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The Bloodthirsty Beast Of Bray Road - Was it a Dogman or something else? · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  In the heart of Wisconsin lies a quiet.
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  Rural community with a chilling secret for decades, the
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  residents of Elkhorn. And the surrounding areas have
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  shared eerie encounters with a mysterious.
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  Creature that has become known as the Beast.
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  Of Bray Rd. Is it a?
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  Mere legend, A modern myth or a genuine menace lurking in the
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  shadows? Join me today as we discuss
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  this. Fascinating.
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  And terrifying cryptic creature here on Mystery Archives I did.
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  Elkhorn WI 19. 30 6A Small rural town, picturesque.
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  And charming with a population. Of roughly 60, 500 people as
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  author. Linda Godfrey wrote in her book
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  The Beast. Of Bray Rd.
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  Elkhorn was known as the Christmas card town surrounded.
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  By a rich Prairie. And dotted with cornfields and
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  dairy farms. About an hour.
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  'S drive. From Madison and Milwaukee, it
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  was an almost idyllic place, not the sort of setting you'd.
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  Hear about in a true crime podcast, for instance.
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  But something. Would soon change the town of.
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  Elkhorn Forever Mark. Shackleman A night watchman at
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  the Catholic convent known as St.
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  Caleta. The very same St.
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  Caleta. Where Rosemary Kennedy was
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  housed after. Her father, Joseph Kennedy, had
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  her lobotomized for agitated depression.
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  To combat her sometimes violent mood swings.
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  In 1941, around midnight, Shackleman was walking through
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  the. Fields near the school when he
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  saw something perched atop a nearby.
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  Native American burial mound. It appeared wolf like.
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  Yes, standing upright and it also.
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  Appeared to be. Clawing at the ground
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  shackleman. Approached the creature to get a
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  better look, but upon seeing it when its eyes met his it
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  quickly. Fled the following morning,
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  Shackleman told his wife about the.
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  Creature describing that on one of its hands, its thumbs.
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  And fingers appeared shrivelled during the daylight hours.
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  Shackleman returned to the mound and discovered raking.
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  Marks in the dirt. After dusk passed.
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  And gave way to 9. Shackleman returned to the mound
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  once. Again and.
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  Saw the creature this time, however.
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  It did not flee. It stood and faced Shackleman,
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  who later estimated. It to be nearly 7 feet tall.
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  He said the creature was covered with dark.
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  Or black hair. He gave off a terrible.
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  Odor. Like a long dead meat and eyes
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  that looked right into me and it made a sound.
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  It was like a three syllable growl.
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  Low and mean, it sounded like it, said Gadara.
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  It was unlike. Anything that I had ever.
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  Heard before Mark Shackleman was in his mid 30s.
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  He was a. Strong and capable man.
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  A former heavyweight boxer. But the encounter made the hairs
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  on his neck stand on end, he would later say.
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  Then I did the only thing I could do.
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  I prayed to God to save me. And it turned and slowly walked
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  away. For a long time, I stood there
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  that bad. Smell hung in the air.
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  And then I said another. Prayer of thankfulness and never
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  saw that thing. Again.
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  Or anything like it, Some who heard Shackleman's story.
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  Assumed the creature must have been a hell hound.
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  A creature often. Found in ancient European and
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  Biblical literature, the Growl. Of a hell hound was once.
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  Described by writer Bob Trubeshaw as a halfway.
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  Station between articulate speech and silence.
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  Filled with emotion. And power, but utterly.
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  Lacking in reason. Then there was what Shackleman
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  had heard the creature say, Ghidorah, which shares an.
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  Uncanny resemblance to Ghidera, a site mentioned in the Bible as
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  the. Location in ancient Judea where
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  Jesus exorcised a demon possessed.
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  Man coming from the tombs. Just as the creature Shackleman
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  had saw had been. Clawing.
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  At a burial mound. Even among believers, though.
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  This Hellhound explanation for the beast.
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  Of Bray Rd. carries little credence rather it.
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  Highlights how the creature seems to defy explanation when
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  presented with something beyond understanding, it is often
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  easiest to. Compare it to what you.
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  Do know in any case, Shackleman's.
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  Story ends here. The creature he saw atop the
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  burial. Mound vanished for a time or
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  perhaps. It simply lay in wait as nearly
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  50 years after Shackleman. 'S encounter.
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  Stories of the. Creature once again began to
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  surface throughout the. 80s and 90s sightings of the.
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  Brae Rd. Beast.
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  Rose in prominence, though mostly seen around Elkhorn.
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  Locals also reported sightings of the beast as far as Walworth,
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  Racine and Jefferson County. The first of these.
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  Recent encounters with the so-called Wisconsin.
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  Werewolf occurred in the fall. Of 1989, around 1:30 AM, Laurie
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  Ann Drizzy was. Driving home along Bray Rd.
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  From a lounge in Elkhorn called the.
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  Jury room, where she worked as a manager.
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  There, off to the side, she saw a massive creature.
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  Its back was turned to. Her.
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  But as she continued along the road, she glanced back and then
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  saw it from the front, she would later say.
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  It was kneeling, its elbows were up and its claws were facing
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  out, so I knew it had claws. I remember.
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  How long they were, she said it seemed.
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  To be holding something between those long claws.
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  Roadkill, perhaps? But unlike many animals which
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  would turn and run when headlights were aimed at them.
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  This creature instead turned and.
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  Stared at her, terrified. Then Drizzy drove home.
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  The following morning, she ventured to the.
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  Local library to dig through the catalogs.
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  And find something that might explain what she saw.
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  What she found was an entry. In The Golden Book of the
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  Mysterious published. In 19, 76.
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  Featuring an illustration labeled Werewolf.
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  It was night and it was quite late.
