbed him over 300 times
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in what the victim claimed
was a Satanic ritual.
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Then there's the infamous
Slender Man stabbing
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which took place in waukesha,
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some thirty miles north of Elkhorn.
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In this case two 12 year old girls
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assaulted and nearly
killed one of their peers
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while trying to appease
what is essentially
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a fictional internet character.
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Perhaps Elkhorn with its
old fashioned city square
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and numerous churches
has avoided that aspect
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of the states tragic side.
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- People of Elkhorn run a wide gammit,
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we have farmers, a very
strong group of merchants,
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because the court house is there
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we have a lot of lawyers in the town.
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So it's a great mix of people, and again,
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it doesn't fit that stereotype,
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I'm sure there's one guy
walking around the square
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eating the cheese you know,
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but generally it's just
nice small town folks.
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- Just down Geneva Street
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through downtown Elkhorn
beyond the Highway 12 overpass
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lies an unassuming stretch
of blacktop called Bray Road.
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Bordered by farmland and the
occasional stands of trees
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the road runs nearly
perpendicular to Highway 12
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to the south west and
parallel to Highway 43
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which lies just to it's north.
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Until the 1960's, when
the highways were built
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Bray Road was rarely traveled by outsiders
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and we essentially a driveway for those
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that lived along its rough unpainted path.
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- The Bray family started moving here
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in the late 1890's and at one time
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there were four brothers
that all lived down here.
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My great grandfather
bought our farm in 1902
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and I believe he was the
last one of the brothers
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to move in this area.
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- It's interesting, Bray Road
is nothing scary looking,
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it's like going down any
farming road or rural road.
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Because it's farmers it's
all fifth generation farmers,
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they all know each other,
it's very privately owned,
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you can't just stop off on
the road and look around
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because you know one farmer's
gonna notify the other one,
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hey somebody's on your land.
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- I had discovered already
by some overlooked books
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that I found in the library that Bray Road
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at one time was a Native American trail
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that lead out to some other area of lakes
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that would have been summer places.
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- Just the way the road
kind of winds around
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down through here, it
was probably some sort
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of a trading trail at one time.
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Out in the middle of one of the fields,
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there was a remnants of an old
homestead and shack out there
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that had been used for
trading with the Indians.
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- Bray Road is
just over four miles long,
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within that stretch a
handful of country roads
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cross it's path, such as
Brookwood Lane, Plank Road,
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and Hospital Road.
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Coming from Elkhorn Bray
dead ends into Interstate 11.
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Acres of cornfields and
patchy woods are intermingled
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with farms, residential
houses and swampy marshlands.
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In the last 20 years the
only thing that's changed
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are the number of people
that visit the road
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hoping to catch sight of a creature
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that put Elkhorn on the world map
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nearly three decades ago.
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- It was December of
1991, and I'd been working
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for a short time as a newspaper reporter
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at a small countywide newspaper
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in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
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And it came to my attention
that there were people
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around my own home town of Elkhorn
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that were saying they had
seen what looked to them,
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like a werewolf along this
four mile stretch of road
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outside of Elkhorn.
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And I remember laughing
because it just seemed
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so ludicrous to me, and I mentioned it
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to our county animal control officer.
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- My name is John Frederickson,
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I believe it was back in 1986,
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that's when I first became
involved with the whole
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animal welfare, I was appointed
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the Walworth County humane
officer at that time.
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Primarily to investigate
crimes against animals
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and enforce state statutes
and county ordinance.
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- And I said, have you
heard what people are saying
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about there being this
big canine type thing,
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they're calling it a
werewolf out on Bray Road?
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- There was kind of a freelance reporter,
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Linda Kelp.
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The one freelance reporter had found out
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what Lori Endrezzi had seen,
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and from there I believe
it went to Linda Godfrey.
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And I believe at that time I
had invited Lori Endrezzi in
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to talk to her about her sightings,
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and at that time I made a manila folder
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marked werewolf and that's kind of where
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the whole werewolf folder comes in there.
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- And he opened up his desk drawer,
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pulled out a manila file folder
that was marker werewolf,
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or labeled werewolf and at that moment
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is when it became news really
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because when you've got a county official
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with a file folder marked
werewolf that's news.
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- There was the one sighting,
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when somebody was traveling
down I43 right by Delavan here
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and they got off at the
Delavan exit and some large
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creature ran right in front of their car.
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And then there were the so
called sightings on Bray Road.
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- He showed me the contents,
it was notes he'd written
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from people who were indeed phoning him
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and saying I don't know what it was,
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I saw this thing, if I had to
say it looked like a werewolf
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because it had the head of
a wolf or German Shepherd,
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it was huge, it stood and
ran on it's hind legs.
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- And I believe there was a story,
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a mother walking down the road
with her child or children.
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Up ahead the road a deer
came running across the road
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then behind it some creature on two legs
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was chasing the deer.
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Nothing too elaborate,
nothing that could be
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confirmed obviously.
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- I began to call upon
these people and when I went
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to interview them in person I discovered
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I did not think that they were crazy
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or trying to hoax something.
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They came from a very wide demographic,
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they were older, younger, male, female,
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blue collar, white collar.
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So it was a diverse group, I thought well,
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there's something,
they're seeing something.
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I didn't know what it was.
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- A typical report is a
biped walking humanoid dog
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with the muzzle, with the ears,
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about seven to eight feet tall, hairy,
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hands like, I don't want
to say like a human,
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but humanoid hands with claws.
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- It had the head of a
wolf or German shepherd,
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it was huge, it stood and
ran on it's hind legs.
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- They said fangs and the
red eyes, the pointy ears,
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almost like a German shepherd,
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but it's standing up on two
legs, and it's ginormous,
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it's taller than any person.
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- Covered with fur, long snout,
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and it's legs were bent
backwards like a dogs.
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- And just ferocious looking,
something that people say
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is a complete nightmare to see.
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- One thing I've noticed
is that the closer
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in time it is between the sighting
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and their reporting it to
me the more I still see
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that fear response and I
will actually sometimes
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just see people reliving
the fear, they turn white,
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they turn red, they start sweating.
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I've had one woman even burst into tears
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while she's telling me because they still
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feel this sort of visceral
contact with this creature.
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- On Halloween night 1991
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Doris Gibson had what would become known
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as the first publicly recorded sighting
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of the Beast of Bray Road.
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Her experience would launch
a rash of reported sightings
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around Walworth County.
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- She was a senior in
high school at the time
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and was driving down Bray Road,
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she felt like this muffled thump,
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and she was afraid that
she'd hit somebody's dog,
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or ran over an animal or something.
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She said I saw this thing,
I don't know what it was
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but it was big,
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and it started running for me.
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She said I could hear it's feet
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on the asphalt boom, boom,
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it actually lunged for her car
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and scraped its claws
on the trunk of the car.
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And she showed this to me,
I remember examining it
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and they were consistent
with two sets of claws
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clawing their way down
the back of the car,
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and that was one of the things
that scared her so badly.
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- Shortly
after Gibson's sighting
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a Milwaukee teen Tom Brichta would have
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his own encounter with
the Beast of Bray Road.
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- My name is Tom Brichta, I
live in Tremaine, Oklahoma
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on highway C, it was a Saturday night,
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late July, early August
and I was coming home
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from a wedding reception,
I had my friend Scott
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and my friend Chris from
Hanover Park Illinois
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in the car with me, it was very foggy,
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we could barely see two
car lengths ahead of you.
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And we started smelling this funny odor,
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this real foul smelling odor
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like this skunky kind of smell.
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I had noticed a hand
sticking out into the road,
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and my friend had noticed me looking out
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on the side of the road, and he had looked
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and he had seen whatever it was,
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it was huge, it was really large,
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it was whitish, gray and
black, streaks in it.
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It was hairy, it was
reaching out towards my car,
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it scratched a small piece
of pin striping from my car.
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The fingers were either pointed or had
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quite the nails on them, I did not get
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any facial detail but it was frightening,
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it was very frightening.
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And now as long as I think about this,
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not a day goes by that I don't,
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and I know a day won't go by
that I won't think about it.
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I can remember like it was just yesterday.
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- Another one was Lori Endrezzi,
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at the time she was a young single mother
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and she was a bar manager in town,
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and was driving home from work.
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She suddenly, her attention
was drawn to something
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in the ditch.
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- From what she had said
something was kneeling down,
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crouched over on the side of the road,
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eating, some type of roadkill.
