Beast of Bray Road

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

The Beast of Bray Road (or The Bray Road Beast) is a cryptid existing in the folklore of Delavan, Wisconsin since the late 1980s. It is described by witnesses in several ways: as a hairy biped resembling Bigfoot, as an unusually large and intelligent wolf apt to walk on its hind legs, or in different hybrid forms between the two aforementioned. Although it 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 has been one witness who claimed to have seen it morph from a wolf-headed human form into an ape-headed form and there has been other paranormal phenomenon reported, such as the beast suddenly materializing. [1]

Nobody has yet brought forth any physical evidence of the beast that would definitively prove what it is, which leaves 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 theories have also been proposed:

the creature was an undiscovered variety of wild dog
it was a cryptid named the Shunka Warakin (a hyena or wolf-like beast)
it was the waheela (a giant prehistoric wolf similar to Amarok)
it was 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 have been 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.

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