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The Beast of Bray Road is a wolf-like creature reported along a quiet farm road outside Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Witnesses describe something 6 to 7 feet tall, covered in fur, with a wolf's head, pointed ears and glowing eyes, seen both on all fours and standing upright.
In late 1989 Lori Endrizzi said she saw it crouched by the roadside holding roadkill like a person would. On Halloween night 1991, teenager Doristine Gipson said she hit something on Bray Road and was chased back to her car. Reporter Linda Godfrey began covering the reports for the Walworth County Week that December, and her later books helped spark the wider Dogman craze.
Skeptics suggest wolves, large dogs or a bear with mange. Reports of an upright hairy creature in Walworth County still turn up now and then.
What witnesses report
- Wolf head with pointed ears on a broad, man-like body
- Kneeling or squatting while eating roadkill
- Glowing yellow-orange eyes
- Switching from four legs to two
- Claw marks on cars
Famous cases
- 1989Endrizzi roadside sighting
Bray Road, Elkhorn, Wisconsin - 1991Gipson Halloween encounter
Bray Road, Elkhorn, Wisconsin - 2003Godfrey's book The Beast of Bray Road
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