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- She said it was actually kneeling
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in a way that she didn't
think a canine could kneel.
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And the other weird thing
is that it was holding
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some type of road kill animal.
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It frightened her very, very deeply,
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and she said that she spent a lot of time
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at the library looking for
what it might have been,
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and it didn't match any natural
wolf pictures she had seen.
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Now she actually, she was one of the ones
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that had called John Frederickson,
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and she went to his office
to talk to him about it.
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- We were discussing different
things that it may have been.
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It was something of the
natural order of nature,
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such as some type of animal,
being a coyote or wolf,
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and there happened random wolf
sightings around that time.
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If it wasn't something along
the natural order of nature
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then possibly could have
been something along
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the supernatural realm of things.
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- He had a row of books on the
shelf behind him at his desk,
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and when they started talking about this,
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the books started flying off the shelf.
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- Not too long into the
conversation some books
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that were up on a bookshelf
just came flying down,
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and there really wasn't
any cause for the books
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to go flying off the shelf.
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So that was the end of that conversation.
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- It was just a one off
story as far as I knew,
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I did this quick drawing
because I was also
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the illustrator and
cartoonist for the newspaper,
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and it ran, and that
was when it all began.
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Within days and even weeks
people were contacting
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the newspaper office, but
the media were starting
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to catch on to it, it was just astounding.
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Nobody expected that
sort of reaction to it.
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- It was a pretty good
joke up and down the road.
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- My family actually
struggled with it a little bit
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because this kind of popped up
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right after my Father had died.
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So my mom was just getting
used to living on the farm,
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in the house, by herself,
and all these lights
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were flashing around the buildings,
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and people walking up and down the road.
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So we went from kind of
amusement to kind of upset,
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to well okay it's just a deal,
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just kind of had fun
with it after a while.
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- I remember my editor
and I had talked about it
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and said yeah local people
will have fun with it
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for a couple of weeks and
then it will just go away.
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And nothing could have been
further from the truth.
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It had legs, no pun intended.
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The story just stuck and
grew bigger and bigger.
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- Yeah, I believe when the paper came out
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and the story came out,
that's when I think the more,
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I don't want to say the
panic, but the fear set in.
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- The people that had
actual sightings obviously,
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I believe a lot of those people did have
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an actual fear of what they had seen.
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Not knowing quite how to rationalize it.
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- Of course there was a lot of ribbing,
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and teasing of people who
said they had seen it.
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The local sheriffs
department's talking about
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silver bullets and
whatnot, and that they were
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making silver bullets in case
they ran across the beast,
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or whatever.
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- Some of the witnesses,
because they later came forward
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with their actual identity
said they wish they hadn't
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come forward with it.
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But on the other hand
there were other people
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who had secretly seen
it, and were then saying,
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yeah it's right, it is there I've seen it.
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- On December 29th, 1991,
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Godfrey's article detailing
the initial sightings
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of the Beast of Bray Road
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ran in The Week a Delavan newspaper.
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Almost immediately the story kicked up
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a flurry of activity around the area.
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Perhaps most notably were a
string of calls and letters
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to the newspaper from witnesses
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who had seen similar creatures.
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Many of the witnesses
were from other towns,
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counties and even states who
wished to express to Godfrey
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the seriousness in which
the story should be handled.
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The first inkling of the
larger scope of this phenomenon
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was beginning to take
shape in Linda's mind,
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even as the story of the Bray Road Beast
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began to take on a life of it's own.
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In September of 1991,
Scott Bray, a local farmer,
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had a sighting of what he referred to
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as an abnormally large dog or wolf
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in the field behind his house.
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Scott described the animal as
taller than a German shepherd
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with pointed ears, a tail,
long gray and black hair,
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and a massive muscular build.
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Around the same time as
the Scott Bray sighting,
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another Elkhorn local named Russell Guest,
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spotted a creature near Bray Road,
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walking briefly on two legs
before dropping to all fours
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in an aggressive stance.
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Guest turned and ran from the creature
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which he described as being
larger than a german shepherd
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with black and grayish hair
and around five feet tall
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when it was standing on two legs.
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On January 8th 1991,
Robert Bushman and his wife
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spotted a large black
animal running on all fours,
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chasing a deer just down
the road from Elkhorn.
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The couple were driving on I43
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near Delavan in broad daylight
when the sighting occurred.
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They described the animal
as being far too large
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to be a wolf but were
unable to give a thorough
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00:26:05,260 --> 00:26:08,163
description due to the
speed which it was running.
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As sightings continued
Godfrey received other reports
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from witnesses who claimed to have seen
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the same creature decades earlier.
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00:26:18,470 --> 00:26:20,970
Strangely the oldest reported sighting
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was also the first to hint
at a more sinister origin
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for the Beast of Bray Road.
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- One of the most
surprising and interesting
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accounts that I received
happened right after
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the first stories broke,
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this happened not in Walworth County
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but in the adjacent Jefferson County,
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which isn't all that far away.
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A newspaper editor called me and said,
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my dad saw this thing in 1936,
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00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,710
and his father was the nightwatchman
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00:26:51,710 --> 00:26:55,390
for St Coletta institute, which
was a Catholic institution
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for taking care of people
with special needs.
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They had preserved on
the grounds a number of
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ancient burial mounds, Mark
Shackleman was the name
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of the mans father and his job every night
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was to walk the whole grounds
with this big flashlight,
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00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,640
and this one night he walked up on an area
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where there were several
mounds, and saw something
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large on top of one of the mounds.
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When he went and looked more closely
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he saw that it was
something that reminded him
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of a canine head but it was
a really large creature,
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and it was digging furiously
in the top of the mound
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as if it was trying to get something out
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that it knew was in there.
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He was shocked, the creature
was shocked and ran off
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but the next night he went back
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and the creature was there again.
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00:27:48,370 --> 00:27:53,370
It stood up, faced him,
and made what sounded like,
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00:27:53,750 --> 00:27:56,793
he described as sort of
a protohuman language,
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00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,410
and what it sounded like to the man
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00:28:00,410 --> 00:28:04,083
was the utterance of the word Gadara.
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00:28:06,060 --> 00:28:09,720
Which if you go to the New
Testament in the Christian Bible
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you'll find that's the
place where there was a man
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who was filled with Demons,
and he was called the Gadarine
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00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,100
because it was in the region of Gadara,
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and that was where Jesus cast
the Demons out of this man.
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00:28:20,620 --> 00:28:22,910
And it's interesting
because I found out later
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00:28:22,910 --> 00:28:26,110
that one of the priests
to the Catholic church
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that was kind of attached to
the St Coletta organization
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had very bad problems
after he exorcized a demon
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from a young person who
lived in that Parrish,
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and then the Demon attached itself to him.
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So you have this whole sort of tradition
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of Demonology possession going on,
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and then you get this
unknown creature standing up
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on an old burial mound,
and uttering a word
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that could have been the
Biblical word Gadara,
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00:28:56,470 --> 00:28:59,373
and it's just very,
very strange happenings.
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00:29:46,820 --> 00:29:49,230
- While Mark
Shacklemans 1930's encounter
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with a similarly strange beast
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may have aroused some suspicions of a more
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00:29:53,330 --> 00:29:56,030
unearthly genesis for the phenomenon,
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it was Lori Endrezzi, the first witness
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00:29:58,730 --> 00:30:01,270
of the Beast of Bray
Road in the modern era
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00:30:01,270 --> 00:30:04,360
who drew a parallel between
the creature she had seen
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00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,220
and an ancient evil.
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00:30:06,220 --> 00:30:09,690
In an interview with Endrezzi
a few years after her sighting
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she professed her belief to Godfrey
490
00:30:11,670 --> 00:30:15,080
that the Beast of Bray
Road was Satanic in origin.
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00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,793
A Demonic entity, perhaps,
the Dark Prince himself.
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00:30:24,110 --> 00:30:26,077
The correlation between the canid creature
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00:30:26,077 --> 00:30:29,520
and the black arts may
seem ludicrous to some.
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00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,730
It was not as unbelievable
to some investigators
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00:30:32,730 --> 00:30:35,040
and it wouldn't be the last
time that a witness felt
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00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,310
instead of an undiscovered animal,
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they had come face to
face with evil incarnate.
498
00:30:42,060 --> 00:30:44,660
- In my opinion there is
a dark side to this world.
