I e-mailed the Liberian and got this responds. I would look at the stuff she sent but I'm busy on a lab report for school.
Hello,
Thank you for your question to the Internet Public Library (IPL)
concerning
the Legend of the Converse Werewolf. I should say up front that
locating
any newspaper articles of reported sightings does not necessarily
constitute "proof" that such a creature existed, but merely that it has
been written about. Reviewing your message, I have to say that I think
you
have completed a very thorough search and my own efforts duplicated
many of
the results you have already uncovered. I believe your best avenue is
to
pursue local history with librarians or local newspapers as you are
doing.
I don't believe that many newspaper articles from the 1800s will be
available online unless scanned and posted by interested parties such
as
yourself. Here is what little additional information I could
contribute.
With that in mind, I visited the IPL homepage at
http://www.ipl.org and
selected the "Entertainment" subject heading to begin my search. Once
at
the Entertainment page I then selected the sub-heading for "Paranormal
Phenomena" which can be found at
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ent70.00.00/.
There are several promising resources on this page that you might find
helpful in your research. The About.com site on Paranormal Phenomena
can be
accessed at
http://paranormal.about.com/. Once here I used the
navigation
menu on the left and chose Weird Creatures/Monsters that is at the
following page:
http://paranormal.about.com/od/weirdcreaturesmonsters/.
Select the sub-topic of Other Creatures and you will find a number of
werewolf stories and links to various werewolf sites. I did not find
any
mention of the Converse Werewolf upon first examination, but if you dig
into the links, you may have some luck. There is a great deal of
information about werewolves in general that may provide some leads.
I returned to the Paranormal Phenomena main page and then selected the
"Skeptics Dictionary" which can be found at
http://www.skepdic.com/
This
site provides links to various paranormal events. Werewolves are
classified
under the heading of "Cryptozoology", a term that you may want to use
in
further searches. The Cryptozoology page is located at
http://www.skepdic.com/ticrypto.html and contains information under the
sub-heading of werewolves and also Lycanthropy. Again, I did not find
particular mention of the Converse Werewolf.
At this point, I left the IPL and went to the search engine Google that
is
located at
http://www.google.com. I entered the term "converse
werewolf"
(in quotation marks) and a number of entries were returned. I was able
to
determine that the legend has roots in Bexar County Texas at this page:
http://www.texasbigfoot.com/Bexar2.html I also found the Texas Bigfoot
Research Center, which collects information on this type of incident.
This page
http://www.texasbigfoot.com/articles1.html contains links to
many
articles about sightings but does not readily identify the name of the
creature in the article title. I would suggest contacting this
organization, which has obviously worked on tracking this type of
phenomena
in the area that your legend originated. They might be able to direct
you
to specific material or provide you with the names of local newspaper
archives that might have records for the time period of interest to
you.
I hope that I have answered your question and have been of assistance
in
your research. If I have not, or if you require further assistance
please
don't hesitate to contact us at the IPL.
Good Luck!