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I was on Bray Road last weekend.

posted 15 years ago by DaChiTownDude
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I was in Wisconsin on my up to the Dells and happened to be in the Bray Road area and took a gander to see what the road is like(and maybe see the monster). Well, its about 2-3 miles long with approximately 15-20 houses on it with mini-forests every few blocks or so and farms with horses, cattle and other livestock on them and kids playing in the yards. In other words if there was a 7 ft' 600 lbs werewolf around the vicinity I don't realistic think anyone would be owning any animals and letting their kids run around, much less even living in an area where a creature like this would be. It's not there folks, at least not for a very long time. Besides HWY 12 runs right by it and it is a major road in the area and how no one has every seen it(or hit the darn thing) makes no sense. It ain't there. Plain and simple!

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[–] sircrow426 15 years ago

Sea monsters? Probably. Aliens? Maybe. Bigfoot? Doubtfully. Werewolves? Absolutely not.

This episode was a joke. Not only was it poorly thrown together with very little substantial supporting data, but the premise is just ridiculous.

NO ONE TURNS INTO A WOLF UNDER THE LIGHT OF A FULL MOON! NO ONE TURNS INTO A WOLF AT ALL! Werewolves don't exist, and they never have. Scientific impossibility. My mind can't even get around the whole of the subject because to accept "Teen Wolf" as a piece of non-fiction makes my head hurt.

What's worse? The fact that MonsterQuest has also tried to pass real-life vampires off on us, too.

[–] DaChiTownDude 15 years ago

Frankly, I think that the Dogman was suppose to be portrayed as a Bigfoot-like creature that's more wolf than ape. It was only when they interviewed the Native American that the possiblity of a shapeshifter was mentioned. My whole thing is that the location of where Bray Road is would make it unlikely that some 7 foot, 600 pound creature could exist there. I created a thread some time ago about the location of Elkhorn Wisconsin and that it is in a well-traveled area where many tourists from Milwaukee and Chicago go to and that in order to accommodate the travelers, much of the natural resources would have been depleted for a creature like the Beast of Bray Road to exist. Here's the thread I created so you understand what I'm talking about-

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1170243/board/thread/132207628?d=132207628 #132207628

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[–] sircrow426 15 years ago

Your point is fair and well-taken. And I'm not suggesting that you came up with any of the stories, etc.

"The Beast of Bray Road" legend, however, is centered around a werewolf. I had heard of the story before "MonsterQuest" spent money to go check it out. The producers of the show tried to spin it any way they could to make it more plausible, but it's never good when your search foundation is based on the search for what MULTIPLE witnesses are calling a wolf-man or werewolf. Note, some of the witnesses even claim to have seen the beast transform from man to wolf or wolf to man.

[–] DaChiTownDude 15 years ago

"Note, some of the witnesses even claim to have seen the beast transform from man to wolf or wolf to man."

I don't recall that offhand though I haven't seen the episode in some time. There are crazies out there that would say anything to get attention so that's not surprising. You do bring up a good point about the whole werewolf thing because of the stigma behind it. Bigfoot is simply know as an ape-like creature where the werewolf has a paranormal aspect to it that makes more of a superstition rather than a cryptid creature. In any case like many MQ episodes its a waste of time and money for something that obviously is not there. Notice how they didn't even use camera traps in the episode? I don't think the MQ crew even put much stock in the subject they were featuring themselves!

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[–] brmts 15 years ago

You are totally right about the "Beast of Bray Road" First werewolves do not exist! Second, I have lived there for 25 years and all the locals will tell you that the beast was made up by a local news reporter from Elkhorn. She made up the story on slow news day back in the 1980s! "Monsterquest did not even film in the area they went up to film in Northern Wisconsin near Eagle River, which is nowhere near "Bray Road"!!

There is no "beast of bray road"!!

[–] DaChiTownDude 15 years ago

"Monsterquest did not even film in the area they went up to film in Northern Wisconsin near Eagle River, which is nowhere near "Bray Road"!!"

They also filmed by Janesville which is about 30 miles west of there. With all the traffic that moves on HWY 12 AND the hospital directly south of Bray Road, how there aren't more sightings just proves the creature is just a bunch of BS. I think people saw something because they really wanted to believe they saw something. Believe me, I would love to find this creature there and be proven wrong. But logically with the area the way it is there how could a 7 ft. 600-800 lbs. werewolf could exists? Hell I don't think there's much for a stray dog to exist there much less a Dogman!!!

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[–] DaChiTownDude 15 years ago

BTW brmts, do you know Marv Kirshnec or whatever his name is? He's the artist from Elkhorn who claimed on MQ that he saw the creature. Always wondered if he's treated like the village idiot because of the whole thing. Seems like a odd fellow to say the least!

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[–] Golden_Boy_28 8 years ago

Note, some of the witnesses even claim to have seen the beast transform from man to wolf or wolf to man.

You're a liar. Straight up. After years of following this case and reading plenty of literature on the subject I've never once heard anyone make that claim. Ever. Care to sight your sources? I'll never understand why people make this sort of stuff up. I just did a quick Google, and surprise, couldn't find a single claim where anyone reports to have seen someone transform from a man into a wolf.

Is a 'Hollywood' type werewolf likely to exist? Probably not. The whole full moon aspect of the legend was created by Curt Siodmak while writing the screenplay for the 1941 Universal film The Wolfman and isn't mentioned anywhere in the early days of werewolf lore. Still, something did stalk the countryside of Gévaudan in France from 1764 to 1767. Was it something supernatural? Who knows. As for the Dogman sightings in Wisconsin and Michigan, they'll remain a mystery for the time being.