499
00:30:44,660 --> 00:30:46,760
So with some of these sightings they're
500
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,800
part of the natural order of nature,
501
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,680
and it was some animal,
some type of animal,
502
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,570
that's easily believable.
503
00:30:52,570 --> 00:30:57,010
Or I wouldn't doubt if it
could have been something
504
00:30:57,010 --> 00:31:00,070
along the supernatural
realm of things also
505
00:31:00,070 --> 00:31:05,070
from what I had experienced
during those days.
506
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,140
- With the Beast of Bray Road
507
00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:12,670
making it's presence known around the area
508
00:31:12,670 --> 00:31:14,670
local media were tied up in a story
509
00:31:14,670 --> 00:31:18,160
that went back even further
then the first known sightings.
510
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,410
That of a local Satanic cult,
511
00:31:20,410 --> 00:31:22,700
rumored to be holding
meetings in the forested
512
00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:25,100
areas of Walworth County.
513
00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:28,410
During the late 80s and
early 90s John Frederickson
514
00:31:28,410 --> 00:31:31,700
was called to the scene of
multiple animal mutilations
515
00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:34,650
including one in which
dozens of mutilated bodies
516
00:31:34,650 --> 00:31:35,650
had been discovered.
517
00:31:36,550 --> 00:31:39,410
While local police insisted
the site was nothing more
518
00:31:39,410 --> 00:31:41,980
then a bone yard for local livestock
519
00:31:41,980 --> 00:31:44,010
Frederickson recognized the potential
520
00:31:44,010 --> 00:31:46,570
for more ritualistic causes of death,
521
00:31:46,570 --> 00:31:48,570
when he discovered many of the carcasses
522
00:31:48,570 --> 00:31:50,940
had been subject to gruesome treatment
523
00:31:50,940 --> 00:31:53,760
that involved the removal of organs.
524
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,050
However, the local police
bulldozed the location
525
00:31:57,050 --> 00:31:59,973
before a thorough investigation
could be completed.
526
00:32:00,910 --> 00:32:03,650
Many ritualistic beliefs
revolve around the notion
527
00:32:03,650 --> 00:32:06,850
of conjuring an entity,
occasionally a Demon
528
00:32:06,850 --> 00:32:11,070
for nefarious purposes, as
John Frederickson discovered,
529
00:32:11,070 --> 00:32:14,035
the link between the Beast
of Bray Road and Satanism
530
00:32:14,035 --> 00:32:18,290
might not be as far removed
as it may at first appeared.
531
00:32:18,290 --> 00:32:21,430
In the early 1990's John
received a phone call
532
00:32:21,430 --> 00:32:23,540
from an anonymous source who stated
533
00:32:23,540 --> 00:32:26,710
that she was aware of
illicit, cult like gatherings
534
00:32:26,710 --> 00:32:28,243
taking place in the area.
535
00:32:29,515 --> 00:32:31,730
- At that time there was actually
536
00:32:31,730 --> 00:32:34,260
quite a bit of Satanic
information that was coming in.
537
00:32:34,260 --> 00:32:39,143
Some of it was obviously
teenager type involvement,
538
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,530
their dabbling into Devil worship,
539
00:32:43,530 --> 00:32:46,230
and there were a couple other places
540
00:32:46,230 --> 00:32:49,830
that were a little more
intense, with an older crowd,
541
00:32:49,830 --> 00:32:54,830
adult crowd, that took the
whole role of Satanic religion
542
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,570
serious and whatnot.
543
00:32:56,570 --> 00:33:01,570
Anything from teachers to
possible law enforcement
544
00:33:01,807 --> 00:33:03,763
people being involved.
545
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,350
Yeah I guess some of their get togethers
546
00:33:09,350 --> 00:33:12,710
at this one location were quite involved.
547
00:33:12,710 --> 00:33:16,120
People from around the
world actually would show up
548
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,770
and they would go back into the woods
549
00:33:17,770 --> 00:33:21,339
and have their little ritualistic
ceremonies and whatnot.
550
00:33:28,150 --> 00:33:29,700
Walworth County I had found out
551
00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:33,220
from a higher law enforcement department
552
00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:36,440
who one day just showing
up out of nowhere,
553
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,270
and introduced himself to me.
554
00:33:38,270 --> 00:33:42,400
Filled me in on some
of the Satanic activity
555
00:33:43,370 --> 00:33:45,940
happening around the entire state,
556
00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:49,010
and I think there was
three of four counties
557
00:33:49,010 --> 00:33:54,010
that were notorious for occult
activity, Satanic activity.
558
00:33:54,060 --> 00:33:56,120
And I was somewhat surprised
that Walworth County
559
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,770
just happened to be one of those.
560
00:34:01,130 --> 00:34:05,810
- The wolf is seen as the
symbol of greed and consumption,
561
00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:09,040
and probably because it
has such a violent nature
562
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,750
it's seen as this chaotic force in society
563
00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:16,480
that kinds of threatens
stability in the culture.
564
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,260
And this is often done
through the abuse of science
565
00:34:19,260 --> 00:34:22,030
or the abuse of magic or technology.
566
00:34:22,030 --> 00:34:27,030
And it creates what's called
the abhuman, which is not human
567
00:34:27,220 --> 00:34:29,464
and it's basically an individual that has
568
00:34:29,464 --> 00:34:34,464
lost the ability to control
themselves and their desires,
569
00:34:35,090 --> 00:34:36,760
and in some cases they can't control
570
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,840
whether they change into
this creature or not.
571
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,840
- I wouldn't discount,
again from my experiences,
572
00:34:44,410 --> 00:34:47,023
and seeing what I've seen and what not.
573
00:34:47,023 --> 00:34:52,023
I wouldn't totally rule out
some type of occult activity
574
00:34:53,510 --> 00:34:56,870
if by chance somebody invoked some type
575
00:34:56,870 --> 00:35:00,433
of a occult type beast.
576
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:10,960
- Throughout history we find
577
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,410
many legends and lore
pertaining to canid creatures.
578
00:35:14,410 --> 00:35:17,210
In Egyptian hieroglyphics
we learn of Anubis,
579
00:35:17,210 --> 00:35:19,880
God of the dead, a jackal headed creature
580
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,730
who decided which souls should
pass on to the afterlife.
581
00:35:23,730 --> 00:35:25,500
In the Bible's old testament,
582
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:28,380
a king by the name of
Neberkenezer was exiled
583
00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:30,250
from his kingdom and forced to wander
584
00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:33,230
the forest and fields as a wild beast,
585
00:35:33,230 --> 00:35:35,163
cursed to live like a wolf.
586
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,660
Norse mythology has
it's own representation
587
00:35:39,660 --> 00:35:42,240
of the werewolf in the
form of the ancient saga
588
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,750
of the Volsungs, which tells the story
589
00:35:44,750 --> 00:35:47,320
of a father and son who discovered pelts
590
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:48,900
which gave the wearer the power
591
00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:52,000
to become a wolf for 10 days.
592
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,420
Donning the pelts the duo turned into
593
00:35:54,420 --> 00:35:56,830
blood thirsty savage creatures
594
00:35:56,830 --> 00:35:59,040
and went on a killing rampage.
595
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,780
Engulfed in blood lust
the father eventually
596
00:36:01,780 --> 00:36:04,440
attacked his own son pointing to something
597
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,220
which has since become a
vital part of werewolf tales,
598
00:36:08,220 --> 00:36:09,803
the loss of control.
599
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,360
Across the world the
werewolf has found a home
600
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:15,970
in nearly every culture.
601
00:36:15,970 --> 00:36:18,810
- In the epic of Gilgamesh,
which is written about 2000BC
602
00:36:18,810 --> 00:36:22,421
you had this interesting
character called Incadu,
603
00:36:22,421 --> 00:36:24,140
which is sort of a wild
man, he's covered in hair,
604
00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:27,520
he's got long hair, and
he lives with the animals.
605
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,950
He ends up battling Gilgamesh,
606
00:36:29,950 --> 00:36:34,950
who's the hero of the story and
they're equal strength wise.
607
00:36:34,990 --> 00:36:38,040
But Gilgamesh wins
because, arguably because
608
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,943
he's educated and part of civilization.
609
00:36:41,792 --> 00:36:44,510
Incadu becomes Gilgamesh's servant
610
00:36:44,510 --> 00:36:47,579
and there's this sort of
running theme throughout
611
00:36:47,579 --> 00:36:50,430
Western literature of
that sort of animal nature
612
00:36:50,430 --> 00:36:51,920
needing to be sublimated.
