0 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:15,000 **Like, Share and Follow our Instagram @Layarkaca21indo.id for Support** 1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:03,947 (ominous music) 2 00:00:46,798 --> 00:00:49,465 (clock ticking) 3 00:00:59,559 --> 00:01:02,476 (thunder cracking) 4 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:07,240 - [Narrator] Long ago the ancient Greeks 5 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:09,780 told the tale of Lycian and of Arcadia, 6 00:01:09,780 --> 00:01:12,850 a cruel King and father of many children. 7 00:01:12,850 --> 00:01:15,740 A man with no time for authority figures 8 00:01:15,740 --> 00:01:18,210 and contempt for the Gods. 9 00:01:18,210 --> 00:01:21,030 So it was that one night, in order to test 10 00:01:21,030 --> 00:01:23,250 the omnipotence of the great Zeus 11 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:26,180 he invited him to dinner and served him a meal 12 00:01:26,180 --> 00:01:29,330 he would never forget, the boiled flesh 13 00:01:29,330 --> 00:01:31,703 of his youngest son, Niktamus. 14 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,690 But Zeus of course was all knowing, 15 00:01:35,690 --> 00:01:38,263 and straight away restored the dead child's life, 16 00:01:41,510 --> 00:01:44,591 and in his rage Zeus cursed Lycian, damning him 17 00:01:44,591 --> 00:01:48,520 to wander the Earth as a savage beast, 18 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:50,040 the Lycan, a wolf. 19 00:01:55,329 --> 00:01:57,912 (wolf howling) 20 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:54,950 - The Beast of Bray Road was not even my first book. 21 00:03:54,950 --> 00:03:57,870 I had one that I'd been researching for six years 22 00:03:57,870 --> 00:04:02,870 about a true crime poison murder in Walworth county 23 00:04:03,190 --> 00:04:06,400 that happened in the 1920's and I really wanted 24 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,270 to get that story out too, so I wrote that one first, 25 00:04:09,270 --> 00:04:11,450 that was my second book, the Beast of Bray Road, 26 00:04:11,450 --> 00:04:14,700 tailing Wisconsin's werewolf, and that really, 27 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:16,910 again I thought it would settle things 28 00:04:16,910 --> 00:04:18,620 kind of once and for all and it just 29 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:20,697 brought the whole thing to life again. 30 00:04:20,697 --> 00:04:23,400 (dramatic music) 31 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,690 Elkhorn is a very pretty nice, little town 32 00:04:27,690 --> 00:04:29,460 right in the center of Walworth county, 33 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:32,330 it's where the court house and everything is, 34 00:04:32,330 --> 00:04:34,170 it has a beautiful town square 35 00:04:34,170 --> 00:04:35,790 that was the subject of some famous 36 00:04:35,790 --> 00:04:38,760 Christmas cards years ago. 37 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,989 It's just a very nice conservative little town, 38 00:04:41,989 --> 00:04:44,070 it's just a great place to raise my family, 39 00:04:44,070 --> 00:04:46,700 and it doesn't look like a place that would 40 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:48,023 harbor a werewolf. 41 00:04:49,630 --> 00:04:51,680 - [Narrator] Situated in Walworth County, 42 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,850 the city of Elkhorn is comprised of nearly 43 00:04:53,850 --> 00:04:56,860 eight square miles of land and has a population 44 00:04:56,860 --> 00:04:58,603 of just over 10,000 people. 45 00:04:59,554 --> 00:05:01,760 It was founded in the early 1800's 46 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,080 and acts as the county seat, due in part 47 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,830 to it's location at the geographic center of the county. 48 00:05:07,830 --> 00:05:10,450 Elkhorn has become a thriving little town 49 00:05:10,450 --> 00:05:13,690 thanks to its proximity to the nearby tourist destinations 50 00:05:13,690 --> 00:05:17,950 of Lake Geneva and Delavan Lake, both home to resorts 51 00:05:17,950 --> 00:05:20,680 and considered popular vacation get aways. 52 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,640 Nevertheless the area also has its share 53 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,330 of local legends and lore. 54 00:05:26,330 --> 00:05:29,750 - I'd never considered that it was particularly weird 55 00:05:29,750 --> 00:05:33,490 but when you start looking at all the variety of terrain, 56 00:05:33,490 --> 00:05:35,990 we have hauntings everywhere, 57 00:05:35,990 --> 00:05:40,540 everything about the state is what you don't picture 58 00:05:40,540 --> 00:05:43,397 when you initially here the term Wisconsin. 59 00:05:43,397 --> 00:05:48,397 Also, a very long time and special Native American presence 60 00:05:48,970 --> 00:05:51,300 that isn't necessarily just weird, 61 00:05:51,300 --> 00:05:54,080 you know it just makes Wisconsin a very different 62 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,320 sort of place and maybe sets the stage 63 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,320 for some of the other things that come later that are weird. 64 00:06:00,332 --> 00:06:02,670 - The state is actually one of the hottest states 65 00:06:02,670 --> 00:06:06,010 of paranormal activity, number one. 66 00:06:06,010 --> 00:06:09,570 I don't know if it's the Native American's, 67 00:06:09,570 --> 00:06:14,450 the history there, but there's also a lot of UFO sightings, 68 00:06:14,450 --> 00:06:17,060 just in our state that I've even seen just down here 69 00:06:17,060 --> 00:06:20,460 in South East Wisconsin, as well as a lot of other 70 00:06:20,460 --> 00:06:25,460 crazy things, so I definitely think it is something special. 71 00:06:25,780 --> 00:06:27,190 Wisconsin welcomes you. 72 00:06:27,190 --> 00:06:30,950 - Elkhorn got it's name because someone saw an elk horn 73 00:06:30,950 --> 00:06:33,490 hanging in a tree, but it wasn't from around here, 74 00:06:33,490 --> 00:06:35,360 there weren't elk in this area. 75 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:37,803 So the theory is that someone coming back 76 00:06:37,803 --> 00:06:41,280 from the west had an elk horn and threw it up in the tree. 77 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:44,273 I guess that's the rumor I've heard anyway. 78 00:06:46,250 --> 00:06:48,130 - [Narrator] In her books Linda Godfrey 79 00:06:48,130 --> 00:06:50,780 has detailed a number of Wisconsin's more infamous 80 00:06:50,780 --> 00:06:53,440 tall tales, from hair covered forest elves 81 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,300 that roam the northern regions, 82 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:58,170 to mysterious aberrations that haunt it's numerous 83 00:06:58,170 --> 00:06:59,920 abandoned buildings. 84 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,410 An aquatic monster is said to lurk in the depths 85 00:07:02,410 --> 00:07:05,650 of Lake Winnebago, while hitch hiking phantoms 86 00:07:05,650 --> 00:07:08,410 have been seen by a number of unsuspecting motorists 87 00:07:08,410 --> 00:07:10,813 traveling Highway 12 late at night. 88 00:07:14,503 --> 00:07:16,550 Amongst all the legends and fables 89 00:07:16,550 --> 00:07:19,210 that make up the folk law of the badger state, 90 00:07:19,210 --> 00:07:21,280 you'll also find records of encounters 91 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,330 with ape like creatures that date back to the mid 1800's, 92 00:07:25,330 --> 00:07:28,020 particularly in the wooded sections of a state, 93 00:07:28,020 --> 00:07:30,160 mostly known for it's prairies. 94 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,190 It's also been home to a handful of cults, 95 00:07:33,190 --> 00:07:35,600 most often near the city of Milwaukee 96 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,340 which lies 46 miles north east of Elkhorn. 97 00:07:39,340 --> 00:07:41,940 Strangely the state of Wisconsin has also 98 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:44,200 found itself embroiled in Satanic 99 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,080 and ritualistic activity over the years, 100 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,290 as recently as 2011 it made national headlines 101 00:07:50,290 --> 00:07:52,570 when two women attempted to murder a man 102 00:07:52,570 --> 00:07:55,090 they'd lured to their Milwaukee apartment. 103 00:07:55,090 --> 00:07:57,560 They stabbed him over 300 times 104 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,480 in what the victim claimed was a Satanic ritual. 105 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:04,200 Then there's the infamous Slender Man stabbing 106 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,840 which took place in waukesha, 107 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:07,863 some thirty miles north of Elkhorn. 108 00:08:08,910 --> 00:08:11,510 In this case two 12 year old girls 109 00:08:11,510 --> 00:08:14,000 assaulted and nearly killed one of their peers 110 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,590 while trying to appease what is essentially 111 00:08:16,590 --> 00:08:19,270 a fictional internet character. 112 00:08:19,270 --> 00:08:22,820 Perhaps Elkhorn with its old fashioned city square 113 00:08:22,820 --> 00:08:25,830 and numerous churches has avoided that aspect 114 00:08:25,830 --> 00:08:27,763 of the states tragic side. 115 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,630 - People of Elkhorn run a wide gammit, 116 00:08:33,630 --> 00:08:38,630 we have farmers, a very strong group of merchants, 117 00:08:39,510 --> 00:08:40,640 because the court house is there 118 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,030 we have a lot of lawyers in the town. 119 00:08:44,030 --> 00:08:48,040 So it's a great mix of people, and again, 120 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,510 it doesn't fit that stereotype, 121 00:08:49,510 --> 00:08:51,240 I'm sure there's one guy walking around the square 122 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,060 eating the cheese you know, 123 00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:57,483 but generally it's just nice small town folks. 124 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,710 - [Narrator] Just down Geneva Street 125 00:09:08,710 --> 00:09:12,900 through downtown Elkhorn beyond the Highway 12 overpass 126 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:17,190 lies an unassuming stretch of blacktop called Bray Road. 127 00:09:17,190 --> 00:09:21,120 Bordered by farmland and the occasional stands of trees 128 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,910 the road runs nearly perpendicular to Highway 12 129 00:09:23,910 --> 00:09:27,780 to the south west and parallel to Highway 43 130 00:09:27,780 --> 00:09:29,653 which lies just to it's north. 131 00:09:30,850 --> 00:09:34,230 Until the 1960's, when the highways were built 132 00:09:34,230 --> 00:09:37,170 Bray Road was rarely traveled by outsiders 133 00:09:37,170 --> 00:09:39,330 and we essentially a driveway for those 134 00:09:39,330 --> 00:09:42,143 that lived along its rough unpainted path. 135 00:09:43,860 --> 00:09:45,920 - The Bray family started moving here 136 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,490 in the late 1890's and at one time 137 00:09:49,490 --> 00:09:51,990 there were four brothers that all lived down here. 138 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:58,380 My great grandfather bought our farm in 1902 139 00:09:58,380 --> 00:10:00,710 and I believe he was the last one of the brothers 140 00:10:00,710 --> 00:10:03,000 to move in this area. 141 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,830 - It's interesting, Bray Road is nothing scary looking, 142 00:10:06,830 --> 00:10:10,840 it's like going down any farming road or rural road. 143 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,260 Because it's farmers it's all fifth generation farmers, 144 00:10:14,260 --> 00:10:18,010 they all know each other, it's very privately owned, 145 00:10:18,010 --> 00:10:21,900 you can't just stop off on the road and look around 146 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:25,410 because you know one farmer's gonna notify the other one, 147 00:10:25,410 --> 00:10:26,810 hey somebody's on your land. 148 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,150 - I had discovered already by some overlooked books 149 00:10:33,150 --> 00:10:36,420 that I found in the library that Bray Road 150 00:10:36,420 --> 00:10:39,470 at one time was a Native American trail 151 00:10:39,470 --> 00:10:44,030 that lead out to some other area of lakes 152 00:10:44,030 --> 00:10:46,160 that would have been summer places. 