Know Your Legends PT.2 Bray rd. Beast

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The Bray Road Beast is
a wolf that stands on
two hind legs and has
opposable thumbs...
The Beast of Bray Road (or the Bray Road Beast) is a
cryptozoological creature first reported in the
19805 on a rural road outside of Elkhart,
Wisconsin. The same label has been applied well
beyond the initial location, to any unknown
creature from southern Wisconsin or northern
Illinois that is described as having similar
characteristics to those reported In the initial set
of sightings.
The rash of claimed sightings in the late and
early prompted a local newspaper, the Dilworth
County Week, to assign reporter Linda Godfrey to cover
the story, skeptical at first, she was convinced by the
witnesses sincerity...
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Most descriptions and eyewitness
accounts are cataloged on Linda Godfrey' s
book, Hunting the American werewolf
The Beast of Bray Road is described by
purported witnesses in several ways:
A hairy biped resembling Bigfoot.
An unusually large and intelligent wolf-
like creature apt to walk on its hind legs,
right up to 7 feet, on all fours feet,
and weighing lbs. "
A berrylike creature. _
Although the Beast of Bray Road has not
been seen to transform from a human
into a wolf in most of the sightings, it
has been labeled a werewolf in
newspaper articles. Many explanations
have been
proposed. Most say
it is an
undiscovered"
species of dog (i. e.,
a prehistoric wolf,
More likely: A hoax built up by mass hysteria causing
people to see normal creatures as this "Dogman". In
neighboring states, Michigan especially, there have been
many "sightings". The song "The Legend" was written about
the sighting in the adjoining states. "greese"' V’ '