613
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,030
- In the very beginning when
I wrote the story about it
614
00:36:55,030 --> 00:36:58,130
I was just sort of thinking
what would I call this.
615
00:36:58,130 --> 00:37:00,800
It was a thing that was very hard to name.
616
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,200
I didn't want to call it the werewolf
617
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,690
because right away I didn't
believe it was a werewolf,
618
00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:10,060
so I titled it the Beast of
Bray Road and it just stuck.
619
00:37:10,060 --> 00:37:12,540
But it doesn't mean, I know now,
620
00:37:12,540 --> 00:37:17,280
that there's only one
thing out on one road.
621
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,600
The descriptions people
gave of the Michigan dog man
622
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,330
were no different then the descriptions
623
00:37:22,330 --> 00:37:25,110
people gave of the Beast of Bray Road.
624
00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:28,140
- I believe that the
werewolf lore had to have,
625
00:37:28,140 --> 00:37:31,850
it started somewhere,
and every lore or myth
626
00:37:31,850 --> 00:37:34,410
has some truth to it, so I do believe
627
00:37:34,410 --> 00:37:37,200
that anything in the United Kingdom,
628
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,600
I think we're seeing the
same thing, personally.
629
00:37:42,010 --> 00:37:44,440
- Well anybody who studied
the Middle Ages in Europe
630
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,750
knows that there were alleged werewolves.
631
00:37:47,750 --> 00:37:50,900
There are other accounts
of so called werewolves
632
00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:54,000
in those same middle ages
that were considered occult
633
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,730
and tied to witchcraft.
634
00:37:56,730 --> 00:37:59,300
If you admitted you were a werewolf,
635
00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:03,380
or somebody could prove
that you were a werewolf,
636
00:38:03,380 --> 00:38:06,620
you were dead meat, you would
be executed in most cases
637
00:38:06,620 --> 00:38:09,180
for the years that these
trials were going on
638
00:38:09,180 --> 00:38:10,550
at their greatest height.
639
00:38:10,550 --> 00:38:13,450
- In Germany for instance, in 1589,
640
00:38:13,450 --> 00:38:15,870
you got what's called
the werewolf of Bedburg,
641
00:38:15,870 --> 00:38:19,360
and a guy named Peter
Stubb evidently had fangs,
642
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,680
and claimed to have a
desire for human blood.
643
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,420
Claimed to have murdered some 16 people,
644
00:38:25,420 --> 00:38:28,280
he was put on trial
and found to be guilty.
645
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,250
- There was the Beast of
Gevaudan, probably the most famous
646
00:38:31,250 --> 00:38:33,660
and in that case it's very different
647
00:38:33,660 --> 00:38:35,320
from these Bray Road sightings
648
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:40,150
because the Bray Road beast
would duck and run for cover
649
00:38:40,150 --> 00:38:42,653
after it had been seen by people.
650
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,600
But back in the Middle Ages, this thing,
651
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,703
was killing dozens and dozens
of people and livestock.
652
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,430
It was some real animal, real killer.
653
00:38:54,430 --> 00:38:56,720
- This is in Southern France,
654
00:38:56,720 --> 00:39:01,260
between June 1764 and June 1767,
655
00:39:01,260 --> 00:39:04,360
there are reports of this giant wolf
656
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,863
over 200 attacks, some
half of which were lethal.
657
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,583
The victims tended to be disemboweled,
658
00:39:21,070 --> 00:39:24,653
clothes were taken off, and
throats cut and beheaded.
659
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,960
The death of the creature
finally came in June 1767,
660
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,150
Jean Duhamel famously shot it with bullets
661
00:39:35,150 --> 00:39:37,270
that were supposedly made
from a silver chalice
662
00:39:37,270 --> 00:39:39,236
that had been blessed by a priest.
663
00:39:39,236 --> 00:39:41,525
So that's sort of where the
idea of the silver bullet
664
00:39:41,525 --> 00:39:44,260
killing the werewolf comes from.
665
00:39:44,260 --> 00:39:47,450
- So it seems to me like a
very different phenomenon
666
00:39:47,450 --> 00:39:49,350
that was happening back then,
667
00:39:49,350 --> 00:39:52,050
where you have lots of
predation of both livestock
668
00:39:52,050 --> 00:39:54,460
and human beings, and
animals that were able
669
00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:58,063
to be shot and captured and exhibited.
670
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,760
- In America Native Indian lore
671
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,700
involving wolves and man
wolves has been ignored
672
00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:07,170
by many paranormal researchers.
673
00:40:07,170 --> 00:40:09,690
The Mohawk Indians believe
that some of the tribe
674
00:40:09,690 --> 00:40:12,460
could shift form into other creatures.
675
00:40:12,460 --> 00:40:15,420
They referred to them as the Limakin,
676
00:40:15,420 --> 00:40:18,627
in the Western United States,
perhaps it is the Navajo
677
00:40:18,627 --> 00:40:20,560
who are best known for their legends
678
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,240
of shape-shifting men
known as skin-walkers.
679
00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:27,290
- Especially the Navajo
where you had this evil witch
680
00:40:27,290 --> 00:40:30,410
that's able to change into a wolf,
681
00:40:30,410 --> 00:40:32,170
or some other type of animal.
682
00:40:32,170 --> 00:40:35,570
And typically they acquire this capability
683
00:40:35,570 --> 00:40:39,440
by committing some type
of taboo like using magic
684
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,670
to curse someone instead
of healing someone.
685
00:40:41,670 --> 00:40:45,800
So they sort of contrast with
the healer or the medicine man
686
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,530
so as a result they're sort
of a paria to that culture.
687
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:53,090
- Wisconsin had a great
number of different
688
00:40:53,090 --> 00:40:54,910
Native American tribes living here.
689
00:40:54,910 --> 00:40:56,210
When I asked them what they thought
690
00:40:56,210 --> 00:41:00,410
the true nature of these
upright canines were,
691
00:41:00,410 --> 00:41:04,090
they said well, we believe that these
692
00:41:04,090 --> 00:41:07,650
are not normal, usual modern animals.
693
00:41:07,650 --> 00:41:10,700
That they're very old, that
they were here before we were,
694
00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:13,163
and that that came from the spirit world.
695
00:41:16,070 --> 00:41:18,210
- All of these stories tend to
696
00:41:18,210 --> 00:41:23,210
focus on mankind's either
abusing technology,
697
00:41:23,580 --> 00:41:26,500
or going to a place where he
should not in the first place,
698
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:29,230
or investigating beyond
where he should be.
699
00:41:29,230 --> 00:41:30,900
Typically this awakes the monster,
700
00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:32,230
or brings the monster about,
701
00:41:32,230 --> 00:41:35,400
or changes the human being into a monster.
702
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,850
We have this facade of being civilized
703
00:41:38,850 --> 00:41:41,300
and cordial to one another,
704
00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:42,613
but there's always that sort of
705
00:41:42,613 --> 00:41:46,020
that inner animal that
can surface at any point.
706
00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:50,030
And monsters sort of allow
us to experience that
707
00:41:50,030 --> 00:41:51,723
without it actually happening.
708
00:42:10,010 --> 00:42:12,410
- As time
passed the local reaction
709
00:42:12,410 --> 00:42:15,330
had exceeded Linda Godfrey's expectations,
710
00:42:15,330 --> 00:42:18,383
placing her at the center
of a werewolf whirlwind.
711
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,320
Reporters from no less
than four Milwaukee based
712
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,720
television stations appeared in Elkhorn,
713
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,710
looking for Godfrey, as
well as any eye witnesses
714
00:42:27,710 --> 00:42:30,720
that would go on record and of course
715
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:33,350
the Bray Road Beast itself.
716
00:42:33,350 --> 00:42:36,450
Radio and wire services
carried the terrifying tales
717
00:42:36,450 --> 00:42:39,540
beyond the Wisconsin border and in no time
718
00:42:39,540 --> 00:42:42,410
a modern legend roared to life.
719
00:42:42,410 --> 00:42:45,490
Curiosity seekers arrived
in Lafayette Township
720
00:42:45,490 --> 00:42:48,060
for the express purpose
of driving up and down
721
00:42:48,060 --> 00:42:51,910
Bray Road in hopes of
seeing a hairy monster.