153 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,670 - Just the way the road kind of winds around 154 00:10:48,670 --> 00:10:52,780 down through here, it was probably some sort 155 00:10:52,780 --> 00:10:54,590 of a trading trail at one time. 156 00:10:54,590 --> 00:10:56,410 Out in the middle of one of the fields, 157 00:10:56,410 --> 00:11:00,950 there was a remnants of an old homestead and shack out there 158 00:11:00,950 --> 00:11:04,110 that had been used for trading with the Indians. 159 00:11:04,110 --> 00:11:06,880 - [Narrator] Bray Road is just over four miles long, 160 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,790 within that stretch a handful of country roads 161 00:11:09,790 --> 00:11:13,640 cross it's path, such as Brookwood Lane, Plank Road, 162 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,530 and Hospital Road. 163 00:11:15,530 --> 00:11:19,459 Coming from Elkhorn Bray dead ends into Interstate 11. 164 00:11:19,459 --> 00:11:22,990 Acres of cornfields and patchy woods are intermingled 165 00:11:22,990 --> 00:11:27,350 with farms, residential houses and swampy marshlands. 166 00:11:27,350 --> 00:11:30,780 In the last 20 years the only thing that's changed 167 00:11:30,780 --> 00:11:33,160 are the number of people that visit the road 168 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,210 hoping to catch sight of a creature 169 00:11:35,210 --> 00:11:37,480 that put Elkhorn on the world map 170 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,257 nearly three decades ago. 171 00:11:46,850 --> 00:11:50,670 - It was December of 1991, and I'd been working 172 00:11:50,670 --> 00:11:53,080 for a short time as a newspaper reporter 173 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,380 at a small countywide newspaper 174 00:11:55,380 --> 00:11:57,360 in Walworth County, Wisconsin. 175 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,660 And it came to my attention that there were people 176 00:12:01,660 --> 00:12:03,600 around my own home town of Elkhorn 177 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,690 that were saying they had seen what looked to them, 178 00:12:06,690 --> 00:12:10,470 like a werewolf along this four mile stretch of road 179 00:12:10,470 --> 00:12:11,500 outside of Elkhorn. 180 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:14,240 And I remember laughing because it just seemed 181 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,480 so ludicrous to me, and I mentioned it 182 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,473 to our county animal control officer. 183 00:12:19,810 --> 00:12:21,700 - My name is John Frederickson, 184 00:12:21,700 --> 00:12:25,890 I believe it was back in 1986, 185 00:12:25,890 --> 00:12:28,130 that's when I first became involved with the whole 186 00:12:28,130 --> 00:12:30,170 animal welfare, I was appointed 187 00:12:30,170 --> 00:12:32,910 the Walworth County humane officer at that time. 188 00:12:32,910 --> 00:12:36,445 Primarily to investigate crimes against animals 189 00:12:36,445 --> 00:12:41,044 and enforce state statutes and county ordinance. 190 00:12:41,044 --> 00:12:43,230 - And I said, have you heard what people are saying 191 00:12:43,230 --> 00:12:46,520 about there being this big canine type thing, 192 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,820 they're calling it a werewolf out on Bray Road? 193 00:12:48,820 --> 00:12:51,160 - There was kind of a freelance reporter, 194 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:52,060 Linda Kelp. 195 00:12:52,060 --> 00:12:53,964 The one freelance reporter had found out 196 00:12:53,964 --> 00:12:57,092 what Lori Endrezzi had seen, 197 00:12:57,092 --> 00:13:02,092 and from there I believe it went to Linda Godfrey. 198 00:13:05,624 --> 00:13:10,520 And I believe at that time I had invited Lori Endrezzi in 199 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,260 to talk to her about her sightings, 200 00:13:12,260 --> 00:13:14,950 and at that time I made a manila folder 201 00:13:14,950 --> 00:13:17,360 marked werewolf and that's kind of where 202 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,497 the whole werewolf folder comes in there. 203 00:13:19,497 --> 00:13:21,350 - And he opened up his desk drawer, 204 00:13:21,350 --> 00:13:24,109 pulled out a manila file folder that was marker werewolf, 205 00:13:24,109 --> 00:13:26,900 or labeled werewolf and at that moment 206 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:28,300 is when it became news really 207 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:30,300 because when you've got a county official 208 00:13:30,300 --> 00:13:33,173 with a file folder marked werewolf that's news. 209 00:13:34,570 --> 00:13:36,120 - There was the one sighting, 210 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,187 when somebody was traveling down I43 right by Delavan here 211 00:13:39,187 --> 00:13:42,470 and they got off at the Delavan exit and some large 212 00:13:42,470 --> 00:13:44,653 creature ran right in front of their car. 213 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,500 And then there were the so called sightings on Bray Road. 214 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:54,220 - He showed me the contents, it was notes he'd written 215 00:13:54,220 --> 00:13:56,460 from people who were indeed phoning him 216 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:59,370 and saying I don't know what it was, 217 00:13:59,370 --> 00:14:04,010 I saw this thing, if I had to say it looked like a werewolf 218 00:14:04,010 --> 00:14:07,450 because it had the head of a wolf or German Shepherd, 219 00:14:07,450 --> 00:14:10,713 it was huge, it stood and ran on it's hind legs. 220 00:14:14,260 --> 00:14:15,710 - And I believe there was a story, 221 00:14:15,710 --> 00:14:20,030 a mother walking down the road with her child or children. 222 00:14:20,030 --> 00:14:23,650 Up ahead the road a deer came running across the road 223 00:14:23,650 --> 00:14:27,120 then behind it some creature on two legs 224 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:28,170 was chasing the deer. 225 00:14:30,630 --> 00:14:32,730 Nothing too elaborate, nothing that could be 226 00:14:32,730 --> 00:14:33,973 confirmed obviously. 227 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:37,730 - I began to call upon these people and when I went 228 00:14:37,730 --> 00:14:40,370 to interview them in person I discovered 229 00:14:40,370 --> 00:14:43,060 I did not think that they were crazy 230 00:14:43,060 --> 00:14:45,070 or trying to hoax something. 231 00:14:45,070 --> 00:14:47,280 They came from a very wide demographic, 232 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:50,100 they were older, younger, male, female, 233 00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:51,730 blue collar, white collar. 234 00:14:51,730 --> 00:14:54,930 So it was a diverse group, I thought well, 235 00:14:54,930 --> 00:14:56,870 there's something, they're seeing something. 236 00:14:56,870 --> 00:14:58,780 I didn't know what it was. 237 00:14:58,780 --> 00:15:03,720 - A typical report is a biped walking humanoid dog 238 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,150 with the muzzle, with the ears, 239 00:15:07,150 --> 00:15:10,940 about seven to eight feet tall, hairy, 240 00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:14,460 hands like, I don't want to say like a human, 241 00:15:14,460 --> 00:15:17,210 but humanoid hands with claws. 242 00:15:17,210 --> 00:15:19,900 - It had the head of a wolf or German shepherd, 243 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:23,210 it was huge, it stood and ran on it's hind legs. 244 00:15:23,210 --> 00:15:26,520 - They said fangs and the red eyes, the pointy ears, 245 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,770 almost like a German shepherd, 246 00:15:28,770 --> 00:15:32,010 but it's standing up on two legs, and it's ginormous, 247 00:15:32,010 --> 00:15:33,950 it's taller than any person. 248 00:15:33,950 --> 00:15:36,210 - Covered with fur, long snout, 249 00:15:36,210 --> 00:15:39,051 and it's legs were bent backwards like a dogs. 250 00:15:39,051 --> 00:15:42,490 - And just ferocious looking, something that people say 251 00:15:42,490 --> 00:15:44,860 is a complete nightmare to see. 252 00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:46,920 - One thing I've noticed is that the closer 253 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:49,900 in time it is between the sighting 254 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:52,450 and their reporting it to me the more I still see 255 00:15:52,450 --> 00:15:55,530 that fear response and I will actually sometimes 256 00:15:55,530 --> 00:15:58,090 just see people reliving the fear, they turn white, 257 00:15:58,090 --> 00:16:00,190 they turn red, they start sweating. 258 00:16:00,190 --> 00:16:02,850 I've had one woman even burst into tears 259 00:16:02,850 --> 00:16:05,120 while she's telling me because they still 260 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,533 feel this sort of visceral contact with this creature. 261 00:16:19,884 --> 00:16:22,467 (TV crackling) 262 00:16:24,550 --> 00:16:27,550 - [Narrator] On Halloween night 1991 263 00:16:27,550 --> 00:16:29,620 Doris Gibson had what would become known 264 00:16:29,620 --> 00:16:31,700 as the first publicly recorded sighting 265 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:34,547 of the Beast of Bray Road. 266 00:16:34,547 --> 00:16:37,340 Her experience would launch a rash of reported sightings 267 00:16:37,340 --> 00:16:39,340 around Walworth County. 268 00:16:39,340 --> 00:16:42,440 - She was a senior in high school at the time 269 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,023 and was driving down Bray Road, 270 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,860 she felt like this muffled thump, 271 00:16:49,860 --> 00:16:51,910 and she was afraid that she'd hit somebody's dog, 272 00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:54,193 or ran over an animal or something. 273 00:16:56,816 --> 00:16:59,816 (crickets chirping) 274 00:17:13,177 --> 00:17:16,860 She said I saw this thing, I don't know what it was 275 00:17:16,860 --> 00:17:18,023 but it was big, 276 00:17:23,360 --> 00:17:24,790 and it started running for me. 277 00:17:24,790 --> 00:17:26,180 She said I could hear it's feet 278 00:17:26,180 --> 00:17:28,363 on the asphalt boom, boom, 279 00:17:32,976 --> 00:17:34,830 it actually lunged for her car 280 00:17:34,830 --> 00:17:39,050 and scraped its claws on the trunk of the car. 281 00:17:39,050 --> 00:17:42,230 And she showed this to me, I remember examining it 282 00:17:42,230 --> 00:17:46,510 and they were consistent with two sets of claws 283 00:17:46,510 --> 00:17:49,110 clawing their way down the back of the car, 284 00:17:49,110 --> 00:17:51,910 and that was one of the things that scared her so badly. 