2013 Fall Werewolf Hunt

Exciting news, We are getting our forces back together, I can't say much, but we have decided to hunt again this fall, and are getting all of our equipment back together. Please check back for daily updates. -Holland

Blackberry

In order to keep a good trail we have decided to use the blackberry bold, using the GPS capabilities of the device, we will be able to keep an accurate trail, and update the blog as necessary.

Hunting Materials

Here are some of the materials i have selected for this summer's werewolf hunt, imput appreciated.

Special Edition 1955 Hunting Jeep.

Silver Bullets for M-16 Assault Rifles


James Bond Harpoon Gun

Safari Hat, to look cool while hunting

New Info.

Werewolves in Wisconsin

One of the first Wisconsin werewolf sightings occurred in 1936. A man named Mark Schackelman reportedly encountering a talking wolfman just east of Jefferson, Wisconsin on Highway 18. As he was driving along the road one evening, he spotted a figure digging in an old Indian mound. He looked closer and saw that the figure was a strange, hair-covered creature that stood erect and stood more than six feet tall. The face of the creature boasted a muzzle and features of both an ape and a dog. Its hands were oddly formed with a twisted thumb and three fully formed fingers. The beast gave off a putrid smell that was like “decaying meat”.

Schackelman returned to the site the following evening, hoping for another look, and this time, he actually heard the creature speak in what he described as being “neo human”. The beats uttered a “three-syllable growling noise that sounded like gadara with the emphasis on the second syllable.” Schackelman was a religious man and after spotting this obviously “evil” creature, he began to back away from it and to pray. Eventually the creature was lost to sight.

But did it turn up again? In 1964, another man, Dennis Fewless, had a similar sighting less than two miles away. Fewless was driving home around midnight from his job at the Admiral Television Corp. in Harvard, Illinois. After turning onto Highway 89 from Highway 14, his headlights caught an animal running across the road in front of him. It was dark brown in color and he estimated that it weighed between 400 and 500 pounds. He also described it as being seven or eight feet tall. It ran across the highway, jumped a barbed wire fence and vanished. Fewless returned to the spot (in the daylight) hours to look for footprints or other evidence but the hard, sun-dried ground offered nothing. They did find where the corn had been pushed aside as the beast entered the field though. “I was awful scared that night,” Fewless told author Jay Rath. “That was no man. It was all hairy from head to feet.”

In 1972, a werewolf returned to Wisconsin. One night, a woman in rural Jefferson County called the police to report an attempted break in at her home. According to an investigation conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, she said that the intruder was a “large, unknown animal” that had come to the house and had tried to get in the door. The creature departed but returned again a few weeks later and injured one of her farm animals. The account stated that the creature had long, dark hair, stood about eight feet tall and walked upright like a man. Its arms were long and it had claws on each hand. After trying to enter the house, the beast went out to the barn and attacked a horse that was stabled there. It left behind a deep gash on the animal that stretched from one shoulder to the other. A footprint left behind was more than a foot long. Bigfoot investigators dismissed the report, saying that a Sasquatch would never be that aggressive. But what about a werewolf?

Perhaps the most celebrated and strange werewolf reports of recent years again come from Wisconsin and involve what has been dubbed the “Bray Road Beast”. The first public sighting of the monster occurred on October 31, 1999 when 18 year old Doristine Gipson of Elkhorn was driving along Bray Road near Delavan. As she neared the intersection of Hospital Road, she felt her right front tire jump off the ground as if she had hit something. She stopped the car and peered into the darkness to see a dark, hairy form racing toward her. She jumped back into the car and was attempting to drive away when the beast jumped onto her trunk. Luckily, it was too wet for the creature to hang on and it fell off onto the pavement. Doristine returned to the site later on that evening with a young girl that she was taking out trick-or-treating and saw a large form on the side of the road.

She told about her encounter the next day and as word spread, more local people began to step forward with their own encounters with the beast, dating back to 1989. One night in the fall of that year, Lorianne Endrizzi was rounding a curve on Bray Road (just a half mile from the site of the later incident) and saw what she thought was a person hunched over on the side of the road. When she slowed down, she took a closer look at the figure on the passenger side of the car. She was no more than six feet away from it at the time. The sighting lasted for about 45 seconds and she stated that she clearly saw a beast with grayish, brown hair, fangs and pointed ears. “His face was … long and snouty, like a wolf”. The creature also had glowing yellow eyes. She reported that she had no idea what this thing could have been until she saw a book at the library that had an illustration of a werewolf in it.

Around the same time period, a dairy farmer from Elkhorn (near Delavan) named Scott Bray reported seeing a “strange looking dog” in his pasture near Bray Road. He said that the beast was larger and taller than a German Shepherd and had pointed ears, a hair tail and long gray and black hair. He added that it was built very heavy in the front, as if it had a strong chest. He followed the “dog” to a large pile of rocks but the creature had vanished. He did find that it had left behind huge footprints though, which disappeared into the grass of the pasture.