722
00:42:51,910 --> 00:42:54,800
Nationally televised
programs such as Sightings
723
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,840
and Inside Edition devoted
segments of their shows
724
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,930
to the Walworth County werewolf,
725
00:42:59,930 --> 00:43:03,990
thrusting the story into
even greater prominence.
726
00:43:03,990 --> 00:43:07,780
Linda Godfrey's files began
to swell with sighting reports
727
00:43:07,780 --> 00:43:11,070
and she found herself becoming
the unlikely spokesperson
728
00:43:11,070 --> 00:43:14,270
for a phenomenon that defied reason.
729
00:43:14,270 --> 00:43:18,260
And then after the major
waves of publicity had crested
730
00:43:18,260 --> 00:43:21,550
and the attention given
to Elkhorn began to recede
731
00:43:21,550 --> 00:43:26,400
life along Bray Road slowly
regained it's quiet composure.
732
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,860
Godfrey however, remained busy,
733
00:43:28,860 --> 00:43:30,890
the sheer volume of reports,
734
00:43:30,890 --> 00:43:33,030
the veracity of the eyewitnesses
735
00:43:33,030 --> 00:43:35,010
and the persistence since that something
736
00:43:35,010 --> 00:43:38,010
significant had occurred,
inspired her to write
737
00:43:38,010 --> 00:43:40,350
about the entire experience.
738
00:43:40,350 --> 00:43:44,610
In 2003, she released
the Beast of Bray Road,
739
00:43:44,610 --> 00:43:46,160
a book that traced the history
740
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,232
of her involvement in the breaking story,
741
00:43:48,232 --> 00:43:51,080
detailed the most compelling sightings,
742
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,940
and speculated about the
true nature of the dog man,
743
00:43:54,940 --> 00:43:56,750
in the wake of the books release
744
00:43:56,750 --> 00:43:58,630
there was a resurgence in sightings
745
00:43:58,630 --> 00:44:00,570
of bipedal wolf like creatures
746
00:44:00,570 --> 00:44:03,730
in the vicinity of Elkhorn and Bray Road.
747
00:44:03,730 --> 00:44:05,870
Almost all of these encounters took place
748
00:44:05,870 --> 00:44:08,000
as people were driving at night.
749
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,790
Sometimes the canid was seen
750
00:44:09,790 --> 00:44:11,910
streaking through the cornfields.
751
00:44:11,910 --> 00:44:13,850
Other times across the road in front
752
00:44:13,850 --> 00:44:15,540
of the startled motorist,
753
00:44:15,540 --> 00:44:18,080
often giving it's distinctive sneer
754
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,053
that terrorizes those
unfortunate enough to see it.
755
00:44:22,020 --> 00:44:24,660
In one unforgettable case, a creature,
756
00:44:24,660 --> 00:44:27,690
described as larger
than an Irish wolf hound
757
00:44:27,690 --> 00:44:31,100
kept pace with a car for well over a mile.
758
00:44:31,100 --> 00:44:35,693
The vehicle was traveling at
a speed of 55 miles per hour.
759
00:44:36,630 --> 00:44:39,380
While the Beast of Bray Road
and Godfrey's subsequent
760
00:44:39,380 --> 00:44:41,560
writing opened a door for many witnesses
761
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,670
to discuss their confrontations,
often for the first time.
762
00:44:45,670 --> 00:44:47,650
Still others could not being themselves
763
00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:49,740
to talk about what they had seen.
764
00:44:49,740 --> 00:44:51,410
Either they did not want to accept
765
00:44:51,410 --> 00:44:53,680
that such a thing could really exist,
766
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,560
or they were even more
fearful of being ridiculed.
767
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,590
- The thing is a lot of
people stopped going public
768
00:45:00,590 --> 00:45:02,110
with their sightings because they saw
769
00:45:02,110 --> 00:45:04,270
how the first ones were made fun of,
770
00:45:04,270 --> 00:45:06,300
and they didn't want to lose their jobs
771
00:45:06,300 --> 00:45:08,160
or be made fun of themselves.
772
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,810
- As soon as there came out
the Elkhorn in the paper
773
00:45:10,810 --> 00:45:13,840
it went national, now all of a sudden
774
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,560
everybody's looking for this.
775
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,830
So did it die down from
the early 90s till now?
776
00:45:18,830 --> 00:45:21,047
I don't think so, I just
think that there are a lot
777
00:45:21,047 --> 00:45:23,210
of people that aren't coming forward
778
00:45:23,210 --> 00:45:25,790
saying they saw something
in fear of ridicule.
779
00:45:25,790 --> 00:45:28,020
- I'm sure it'd be natural for somebody
780
00:45:28,020 --> 00:45:30,227
to have the wits scared out of them,
781
00:45:30,227 --> 00:45:33,410
maybe just tell some close friends but not
782
00:45:33,410 --> 00:45:35,560
want it to go public
or anything like that.
783
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,233
No doubt.
784
00:45:43,370 --> 00:45:45,370
- As the mystery
of what was being seen
785
00:45:45,370 --> 00:45:48,530
in Elkhorn began to spread
to the rest of the country
786
00:45:48,530 --> 00:45:51,170
theories as to what could
explain the existence
787
00:45:51,170 --> 00:45:53,313
of such a creature began to formulate.
788
00:45:54,290 --> 00:45:55,510
While there was a precedence
789
00:45:55,510 --> 00:45:57,270
in the form of myths and legends
790
00:45:57,270 --> 00:46:00,940
relating to upright wolf
like beings around the world
791
00:46:00,940 --> 00:46:03,230
no one had postulated on the existence
792
00:46:03,230 --> 00:46:05,860
of such a being within the natural realm.
793
00:46:05,860 --> 00:46:08,620
Until Linda Godfrey's own investigations
794
00:46:08,620 --> 00:46:10,293
lead her to do just that.
795
00:46:11,340 --> 00:46:13,470
- One thing that I was
always trying to work with
796
00:46:13,470 --> 00:46:16,680
were the commonalities in
the descriptions from people
797
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,000
and I realized that almost everybody
798
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,600
was describing basically the same thing.
799
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,164
Which was something that
stood five to seven feet tall,
800
00:46:25,164 --> 00:46:27,970
had that head like a
wolf or German shepherd,
801
00:46:27,970 --> 00:46:29,960
I called it the indigenous dog man
802
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,000
because I was reasoning it
could have been something
803
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,060
that was just a very minor mutation
804
00:46:37,060 --> 00:46:42,030
of slightly larger paws
and maybe some sort
805
00:46:42,030 --> 00:46:44,220
of adjustment in the spinal column.
806
00:46:44,220 --> 00:46:48,100
That perhaps it was advantageous for it
807
00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:50,730
to be able to stand up.
808
00:46:50,730 --> 00:46:54,780
If it's advantageous, and
then more of these reproduce,
809
00:46:54,780 --> 00:46:58,040
you know, it's the
natural law of adaptation,
810
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:02,068
that more of them would persist
in these grassland areas.
811
00:47:02,068 --> 00:47:03,992
- In the snow we came
across this wolf print
812
00:47:03,992 --> 00:47:06,067
that was bigger then my hand,
813
00:47:06,067 --> 00:47:07,590
and there were several of them,
814
00:47:07,590 --> 00:47:10,400
and it is, it's frightening to see
815
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,450
something that giant out there.
816
00:47:12,450 --> 00:47:14,730
- They're generally seen
running on all fours
817
00:47:14,730 --> 00:47:16,490
but people recognize them
as something different
818
00:47:16,490 --> 00:47:20,630
because they'll say they
were as big as a pony,
819
00:47:20,630 --> 00:47:23,380
a Shetland pony, or a calf.
820
00:47:23,380 --> 00:47:26,490
- Residents up here, they
know what wolves look like,
821
00:47:26,490 --> 00:47:28,443
dogs look like, coyotes look like.
822
00:47:31,650 --> 00:47:33,960
- Ricky Sanchez
has a vested interest
823
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,870
in getting to the bottom
of the dog man enigma.
824
00:47:36,870 --> 00:47:38,750
That's because a pack of these creatures
825
00:47:38,750 --> 00:47:42,440
apparently frequents his
acreage near the Horicon Marsh
826
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,550
located approximately 100
miles north of Bray Road.
827
00:47:46,550 --> 00:47:51,133
- 2017 is when it all
started at my property.
