We didn’t release it (to the news media) when we got the first report about a week ago. Then a week later, a grocer driving home sees a lycanthrope in his headlights.”Īstonishing Legends had the following, important to say about the wolfish madness: “Chief Donald Breckler said to the news media, ‘We don’t know what to think. Another employee of the railway also reported a wolfman stalking the rails. Except that Davis wasn’t the only one seeing dogmen in the wild. The werewolf may have attacked him with a club rather than his claws, but otherwise the story sounds like so many other tall tales. Hollywood as it might sound, that’s the story that Ted Davis reported to police in 1972. One looks over to see a towering werewolf, fangs bared who proceeds to attack the hapless victim. Two railway workers, hooking up train cars late at night. The Cleweekend says: “The Werewolf of Defiance is one of the those local legends that sounds like the beginning of a classic horror movie. The monster may be long gone, but memories of those days and nights of the early seventies still persist among those who lived through that brief, turbulent time of terror. The legend, however, never really died away. And then, like a definitive specter of the night, it was no more. When I started to say something, he took off for the woods.” For weeks, people were on edge: the Defiance Dogman was major news. I saw these huge hairy feet, then I looked up and he was standing there with that big stick over his shoulder. Davis told the local newspaper, The Blade: “I was connecting an air hose between two cars and was looking down. Many of the sightings of the creature were made around a series of old railroad tracks, and usually late at night.Ī couple of guys working on the tracks – Ted Davis and Tom Jones – had an encounter of the very close kind. To say that Defiance was gripped by terror would not be an understatement. The local media quickly picked up on the sinister saga, as did the town’s police, who even opened an official file on Defiance’s very own equivalent of Nessie, the Chupacabra and Bigfoot. Midway through 1972, Defiance, Ohio became what can only be termed “Werewolf Central.” Over the course of a hysteria-filled two months – July to September of Seventy-Two – sightings of a rampaging, hair-covered man-beast, with a pronounced muzzle and dressed in rags, were made. bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into the Weird Darkness! Recommending Weird Darkness to others helps make it possible for me to keep doing the show! And while you’re listening, be sure to check out where you can find the show on Facebook and Twitter, and you can also join the Weird Darkness Weirdos Facebook group. If you’re new here, welcome to the show! And if you’re already a member of this Weirdo family, please take a moment and invite someone else to listen. But nobody expected they would also be adding the word “killer” to his description. Others had quite the opposite opinion of him, thinking him a fraud or a conman. Many considered Edward Rulloff to be a genius – a man ahead of his time. We’ll look at Mexico’s La Rumorosa Highway. The scenery may be beautiful when driving this road, but locals have nicknamed it la carretera de la muerte (the highway of death). But the truth of acid baths is far more gruesome – even more so those who choose to use the method to get rid of a body. The body being tossed in a tub, barrel, or bin, slowly dissolving into soup – leaving no evidence behind. It’s one of the most gruesome ways movie and television villains dispose of their victims… the acid bath. I’ll share some of the most haunted ones that you might want to check out if you have ice in your veins. If you’re looking for some creepy places to visit this Halloween season, you can’t get much creepier than cemeteries and graveyards. In 1972, Defiance, Ohio was the location for one of the best true werewolf stories most people never talk about. Here you’ll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Welcome, Weirdos – I’m Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Listen to ““ACID BATH HORRORS” and 4 More Terrible True Stories – PLUS BLOOPERS! #WeirdDarkness” on Spreaker.
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