285 00:17:54,870 --> 00:17:57,180 - [Narrator] Shortly after Gibson's sighting 286 00:17:57,180 --> 00:17:59,697 a Milwaukee teen Tom Brichta would have 287 00:17:59,697 --> 00:18:02,143 his own encounter with the Beast of Bray Road. 288 00:18:04,460 --> 00:18:08,490 - My name is Tom Brichta, I live in Tremaine, Oklahoma 289 00:18:08,490 --> 00:18:12,290 on highway C, it was a Saturday night, 290 00:18:12,290 --> 00:18:16,553 late July, early August and I was coming home 291 00:18:16,553 --> 00:18:19,990 from a wedding reception, I had my friend Scott 292 00:18:19,990 --> 00:18:23,460 and my friend Chris from Hanover Park Illinois 293 00:18:23,460 --> 00:18:26,640 in the car with me, it was very foggy, 294 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,960 we could barely see two car lengths ahead of you. 295 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,020 And we started smelling this funny odor, 296 00:18:33,020 --> 00:18:35,220 this real foul smelling odor 297 00:18:35,220 --> 00:18:38,690 like this skunky kind of smell. 298 00:18:38,690 --> 00:18:42,907 I had noticed a hand sticking out into the road, 299 00:18:42,907 --> 00:18:45,750 and my friend had noticed me looking out 300 00:18:45,750 --> 00:18:48,910 on the side of the road, and he had looked 301 00:18:48,910 --> 00:18:51,650 and he had seen whatever it was, 302 00:18:51,650 --> 00:18:53,850 it was huge, it was really large, 303 00:18:53,850 --> 00:18:58,850 it was whitish, gray and black, streaks in it. 304 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,730 It was hairy, it was reaching out towards my car, 305 00:19:03,730 --> 00:19:07,803 it scratched a small piece of pin striping from my car. 306 00:19:09,970 --> 00:19:12,750 The fingers were either pointed or had 307 00:19:12,750 --> 00:19:14,430 quite the nails on them, I did not get 308 00:19:14,430 --> 00:19:17,920 any facial detail but it was frightening, 309 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:19,660 it was very frightening. 310 00:19:19,660 --> 00:19:22,617 And now as long as I think about this, 311 00:19:22,617 --> 00:19:24,260 not a day goes by that I don't, 312 00:19:24,260 --> 00:19:27,313 and I know a day won't go by that I won't think about it. 313 00:19:29,130 --> 00:19:31,230 I can remember like it was just yesterday. 314 00:19:39,350 --> 00:19:42,450 - Another one was Lori Endrezzi, 315 00:19:42,450 --> 00:19:45,110 at the time she was a young single mother 316 00:19:45,110 --> 00:19:48,150 and she was a bar manager in town, 317 00:19:48,150 --> 00:19:50,663 and was driving home from work. 318 00:19:55,170 --> 00:19:58,170 (crickets chirping) 319 00:20:00,890 --> 00:20:03,200 She suddenly, her attention was drawn to something 320 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,103 in the ditch. 321 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,370 - From what she had said something was kneeling down, 322 00:20:20,370 --> 00:20:22,420 crouched over on the side of the road, 323 00:20:22,420 --> 00:20:24,677 eating, some type of roadkill. 324 00:20:24,677 --> 00:20:26,940 - She said it was actually kneeling 325 00:20:26,940 --> 00:20:30,060 in a way that she didn't think a canine could kneel. 326 00:20:30,060 --> 00:20:32,620 And the other weird thing is that it was holding 327 00:20:32,620 --> 00:20:34,797 some type of road kill animal. 328 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,970 It frightened her very, very deeply, 329 00:20:50,970 --> 00:20:53,460 and she said that she spent a lot of time 330 00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:57,137 at the library looking for what it might have been, 331 00:20:57,137 --> 00:21:00,613 and it didn't match any natural wolf pictures she had seen. 332 00:21:01,780 --> 00:21:03,330 Now she actually, she was one of the ones 333 00:21:03,330 --> 00:21:05,630 that had called John Frederickson, 334 00:21:05,630 --> 00:21:09,360 and she went to his office to talk to him about it. 335 00:21:09,360 --> 00:21:13,194 - We were discussing different things that it may have been. 336 00:21:13,194 --> 00:21:16,960 It was something of the natural order of nature, 337 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,077 such as some type of animal, being a coyote or wolf, 338 00:21:20,077 --> 00:21:24,510 and there happened random wolf sightings around that time. 339 00:21:24,510 --> 00:21:26,810 If it wasn't something along the natural order of nature 340 00:21:26,810 --> 00:21:31,090 then possibly could have been something along 341 00:21:31,090 --> 00:21:33,970 the supernatural realm of things. 342 00:21:33,970 --> 00:21:38,260 - He had a row of books on the shelf behind him at his desk, 343 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:40,550 and when they started talking about this, 344 00:21:40,550 --> 00:21:43,050 the books started flying off the shelf. 345 00:21:43,050 --> 00:21:45,620 - Not too long into the conversation some books 346 00:21:45,620 --> 00:21:48,967 that were up on a bookshelf just came flying down, 347 00:21:48,967 --> 00:21:51,150 and there really wasn't any cause for the books 348 00:21:51,150 --> 00:21:52,630 to go flying off the shelf. 349 00:21:52,630 --> 00:21:55,083 So that was the end of that conversation. 350 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:10,200 - It was just a one off story as far as I knew, 351 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,380 I did this quick drawing because I was also 352 00:22:13,380 --> 00:22:16,290 the illustrator and cartoonist for the newspaper, 353 00:22:16,290 --> 00:22:19,410 and it ran, and that was when it all began. 354 00:22:19,410 --> 00:22:24,180 Within days and even weeks people were contacting 355 00:22:24,180 --> 00:22:27,610 the newspaper office, but the media were starting 356 00:22:27,610 --> 00:22:30,310 to catch on to it, it was just astounding. 357 00:22:30,310 --> 00:22:33,570 Nobody expected that sort of reaction to it. 358 00:22:33,570 --> 00:22:35,540 - It was a pretty good joke up and down the road. 359 00:22:35,540 --> 00:22:37,550 - My family actually struggled with it a little bit 360 00:22:37,550 --> 00:22:40,070 because this kind of popped up 361 00:22:40,070 --> 00:22:42,260 right after my Father had died. 362 00:22:42,260 --> 00:22:44,900 So my mom was just getting used to living on the farm, 363 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:46,970 in the house, by herself, and all these lights 364 00:22:46,970 --> 00:22:48,210 were flashing around the buildings, 365 00:22:48,210 --> 00:22:49,620 and people walking up and down the road. 366 00:22:49,620 --> 00:22:53,420 So we went from kind of amusement to kind of upset, 367 00:22:53,420 --> 00:22:55,360 to well okay it's just a deal, 368 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:57,510 just kind of had fun with it after a while. 369 00:22:59,070 --> 00:23:01,040 - I remember my editor and I had talked about it 370 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,008 and said yeah local people will have fun with it 371 00:23:04,008 --> 00:23:05,620 for a couple of weeks and then it will just go away. 372 00:23:05,620 --> 00:23:08,097 And nothing could have been further from the truth. 373 00:23:08,097 --> 00:23:10,533 It had legs, no pun intended. 374 00:23:12,337 --> 00:23:14,580 The story just stuck and grew bigger and bigger. 375 00:23:14,580 --> 00:23:16,607 - Yeah, I believe when the paper came out 376 00:23:16,607 --> 00:23:20,340 and the story came out, that's when I think the more, 377 00:23:20,340 --> 00:23:23,450 I don't want to say the panic, but the fear set in. 378 00:23:23,450 --> 00:23:27,720 - The people that had actual sightings obviously, 379 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,658 I believe a lot of those people did have 380 00:23:29,658 --> 00:23:32,890 an actual fear of what they had seen. 381 00:23:32,890 --> 00:23:35,733 Not knowing quite how to rationalize it. 382 00:23:37,420 --> 00:23:40,000 - Of course there was a lot of ribbing, 383 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,313 and teasing of people who said they had seen it. 384 00:23:44,170 --> 00:23:45,680 The local sheriffs department's talking about 385 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,057 silver bullets and whatnot, and that they were 386 00:23:48,057 --> 00:23:51,980 making silver bullets in case they ran across the beast, 387 00:23:51,980 --> 00:23:52,960 or whatever. 388 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,910 - Some of the witnesses, because they later came forward 389 00:23:55,910 --> 00:23:58,850 with their actual identity said they wish they hadn't 390 00:23:58,850 --> 00:23:59,963 come forward with it. 391 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,880 But on the other hand there were other people 392 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,810 who had secretly seen it, and were then saying, 393 00:24:05,810 --> 00:24:09,200 yeah it's right, it is there I've seen it. 394 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,005 - [Narrator] On December 29th, 1991, 395 00:24:12,005 --> 00:24:14,820 Godfrey's article detailing the initial sightings 396 00:24:14,820 --> 00:24:16,030 of the Beast of Bray Road 397 00:24:16,030 --> 00:24:19,330 ran in The Week a Delavan newspaper. 398 00:24:19,330 --> 00:24:21,380 Almost immediately the story kicked up 399 00:24:21,380 --> 00:24:24,120 a flurry of activity around the area. 400 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,220 Perhaps most notably were a string of calls and letters 401 00:24:27,220 --> 00:24:29,070 to the newspaper from witnesses 402 00:24:29,070 --> 00:24:31,130 who had seen similar creatures. 403 00:24:31,130 --> 00:24:33,430 Many of the witnesses were from other towns, 404 00:24:33,430 --> 00:24:36,880 counties and even states who wished to express to Godfrey 405 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,480 the seriousness in which the story should be handled. 406 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,750 The first inkling of the larger scope of this phenomenon 407 00:24:43,750 --> 00:24:46,520 was beginning to take shape in Linda's mind, 408 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,290 even as the story of the Bray Road Beast 409 00:24:49,290 --> 00:24:51,837 began to take on a life of it's own. 410 00:24:55,490 --> 00:24:59,950 In September of 1991, Scott Bray, a local farmer, 411 00:24:59,950 --> 00:25:01,920 had a sighting of what he referred to 412 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,600 as an abnormally large dog or wolf 413 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,050 in the field behind his house. 414 00:25:07,050 --> 00:25:10,360 Scott described the animal as taller than a German shepherd 415 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:14,420 with pointed ears, a tail, long gray and black hair, 416 00:25:14,420 --> 00:25:17,480 and a massive muscular build. 417 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,270 Around the same time as the Scott Bray sighting, 418 00:25:20,270 --> 00:25:23,030 another Elkhorn local named Russell Guest, 419 00:25:23,030 --> 00:25:25,320 spotted a creature near Bray Road, 420 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,000 walking briefly on two legs before dropping to all fours 421 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,850 in an aggressive stance. 422 00:25:30,850 --> 00:25:32,730 Guest turned and ran from the creature 423 00:25:32,730 --> 00:25:36,010 which he described as being larger than a german shepherd 424 00:25:36,010 --> 00:25:39,780 with black and grayish hair and around five feet tall 425 00:25:39,780 --> 00:25:41,773 when it was standing on two legs. 426 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,340 On January 8th 1991, Robert Bushman and his wife 427 00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:50,480 spotted a large black animal running on all fours, 428 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,860 chasing a deer just down the road from Elkhorn. 429 00:25:53,860 --> 00:25:56,070 The couple were driving on I43 430 00:25:56,070 --> 00:25:59,850 near Delavan in broad daylight when the sighting occurred. 431 00:25:59,850 --> 00:26:02,490 They described the animal as being far too large 432 00:26:02,490 --> 00:26:05,260 to be a wolf but were unable to give a thorough 433 00:26:05,260 --> 00:26:08,163 description due to the speed which it was running. 