Beast of Bray Road

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The Beast of Bray Road (or the Bray Road Beast) is a cryptid present in the folklore of Elkhorn, Wisconsin since the late 1980s.

Contents

1 Description
2 Theories
3 Popular Culture
4 References
5 External Links

Description

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

A hairy biped resembling Bigfoot
An unusually large and intelligent wolf apt to walk on its hind legs
Different hybrid forms between the two aforementioned.

Although the Beast of Bray Road has not been seen to transform from a human into a wolf in any of the sightings, it has been labeled a werewolf in newspaper articles. The sightings spawned a 2005 indie movie directed by Leigh Scott entitled The Beast of Bray Road.

There is one witness who claims to have seen it morph from a wolf-headed human form into an ape-headed form. There has been other paranormal phenomenon reported, such as the beast suddenly materializing. [link]

Theories

Nobody has yet brought forth any physical evidence of the Beast of Bray Road that would definitively prove what it is. As a result, there are only theories about the true identity of the creature.

Paranormal researcher Todd Roll said that there may have been a connection with the werewolf to the occult activities and mutilated animals (which may have been animal sacrifices) in Walworth County.

Another paranormal theory is the Native American legends of the skin-walkers.

A number of animal-based theories have also been proposed. They include:

* The creature is an undiscovered variety of wild dog

* It is a cryptid named the Shunka Warakin (a hyena or wolf-like beast)

* It is the waheela (a giant prehistoric wolf similar to Amarok)

* It is a wolfdog or a coydog, possibly one that had been trained to stand upright before becoming feral

It is also possible that mass hysteria has caused different creatures to be artificially lumped under the same label, since the Beast of Bray Road does not look the same from one sighting to the next.

It must also be noted that some of the sightings have been at night where the witnesses only briefly saw some creature while driving, thus leaving their minds to fill in the blanks.

Popular Culture

The Beast of Bray Road appears in the television program Mystery Hunters as well as several books and a motion picture.

References

Godfrey, Linda S. The Beast of Bray Road: Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf. Black Earth, Wisconsin: Prairie Oak Press, 2003. ISBN 1879483912
[Haunted Wisconsin: The Bray Road Beast]
[Interview with Linda S. Godfrey on American Monsters.com]
[IMDB Movie Page: The Beast of Bray Road]

External Links

[BeastofBrayRoad.com - Official site by Linda S. Godfrey]
[The Cryptid Zoo: Beast of Bray Road]
[Weird Wisconsin] (this site is temporarily down due to renovations)
[A depiction of The Bray Road Beast as the Shunka Warakin]

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