Werewolf Urban Legends

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:34 pm

Recently, when I posted about skinwalker sightings it made me wonder how many people here have heard werewolf urban legends, including ones that circulate primarily on the Internet as well as ones that you hear in real life. One example I was thinking of was the one that used to sit on the front page of werewolf.com, about a college student moving out after he discovered his roommate was a werewolf.
If you've heard one, please summarize it in a post. If you've heard more than one, please summarize at least the most exciting one. It would also be nice if you said where you heard it, whether you've heard it from more than one source, if you've heard more than one version of the same tale, and how old you were when you heard it.
Here's one that I heard when I was about 11:
Kids said that a boy in my grade was a werewolf. Why? Because he fed stray dogs, and rumor had it that there was a female dog he'd had sex with. As far as I could find out, these were the only reasons for thinking that he was a werewolf. Nobody had seen him have sex with a dog, they just thought it was suspicious that he liked dogs so much, in a town where boys normally beat up stray animals for fun.

Hamster · Post by **Hamster** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:45 pm

The only this I heard was the beast of Bray road.

Figarou · Post by **Figarou** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:49 am

Havn't heard any in real life. No one around here talks about werewolves.

Teh_DarkJokerWolf · Post by **Teh_DarkJokerWolf** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:05 am

Meh nothing here Unfortunatelly........

Renorei · Post by **Renorei** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:17 am

Yeah I haven't heard anything in real life either. But then again, I haven't heard anything about vampires, unicorns, dragons, griffins, phoenixes, etc.

The only mythical thing I've heard about in real life is ghosts. And for all I know, they could be real.

Set · Post by **Set** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:32 pm

I've come across alot of things. But as I'm practically a hermit at the moment I've never heard firsthand any stories about werewolves.

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:35 pm

Reilune wrote:I've come across alot of things. But as I'm practically a hermit at the moment I've never heard firsthand any stories about werewolves.

Secondhand, thirdhand or FOF (friend of a friend) tales count too. In fact, that is practically the definition of a classic urban legend. I know that a bunch of these things circulate on the Internet (in addition to self-proclaimed tales, which don't really count) because I've seen some of them more than once, in various forms.

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:44 pm

sorry, here is pretty werewolf vacant

(but hope i can become one to change all that, a guy can dream

)

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 5:12 pm

if you go to the underworld movies website then you can see a map of werewolf sightings aswell as vampires.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:17 am

Uugh... Even in my small little country!

Why haven't I heard of that?

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:40 pm

Shadow Wulf wrote:if you go to the underworld movies website then you can see a map of werewolf sightings aswell as vampires.

Hmmm... I went to http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/underworldevolution/ but I could not find that because the site wouldn't work properly for me (couldn't get beyond the flash installation). If possible, could you provide a direct link? I'm wondering whether this map is based on actual sighting from urban legends and folklore, or whether it is just fake sightings based on the world of the movies.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:53 pm

Try this Jamie: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/unde ... /main.html

Then click 'Lycans', wait a few seconds, and then click on sightings right/below in your screen.

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:57 pm

Thats how we handle wrong politicians here.

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:11 pm

thanks for the more direct link!
After a quick look, I decided that it looks made-up. It is possible that a few people have entered genuine urban legends here and there, but I don't expect it from what I've seen, and there is such a mass of material to wade through that I don't feel like reading all the reports.
Cute, though.

23Jarden · Post by **23Jarden** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:51 pm

he he he

oooK well it's not from around here but I can find some German ledgends for ya.

Black Shuck · Post by **Black Shuck** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:16 pm

Some of them are real, like the one about Peter Stubb. I'm sure there's a lot of made up ones though. It's been awhile since I've been to that site

23Jarden · Post by **23Jarden** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:46 am

what about the oneat the army base?

Shadow Wulf · Post by **Shadow Wulf** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:24 pm

yup, plenty are made up just for the fun of it, but atleast it shows you how many werewolf fans are there compare to vampires

and alteast the timeline are real.

EDIT: 2006!!! year of the werewolf

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:48 pm

Why is it that there are stories labeled werewolf and they complain about vampires and vice-versa?

Silverclaw · Post by **Silverclaw** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 5:54 pm

I havent really heard anything other than old legends and The Beast of Bray Road.