434 00:26:11,140 --> 00:26:14,260 As sightings continued Godfrey received other reports 435 00:26:14,260 --> 00:26:15,930 from witnesses who claimed to have seen 436 00:26:15,930 --> 00:26:18,470 the same creature decades earlier. 437 00:26:18,470 --> 00:26:20,970 Strangely the oldest reported sighting 438 00:26:20,970 --> 00:26:24,130 was also the first to hint at a more sinister origin 439 00:26:24,130 --> 00:26:25,480 for the Beast of Bray Road. 440 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:31,966 - One of the most surprising and interesting 441 00:26:31,966 --> 00:26:35,520 accounts that I received happened right after 442 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,030 the first stories broke, 443 00:26:37,030 --> 00:26:38,670 this happened not in Walworth County 444 00:26:38,670 --> 00:26:40,770 but in the adjacent Jefferson County, 445 00:26:40,770 --> 00:26:42,270 which isn't all that far away. 446 00:26:43,130 --> 00:26:46,080 A newspaper editor called me and said, 447 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,160 my dad saw this thing in 1936, 448 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,710 and his father was the nightwatchman 449 00:26:51,710 --> 00:26:55,390 for St Coletta institute, which was a Catholic institution 450 00:26:55,390 --> 00:26:58,913 for taking care of people with special needs. 451 00:26:59,830 --> 00:27:03,580 They had preserved on the grounds a number of 452 00:27:03,580 --> 00:27:06,640 ancient burial mounds, Mark Shackleman was the name 453 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,640 of the mans father and his job every night 454 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,760 was to walk the whole grounds with this big flashlight, 455 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:16,640 and this one night he walked up on an area 456 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,100 where there were several mounds, and saw something 457 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:21,030 large on top of one of the mounds. 458 00:27:21,030 --> 00:27:22,810 When he went and looked more closely 459 00:27:22,810 --> 00:27:25,870 he saw that it was something that reminded him 460 00:27:25,870 --> 00:27:29,420 of a canine head but it was a really large creature, 461 00:27:29,420 --> 00:27:32,660 and it was digging furiously in the top of the mound 462 00:27:32,660 --> 00:27:34,230 as if it was trying to get something out 463 00:27:34,230 --> 00:27:35,583 that it knew was in there. 464 00:27:38,610 --> 00:27:41,740 He was shocked, the creature was shocked and ran off 465 00:27:43,070 --> 00:27:45,650 but the next night he went back 466 00:27:45,650 --> 00:27:47,333 and the creature was there again. 467 00:27:48,370 --> 00:27:53,370 It stood up, faced him, and made what sounded like, 468 00:27:53,750 --> 00:27:56,793 he described as sort of a protohuman language, 469 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,410 and what it sounded like to the man 470 00:28:00,410 --> 00:28:04,083 was the utterance of the word Gadara. 471 00:28:06,060 --> 00:28:09,720 Which if you go to the New Testament in the Christian Bible 472 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,000 you'll find that's the place where there was a man 473 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,400 who was filled with Demons, and he was called the Gadarine 474 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,100 because it was in the region of Gadara, 475 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:20,620 and that was where Jesus cast the Demons out of this man. 476 00:28:20,620 --> 00:28:22,910 And it's interesting because I found out later 477 00:28:22,910 --> 00:28:26,110 that one of the priests to the Catholic church 478 00:28:26,110 --> 00:28:29,550 that was kind of attached to the St Coletta organization 479 00:28:29,550 --> 00:28:33,820 had very bad problems after he exorcized a demon 480 00:28:33,820 --> 00:28:37,000 from a young person who lived in that Parrish, 481 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,300 and then the Demon attached itself to him. 482 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:41,900 So you have this whole sort of tradition 483 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:45,000 of Demonology possession going on, 484 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,730 and then you get this unknown creature standing up 485 00:28:49,730 --> 00:28:52,900 on an old burial mound, and uttering a word 486 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:56,470 that could have been the Biblical word Gadara, 487 00:28:56,470 --> 00:28:59,373 and it's just very, very strange happenings. 488 00:29:01,263 --> 00:29:04,096 (thunder rumbles) 489 00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:12,162 (eerie music) (faint whisperings) 490 00:29:46,820 --> 00:29:49,230 - [Narrator] While Mark Shacklemans 1930's encounter 491 00:29:49,230 --> 00:29:51,040 with a similarly strange beast 492 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,330 may have aroused some suspicions of a more 493 00:29:53,330 --> 00:29:56,030 unearthly genesis for the phenomenon, 494 00:29:56,030 --> 00:29:58,730 it was Lori Endrezzi, the first witness 495 00:29:58,730 --> 00:30:01,270 of the Beast of Bray Road in the modern era 496 00:30:01,270 --> 00:30:04,360 who drew a parallel between the creature she had seen 497 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,220 and an ancient evil. 498 00:30:06,220 --> 00:30:09,690 In an interview with Endrezzi a few years after her sighting 499 00:30:09,690 --> 00:30:11,670 she professed her belief to Godfrey 500 00:30:11,670 --> 00:30:15,080 that the Beast of Bray Road was Satanic in origin. 501 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,793 A Demonic entity, perhaps, the Dark Prince himself. 502 00:30:24,110 --> 00:30:26,077 The correlation between the canid creature 503 00:30:26,077 --> 00:30:29,520 and the black arts may seem ludicrous to some. 504 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,730 It was not as unbelievable to some investigators 505 00:30:32,730 --> 00:30:35,040 and it wouldn't be the last time that a witness felt 506 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,310 instead of an undiscovered animal, 507 00:30:37,310 --> 00:30:40,803 they had come face to face with evil incarnate. 508 00:30:42,060 --> 00:30:44,660 - In my opinion there is a dark side to this world. 509 00:30:44,660 --> 00:30:46,760 So with some of these sightings they're 510 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,800 part of the natural order of nature, 511 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,680 and it was some animal, some type of animal, 512 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,570 that's easily believable. 513 00:30:52,570 --> 00:30:57,010 Or I wouldn't doubt if it could have been something 514 00:30:57,010 --> 00:31:00,070 along the supernatural realm of things also 515 00:31:00,070 --> 00:31:05,070 from what I had experienced during those days. 516 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,140 - [Narrator] With the Beast of Bray Road 517 00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:12,670 making it's presence known around the area 518 00:31:12,670 --> 00:31:14,670 local media were tied up in a story 519 00:31:14,670 --> 00:31:18,160 that went back even further then the first known sightings. 520 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,410 That of a local Satanic cult, 521 00:31:20,410 --> 00:31:22,700 rumored to be holding meetings in the forested 522 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:25,100 areas of Walworth County. 523 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:28,410 During the late 80s and early 90s John Frederickson 524 00:31:28,410 --> 00:31:31,700 was called to the scene of multiple animal mutilations 525 00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:34,650 including one in which dozens of mutilated bodies 526 00:31:34,650 --> 00:31:35,650 had been discovered. 527 00:31:36,550 --> 00:31:39,410 While local police insisted the site was nothing more 528 00:31:39,410 --> 00:31:41,980 then a bone yard for local livestock 529 00:31:41,980 --> 00:31:44,010 Frederickson recognized the potential 530 00:31:44,010 --> 00:31:46,570 for more ritualistic causes of death, 531 00:31:46,570 --> 00:31:48,570 when he discovered many of the carcasses 532 00:31:48,570 --> 00:31:50,940 had been subject to gruesome treatment 533 00:31:50,940 --> 00:31:53,760 that involved the removal of organs. 534 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,050 However, the local police bulldozed the location 535 00:31:57,050 --> 00:31:59,973 before a thorough investigation could be completed. 536 00:32:00,910 --> 00:32:03,650 Many ritualistic beliefs revolve around the notion 537 00:32:03,650 --> 00:32:06,850 of conjuring an entity, occasionally a Demon 538 00:32:06,850 --> 00:32:11,070 for nefarious purposes, as John Frederickson discovered, 539 00:32:11,070 --> 00:32:14,035 the link between the Beast of Bray Road and Satanism 540 00:32:14,035 --> 00:32:18,290 might not be as far removed as it may at first appeared. 541 00:32:18,290 --> 00:32:21,430 In the early 1990's John received a phone call 542 00:32:21,430 --> 00:32:23,540 from an anonymous source who stated 543 00:32:23,540 --> 00:32:26,710 that she was aware of illicit, cult like gatherings 544 00:32:26,710 --> 00:32:28,243 taking place in the area. 545 00:32:29,515 --> 00:32:31,730 - At that time there was actually 546 00:32:31,730 --> 00:32:34,260 quite a bit of Satanic information that was coming in. 547 00:32:34,260 --> 00:32:39,143 Some of it was obviously teenager type involvement, 548 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,530 their dabbling into Devil worship, 549 00:32:43,530 --> 00:32:46,230 and there were a couple other places 550 00:32:46,230 --> 00:32:49,830 that were a little more intense, with an older crowd, 551 00:32:49,830 --> 00:32:54,830 adult crowd, that took the whole role of Satanic religion 552 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:56,570 serious and whatnot. 553 00:32:56,570 --> 00:33:01,570 Anything from teachers to possible law enforcement 554 00:33:01,807 --> 00:33:03,763 people being involved. 555 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,350 Yeah I guess some of their get togethers 556 00:33:09,350 --> 00:33:12,710 at this one location were quite involved. 557 00:33:12,710 --> 00:33:16,120 People from around the world actually would show up 558 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,770 and they would go back into the woods 559 00:33:17,770 --> 00:33:21,339 and have their little ritualistic ceremonies and whatnot. 560 00:33:21,339 --> 00:33:24,172 (slides clicking) 561 00:33:28,150 --> 00:33:29,700 Walworth County I had found out 562 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:33,220 from a higher law enforcement department 563 00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:36,440 who one day just showing up out of nowhere, 564 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,270 and introduced himself to me. 565 00:33:38,270 --> 00:33:42,400 Filled me in on some of the Satanic activity 566 00:33:43,370 --> 00:33:45,940 happening around the entire state, 567 00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:49,010 and I think there was three of four counties 568 00:33:49,010 --> 00:33:54,010 that were notorious for occult activity, Satanic activity. 569 00:33:54,060 --> 00:33:56,120 And I was somewhat surprised that Walworth County 570 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,770 just happened to be one of those. 571 00:34:01,130 --> 00:34:05,810 - The wolf is seen as the symbol of greed and consumption, 572 00:34:05,810 --> 00:34:09,040 and probably because it has such a violent nature 573 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,750 it's seen as this chaotic force in society 574 00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:16,480 that kinds of threatens stability in the culture. 