The Reality of Werewolves: An intelligent analysis of Lycanthropy
 

There is a lot that man does not know about his natural world. Throughout history, for as long as man has been around, he's seen "Things" that certainly do not qualify as normal life on earth. While I believe there are a lot of interesting topics under cryptozoology, this thread will be focusing on lycanthropy. Or as the media calls it, "werewolves".

My biggest bit of evidence for the existance of werewolves, is that we have sightings of something called "bigfoot" all the time. There is research being done, foot imprints taken, hair samples and other direct evidence that some kind of large humanoid being does infact exist. But im fairly certain, that being is not a "ape-man" but rather a werewolf.

Now, think about it. Lets put on our fantasy hats for a second and pretend that there really is an ape-man called big-foot. Why is it so elusive? Why is it so hard to track and find? Especially when all footage we see of it shows a slow moving animal that is big and clunky? Here's why. A werewolf would be capable of turning back into a man, essentially eluding capture and no one would be more the wiser to that fact. Another coincidence, why havent we found any bones of bigfoot? Here's why. If a werewolf died, it would revert back to human form.

About three years ago, my brother Eddie was camping in Tennessee(near Oak Ridge if you've ever been there), and he saw what looked like a werewolf in the forest. Here's the picture he took before it ran off

http://www.picfury.com/b/werewolfinforest-2-th.jpg

The picture may be hard to see, it was taken at about 11pm at night(when he was headed back to camp) and it wasnt a full moon. He sketched it about a week later when he returned home with us, here's what he drew

http://www.picfury.com/b/werewolf-2-th.JPG

He described the ordeal as VERY fightening, and there was a horrible stench when he saw its outline up ahead(another synonymous detail with "bigfoot" sightings). But he clearly saw its head, and said it was a wolf animal, not a monkey. After he saw it, he said he got his picture and the camera noise made it run away on its hind legs through the forest. He later said the camera probably saved his life, he was worried it could of attacked him.

Has anyone here ever experienced things like this before? I know my brother eddie isnt the only one.

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That'd be cool and frightening, if it existed. There's a lot we don't understand about our world, but I don't think that Werewolves or other mythical creatures like them exist.

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This is like finding evidence on which the Vampire exists or not. :vikki: It's just an urban legend... I admit that I love them, but don't believe most of them. Not just because I can't accept it or I'm scared of it... just because I'm facing reality and using my common sense. No one has found proof that the so called, 'werewolves' exist. Bones or corpes has never been found... If they do exist, there has to be some significant evident of its remains. It is Just a legend... long series of evolved stories uttered from people worldwide with no actual proof makes things more entertaining to others.

With fake evidence and hoaxes, it causes an obvious increase in the popularity of those legends. It is natural for humans to do so in a bored environment depending on their personality... Those who create those hoaxes are a cry for attention on the media and the news because the more popularity on those hoaxes the more famous you are. One man who made put a toy dinosuar on the lake of the Loch Ness, pictured below:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...essmonster.jpg

Is a hoax proved recently. He was merely playing around with his camrea, and one of his friends saw the picture and made a fortune with it. This is how it goes with legends. Same with the so called, 'plaster castings of a big-foot foot print' or a man in a fur suit walking across the creek which resembles a bigfoot.

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See, I would think that a werewolf would not be frightened by the "click" of a camera. That does look like perhaps a reflective eye in the pic, but only one of them. Maybe a nose down to the right. But there is no evidence that I see for the existence of either. There is a diseas called something like porhphrryia(I have no idea how it is spelled), but some of the symptoms are similar to vampire and werewolf legends.

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I don't know about you guys, but I can't anything in that picture except a small white dot.

As for the existance of werewolves, I am skeptical. Werewolves are not wolves, so they shouldn't behave with pure animal reactions. It would be quite nice I think to have other humaniod species, but not a reality.

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Same.

And if he was so terrified, why did he take a picture?

Want to know how the UFO myth started? This guy said he saw a strange flying thingie at day this, time that. He described its flight as something akin to how a saucer would skip if you threw it across water. Almost instantly, some idiot who's misunderstood the message reports that he, too, has seen a big saucer-shaped space-craft. Pretty soon there are "eyewitnesses" all over town, and then all over the world - 99% of them describe the ships as "saucer"-shaped.

1. He doesn't exist (my theory:)).
2. We just haven't found any yet. Lots of fossils out there that have eluded us, and new ones turn up all the time.

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My opinion is that werewolves and vampires etc don't exist. Believe me, it is a very interesting topic and I find it intruiging. But the fact of the matter is there is no evidence to prove that they exist. Only stories and myths and no hard proof.

In regards to what you are saying concerning the bigfoot/werewolf link, wasn't the footage captured of bigfoot caught in the day, aren't werewolves nocturnal creatures? The guy who took the photo probably saw a bear, that explains why it ran off on its 'hind' legs and ran away from the click of the camera. I am sure a werewolf would not run away from anyone on there ownsome.

They could exist, theres things out there we don't understand... the world of the supernatural is a spooky place.. WwowooOWoooo.

Oh and on the UFO front. I would say that they are more beliveable than werewolves and vampires. There have been reports made by important people, 100s of thousands of sightings by civilians. Pilots from the 2nd world war would report seeing lights fly beside them. They called them Foo Fighters, thats where The Lord Grohl got the name of his band from. There is a whole lot of universe out there and I find it hard to belive that we are the only sentient beings in it.

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The drawing could, with some good-will, be a bear. Actually, that's not such a bad explanation.

Not that it takes much:D (sorry, just had to say that).

Yes, there are lots of reports on UFOs, and no, mathematically we pretty much cannot be the only intelligent life in the universe. I even believed in UFOs for a while, though I don't any more.

Ghosts, however, I'm less sure of, so I'm a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to believing and not believing in supernatural stuff, after all:o.

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Personally I don't believe in turn-into-a-were-wolf-at-midnight sort of werewolf, I just believe in a wolf with human intellegence. Anyway, how do we know it isn't the other way round? Wolves turning into humans at midnight?

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You believe evolution is fake, but bigfoot and werewolves are real?