828
00:47:52,710 --> 00:47:55,230
It all started one night
around one of the o'clock.
829
00:47:55,230 --> 00:47:57,150
I walked outside with a head lamp,
830
00:47:57,150 --> 00:47:59,524
we don't have, like
we're out in the country,
831
00:47:59,524 --> 00:48:00,380
so there's no lights out,
832
00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:05,380
and I saw this large black
object in the property
833
00:48:06,340 --> 00:48:09,740
but beside the silhouette
which really could focus
834
00:48:09,740 --> 00:48:11,260
with the headlamps were the two eyes.
835
00:48:11,260 --> 00:48:13,398
Didn't really pay much attention to it
836
00:48:13,398 --> 00:48:14,607
because it was really low to the ground,
837
00:48:14,607 --> 00:48:15,440
so I kept walking towards the car.
838
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,747
As I got to the trunk of
the car I glanced at again,
839
00:48:17,747 --> 00:48:21,540
and it was slowly walking
crouched down to the ground
840
00:48:21,540 --> 00:48:22,600
but towards me.
841
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,090
So I'm trying to figure out what is this?
842
00:48:24,090 --> 00:48:26,660
So I walked towards it a little bit,
843
00:48:26,660 --> 00:48:30,450
and it walked backwards
while still looking at me.
844
00:48:30,450 --> 00:48:32,860
That sparked my curiosity because it was
845
00:48:32,860 --> 00:48:34,330
coming towards me, the
cat normally doesn't
846
00:48:34,330 --> 00:48:37,067
come towards me, I put
the headlamp on brighter
847
00:48:37,067 --> 00:48:38,510
and kind of walked towards it,
848
00:48:38,510 --> 00:48:41,833
and it tried to back in the same position.
849
00:48:45,540 --> 00:48:47,083
So I walked towards it more and it kept on
850
00:48:47,083 --> 00:48:50,100
walking backwards and backwards
while still looking at me,
851
00:48:50,100 --> 00:48:52,030
and still looking at me walked back until
852
00:48:52,030 --> 00:48:53,960
it reached one of the
trees on the property.
853
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,980
Flipped up, looked at me, now
it's eyes shine at my height
854
00:48:56,980 --> 00:49:00,263
and it just stood and stared at me.
855
00:49:01,130 --> 00:49:01,963
I'm still trying to
figure out what the hell
856
00:49:01,963 --> 00:49:04,170
because now it's higher up, so my headlamp
857
00:49:04,170 --> 00:49:06,090
can't really focus on what it is.
858
00:49:06,090 --> 00:49:08,560
Brought the water in,
brought the dogs inside,
859
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,560
by the time I went back out it was gone.
860
00:49:14,873 --> 00:49:15,740
- For the next few weeks
861
00:49:15,740 --> 00:49:18,870
repeated activity would
occur on Ricky's property,
862
00:49:18,870 --> 00:49:21,660
including multiple
sightings of strange shapes
863
00:49:21,660 --> 00:49:23,350
moving through the fields and forests
864
00:49:23,350 --> 00:49:24,870
surrounding his house.
865
00:49:24,870 --> 00:49:27,760
On more then one occasion he saw not one,
866
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,630
but multiple pairs of strange glowing eyes
867
00:49:30,630 --> 00:49:32,930
peering at him from the darkness.
868
00:49:32,930 --> 00:49:34,950
As Ricky began to search for answers
869
00:49:34,950 --> 00:49:37,270
as to what was prowling on his farm
870
00:49:37,270 --> 00:49:39,470
he began to investigate other sightings
871
00:49:39,470 --> 00:49:42,610
of upright canids in the surrounding area.
872
00:49:42,610 --> 00:49:45,930
Soon the activity would
extend to his neighbors homes
873
00:49:45,930 --> 00:49:48,980
including the house
located closest to his.
874
00:49:48,980 --> 00:49:52,250
- So according to my neighbor,
which is my nextdoor neighbor
875
00:49:52,250 --> 00:49:54,930
he gets up to work at two
o'clock in the morning.
876
00:49:54,930 --> 00:49:57,550
He puts his trash in the
back of his pickup truck,
877
00:49:57,550 --> 00:49:59,510
and drives out to the front of the road,
878
00:49:59,510 --> 00:50:03,250
picks up his trash, goes to
the corner, puts it down.
879
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:06,090
But he's hearing something from the truck,
880
00:50:06,090 --> 00:50:09,810
as he turns around to go
back towards his truck
881
00:50:09,810 --> 00:50:14,150
he sees this dog like, wolf like creature
882
00:50:14,150 --> 00:50:17,480
in front of his pickup
truck pacing back and forth,
883
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:18,503
looking at him.
884
00:50:19,450 --> 00:50:23,770
He froze, it was in a kind
of crouched down position
885
00:50:23,770 --> 00:50:27,950
but not completely on
fours, looking at him
886
00:50:27,950 --> 00:50:30,040
as it paced back and forth.
887
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,390
He got into his truck and went to work
888
00:50:32,390 --> 00:50:34,060
after he got his composure back
889
00:50:34,060 --> 00:50:35,950
because he didn't know what it was.
890
00:50:35,950 --> 00:50:39,423
Probably a week after,
this was mostly every week,
891
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,290
we were outside with a
bonfire me and my neighbor,
892
00:50:43,290 --> 00:50:45,240
and my dad, my dad comes home
893
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:46,730
from Springfield, Mass for vacation.
894
00:50:46,730 --> 00:50:48,320
My dad had gone inside,
895
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,370
so it was one of those days we
decided to just call it quits
896
00:50:52,370 --> 00:50:54,900
because there were too many
mosquitoes and go inside.
897
00:50:54,900 --> 00:50:57,660
When we threw water on the fire
898
00:50:57,660 --> 00:51:00,330
it was looking at us from the other side
899
00:51:00,330 --> 00:51:02,423
of our field of our property.
900
00:51:03,650 --> 00:51:05,970
His eye shine was probably at my height,
901
00:51:05,970 --> 00:51:08,650
but you could see a silhouette,
it wasn't on all fours,
902
00:51:08,650 --> 00:51:12,330
it wasn't starting erectile,
it looked like it was scared.
903
00:51:12,330 --> 00:51:14,720
It looked terrified, it ran.
904
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:16,970
While it was on the
grass it ran on two legs.
905
00:51:19,690 --> 00:51:23,500
When we got to the trail,
it's already overgrown,
906
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:26,830
so you can't see through the
treeline, it's already June.
907
00:51:26,830 --> 00:51:28,400
So you know, you have
bushes and everything,
908
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,320
you can't see, so I got kind of iffy,
909
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,430
I told him let's head
back because if this guy
910
00:51:32,430 --> 00:51:34,210
is either side we don't have
911
00:51:34,210 --> 00:51:37,720
a lot of space between us to react.
912
00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:39,830
So by then I told my neighbor I think
913
00:51:39,830 --> 00:51:41,903
it's time for us to go inside.
914
00:51:54,910 --> 00:51:58,720
- Many people will tell me that they felt
915
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,650
it was giving them a message,
916
00:52:00,650 --> 00:52:02,912
and the messages vary from,
917
00:52:02,912 --> 00:52:06,920
I could jump on your car
and get you if I wanted too,
918
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,220
or if you tell anyone about
me I'll come and find you,
919
00:52:10,220 --> 00:52:13,930
or I'm better than you
are, you puny little human.
920
00:52:13,930 --> 00:52:15,260
That sort of thing.
921
00:52:15,260 --> 00:52:19,660
- I believe it's something
new to the environment.
922
00:52:19,660 --> 00:52:23,310
Why it sometimes preferred
when it was first seen
923
00:52:23,310 --> 00:52:26,070
to first scavenge instead of hunting.
924
00:52:26,070 --> 00:52:29,800
It has not breed to a specific look,
925
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,320
you have so much variations to it.
926
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,370
Paranormal no, like I said, it
eats, it drinks, it breaths.
927
00:52:36,370 --> 00:52:39,420
Can it do certain things that
928
00:52:39,420 --> 00:52:42,090
we might not think is possible?
929
00:52:42,090 --> 00:52:47,090
Yes, but other things that
people think that is paranormal,
930
00:52:47,410 --> 00:52:49,340
for me at least, I have been able
931
00:52:49,340 --> 00:52:52,703
to scientifically figure out.