575 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,260 And this is often done through the abuse of science 576 00:34:19,260 --> 00:34:22,030 or the abuse of magic or technology. 577 00:34:22,030 --> 00:34:27,030 And it creates what's called the abhuman, which is not human 578 00:34:27,220 --> 00:34:29,464 and it's basically an individual that has 579 00:34:29,464 --> 00:34:34,464 lost the ability to control themselves and their desires, 580 00:34:35,090 --> 00:34:36,760 and in some cases they can't control 581 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,840 whether they change into this creature or not. 582 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,840 - I wouldn't discount, again from my experiences, 583 00:34:44,410 --> 00:34:47,023 and seeing what I've seen and what not. 584 00:34:47,023 --> 00:34:52,023 I wouldn't totally rule out some type of occult activity 585 00:34:53,510 --> 00:34:56,870 if by chance somebody invoked some type 586 00:34:56,870 --> 00:35:00,433 of a occult type beast. 587 00:35:04,795 --> 00:35:07,462 (ominous music) 588 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:10,960 - [Narrator] Throughout history we find 589 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,410 many legends and lore pertaining to canid creatures. 590 00:35:14,410 --> 00:35:17,210 In Egyptian hieroglyphics we learn of Anubis, 591 00:35:17,210 --> 00:35:19,880 God of the dead, a jackal headed creature 592 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:23,730 who decided which souls should pass on to the afterlife. 593 00:35:23,730 --> 00:35:25,500 In the Bible's old testament, 594 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:28,380 a king by the name of Neberkenezer was exiled 595 00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:30,250 from his kingdom and forced to wander 596 00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:33,230 the forest and fields as a wild beast, 597 00:35:33,230 --> 00:35:35,163 cursed to live like a wolf. 598 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,660 Norse mythology has it's own representation 599 00:35:39,660 --> 00:35:42,240 of the werewolf in the form of the ancient saga 600 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,750 of the Volsungs, which tells the story 601 00:35:44,750 --> 00:35:47,320 of a father and son who discovered pelts 602 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:48,900 which gave the wearer the power 603 00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:52,000 to become a wolf for 10 days. 604 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,420 Donning the pelts the duo turned into 605 00:35:54,420 --> 00:35:56,830 blood thirsty savage creatures 606 00:35:56,830 --> 00:35:59,040 and went on a killing rampage. 607 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,780 Engulfed in blood lust the father eventually 608 00:36:01,780 --> 00:36:04,440 attacked his own son pointing to something 609 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,220 which has since become a vital part of werewolf tales, 610 00:36:08,220 --> 00:36:09,803 the loss of control. 611 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,360 Across the world the werewolf has found a home 612 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:15,970 in nearly every culture. 613 00:36:15,970 --> 00:36:18,810 - In the epic of Gilgamesh, which is written about 2000BC 614 00:36:18,810 --> 00:36:22,421 you had this interesting character called Incadu, 615 00:36:22,421 --> 00:36:24,140 which is sort of a wild man, he's covered in hair, 616 00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:27,520 he's got long hair, and he lives with the animals. 617 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,950 He ends up battling Gilgamesh, 618 00:36:29,950 --> 00:36:34,950 who's the hero of the story and they're equal strength wise. 619 00:36:34,990 --> 00:36:38,040 But Gilgamesh wins because, arguably because 620 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,943 he's educated and part of civilization. 621 00:36:41,792 --> 00:36:44,510 Incadu becomes Gilgamesh's servant 622 00:36:44,510 --> 00:36:47,579 and there's this sort of running theme throughout 623 00:36:47,579 --> 00:36:50,430 Western literature of that sort of animal nature 624 00:36:50,430 --> 00:36:51,920 needing to be sublimated. 625 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,030 - In the very beginning when I wrote the story about it 626 00:36:55,030 --> 00:36:58,130 I was just sort of thinking what would I call this. 627 00:36:58,130 --> 00:37:00,800 It was a thing that was very hard to name. 628 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:02,200 I didn't want to call it the werewolf 629 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,690 because right away I didn't believe it was a werewolf, 630 00:37:05,690 --> 00:37:10,060 so I titled it the Beast of Bray Road and it just stuck. 631 00:37:10,060 --> 00:37:12,540 But it doesn't mean, I know now, 632 00:37:12,540 --> 00:37:17,280 that there's only one thing out on one road. 633 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,600 The descriptions people gave of the Michigan dog man 634 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,330 were no different then the descriptions 635 00:37:22,330 --> 00:37:25,110 people gave of the Beast of Bray Road. 636 00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:28,140 - I believe that the werewolf lore had to have, 637 00:37:28,140 --> 00:37:31,850 it started somewhere, and every lore or myth 638 00:37:31,850 --> 00:37:34,410 has some truth to it, so I do believe 639 00:37:34,410 --> 00:37:37,200 that anything in the United Kingdom, 640 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,600 I think we're seeing the same thing, personally. 641 00:37:42,010 --> 00:37:44,440 - Well anybody who studied the Middle Ages in Europe 642 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,750 knows that there were alleged werewolves. 643 00:37:47,750 --> 00:37:50,900 There are other accounts of so called werewolves 644 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:54,000 in those same middle ages that were considered occult 645 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,730 and tied to witchcraft. 646 00:37:56,730 --> 00:37:59,300 If you admitted you were a werewolf, 647 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:03,380 or somebody could prove that you were a werewolf, 648 00:38:03,380 --> 00:38:06,620 you were dead meat, you would be executed in most cases 649 00:38:06,620 --> 00:38:09,180 for the years that these trials were going on 650 00:38:09,180 --> 00:38:10,550 at their greatest height. 651 00:38:10,550 --> 00:38:13,450 - In Germany for instance, in 1589, 652 00:38:13,450 --> 00:38:15,870 you got what's called the werewolf of Bedburg, 653 00:38:15,870 --> 00:38:19,360 and a guy named Peter Stubb evidently had fangs, 654 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,680 and claimed to have a desire for human blood. 655 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,420 Claimed to have murdered some 16 people, 656 00:38:25,420 --> 00:38:28,280 he was put on trial and found to be guilty. 657 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,250 - There was the Beast of Gevaudan, probably the most famous 658 00:38:31,250 --> 00:38:33,660 and in that case it's very different 659 00:38:33,660 --> 00:38:35,320 from these Bray Road sightings 660 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:40,150 because the Bray Road beast would duck and run for cover 661 00:38:40,150 --> 00:38:42,653 after it had been seen by people. 662 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,600 But back in the Middle Ages, this thing, 663 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,703 was killing dozens and dozens of people and livestock. 664 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,430 It was some real animal, real killer. 665 00:38:54,430 --> 00:38:56,720 - This is in Southern France, 666 00:38:56,720 --> 00:39:01,260 between June 1764 and June 1767, 667 00:39:01,260 --> 00:39:04,360 there are reports of this giant wolf 668 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,863 over 200 attacks, some half of which were lethal. 669 00:39:08,704 --> 00:39:11,454 (dramatic music) 670 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,583 The victims tended to be disemboweled, 671 00:39:21,070 --> 00:39:24,653 clothes were taken off, and throats cut and beheaded. 672 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,960 The death of the creature finally came in June 1767, 673 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,150 Jean Duhamel famously shot it with bullets 674 00:39:35,150 --> 00:39:37,270 that were supposedly made from a silver chalice 675 00:39:37,270 --> 00:39:39,236 that had been blessed by a priest. 676 00:39:39,236 --> 00:39:41,525 So that's sort of where the idea of the silver bullet 677 00:39:41,525 --> 00:39:44,260 killing the werewolf comes from. 678 00:39:44,260 --> 00:39:47,450 - So it seems to me like a very different phenomenon 679 00:39:47,450 --> 00:39:49,350 that was happening back then, 680 00:39:49,350 --> 00:39:52,050 where you have lots of predation of both livestock 681 00:39:52,050 --> 00:39:54,460 and human beings, and animals that were able 682 00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:58,063 to be shot and captured and exhibited. 683 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,760 - [Narrator] In America Native Indian lore 684 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,700 involving wolves and man wolves has been ignored 685 00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:07,170 by many paranormal researchers. 686 00:40:07,170 --> 00:40:09,690 The Mohawk Indians believe that some of the tribe 687 00:40:09,690 --> 00:40:12,460 could shift form into other creatures. 688 00:40:12,460 --> 00:40:15,420 They referred to them as the Limakin, 689 00:40:15,420 --> 00:40:18,627 in the Western United States, perhaps it is the Navajo 690 00:40:18,627 --> 00:40:20,560 who are best known for their legends 691 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,240 of shape-shifting men known as skin-walkers. 692 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:27,290 - Especially the Navajo where you had this evil witch 693 00:40:27,290 --> 00:40:30,410 that's able to change into a wolf, 694 00:40:30,410 --> 00:40:32,170 or some other type of animal. 695 00:40:32,170 --> 00:40:35,570 And typically they acquire this capability 696 00:40:35,570 --> 00:40:39,440 by committing some type of taboo like using magic 697 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,670 to curse someone instead of healing someone. 698 00:40:41,670 --> 00:40:45,800 So they sort of contrast with the healer or the medicine man 699 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,530 so as a result they're sort of a paria to that culture. 700 00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:53,090 - Wisconsin had a great number of different 701 00:40:53,090 --> 00:40:54,910 Native American tribes living here. 702 00:40:54,910 --> 00:40:56,210 When I asked them what they thought 703 00:40:56,210 --> 00:41:00,410 the true nature of these upright canines were, 704 00:41:00,410 --> 00:41:04,090 they said well, we believe that these 705 00:41:04,090 --> 00:41:07,650 are not normal, usual modern animals. 706 00:41:07,650 --> 00:41:10,700 That they're very old, that they were here before we were, 707 00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:13,163 and that that came from the spirit world. 708 00:41:16,070 --> 00:41:18,210 - All of these stories tend to 709 00:41:18,210 --> 00:41:23,210 focus on mankind's either abusing technology, 710 00:41:23,580 --> 00:41:26,500 or going to a place where he should not in the first place, 711 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:29,230 or investigating beyond where he should be. 712 00:41:29,230 --> 00:41:30,900 Typically this awakes the monster, 713 00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:32,230 or brings the monster about, 714 00:41:32,230 --> 00:41:35,400 or changes the human being into a monster. 