(post from my old blog)
Strange Werewolf Encounters
Werewolf Sightingsš¦ššŗ
1 - Shapeshifting Werewolf of Texas
Mrs. Delburt Gregg of Greggton, Texas, told of her encounter with a shapeshifting
creature in the 1960 issue of Fate. The other surveyed sightings below are of
creature that looked like man-wolves but no one have seen one becoming another.
Mrs. Gregg have not seen a man turned into a wolf but she has actually came closer
then anyone else in telling a tale that sounds like a chapter from a
werewolf
novel than a real life experience.
Mrs. Gregg said that one night in 1958 when her husband was on a business trip,
she moved her bed close to a screen window hoping to catch some cool breeze
from a thunderstorm brewing on the south western horizon. She heard a scratching
sound from the window shortly after she fell asleep. In a flash of a lightning,
she saw a huge, shaggy, wolf-like creature clawing at the screen and staring
at her with baleful, glowing, slitted eyes. She saw its bared white fangs.
The creature fled from the yard into a clump of bushes as she leaped from her
bed to grab a flash light. Mrs. 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."
2 - Wisconsin Werewolf Sighting
Mark Schackelman was driving east of highway 18 near Jefferson, in southeastern
Wisconsin on an evening in 1936 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." (In southeastern
Wisconsin, several decades later, equally enigmatic beast would figure in a
host of reports as described below).
3 - Werewolf Creature in Ohio
Between July and October 1972, 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." Another said it "had huge, hairy feet, fangs,
and it ran from side to side, like a caveman in the movies."
4 - Werewolf Attack Reported in New Mexico
Four Gallup, New Mexico, youths allegedly encountered a "werewolf" along the
side of a road near Whitewater one day in January 1970. 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. Someone finally got a gun out and shot it. I know it got
hit and fell down, but there was no blood. I know it couldn't be a person because
people cannot move that fast."
5 - Navaho Skin-Walker
Skin-walker is another name for a werewolf that the Navahos of the southwest.
In 1936, in Yale Publications in Anthropology, anthropologist William Morgan
recounted an interview with a Navaho identified only as Hahago. Hahago said
of skin-walker "They go very fast.They can go to Albuquerque in an hour and
a half" - a four-hour trip by automobile, according to Morgan.
6 - Red Eyed Werewolves of Pennsylvania
In the fall of 1973 western Pennsylvania played host to dozens of reports of
strange apelike creatures, sometimes seen in association with UFOS, said to
have (in one witness's words) "fire red eyes that glow in darkness." To be seven
to eight feet tall, and gives off a strong unpleasant odor. "Another type of
creature" investigator Stan Gordon noted, "was said to be between five and six
feet tall. It was described as looking just like an extremely muscular man with
a covering of thick dark hair. Again in these reports, the arms were very long
and hung down past the knees. This creature appeared to have superior agility
exceeding that of a deer. From footprints discovered, the stride of creatures
varies between 52 and 57 inches. In these reports there was no indication of
odors."
7 - Wisconsin Werewolf Attack
On October 31, 1991 at 8:30pm, a woman drove on Bray Road near Delavan, Wisconsin
which is approximately thirty miles south-southeast of Jefferson(site of Schackelman
encounter in 1936), felt her right front tire jump off the pavements if it had
hit something. The woman stopped her car and looked into the misty darkness
and saw a dark hairy creature with a bulked-out chest racing towards her. She
went back into her car and tried to speed away when the creature leaped onto
her trunk. The creature eventually fell off from the trunk because the trunk
was too wet to have a firm grip. Later, the woman returned with a friend and
they had a glimpsed of a big form rising from the side of the road.
8 - Wisconsin Werewolf Encounter
Lorianne Endrizzi had a similar encounter as above in the fall of 1989. She
was driving on Bray Road, a half a mile away from the above encounter, where
she thought it was a person kneeling in a hunched position at the edge of the
road. She slowed down and to her surprise, the figure stared at her at no more
then six feet across the passenger side of the car. The figure was covered with
grayish brown hair, with big fangs and pointed ears. "His face was long and
had a snout, like a wolf." She told reporter Scarlett Sankay. The figure's eyes
glowed in the darkness and they were a yellowish-gold color. 'The arms were
really a kind of strange; jointed like a man or woman would be," she said. "He
was holding his hands with his palms upward. The arms were muscular 'like a
man who had worked out a little bit." The back legs looked like they were
behind him, like a person kneeling." The sighting lasted about 45 seconds and
she had no idea what the creature could have been until she saw an illustration
at the library of a werewolf.
9 - Werewolf Sighting
Around that same time as above in Elkhorn, near Delevan, a dairy farmer named
Scott Bray saw a "strange looking dog" along his pasture on Bray Road. It was
bigger and taller than a German shepherd, it had pointed ears and hairy tail,
with long, scraggly grayish black hair. It is "built heavy in front - a real
strong chest." In the soft soil nearby he found enormous footprints which is
four to five inches in diameter
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