932
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:40,620
- I've always done field work,
933
00:53:40,620 --> 00:53:42,960
you know gone out followed tracks,
934
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,950
looked for signs, things like that.
935
00:53:44,950 --> 00:53:48,040
But I had the best opportunity ever
936
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,760
several years ago when I
was contacted by a gentleman
937
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:55,760
who bought a 40 some acre hay
field, part of an old farm,
938
00:53:55,820 --> 00:53:58,490
that was adjacent to Bray Road.
939
00:53:58,490 --> 00:54:01,473
He was a retired math and
physics teacher from Illinois.
940
00:54:05,050 --> 00:54:07,390
- I bought the property in 2007,
941
00:54:07,390 --> 00:54:10,103
my farm is in between Bowers and Bray.
942
00:54:11,580 --> 00:54:14,820
I was new in the area so I had
not talked with many people.
943
00:54:14,820 --> 00:54:17,330
I cut hay, and it was ready to be bailed
944
00:54:17,330 --> 00:54:20,380
on a Sunday in September 2013.
945
00:54:20,380 --> 00:54:23,512
So I basically went down the road
946
00:54:23,512 --> 00:54:26,220
to a couple of local farmers, and I said
947
00:54:26,220 --> 00:54:28,500
I need help getting hay up,
will you guys come and help,
948
00:54:28,500 --> 00:54:30,090
and they said, sure we'll come and help.
949
00:54:30,090 --> 00:54:31,640
So they did.
950
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,360
And after we got done, the one guys said,
951
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,760
he said well you know
the Beast of Bray Road
952
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,650
lives back on your property there.
953
00:54:39,650 --> 00:54:42,210
He said, oh yeah, he said, my wife saw it,
954
00:54:42,210 --> 00:54:44,370
and another farmer saw it,
955
00:54:44,370 --> 00:54:46,700
and then he's telling me
another farmer saw it.
956
00:54:46,700 --> 00:54:50,830
The one farmer who had
seen it on Bray Road,
957
00:54:50,830 --> 00:54:52,390
eating a raccoon.
958
00:54:52,390 --> 00:54:54,703
And I go okay, sure, you know, so forth.
959
00:54:56,060 --> 00:54:59,480
So a couple days later I
was driving down Bowers Road
960
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,560
and there was a raccoon so I
took it and threw it outback
961
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:06,530
on my property line, and
go back two days later,
962
00:55:06,530 --> 00:55:10,590
and here the raccoon is cut open,
963
00:55:10,590 --> 00:55:12,775
and the intestines are gone.
964
00:55:12,775 --> 00:55:15,600
- He found a raccoon that was lying there
965
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,270
looking like something had zipped it,
966
00:55:17,270 --> 00:55:21,670
from under it's chin down to
the length of its abdomen,
967
00:55:21,670 --> 00:55:25,360
and taken the insides
out in one neat scoop,
968
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,250
set them next to the creature.
969
00:55:27,250 --> 00:55:29,210
- So then I, couple days later,
970
00:55:29,210 --> 00:55:33,140
I got a badger, it was
dead on the road, roadkill,
971
00:55:33,140 --> 00:55:35,960
put it down in the hole, three days later
972
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,680
it's out of the hole like 10-15 feet away,
973
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,850
and a badger weighs 20-25 pounds.
974
00:55:41,850 --> 00:55:44,290
So I know a birds not
picking this thing up,
975
00:55:44,290 --> 00:55:48,150
and there's no path, the grass
is all still around this.
976
00:55:48,150 --> 00:55:50,130
So what I do is reach
down and take it out.
977
00:55:50,130 --> 00:55:55,130
I said so alright some guys
coming back on my property
978
00:55:55,550 --> 00:55:57,430
and doing this, that's crazy.
979
00:55:57,430 --> 00:55:59,393
So then I started setting up cameras.
980
00:56:00,250 --> 00:56:01,560
- As Lee's curiosity
981
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,530
about the happenings on
his property began to grow,
982
00:56:04,530 --> 00:56:08,160
the strangeness of what he was
dealing with followed suit.
983
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,640
Over the next four years he would document
984
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,740
the disappearance and dismemberment
985
00:56:12,740 --> 00:56:15,510
of dozens of mutilated animal corpses
986
00:56:15,510 --> 00:56:17,493
that defied the rules of nature.
987
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,460
While the trail cameras he set out
988
00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:22,500
were meant to capture evidence on whatever
989
00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:25,170
was behind the mutilations it soon
990
00:56:25,170 --> 00:56:29,070
began capturing mysterious
lights and objects in the sky,
991
00:56:29,070 --> 00:56:31,580
along with other unexplainable phenomenon.
992
00:56:31,580 --> 00:56:33,900
When Lee had a sighting
of what he believed
993
00:56:33,900 --> 00:56:37,350
to be a set of red eyes
belonging to the Beast itself
994
00:56:37,350 --> 00:56:39,450
in a field late one night,
995
00:56:39,450 --> 00:56:42,820
it only served to intensify
his search for answers.
996
00:56:42,820 --> 00:56:45,530
Before long Lee had begun
filling photo albums
997
00:56:45,530 --> 00:56:47,790
with evidence of unusual occurrences
998
00:56:47,790 --> 00:56:50,250
taking place on his farm.
999
00:56:50,250 --> 00:56:54,300
- I basically had a deer
out for three years,
1000
00:56:54,300 --> 00:56:55,723
three to four years.
1001
00:56:57,330 --> 00:56:59,460
There was things happening with the deer
1002
00:56:59,460 --> 00:57:03,150
and the lights, they
were very close together.
1003
00:57:03,150 --> 00:57:08,150
- He had the idea of bringing
a small deer that he found,
1004
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,440
it was a 60 pound roadkill deer.
1005
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,987
- And then a mist came
and like cloaked it,
1006
00:57:13,987 --> 00:57:15,237
and then the deer's gone.
1007
00:57:17,550 --> 00:57:20,600
- The deer set down in kind
of a little nest of grass
1008
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:24,329
on the edge of his property
and when he came back
1009
00:57:24,329 --> 00:57:27,320
the deer was gone.
1010
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,760
He thought aha, it'll
be on the trail camera.
1011
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,170
He looked at it, and at
the time that the deer
1012
00:57:33,170 --> 00:57:34,800
would have had to have been taken
1013
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,603
this strange mist appeared,
1014
00:57:37,460 --> 00:57:39,790
and it was in frame
after frame after frame.
1015
00:57:39,790 --> 00:57:42,730
In the first beginning you
can see the deer's hoofs
1016
00:57:42,730 --> 00:57:45,375
lying there and in the last frame
1017
00:57:45,375 --> 00:57:47,240
the deer is gone.
1018
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,130
- I said let's go look for
tracks, so we go look for tracks.
1019
00:57:50,130 --> 00:57:52,580
There's these five toed, seven pad tracks
1020
00:57:52,580 --> 00:57:55,850
that I have many pictures
of and castings off
1021
00:57:55,850 --> 00:57:57,360
along the edge of the field.
1022
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:00,160
- And he could see that there were tracks
1023
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,230
that looked like large canine prints
1024
00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:04,900
deeply embedded in the soil
1025
00:58:04,900 --> 00:58:07,030
and there was only the hind set,
1026
00:58:07,030 --> 00:58:11,010
and it had to go somehow
over a barbed wire fence
1027
00:58:11,010 --> 00:58:12,560
and into the next field.
1028
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,780
He and a friend of his followed it
1029
00:58:15,780 --> 00:58:18,080
all the way through that
field to where it ended up
1030
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,493
at another road and they had to stop.
1031
00:58:24,410 --> 00:58:27,560
- I've gone to the Field Museum,
1032
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:29,530
they sent me to a track expert,
1033
00:58:29,530 --> 00:58:33,424
who said these are not
tracks, these are not animals.
1034
00:58:33,424 --> 00:58:36,430
They said, you can go to home depot
1035
00:58:36,430 --> 00:58:38,950
and buy stilts and walk around your field
1036
00:58:38,950 --> 00:58:40,110
and make those tracks.
1037
00:58:40,110 --> 00:58:42,470
There's nobody walking
around my field with stilts.
1038
00:58:42,470 --> 00:58:45,020
I tried universities,
University of Wisconsin,
1039
00:58:45,020 --> 00:58:46,403
I tried to talk to them.