715 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,850 We have this facade of being civilized 716 00:41:38,850 --> 00:41:41,300 and cordial to one another, 717 00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:42,613 but there's always that sort of 718 00:41:42,613 --> 00:41:46,020 that inner animal that can surface at any point. 719 00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:50,030 And monsters sort of allow us to experience that 720 00:41:50,030 --> 00:41:51,723 without it actually happening. 721 00:42:10,010 --> 00:42:12,410 - [Narrator] As time passed the local reaction 722 00:42:12,410 --> 00:42:15,330 had exceeded Linda Godfrey's expectations, 723 00:42:15,330 --> 00:42:18,383 placing her at the center of a werewolf whirlwind. 724 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,320 Reporters from no less than four Milwaukee based 725 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,720 television stations appeared in Elkhorn, 726 00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,710 looking for Godfrey, as well as any eye witnesses 727 00:42:27,710 --> 00:42:30,720 that would go on record and of course 728 00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:33,350 the Bray Road Beast itself. 729 00:42:33,350 --> 00:42:36,450 Radio and wire services carried the terrifying tales 730 00:42:36,450 --> 00:42:39,540 beyond the Wisconsin border and in no time 731 00:42:39,540 --> 00:42:42,410 a modern legend roared to life. 732 00:42:42,410 --> 00:42:45,490 Curiosity seekers arrived in Lafayette Township 733 00:42:45,490 --> 00:42:48,060 for the express purpose of driving up and down 734 00:42:48,060 --> 00:42:51,910 Bray Road in hopes of seeing a hairy monster. 735 00:42:51,910 --> 00:42:54,800 Nationally televised programs such as Sightings 736 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,840 and Inside Edition devoted segments of their shows 737 00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,930 to the Walworth County werewolf, 738 00:42:59,930 --> 00:43:03,990 thrusting the story into even greater prominence. 739 00:43:03,990 --> 00:43:07,780 Linda Godfrey's files began to swell with sighting reports 740 00:43:07,780 --> 00:43:11,070 and she found herself becoming the unlikely spokesperson 741 00:43:11,070 --> 00:43:14,270 for a phenomenon that defied reason. 742 00:43:14,270 --> 00:43:18,260 And then after the major waves of publicity had crested 743 00:43:18,260 --> 00:43:21,550 and the attention given to Elkhorn began to recede 744 00:43:21,550 --> 00:43:26,400 life along Bray Road slowly regained it's quiet composure. 745 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,860 Godfrey however, remained busy, 746 00:43:28,860 --> 00:43:30,890 the sheer volume of reports, 747 00:43:30,890 --> 00:43:33,030 the veracity of the eyewitnesses 748 00:43:33,030 --> 00:43:35,010 and the persistence since that something 749 00:43:35,010 --> 00:43:38,010 significant had occurred, inspired her to write 750 00:43:38,010 --> 00:43:40,350 about the entire experience. 751 00:43:40,350 --> 00:43:44,610 In 2003, she released the Beast of Bray Road, 752 00:43:44,610 --> 00:43:46,160 a book that traced the history 753 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:48,232 of her involvement in the breaking story, 754 00:43:48,232 --> 00:43:51,080 detailed the most compelling sightings, 755 00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,940 and speculated about the true nature of the dog man, 756 00:43:54,940 --> 00:43:56,750 in the wake of the books release 757 00:43:56,750 --> 00:43:58,630 there was a resurgence in sightings 758 00:43:58,630 --> 00:44:00,570 of bipedal wolf like creatures 759 00:44:00,570 --> 00:44:03,730 in the vicinity of Elkhorn and Bray Road. 760 00:44:03,730 --> 00:44:05,870 Almost all of these encounters took place 761 00:44:05,870 --> 00:44:08,000 as people were driving at night. 762 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,790 Sometimes the canid was seen 763 00:44:09,790 --> 00:44:11,910 streaking through the cornfields. 764 00:44:11,910 --> 00:44:13,850 Other times across the road in front 765 00:44:13,850 --> 00:44:15,540 of the startled motorist, 766 00:44:15,540 --> 00:44:18,080 often giving it's distinctive sneer 767 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,053 that terrorizes those unfortunate enough to see it. 768 00:44:22,020 --> 00:44:24,660 In one unforgettable case, a creature, 769 00:44:24,660 --> 00:44:27,690 described as larger than an Irish wolf hound 770 00:44:27,690 --> 00:44:31,100 kept pace with a car for well over a mile. 771 00:44:31,100 --> 00:44:35,693 The vehicle was traveling at a speed of 55 miles per hour. 772 00:44:36,630 --> 00:44:39,380 While the Beast of Bray Road and Godfrey's subsequent 773 00:44:39,380 --> 00:44:41,560 writing opened a door for many witnesses 774 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:45,670 to discuss their confrontations, often for the first time. 775 00:44:45,670 --> 00:44:47,650 Still others could not being themselves 776 00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:49,740 to talk about what they had seen. 777 00:44:49,740 --> 00:44:51,410 Either they did not want to accept 778 00:44:51,410 --> 00:44:53,680 that such a thing could really exist, 779 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,560 or they were even more fearful of being ridiculed. 780 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,590 - The thing is a lot of people stopped going public 781 00:45:00,590 --> 00:45:02,110 with their sightings because they saw 782 00:45:02,110 --> 00:45:04,270 how the first ones were made fun of, 783 00:45:04,270 --> 00:45:06,300 and they didn't want to lose their jobs 784 00:45:06,300 --> 00:45:08,160 or be made fun of themselves. 785 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,810 - As soon as there came out the Elkhorn in the paper 786 00:45:10,810 --> 00:45:13,840 it went national, now all of a sudden 787 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,560 everybody's looking for this. 788 00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,830 So did it die down from the early 90s till now? 789 00:45:18,830 --> 00:45:21,047 I don't think so, I just think that there are a lot 790 00:45:21,047 --> 00:45:23,210 of people that aren't coming forward 791 00:45:23,210 --> 00:45:25,790 saying they saw something in fear of ridicule. 792 00:45:25,790 --> 00:45:28,020 - I'm sure it'd be natural for somebody 793 00:45:28,020 --> 00:45:30,227 to have the wits scared out of them, 794 00:45:30,227 --> 00:45:33,410 maybe just tell some close friends but not 795 00:45:33,410 --> 00:45:35,560 want it to go public or anything like that. 796 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,233 No doubt. 797 00:45:43,370 --> 00:45:45,370 - [Narrator] As the mystery of what was being seen 798 00:45:45,370 --> 00:45:48,530 in Elkhorn began to spread to the rest of the country 799 00:45:48,530 --> 00:45:51,170 theories as to what could explain the existence 800 00:45:51,170 --> 00:45:53,313 of such a creature began to formulate. 801 00:45:54,290 --> 00:45:55,510 While there was a precedence 802 00:45:55,510 --> 00:45:57,270 in the form of myths and legends 803 00:45:57,270 --> 00:46:00,940 relating to upright wolf like beings around the world 804 00:46:00,940 --> 00:46:03,230 no one had postulated on the existence 805 00:46:03,230 --> 00:46:05,860 of such a being within the natural realm. 806 00:46:05,860 --> 00:46:08,620 Until Linda Godfrey's own investigations 807 00:46:08,620 --> 00:46:10,293 lead her to do just that. 808 00:46:11,340 --> 00:46:13,470 - One thing that I was always trying to work with 809 00:46:13,470 --> 00:46:16,680 were the commonalities in the descriptions from people 810 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,000 and I realized that almost everybody 811 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,600 was describing basically the same thing. 812 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,164 Which was something that stood five to seven feet tall, 813 00:46:25,164 --> 00:46:27,970 had that head like a wolf or German shepherd, 814 00:46:27,970 --> 00:46:29,960 I called it the indigenous dog man 815 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,000 because I was reasoning it could have been something 816 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,060 that was just a very minor mutation 817 00:46:37,060 --> 00:46:42,030 of slightly larger paws and maybe some sort 818 00:46:42,030 --> 00:46:44,220 of adjustment in the spinal column. 819 00:46:44,220 --> 00:46:48,100 That perhaps it was advantageous for it 820 00:46:48,100 --> 00:46:50,730 to be able to stand up. 821 00:46:50,730 --> 00:46:54,780 If it's advantageous, and then more of these reproduce, 822 00:46:54,780 --> 00:46:58,040 you know, it's the natural law of adaptation, 823 00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:02,068 that more of them would persist in these grassland areas. 824 00:47:02,068 --> 00:47:03,992 - In the snow we came across this wolf print 825 00:47:03,992 --> 00:47:06,067 that was bigger then my hand, 826 00:47:06,067 --> 00:47:07,590 and there were several of them, 827 00:47:07,590 --> 00:47:10,400 and it is, it's frightening to see 828 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,450 something that giant out there. 829 00:47:12,450 --> 00:47:14,730 - They're generally seen running on all fours 830 00:47:14,730 --> 00:47:16,490 but people recognize them as something different 831 00:47:16,490 --> 00:47:20,630 because they'll say they were as big as a pony, 832 00:47:20,630 --> 00:47:23,380 a Shetland pony, or a calf. 833 00:47:23,380 --> 00:47:26,490 - Residents up here, they know what wolves look like, 834 00:47:26,490 --> 00:47:28,443 dogs look like, coyotes look like. 835 00:47:31,650 --> 00:47:33,960 - [Narrator] Ricky Sanchez has a vested interest 836 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,870 in getting to the bottom of the dog man enigma. 837 00:47:36,870 --> 00:47:38,750 That's because a pack of these creatures 838 00:47:38,750 --> 00:47:42,440 apparently frequents his acreage near the Horicon Marsh 839 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,550 located approximately 100 miles north of Bray Road. 840 00:47:46,550 --> 00:47:51,133 - 2017 is when it all started at my property. 841 00:47:52,710 --> 00:47:55,230 It all started one night around one of the o'clock. 842 00:47:55,230 --> 00:47:57,150 I walked outside with a head lamp, 843 00:47:57,150 --> 00:47:59,524 we don't have, like we're out in the country, 844 00:47:59,524 --> 00:48:00,380 so there's no lights out, 845 00:48:00,380 --> 00:48:05,380 and I saw this large black object in the property 846 00:48:06,340 --> 00:48:09,740 but beside the silhouette which really could focus 847 00:48:09,740 --> 00:48:11,260 with the headlamps were the two eyes. 848 00:48:11,260 --> 00:48:13,398 Didn't really pay much attention to it 849 00:48:13,398 --> 00:48:14,607 because it was really low to the ground, 850 00:48:14,607 --> 00:48:15,440 so I kept walking towards the car. 851 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,747 As I got to the trunk of the car I glanced at again, 852 00:48:17,747 --> 00:48:21,540 and it was slowly walking crouched down to the ground 853 00:48:21,540 --> 00:48:22,600 but towards me. 854 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,090 So I'm trying to figure out what is this? 855 00:48:24,090 --> 00:48:26,660 So I walked towards it a little bit, 856 00:48:26,660 --> 00:48:30,450 and it walked backwards while still looking at me. 857 00:48:30,450 --> 00:48:32,860 That sparked my curiosity because it was 858 00:48:32,860 --> 00:48:34,330 coming towards me, the cat normally doesn't 859 00:48:34,330 --> 00:48:37,067 come towards me, I put the headlamp on brighter 860 00:48:37,067 --> 00:48:38,510 and kind of walked towards it, 861 00:48:38,510 --> 00:48:41,833 and it tried to back in the same position. 