How many werewolf sightings are there

Gregg said "I watched for the animal to come out of the bushes, but after a short time, instead of a great shaggy wolf running out, the figure of an extremely tall man suddenly parted the thick foliage and walked hurriedly down the road, disappearing into the darkness. Mark Schackelman was driving east of highway 18 near Jefferson, in southeastern Wisconsin on an evening in when he saw a figure digging in an Indian mound. He saw a hair covered creature that is over six feet tall with both ape-like and dog-like features with pointed ears standing erect.

Its hands have shriveled thumb and a forefinger on each and also three fully formed fingers. Schackelman went back to the sighting the next evening hoping to see the creature again and he did.

The creature was making "neo-human" sounds with a three syllable growling. Years later, his son who is a Kenosha newspaper editor, wrote that his "father's first thought was that it must be something satanic. Between July and October , a number of residents of Ohio allegedly saw a werewolf-like creature.

Some people reported encountering a six to eight-foot tall creature that a witness described as "human, with an oversized, wolf-like head, and an elongated nose. Four Gallup, New Mexico, youths allegedly encountered a "werewolf" along the side of a road near Whitewater one day in January One witness reported "It was about five feet seven, and I was surprised it could go so fast.

At first I thought my friends were playing a joke on me, but when I found out they weren't, I was scared! We rolled up the windows real fast and lock the doors of the cars. I started driving faster, about 60, but it was hard because that highway had a lot of sharp turns. When the hunters closed in they found not a wolf, but Stubbe.

Stubbe was tortured and confessed to killing one man, two pregnant women, and thirteen children. According to a pamphlet circulated in London the next year, he further told his captors that he had made a pact with the devil when he was years-old, exchanging his soul for various worldly pleasures. He used it to commit any number of atrocities, including incest, murder, and cannibalism. He was executed on October 31, , horribly and gruesomely.

He was lashed to a wheel while the flesh was torn from him with heated pincers, all his limbs were broken, he was decapitated, and as a final step, his body was burned. His mistress and daughter were also accused of incest and were burned alive. Local law authorities concluded it must be the work of a werewolf and encouraged the citizenry to be on the lookout for, and to hunt, the wolf.

A group of men from near Dole were doing just that when they spotted what appeared to be a werewolf looming over the body of a child.

Likely after torture, he confessed at his trial, saying he had been visited by a ghost or demon which had given him an ointment that would turn him into a wolf. He confessed to killing and eating several children who had ventured into the woods and said he shared the meat with his wife.

Garnier was found guilty of witchcraft and lycanthropy and was burned at the stake. If you get lost, ask a werewolf for directions. Lucy R I am convinced that there are such things as werewolves.

Walking on Cannock Chase gives me the creeps. I got lost in there once and it was so scary. There are also witches covens there. Nick Duffy Thanks for the vote of confidence Steven!!! The cheque is in the post mate!! What we would like to stress on this matter is the fact that the original press articles - at the time of the werewolf furore a few years ago - greatly mis-represented our involvement in the case.

We were only ever contacted by one man who said that he'd seen such a creature on the Chase - with a friend, many years ago - but the Cannock media subsequently credited us with a 'mass' of such reports! Through no fault of ours, I hasten to add. Sadly, this erroneous reporting was later carried on into other newspapers - and then websites - blowing the matter out of all proportion. Following the mass of interest shown over our involvement in this case, we were contacted by the absolutely lovely, it has to be said!

Lionel Fanthorpe for information on the matter. She conveys the softness and firmness of a good kindergarten teacher — indeed, before turning to full-time cryptozoology, she spent years as a public school art teacher.

Folded across a living-room banister is a patchwork quilt sewn by her sister-in-law Nancy showing a line of trees and a Bigfoot. Her shelves hold a Ghostbustery electromagnet-field reader, a perfectly round stone supposedly containing the spirit of an ancient sprite and a pair of wooden sculptures, one of Bigfoot, one of an upright canine.

For more than a decade, she worked for The Week, a small weekly newspaper outside Lake Geneva, writing human-interest features and drawing the editorial cartoons. Her career as a cryptozoologist began with the dog man. Or as she would know him, the Beast of Bray Road. She began hearing about a werewolf-like canine stalking Elkhorn. She had never heard of cryptozoology. No one was more surprised than me when we began getting a ton of response. Though she continued on as a workaday journalist, her story of the Beast of Bray Road nipped at her heels.

Not a week went by without a request to investigate some other strange animal. Thirty years later she is still getting notes like that. She wonders if people are seeing animals with wounded limbs; she wonders if people are witnessing a still-undiscovered sub-species. This is not capital 'T' truth. Because the more interesting thing here is why Bob down the block believes in a Bigfoot and what that belief says about him.

Before investigating anything, she background-checks the sources of the reports. But, in her latest book, she places a werewolf sighting by guards at the Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago in the context of a long, widespread history of upright canines on military bases.