1040
00:58:46,403 --> 00:58:51,150
I've tried VNR, they tell
me it's an abnormal coyote,
1041
00:58:51,150 --> 00:58:52,590
and they've looked at the tracks,
1042
00:58:52,590 --> 00:58:54,570
oh that's an abnormal coyote.
1043
00:58:54,570 --> 00:58:57,160
- Lee's farm seems
to be uniquely positioned
1044
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:01,070
to reveal new information about
the mysteries of Bray Road.
1045
00:59:01,070 --> 00:59:03,460
The data he's collected thus far implies
1046
00:59:03,460 --> 00:59:06,380
that the wolf man or whatever it is,
1047
00:59:06,380 --> 00:59:09,700
is only one piece in a much larger puzzle.
1048
00:59:09,700 --> 00:59:12,900
If this impression is
true, it begs the question,
1049
00:59:12,900 --> 00:59:15,390
why does this puzzling phenomenon
1050
00:59:15,390 --> 00:59:20,073
appear to recur over and over
again in South East Wisconsin?
1051
00:59:21,660 --> 00:59:24,080
The phenomenon Lee's
witnessed on his property
1052
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:26,880
also seems to connect some
of the stranger aspects
1053
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:30,460
of the modern day monster
to its ancient ancestors.
1054
00:59:30,460 --> 00:59:33,230
Whether the dog man, if it exists,
1055
00:59:33,230 --> 00:59:35,510
is merely a mythological figure,
1056
00:59:35,510 --> 00:59:38,100
a misplaced, uncataloged animal,
1057
00:59:38,100 --> 00:59:40,820
or something far beyond our understanding
1058
00:59:40,820 --> 00:59:42,810
its presence continues to challenge
1059
00:59:42,810 --> 00:59:46,059
those that seek answers,
causing people like Lee
1060
00:59:46,059 --> 00:59:50,340
and Linda Godfrey to continually
seek new explanations
1061
00:59:50,340 --> 00:59:53,240
for a mystery that might never be solved.
1062
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,650
- I believe it exists, I've seen it.
1063
00:59:55,650 --> 00:59:58,050
I have evidence, I'm past that,
1064
00:59:58,050 --> 01:00:00,080
now I want to to know
where is it coming from?
1065
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,040
Does it really live here?
1066
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:03,570
Why does it need food at all,
1067
01:00:03,570 --> 01:00:05,654
does it actually use it for food?
1068
01:00:05,654 --> 01:00:07,843
That's my pursuit.
1069
01:00:33,940 --> 01:00:36,060
- While Wisconsin
is known for its dairy cows,
1070
01:00:36,060 --> 01:00:38,490
cheese curds and endless fields,
1071
01:00:38,490 --> 01:00:42,220
its town of Elkhorn is
known more for it's beast.
1072
01:00:42,220 --> 01:00:44,550
Yet in the years since the first sightings
1073
01:00:44,550 --> 01:00:47,010
the town has done little
to embrace the legend
1074
01:00:47,010 --> 01:00:49,780
that has grown around their local monster.
1075
01:00:49,780 --> 01:00:53,370
In the 90s at the height of
the Bray Road media frenzy,
1076
01:00:53,370 --> 01:00:56,960
t-shirts were sold, and
today you can still find
1077
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,900
the silver bullet
special at the local bar.
1078
01:00:59,900 --> 01:01:02,830
But aside from the
occasional curiosity seeker
1079
01:01:02,830 --> 01:01:05,510
asking for directions to the werewolf
1080
01:01:05,510 --> 01:01:09,100
Elkhorn is just another
small Midwestern town.
1081
01:01:14,780 --> 01:01:17,880
- I don't know that it's got
a commercial value to it.
1082
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,330
There's a little bit of notoriety,
1083
01:01:20,330 --> 01:01:22,080
but then there's still a
lot of people in the area
1084
01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:23,950
that have never actually heard of it.
1085
01:01:23,950 --> 01:01:26,200
- I'm gonna say that people still want
1086
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:29,350
to turn their backs on
it, for the tourism,
1087
01:01:29,350 --> 01:01:33,490
Elkhorn's not a big touristy town.
1088
01:01:33,490 --> 01:01:35,090
But you've got to remember the people
1089
01:01:35,090 --> 01:01:36,950
that are really interested in this,
1090
01:01:36,950 --> 01:01:39,212
it's a small portion of the population,
1091
01:01:39,212 --> 01:01:42,440
they're not trying to
market it to the mainstream.
1092
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:46,870
- So it's always been a
divided reaction in the town
1093
01:01:46,870 --> 01:01:49,293
and I think that's to be expected.
1094
01:01:52,020 --> 01:01:55,550
- I've had stuff sent to me from magazines
1095
01:01:55,550 --> 01:01:58,640
in the back of airline seats
about the Beast of Bray Road
1096
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:01,432
from friends that are traveling.
1097
01:02:01,432 --> 01:02:04,290
All around the country
I'll have people say,
1098
01:02:04,290 --> 01:02:05,910
Bray, oh like the Beast of Bray Road?
1099
01:02:05,910 --> 01:02:10,093
So it's amazing how
far the story has gone.
1100
01:02:15,606 --> 01:02:18,900
- In the beginning I
thought that the people
1101
01:02:18,900 --> 01:02:21,627
were seeing something, I
did not know what it was,
1102
01:02:21,627 --> 01:02:24,420
and I still don't claim to
know for sure what it was.
1103
01:02:24,420 --> 01:02:27,490
The newspaper was selling lots of t-shirts
1104
01:02:27,490 --> 01:02:29,770
and they asked me to do a
poster they could hand out
1105
01:02:29,770 --> 01:02:30,833
to people for it.
1106
01:02:32,225 --> 01:02:35,320
I was okay with that, I
actually have a cartoon
1107
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,690
in one of the papers that
had a cartoon drawing
1108
01:02:38,690 --> 01:02:41,130
of the werewolf being psychoanalyzed,
1109
01:02:41,130 --> 01:02:43,080
because all the people were driving me,
1110
01:02:44,501 --> 01:02:46,550
you know it was just kind of a fun thing.
1111
01:02:46,550 --> 01:02:48,710
Somewhere in there I came to a point
1112
01:02:48,710 --> 01:02:53,110
where my curiosity blended
with the realization
1113
01:02:53,110 --> 01:02:55,640
that people were seeing something
1114
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,130
that looked like an upright canine,
1115
01:02:58,130 --> 01:03:00,730
and nobody knew why,
nobody knew what it was.
1116
01:03:00,730 --> 01:03:03,650
And the sightings continued
and continued, and continued.
1117
01:03:03,650 --> 01:03:08,330
I'm not sure after 26 years that I feel
1118
01:03:08,330 --> 01:03:11,870
that comfortable really joking about it
1119
01:03:11,870 --> 01:03:16,660
because I've learned that
it runs so deep worldwide
1120
01:03:16,660 --> 01:03:19,070
in so many channels, so many places
1121
01:03:19,070 --> 01:03:20,970
that I think there's a lot more to it
1122
01:03:20,970 --> 01:03:24,453
then appeared on the
surface back in '91, '92.
1123
01:03:25,340 --> 01:03:28,743
And why it popped up in
Elkhorn I'll never know.
1124
01:03:31,170 --> 01:03:33,660
- In many ways
this lonely stretch of road
1125
01:03:33,660 --> 01:03:37,610
in Walworth County Wisconsin
is completely ordinary.
1126
01:03:37,610 --> 01:03:40,020
No different then the thousands of byways
1127
01:03:40,020 --> 01:03:43,060
which cut through the
heartland of America.
1128
01:03:43,060 --> 01:03:46,100
And perhaps that is the
most unsettling element
1129
01:03:47,070 --> 01:03:49,800
in the flat pastureland of the Midwest,
1130
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:53,990
or the haunted meadows of
Europe it can be anywhere.
1131
01:03:53,990 --> 01:03:56,920
On quiet back roads late at night,
1132
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:00,430
or in your own backyard in broad daylight.
1133
01:04:00,430 --> 01:04:02,510
Whatever this creature is
1134
01:04:02,510 --> 01:04:05,750
the Bray Road Beast is an intruder,
1135
01:04:05,750 --> 01:04:08,590
a being which forces itself into the lives
1136
01:04:08,590 --> 01:04:11,410
of those unlucky enough to see it.
1137
01:04:13,231 --> 01:04:17,121
It could happen anywhere, at any time,
1138
01:04:17,121 --> 01:04:19,038
it could happen to you.
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