862 00:48:45,540 --> 00:48:47,083 So I walked towards it more and it kept on 863 00:48:47,083 --> 00:48:50,100 walking backwards and backwards while still looking at me, 864 00:48:50,100 --> 00:48:52,030 and still looking at me walked back until 865 00:48:52,030 --> 00:48:53,960 it reached one of the trees on the property. 866 00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,980 Flipped up, looked at me, now it's eyes shine at my height 867 00:48:56,980 --> 00:49:00,263 and it just stood and stared at me. 868 00:49:01,130 --> 00:49:01,963 I'm still trying to figure out what the hell 869 00:49:01,963 --> 00:49:04,170 because now it's higher up, so my headlamp 870 00:49:04,170 --> 00:49:06,090 can't really focus on what it is. 871 00:49:06,090 --> 00:49:08,560 Brought the water in, brought the dogs inside, 872 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:10,560 by the time I went back out it was gone. 873 00:49:14,873 --> 00:49:15,740 - [Narrator] For the next few weeks 874 00:49:15,740 --> 00:49:18,870 repeated activity would occur on Ricky's property, 875 00:49:18,870 --> 00:49:21,660 including multiple sightings of strange shapes 876 00:49:21,660 --> 00:49:23,350 moving through the fields and forests 877 00:49:23,350 --> 00:49:24,870 surrounding his house. 878 00:49:24,870 --> 00:49:27,760 On more then one occasion he saw not one, 879 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,630 but multiple pairs of strange glowing eyes 880 00:49:30,630 --> 00:49:32,930 peering at him from the darkness. 881 00:49:32,930 --> 00:49:34,950 As Ricky began to search for answers 882 00:49:34,950 --> 00:49:37,270 as to what was prowling on his farm 883 00:49:37,270 --> 00:49:39,470 he began to investigate other sightings 884 00:49:39,470 --> 00:49:42,610 of upright canids in the surrounding area. 885 00:49:42,610 --> 00:49:45,930 Soon the activity would extend to his neighbors homes 886 00:49:45,930 --> 00:49:48,980 including the house located closest to his. 887 00:49:48,980 --> 00:49:52,250 - So according to my neighbor, which is my nextdoor neighbor 888 00:49:52,250 --> 00:49:54,930 he gets up to work at two o'clock in the morning. 889 00:49:54,930 --> 00:49:57,550 He puts his trash in the back of his pickup truck, 890 00:49:57,550 --> 00:49:59,510 and drives out to the front of the road, 891 00:49:59,510 --> 00:50:03,250 picks up his trash, goes to the corner, puts it down. 892 00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:06,090 But he's hearing something from the truck, 893 00:50:06,090 --> 00:50:09,810 as he turns around to go back towards his truck 894 00:50:09,810 --> 00:50:14,150 he sees this dog like, wolf like creature 895 00:50:14,150 --> 00:50:17,480 in front of his pickup truck pacing back and forth, 896 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:18,503 looking at him. 897 00:50:19,450 --> 00:50:23,770 He froze, it was in a kind of crouched down position 898 00:50:23,770 --> 00:50:27,950 but not completely on fours, looking at him 899 00:50:27,950 --> 00:50:30,040 as it paced back and forth. 900 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,390 He got into his truck and went to work 901 00:50:32,390 --> 00:50:34,060 after he got his composure back 902 00:50:34,060 --> 00:50:35,950 because he didn't know what it was. 903 00:50:35,950 --> 00:50:39,423 Probably a week after, this was mostly every week, 904 00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:43,290 we were outside with a bonfire me and my neighbor, 905 00:50:43,290 --> 00:50:45,240 and my dad, my dad comes home 906 00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:46,730 from Springfield, Mass for vacation. 907 00:50:46,730 --> 00:50:48,320 My dad had gone inside, 908 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:52,370 so it was one of those days we decided to just call it quits 909 00:50:52,370 --> 00:50:54,900 because there were too many mosquitoes and go inside. 910 00:50:54,900 --> 00:50:57,660 When we threw water on the fire 911 00:50:57,660 --> 00:51:00,330 it was looking at us from the other side 912 00:51:00,330 --> 00:51:02,423 of our field of our property. 913 00:51:03,650 --> 00:51:05,970 His eye shine was probably at my height, 914 00:51:05,970 --> 00:51:08,650 but you could see a silhouette, it wasn't on all fours, 915 00:51:08,650 --> 00:51:12,330 it wasn't starting erectile, it looked like it was scared. 916 00:51:12,330 --> 00:51:14,720 It looked terrified, it ran. 917 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:16,970 While it was on the grass it ran on two legs. 918 00:51:19,690 --> 00:51:23,500 When we got to the trail, it's already overgrown, 919 00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:26,830 so you can't see through the treeline, it's already June. 920 00:51:26,830 --> 00:51:28,400 So you know, you have bushes and everything, 921 00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:30,320 you can't see, so I got kind of iffy, 922 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,430 I told him let's head back because if this guy 923 00:51:32,430 --> 00:51:34,210 is either side we don't have 924 00:51:34,210 --> 00:51:37,720 a lot of space between us to react. 925 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:39,830 So by then I told my neighbor I think 926 00:51:39,830 --> 00:51:41,903 it's time for us to go inside. 927 00:51:44,045 --> 00:51:46,795 (tape rewinding) 928 00:51:54,910 --> 00:51:58,720 - Many people will tell me that they felt 929 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,650 it was giving them a message, 930 00:52:00,650 --> 00:52:02,912 and the messages vary from, 931 00:52:02,912 --> 00:52:06,920 I could jump on your car and get you if I wanted too, 932 00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,220 or if you tell anyone about me I'll come and find you, 933 00:52:10,220 --> 00:52:13,930 or I'm better than you are, you puny little human. 934 00:52:13,930 --> 00:52:15,260 That sort of thing. 935 00:52:15,260 --> 00:52:19,660 - I believe it's something new to the environment. 936 00:52:19,660 --> 00:52:23,310 Why it sometimes preferred when it was first seen 937 00:52:23,310 --> 00:52:26,070 to first scavenge instead of hunting. 938 00:52:26,070 --> 00:52:29,800 It has not breed to a specific look, 939 00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,320 you have so much variations to it. 940 00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,370 Paranormal no, like I said, it eats, it drinks, it breaths. 941 00:52:36,370 --> 00:52:39,420 Can it do certain things that 942 00:52:39,420 --> 00:52:42,090 we might not think is possible? 943 00:52:42,090 --> 00:52:47,090 Yes, but other things that people think that is paranormal, 944 00:52:47,410 --> 00:52:49,340 for me at least, I have been able 945 00:52:49,340 --> 00:52:52,703 to scientifically figure out. 946 00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:40,620 - I've always done field work, 947 00:53:40,620 --> 00:53:42,960 you know gone out followed tracks, 948 00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:44,950 looked for signs, things like that. 949 00:53:44,950 --> 00:53:48,040 But I had the best opportunity ever 950 00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:50,760 several years ago when I was contacted by a gentleman 951 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:55,760 who bought a 40 some acre hay field, part of an old farm, 952 00:53:55,820 --> 00:53:58,490 that was adjacent to Bray Road. 953 00:53:58,490 --> 00:54:01,473 He was a retired math and physics teacher from Illinois. 954 00:54:05,050 --> 00:54:07,390 - I bought the property in 2007, 955 00:54:07,390 --> 00:54:10,103 my farm is in between Bowers and Bray. 956 00:54:11,580 --> 00:54:14,820 I was new in the area so I had not talked with many people. 957 00:54:14,820 --> 00:54:17,330 I cut hay, and it was ready to be bailed 958 00:54:17,330 --> 00:54:20,380 on a Sunday in September 2013. 959 00:54:20,380 --> 00:54:23,512 So I basically went down the road 960 00:54:23,512 --> 00:54:26,220 to a couple of local farmers, and I said 961 00:54:26,220 --> 00:54:28,500 I need help getting hay up, will you guys come and help, 962 00:54:28,500 --> 00:54:30,090 and they said, sure we'll come and help. 963 00:54:30,090 --> 00:54:31,640 So they did. 964 00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,360 And after we got done, the one guys said, 965 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,760 he said well you know the Beast of Bray Road 966 00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,650 lives back on your property there. 967 00:54:39,650 --> 00:54:42,210 He said, oh yeah, he said, my wife saw it, 968 00:54:42,210 --> 00:54:44,370 and another farmer saw it, 969 00:54:44,370 --> 00:54:46,700 and then he's telling me another farmer saw it. 970 00:54:46,700 --> 00:54:50,830 The one farmer who had seen it on Bray Road, 971 00:54:50,830 --> 00:54:52,390 eating a raccoon. 972 00:54:52,390 --> 00:54:54,703 And I go okay, sure, you know, so forth. 973 00:54:56,060 --> 00:54:59,480 So a couple days later I was driving down Bowers Road 974 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,560 and there was a raccoon so I took it and threw it outback 975 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:06,530 on my property line, and go back two days later, 976 00:55:06,530 --> 00:55:10,590 and here the raccoon is cut open, 977 00:55:10,590 --> 00:55:12,775 and the intestines are gone. 978 00:55:12,775 --> 00:55:15,600 - He found a raccoon that was lying there 979 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,270 looking like something had zipped it, 980 00:55:17,270 --> 00:55:21,670 from under it's chin down to the length of its abdomen, 981 00:55:21,670 --> 00:55:25,360 and taken the insides out in one neat scoop, 982 00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,250 set them next to the creature. 983 00:55:27,250 --> 00:55:29,210 - So then I, couple days later, 984 00:55:29,210 --> 00:55:33,140 I got a badger, it was dead on the road, roadkill, 985 00:55:33,140 --> 00:55:35,960 put it down in the hole, three days later 986 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,680 it's out of the hole like 10-15 feet away, 987 00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,850 and a badger weighs 20-25 pounds. 988 00:55:41,850 --> 00:55:44,290 So I know a birds not picking this thing up, 989 00:55:44,290 --> 00:55:48,150 and there's no path, the grass is all still around this. 990 00:55:48,150 --> 00:55:50,130 So what I do is reach down and take it out. 991 00:55:50,130 --> 00:55:55,130 I said so alright some guys coming back on my property 992 00:55:55,550 --> 00:55:57,430 and doing this, that's crazy. 993 00:55:57,430 --> 00:55:59,393 So then I started setting up cameras. 994 00:56:00,250 --> 00:56:01,560 - [Narrator] As Lee's curiosity 995 00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,530 about the happenings on his property began to grow, 996 00:56:04,530 --> 00:56:08,160 the strangeness of what he was dealing with followed suit. 997 00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,640 Over the next four years he would document 998 00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:12,740 the disappearance and dismemberment 999 00:56:12,740 --> 00:56:15,510 of dozens of mutilated animal corpses 1000 00:56:15,510 --> 00:56:17,493 that defied the rules of nature. 1001 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,460 While the trail cameras he set out 1002 00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:22,500 were meant to capture evidence on whatever 1003 00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:25,170 was behind the mutilations it soon 1004 00:56:25,170 --> 00:56:29,070 began capturing mysterious lights and objects in the sky, 1005 00:56:29,070 --> 00:56:31,580 along with other unexplainable phenomenon. 