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Werewolves – The Read Deal
In the movies werewolves enjoy much of the same mystique and magnetism as their archenemy… the vampire. Both are seductive bad boys, although romantic encounters with the prior are portrayed as carnal and wild, as opposed to the mesmerizing sophistication of vampiric liaisons. It is no wonder young heroines have a hard time making up their minds. Lucky for the parents of teenage girls, werewolves are only mythological creatures brewed up in the imaginations of creative storytellers. At least that was what I thought until I flipped through the pages of Linda Godfrey’s new book, Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America.
Godfrey had not thought much of the issue either until late 1991. As a writer for a newspaper in Walworth County, Wisconsin, she had decided to write a story on local reports they had received of a large hairy animal described as a dog that walked on its hind legs. Her story sparked a nationwide fascination with what was being dubbed the “Beast of Bray Road.” The events apparently not only pique the interest of Godfrey, but of people throughout the United States.
Since then Godfrey told me in an interview via email that she has received over 100 similar reports, and like the witnesses in Wisconsin, she believes many of them to be credible. She points out in her book that the History Channel’s MonsterQuesttelevision show put several witnesses with similar accounts to the test using a polygraph. They all passed.
As for the nature of these creatures, she has not found that the reports fit the traditional ideas of werewolves that we see in films. Godfrey wrote me:
I do not believe the upright canines are shapeshifting humans, but rather: 1. Some type of wolf or wolf/dog that has adapted to walk bipedally when it wants. 2. As explained to me by some Native Americans, a “spirit” creature that can move between worlds (dimensions?) but is fully corporeal when here with us.
Read more here: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/250620-Werewolves-the-real-deal
Let me guess, I should buy this book? Another AD disguised as information.
The Read Deal eh? HAHAHA! Don’t quit your day job moron.
idiots – the real deal
onya mort, keep up the stupid