Beast of Bray Road

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Creature

Name:	Beast of Bray Road'
Classification
Grouping:	Local legend
Sub Grouping:	hybrid/Werewolf
Data
First Reported:	1980s

Country:	United States
Region:	Elkhorn, Wisconsin
Status:	Local legend

The Beast of Bray Road (or the Bray Road Beast) is an unknown creature reported to live in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. It has been sighted several times since the late 1980s.

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

[edit] 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 most of the sightings, it has been labeled a werewolf in newspaper articles. 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. [1]

[edit] Theories

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.

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

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

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.

[edit] Popular Culture

The Beast of Bray Road appears in the television program Mystery Hunters as well as several books and a motion picture. Articles about it have appeared in Weekly World News. The sightings spawned a 2005 indie movie directed by Leigh Scott entitled The Beast of Bray Road.