1006 00:56:31,580 --> 00:56:33,900 When Lee had a sighting of what he believed 1007 00:56:33,900 --> 00:56:37,350 to be a set of red eyes belonging to the Beast itself 1008 00:56:37,350 --> 00:56:39,450 in a field late one night, 1009 00:56:39,450 --> 00:56:42,820 it only served to intensify his search for answers. 1010 00:56:42,820 --> 00:56:45,530 Before long Lee had begun filling photo albums 1011 00:56:45,530 --> 00:56:47,790 with evidence of unusual occurrences 1012 00:56:47,790 --> 00:56:50,250 taking place on his farm. 1013 00:56:50,250 --> 00:56:54,300 - I basically had a deer out for three years, 1014 00:56:54,300 --> 00:56:55,723 three to four years. 1015 00:56:57,330 --> 00:56:59,460 There was things happening with the deer 1016 00:56:59,460 --> 00:57:03,150 and the lights, they were very close together. 1017 00:57:03,150 --> 00:57:08,150 - He had the idea of bringing a small deer that he found, 1018 00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,440 it was a 60 pound roadkill deer. 1019 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,987 - And then a mist came and like cloaked it, 1020 00:57:13,987 --> 00:57:15,237 and then the deer's gone. 1021 00:57:17,550 --> 00:57:20,600 - The deer set down in kind of a little nest of grass 1022 00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:24,329 on the edge of his property and when he came back 1023 00:57:24,329 --> 00:57:27,320 the deer was gone. 1024 00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,760 He thought aha, it'll be on the trail camera. 1025 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,170 He looked at it, and at the time that the deer 1026 00:57:33,170 --> 00:57:34,800 would have had to have been taken 1027 00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,603 this strange mist appeared, 1028 00:57:37,460 --> 00:57:39,790 and it was in frame after frame after frame. 1029 00:57:39,790 --> 00:57:42,730 In the first beginning you can see the deer's hoofs 1030 00:57:42,730 --> 00:57:45,375 lying there and in the last frame 1031 00:57:45,375 --> 00:57:47,240 the deer is gone. 1032 00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,130 - I said let's go look for tracks, so we go look for tracks. 1033 00:57:50,130 --> 00:57:52,580 There's these five toed, seven pad tracks 1034 00:57:52,580 --> 00:57:55,850 that I have many pictures of and castings off 1035 00:57:55,850 --> 00:57:57,360 along the edge of the field. 1036 00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:00,160 - And he could see that there were tracks 1037 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,230 that looked like large canine prints 1038 00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:04,900 deeply embedded in the soil 1039 00:58:04,900 --> 00:58:07,030 and there was only the hind set, 1040 00:58:07,030 --> 00:58:11,010 and it had to go somehow over a barbed wire fence 1041 00:58:11,010 --> 00:58:12,560 and into the next field. 1042 00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,780 He and a friend of his followed it 1043 00:58:15,780 --> 00:58:18,080 all the way through that field to where it ended up 1044 00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,493 at another road and they had to stop. 1045 00:58:24,410 --> 00:58:27,560 - I've gone to the Field Museum, 1046 00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:29,530 they sent me to a track expert, 1047 00:58:29,530 --> 00:58:33,424 who said these are not tracks, these are not animals. 1048 00:58:33,424 --> 00:58:36,430 They said, you can go to home depot 1049 00:58:36,430 --> 00:58:38,950 and buy stilts and walk around your field 1050 00:58:38,950 --> 00:58:40,110 and make those tracks. 1051 00:58:40,110 --> 00:58:42,470 There's nobody walking around my field with stilts. 1052 00:58:42,470 --> 00:58:45,020 I tried universities, University of Wisconsin, 1053 00:58:45,020 --> 00:58:46,403 I tried to talk to them. 1054 00:58:46,403 --> 00:58:51,150 I've tried VNR, they tell me it's an abnormal coyote, 1055 00:58:51,150 --> 00:58:52,590 and they've looked at the tracks, 1056 00:58:52,590 --> 00:58:54,570 oh that's an abnormal coyote. 1057 00:58:54,570 --> 00:58:57,160 - [Narrator] Lee's farm seems to be uniquely positioned 1058 00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:01,070 to reveal new information about the mysteries of Bray Road. 1059 00:59:01,070 --> 00:59:03,460 The data he's collected thus far implies 1060 00:59:03,460 --> 00:59:06,380 that the wolf man or whatever it is, 1061 00:59:06,380 --> 00:59:09,700 is only one piece in a much larger puzzle. 1062 00:59:09,700 --> 00:59:12,900 If this impression is true, it begs the question, 1063 00:59:12,900 --> 00:59:15,390 why does this puzzling phenomenon 1064 00:59:15,390 --> 00:59:20,073 appear to recur over and over again in South East Wisconsin? 1065 00:59:21,660 --> 00:59:24,080 The phenomenon Lee's witnessed on his property 1066 00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:26,880 also seems to connect some of the stranger aspects 1067 00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:30,460 of the modern day monster to its ancient ancestors. 1068 00:59:30,460 --> 00:59:33,230 Whether the dog man, if it exists, 1069 00:59:33,230 --> 00:59:35,510 is merely a mythological figure, 1070 00:59:35,510 --> 00:59:38,100 a misplaced, uncataloged animal, 1071 00:59:38,100 --> 00:59:40,820 or something far beyond our understanding 1072 00:59:40,820 --> 00:59:42,810 its presence continues to challenge 1073 00:59:42,810 --> 00:59:46,059 those that seek answers, causing people like Lee 1074 00:59:46,059 --> 00:59:50,340 and Linda Godfrey to continually seek new explanations 1075 00:59:50,340 --> 00:59:53,240 for a mystery that might never be solved. 1076 00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,650 - I believe it exists, I've seen it. 1077 00:59:55,650 --> 00:59:58,050 I have evidence, I'm past that, 1078 00:59:58,050 --> 01:00:00,080 now I want to to know where is it coming from? 1079 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,040 Does it really live here? 1080 01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:03,570 Why does it need food at all, 1081 01:00:03,570 --> 01:00:05,654 does it actually use it for food? 1082 01:00:05,654 --> 01:00:07,843 That's my pursuit. 1083 01:00:16,398 --> 01:00:18,981 (gentle music) 1084 01:00:33,940 --> 01:00:36,060 - [Narrator] While Wisconsin is known for its dairy cows, 1085 01:00:36,060 --> 01:00:38,490 cheese curds and endless fields, 1086 01:00:38,490 --> 01:00:42,220 its town of Elkhorn is known more for it's beast. 1087 01:00:42,220 --> 01:00:44,550 Yet in the years since the first sightings 1088 01:00:44,550 --> 01:00:47,010 the town has done little to embrace the legend 1089 01:00:47,010 --> 01:00:49,780 that has grown around their local monster. 1090 01:00:49,780 --> 01:00:53,370 In the 90s at the height of the Bray Road media frenzy, 1091 01:00:53,370 --> 01:00:56,960 t-shirts were sold, and today you can still find 1092 01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,900 the silver bullet special at the local bar. 1093 01:00:59,900 --> 01:01:02,830 But aside from the occasional curiosity seeker 1094 01:01:02,830 --> 01:01:05,510 asking for directions to the werewolf 1095 01:01:05,510 --> 01:01:09,100 Elkhorn is just another small Midwestern town. 1096 01:01:14,780 --> 01:01:17,880 - I don't know that it's got a commercial value to it. 1097 01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,330 There's a little bit of notoriety, 1098 01:01:20,330 --> 01:01:22,080 but then there's still a lot of people in the area 1099 01:01:22,080 --> 01:01:23,950 that have never actually heard of it. 1100 01:01:23,950 --> 01:01:26,200 - I'm gonna say that people still want 1101 01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:29,350 to turn their backs on it, for the tourism, 1102 01:01:29,350 --> 01:01:33,490 Elkhorn's not a big touristy town. 1103 01:01:33,490 --> 01:01:35,090 But you've got to remember the people 1104 01:01:35,090 --> 01:01:36,950 that are really interested in this, 1105 01:01:36,950 --> 01:01:39,212 it's a small portion of the population, 1106 01:01:39,212 --> 01:01:42,440 they're not trying to market it to the mainstream. 1107 01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:46,870 - So it's always been a divided reaction in the town 1108 01:01:46,870 --> 01:01:49,293 and I think that's to be expected. 1109 01:01:52,020 --> 01:01:55,550 - I've had stuff sent to me from magazines 1110 01:01:55,550 --> 01:01:58,640 in the back of airline seats about the Beast of Bray Road 1111 01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:01,432 from friends that are traveling. 1112 01:02:01,432 --> 01:02:04,290 All around the country I'll have people say, 1113 01:02:04,290 --> 01:02:05,910 Bray, oh like the Beast of Bray Road? 1114 01:02:05,910 --> 01:02:10,093 So it's amazing how far the story has gone. 1115 01:02:15,606 --> 01:02:18,900 - In the beginning I thought that the people 1116 01:02:18,900 --> 01:02:21,627 were seeing something, I did not know what it was, 1117 01:02:21,627 --> 01:02:24,420 and I still don't claim to know for sure what it was. 1118 01:02:24,420 --> 01:02:27,490 The newspaper was selling lots of t-shirts 1119 01:02:27,490 --> 01:02:29,770 and they asked me to do a poster they could hand out 1120 01:02:29,770 --> 01:02:30,833 to people for it. 1121 01:02:32,225 --> 01:02:35,320 I was okay with that, I actually have a cartoon 1122 01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,690 in one of the papers that had a cartoon drawing 1123 01:02:38,690 --> 01:02:41,130 of the werewolf being psychoanalyzed, 1124 01:02:41,130 --> 01:02:43,080 because all the people were driving me, 1125 01:02:44,501 --> 01:02:46,550 you know it was just kind of a fun thing. 1126 01:02:46,550 --> 01:02:48,710 Somewhere in there I came to a point 1127 01:02:48,710 --> 01:02:53,110 where my curiosity blended with the realization 1128 01:02:53,110 --> 01:02:55,640 that people were seeing something 1129 01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,130 that looked like an upright canine, 1130 01:02:58,130 --> 01:03:00,730 and nobody knew why, nobody knew what it was. 1131 01:03:00,730 --> 01:03:03,650 And the sightings continued and continued, and continued. 1132 01:03:03,650 --> 01:03:08,330 I'm not sure after 26 years that I feel 1133 01:03:08,330 --> 01:03:11,870 that comfortable really joking about it 1134 01:03:11,870 --> 01:03:16,660 because I've learned that it runs so deep worldwide 1135 01:03:16,660 --> 01:03:19,070 in so many channels, so many places 1136 01:03:19,070 --> 01:03:20,970 that I think there's a lot more to it 1137 01:03:20,970 --> 01:03:24,453 then appeared on the surface back in '91, '92. 1138 01:03:25,340 --> 01:03:28,743 And why it popped up in Elkhorn I'll never know. 1139 01:03:31,170 --> 01:03:33,660 - [Narrator] In many ways this lonely stretch of road 1140 01:03:33,660 --> 01:03:37,610 in Walworth County Wisconsin is completely ordinary. 1141 01:03:37,610 --> 01:03:40,020 No different then the thousands of byways 1142 01:03:40,020 --> 01:03:43,060 which cut through the heartland of America. 1143 01:03:43,060 --> 01:03:46,100 And perhaps that is the most unsettling element 1144 01:03:47,070 --> 01:03:49,800 in the flat pastureland of the Midwest, 1145 01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:53,990 or the haunted meadows of Europe it can be anywhere. 1146 01:03:53,990 --> 01:03:56,920 On quiet back roads late at night, 1147 01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:00,430 or in your own backyard in broad daylight. 1148 01:04:00,430 --> 01:04:02,510 Whatever this creature is 1149 01:04:02,510 --> 01:04:05,750 the Bray Road Beast is an intruder, 1150 01:04:05,750 --> 01:04:08,590 a being which forces itself into the lives 1151 01:04:08,590 --> 01:04:11,410 of those unlucky enough to see it. 1152 01:04:13,231 --> 01:04:17,121 It could happen anywhere, at any time, 1153 01:04:17,121 --> 01:04:19,038 it could happen to you. 1154 01:04:21,432 --> 01:04:24,099 (ominous music) 1155 01:04:32,786 --> 01:04:35,286 (wolf snarls) 1156 01:04:38,366 --> 01:04:41,116 (dramatic music)