The sightings continued and added up to a number of bizarre encounters between 1989 and 1992. The creature resembled no known animals, but alternately was compared to dogs, bears and wolves. According to Jerome Clark, Dan Groebner of the International Wolf Research Center in Ely, Minnesota stated that the creature could not be a wild wolf. To further complicate matters, all sorts of other sightings in the region also began to pour in, including Bigfoot-like creatures, animal mutilations and men in black. As seems to be the chaos during most Fortean flaps, all matter of high strangeness began to filter into the area.

Eventually, all of the sightings died out, leaving fear, confusion and many unanswered questions behind. For now, the mystery of the Bray Road creature - along with that of America’s other werewolf reports - remains unsolved.

How to Kill a Werewolf

Before you embark on a werewolf hunt with the sole purpose of killing a werewolf, did you look at the cures page? If not, I suggest you do – upon death, a werewolf will revert to his or her original form (Frost 7). Wounds that are inflicted upon a werewolf in wolf-form also appear on the werewolf's human form (6-7). Therefore, if you aren’t arrested for murder, there is a high possibility that you will be tried for assault and battery.

If you’re still willing to take the risks, there are a few things you should do before you go after the werewolf.

1. First, make sure you’re hunting a werewolf. If you hear howling at night, the next day check out that area for larger-than-normal or odd paw/foot prints. Also be sure to check into town, or go to the place where you can get the most information. Heck, even use Google, but nothing travels faster than gossip. If you’re sure that you have a werewolf in the area, I recommend visiting your town center or where the most gossip can be heard. That way, while gathering information, you can identify the werewolf.


2. According to Brian Frost, a werewolf "can be killed or destroyed by conventional methods" (14). The belief that silver is the bane of werewolves was first used in the 1764-1767 story The Beast of Gévaudan, in which a magician blesses a silver bullet. The metal silver is chosen because according to its lore, "silver is the only metal to share its magical property as a whole, in short bless one you bless them all" ("Werewolf"). This bullet merely critically injures the werewolf in the story – it is the work of modern writers who exaggerated the power of silver as a one-hit-kills-it weapon ("Werewolf"). The movie The Wolfman directed by George Waggner in 1941, does not treat silver as a one-metal cure-all. Instead, the two werewolves in the movie are beaten to death with a silver cane (Lawrence). 
   Step back a moment: how can one type of a shiny metal be enough to kill a being that turns into a larger-than and stronger-than normal wolf-like creature in the light of a full moon or by another method? It can be understandable if the silver weapon was poisoned before use, but who has time to poison when a fast, inhuman being wanders the night? It would be best, in this case, to mimic the Talbots in The Wolfman (1941) and use a weapon that you can use again and again. Also, this weapon should be able to kill a non-werewolf, just to make sure that does work. You honestly don’t think a rubber chicken spray-painted silver would work, did you? Unless you cover it in barbeque sauce and get it into the werewolf’s mouth with the purpose of having it get stuck in its throat. Then it might work, but don’t trust me on that.


3. Let’s see, you’ve identified the werewolf, and you’ve armed yourself... Now the danger begins. If the werewolf didn’t know about you, very soon it will. If you know where the werewolf lives, that’s great. I advise against breaking and entering to off a sleeping werewolf. Not only could you be charged with manslaughter or assault, but with breaking and entering as well. According to, if a werewolf is wounded and resumes his or her human shape, the "little finger is supposedly either wounded or missing" (Silva). In other words, even if you break in and wound the werewolf in a place that can be easily hidden or appear accidental, the werewolf's missing finger will tell the authorities what they need to know. 
   Thus, instead of invading the werewolf’s lair, follow them out and into the middle of the country and off them there. If it sounds too risky (how many werewolves are there?), bring a friend along!


• So I’m about to go up against a werewolf. Got any tips?
• Some fiction writers have written that werewolves loose all sense of rational thought and rely on instincts. Because of this, you can most likely set up a trap for the lone wolf or pack – just make sure to hide your scent somehow!
• According to Elliott O’Donnell, there are two animals that "give in directly [when] they are brought to bay": the puma and the wolf (O’Donnell 91). According to O’Donnell, if a wolf is cornered and it knows there is no way out, it will surrender. Werewolves are part wolf and part human – if the werewolf was a stubborn person before becoming cursed, you can be assured that it will NOT go down easily. If you run it into a corner, be prepared for a last minute stand, or a frenzied attack.
• If you are facing a four-legged wolf, the only thing you have to worry about are its fangs. If it’s a biped or a werewolf that walks on two legs, then most likely you’ll have to watch out for its jaws and claws.
• Speed is your friend, even though the werewolf will most likely be faster.
• Practice makes perfect. Be sure you know how to use your weapon of choice!


4. Once you’ve defeated the werewolf, cut off its head and burn it. According to Brian Frost, in parts of Eastern Europe a werewolf that is killed and buried returns three days later as a vampire (14). Look at it this way – if the werewolf’s a pile of ash, there’s no way that it can be identified as an ex-werewolf, right? Just don't toss the ashes into a source of running water -- you might give the waters lycanthropic properties which can turn anything that drinks from it into a werewolf, potentially multiplying your problem.