OH - The legend of the Werewolf of Defiance

[Indy Anna]

’The Werewolf of Defiance’ is an Ohio local legend that still haunts (video)

Two railway workers, hooking up train cars late at night. One looks over to see a towering werewolf, fangs bared who proceeds to attack the hapless victim.

Hollywood as it might sound, that’s the story that Ted Davis reported to police in 1972. The werewolf may have attacked him with a club rather than his claws, but otherwise the story sounds like so many other tall tales.

Except that Davis wasn’t the only one seeing dogmen in the wild.

video
http://www.cleweekend.com/werewolf-...b8w6mMjMGFnzZNaxYAWv-reTBOqU5poN8Z7a5A-Ut4-Jw

 

[perfectingpink]

’The Werewolf of Defiance’ is an Ohio local legend that still haunts (video)


video
http://www.cleweekend.com/werewolf-...b8w6mMjMGFnzZNaxYAWv-reTBOqU5poN8Z7a5A-Ut4-Jw

I wonder if there was a family there with Hypertrichosis.

 

[Indy Anna]

I wonder if there was a family there with Hypertrichosis.

Yeh. I was wondering if people kept seeing a man with hypertrichosis since he/it was wearing clothing. But, the one man also described the creature as having fangs. I could understand him exaggerating the appearance of the teeth if he was startled by an extremely hairy man, with his mouth wide open, poised to strike him with a bat. But, then there's his description of the feet. ???

 

[Indy Anna]

Another thought: gingival hyperplasia is a characteristic of some forms of hypertrichosis. So, this characteristic may have given the man the appearance of having fangs. Also, if he was barefoot, the appearance of hairy feet would have been alarming.

 

[onslow]

The Strange Tale of the Defiance Werewolf

 

[mom2four717]

Eeeks!

 

[Indy Anna]

The Strange Tale of the Defiance Werewolf

"pronounced muzzle"?

I wonder whatever happened to the wolf-man. Did he catch a train somewhere?

 

[Pipsissiway_Potts]

For those interested in the Weird and Cryptozoology here are the following links:
Crypto-Kid: Werewolf of Defiance
WOLFMAN OF DEFIANCE
Werewolves in Ohio?