Though WW sightings were talked about some in this weird book called, 'Three Men Searching for Monsters', something like that. I didnt read the whole thing, it was kindof creepy. The men talked to some witch in England where she said something like WWs, vampires, dragons, ect didnt exsist on the physical plane and they only appered to cause fear in humans to feed off their emotions. UFOs appear to do the same thing...really messed up stuff

The stories people had in their usally had the werewolf smelling really bad. They would smell them first. I forget the details

Avareis · Post by **Avareis** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:27 pm

I found this a while ago. It kind of wowed me. If you've seen dear you can figure how big it really is. That thing is ginormous. My first dog, Tracy was a mix like that, but not as big. Strange hu?
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/coyote.asp

Also I found this, which actually goes into the "Werewolves are real thread, but I couldn't find it. Here's the picture to that...I found it kind of funny.
http://www.wayodd.com/funny-pictures2/f ... lf-WDX.jpg[/img]

There's nothing in NY or CT. I'm around both neighborhood and I read the paper for both. I just find the weirdest things on the web.

Fang · Post by **Fang** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:12 pm

I heard something about a werewolf in St. Andrews, N.B., but can't be sure

RedEye · Post by **RedEye** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:19 pm

Out here in the Los Angeles area, I have heard repeated claims of Were's being sighted in Griffith Park (A Huge Park).
It's a Park that is completely surrounded by some City or other; L.A., Burbank, Glendale... and has residential areas connecting directly with the park, so it would fit the Accessability requirement. It's closed after 10:00 at night, as in you just can't go in; the roads are blocked. That fits the Security requirement. There are lots of trees that give Top-cover, even the HeliCOPters can't see the ground in a lot of areas.
Not surprisingly, several "sightings" were from the Air of a Bi-Pedal, Fur covered, creature that, when facing the lights of the 'Copter, looked like a large Dog standing upright, shading its eyes from the light. (It helps to know a few L.A.Cops) With an area population of nearly two million people...
Of Course, they don't exist, even if they do...

Jamie · Post by **Jamie** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:18 am

RedEye wrote:Out here in the Los Angeles area, I have heard repeated claims of Were's being sighted in Griffith Park (A Huge Park).
It's a Park that is completely surrounded by some City or other; L.A., Burbank, Glendale... and has residential areas connecting directly with the park, so it would fit the Accessability requirement. It's closed after 10:00 at night, as in you just can't go in; the roads are blocked. That fits the Security requirement. There are lots of trees that give Top-cover, even the HeliCOPters can't see the ground in a lot of areas.
Not surprisingly, several "sightings" were from the Air of a Bi-Pedal, Fur covered, creature that, when facing the lights of the 'Copter, looked like a large Dog standing upright, shading its eyes from the light. (It helps to know a few L.A.Cops) With an area population of nearly two million people...
Of Course, they don't exist, even if they do...

Is this by any chance the Van Nuys werewolf? The one that has also been nicknamed "the homeless guy" by students at Cal State Northridge?

Uniform Two Six · Post by **Uniform Two Six** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:09 pm

Keep in mind, one of the areas directly bordering Griffith Park is the strangely named Universal City (which is actually an unincorporated plot of land between sections owned by Los Angeles and Burbank). Universal City is home to Universal Studios, so who knows.

In World of Darkness, there's a hive of werewolves living under Griffith Park, amusingly enough.

I don't know about werewolf urban legends, but I have a friend who tells a really scary story about a "ghost wolf" (his words). The story goes that sometime around 1993 he and some friends (they didn't invite me, obviously), went to hang out at a supposedly haunted house on a promentory overlooking the town of Mammoth Lakes, CA. Only, they got lost somehow. This is the really weird part: There's only one road that branches off from the road in question, and it goes about 300 yards and dead ends. They were NOT on that road, nor were they on Old Mammoth Road anymore. They had somehow found their way onto some OTHER road that nobody (including myself) has ever been able to locate since. They're getting more and more disoriented and decide to turn the car around and go back. At that point the car dies for no apparent reason. My friend swears up and down that as the headlights cut out, he saw a huge "glowing wolf" (again his exact words) approaching his side of the car. Just as the wolf is about to reach the car, the driver gets the engine started and they tear off back toward town.

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