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"Werewolves" of Wisconsin Back in the News

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Christopher O'Brien

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[Back in October we had WI "werewolf" researcher Linda Godfrey on the Paracast. It seems that some folks are on the lookout for these fabled cryptocreatures and there is a claim that two of these creatures were spotted on January 9th. I find the added claim that there was a "UFO" landed nearby also intriguing... —chris]

Article HERE:

"Greg Posada and Eugene Pointer of Shawano County, Wisconsin called the paranormal hotline with their report of two werewolves seen near Grass Lake on January 9, 2013. They claim that these two creatures that appeared to be werewolves were definitely bi-pedal. One of the creatures had grayish hair, while the other had brownish hair. Both creatures had snouts. When the creatures were observed, they both seemed to be bent down drinking water from the lake. Eugene and Greg both claim that the creatures sniffed the air and then turned and looked at them. They let off a howl, that sounded like a regular wolf and ran off into the nearby thickets.

"The encounter occurred around 1400 Hours and Eugene and Greg were both shaken from this encounter. Greg says that the brown coated creature was at least 7 feet tall, while the gray coated creature was perhaps 6 feet tall. Eugene says that this is not the end of the story. After their encounter with the werewolves, it was no more than 10 minutes later, they spied a silver disc in the surrounding forest. The silver disc was hovering, tilted and then shot up into the sky. The sighting of the disc lasted only about 3 minutes, but during the time of the sighting, everything felt surreal. Everything moved in slow motion. Eugene and Greg felt relaxed and at ease while they watched the disc in the sky. Eugene does not understand how they could have two paranormal encounters in one day. Special Note: Bigfoot on many occasions has been associated with the sightings of UFOs. Could Wisconsin werewolves also have a connection to UFOs? I would definitely say it’s possible...." Rest of Article HERE:

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Things I wonder about:
Do werewolf stories ever co-occur with skin-walker stories? Is it possible that Europeans brought the phenomena with them, and it became experienced as skin-walkers?
Historically, did any tribes from the Wisconsin region have lycanthropy within their folklore?
Do werewolf sightings tend to appear near burial mounds?
Could the appearance of a UFO trigger the experience of seeing a cryptid (or vice versa)?
 
Konrad - I thought that skinwalker stories/werewolf stories are often one and the same? Who knows if any of this is real but I certainly like reading about it!
 
Konrad - I thought that skinwalker stories/werewolf stories are often one and the same? Who knows if any of this is real but I certainly like reading about it!

Yeah, I'm wondering if there are lines of demarcation between the stories.
Now on a time as they fare abroad in the wood for the getting of wealth, they find a certain house, and two men with great gold rings asleep therein: now these twain were spell-bound skin- changers, (1) and wolf-skins were hanging up over them in the house; and every tenth day might they come out of those skins; and they were kings' sons: so Sigmund and Sinfjofli do the wolf- skins on them, and then might they nowise come out of them, though forsooth the same nature went with them as heretofore; they howled as wolves howl but both knew the meaning of that howling; they lay out in the wild-wood, and each went his way; and a word they made betwixt them, that they should risk the onset of seven men, but no more, and that he who was first to be set on should howl in wolfish wise: "Let us not depart from this," says Sigmund, "for thou art young and over-bold, and men will deem the quarry good, when they take thee."
OMACL: The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga): Chapter8

Here is the footnote:
(1) "Skin-changers" were universally believed in once, in Iceland no less than elsewhere, as see Ari in several places of his history, especially the episode of Dufthach and Storwolf o' Whale. Men possessing the power of becoming wolves at intervals, in the present case compelled so to become, wer-wolves or "loupsgarou", find large place in medieval story, but were equally well-known in classic times. Belief in them still lingers in parts of Europe where wolves are to be found. Herodotus tells of the Neuri, who assumed once a year the shape of wolves; Pliny says that one of the family of Antaeus, chosen by lot annually, became a wolf, and so remained for nine years; Giraldus Cambrensis will have it that Irishmen may become wolves; and Nennius asserts point-blank that "the descendants of wolves are still in Ossory;" they retransform themselves into wolves when they bite. Apuleius, Petronius, and Lucian have similar stories. The Emperor Sigismund convoked a council of theologians in the fifteenth century who decided that wer-wolves did exist.
 
I really liked the story Linda Godfrey was talking about on the Paracast when that dude on 94 was cleaning up road kill and saw the werewolf make off with a deer carcass attached to his loading ramp. I'm going through Scani this weekend but not very close to Grass lake.
 
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