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  But I know what I saw and Drizzy later say you don't mistake
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  something like that to this day. I believe it was satanic.
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  It was. Just my feeling, I don't believe
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  in werewolves per Southeast. But I believe something could
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  well. Be conjured up two years.
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  Later, another local. Named Doris, Gibson claimed to
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  have seen the beast it was. Halloween night 1991 and Gibson
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  was. Driving along the road through
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  the fog when she hit something. And felt her front tire lift off
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  the ground after. Driving another 50 feet, she
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  stopped the car and got out to assess the damage.
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  To her car. And whatever she may have hit.
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  There was nothing on the road behind her.
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  As she made her way. Around the back of the car.
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  It came running out of the woods, she would later say.
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  This Here comes this thing. And it's just running up at me.
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  It was no dog. It was bigger than me.
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  I've never. Seen a human run like that and
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  my uncle was a track. * Gibson quickly got back in her car.
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  And slammed her foot on the gas. And at the same moment.
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  The creature caught up to her. Car and landed on the trunk,
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  only sliding off because it had become slick from the
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  condensation. Gibson said she felt she would
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  have been dinner had the Beast caught her.
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  But she managed to escape. However, later that night she
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  saw it. Again, she picked up a friend
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  from a party, and on the way home, that friend pointed out
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  the window and screamed. Look at that thing Gibson
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  wasted? No time in speeding.
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  Away and when she got home, she noticed claw marks on the.
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  Back of her blue Plymouth Sundays she would later.
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  Describe the creature as a. Freak of nature, one of God's
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  mistakes but this encounter. Too would be far from the last
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  in 2006. A man named Steve Krueger.
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  Who worked? For the county disposing of
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  wildlife. Carcasses at night time when
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  traffic was low in the area on the sides of roads and highways
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  would. Experience something as well.
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  That would become etched deep into his.
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  Brain forever on the night of November.
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  Eighth of two 1006 A night that. Seemed like any other for Steve.
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  He would come across a deer. On the side of the road.
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  And oddly, this deer wasn't marked for pick up that night.
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  Krueger would get out of his truck and approach the deer to
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  inspect him. The creature weighed.
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  About 100 and £80. Doing what he normally would do,
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  he moved the animal into the back of his truck and then sat
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  in the cab in order to fill out the necessary.
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  Paperwork to be able to properly dispose of the animal as he
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  scribbles. Where and how he found the
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  animal. Steve suddenly begins to feel
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  the. Truck bed, shutter.
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  Thinking it must be the wind. At first he dismisses it, until
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  seconds later it shakes yet again.
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  But much more violently this time, bewildered as to what
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  could be causing the disturbance, Steve glances at
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  his rear. View mirror and sees something
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  that shakes him to his. Core.
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  In the back of his. Truck.
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  Manhandling a £180 deer carcass was a massive.
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  Creature. It had the head of A.
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  Large wolf. And a.
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  Very furry Husky body and bizarrely as.
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  Well, it momentarily stops and arches back and stands on 2
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  feet. Like a man, judging by the size
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  of his truck and his perception, Steve believed the creature to.
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  Stand roughly 7 feet tall. Being a wildlife expert, he's
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  encountered. Every known animal in the state
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  of Wisconsin. But this creature has him
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  stunned. He has no idea what it is.
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  Fearing for his life now with the seconds.
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  Feeling like ours. Steve throws the vehicle into
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  drive and guns it out of there. But while speeding down the
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  road. He hears a massive rustling
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  still. From the back of his truck and
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  then a. Sharp scraping sound.
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  This creature, whatever it was. Had managed to pull the animal
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  out of the bed as well. As the metal ramp he used to
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  load it in, not wanting to stop as he speed away.
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  But needing the ramp to do his daily job, Steve is in a
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  complicated position. But he decides that he must go
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  back when he arrives back. He very reluctantly steps out of
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  the truck to use his flashlight to search.
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  For the ramp, having not seen it from the eye view of the dash,
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  however, upon surveying. He only finds a large pool of.
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  Blood in the mud of the road, and no sign of the.
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  Deer the ramp. Or the creature, whatever this
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  thing was. Was strong enough and aggressive
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  enough to pull a gigantic deer and ramp off the truck bed and
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  into the nearby woods with ease. Clearly shaken by what he had
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  just experienced, Steve decides to.
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  Head straight to the police, he officially makes his.
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  Report of a suspicious situation and.
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  Creature the morning of November the 9th.
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  At approximately 348. AM far from judgmental or
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  humorous. The police have heard of this
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  type of creature before, hundreds of times actually,
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  with, as we've mentioned so far, the sightings.
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  Dating back decades, they decide to file the report.
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  And send out two squad cars to check.
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  The scene out, but the policeman on the ground don't find the
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  creature. Or the ramp either.
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  Not on the road or the. Nearby, surrounding woods.
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  So what? Is the creature that has.
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  Become known as the Bray Rd. Beast.
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  Is it a werewolf? A shape shifting creature such
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  as a skinwalker or a dog Man, a hellhound as previously
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  mentioned, or some. Kind of unfinished experiment
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  that broke out of a lab someplace, or is it?
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  Demonic in nature, its origin has ultimately.
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  Yet to be determined, with sightings continuing to this
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  day. Whether.
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  It is a figment of imagination, a flesh and blood creature, or
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  something more enigmatic. The legend persists.
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  It remains a chilling tale that is left.
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  An indelible mark. On the community of Elkhorn,
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  Wisconsin and serves as a. Reminder that the unknown can be
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  both. Captivating and terrifying, as
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  the night descends, the beast of Bray Rd. continues to haunt the.
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  Collective imagination of the small.
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  Town, leaving us to wonder if it will ever be revealed or.
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  If it will remain forever concealed in the shadows and
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