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Hunting the American Werewolf | 
 enlarge | Author: Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher: Trails Media Group
Category: Book
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Edition: 1st
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Pages: 312
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1931599661
EAN: 9781931599665
ASIN: 1931599661
Publication Date: March 31, 2006
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Product Description
Hes out there a malevolent beast with the head of a wolfwalking upright like a man! Dont believe it? How do you explain dozens of verified sightings throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and nationwide? In this fascinating book, best-selling author and award-winning journalist Linda Godfrey continues the hunt she began in The Beast of Bray Road. With only her investigative mind and her wry sense of humor, she takes on weird creatures too bizarre to be realand too well documented to be mere fairy-tales.
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 Good werewolf sighting book September 6, 2008
This is a book om werewolf sightings but also includes possible bigfoots,shapechangers, and ghostwerewolfs for lack of a better term
 Best of the "Beast" so far... May 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Linda Godfrey does an even better job with her second book on the subject. This book is written with a journalism and reporting style with a hint of her lighter editorial commentary. Many nice illustrations, simple charts, history and 101 Biology help present the information. The book is organized into time blocks that cover "beast" activity in WI, MI, and GA.
If you follow this crypto you know about Linda's previous book on the subject and the recent "Monsterquest" episode. Although the "MQ" episode offers eyewitness updates to specific accounts, this book is the most in-depth authority on the entire subject.
Godfrey does a great job of categorizing the sightings based on eye witness detail and is not quick to label things as the "beast" or genuine. Her viewpoint tends to favor this crypto as a terrestrial and biological entity rather than anything tied to werewolf legend and lore.
This book will appeal to "Crypto" fans or armchair bio-mystery fans. Either way it's a great and scary read because unlike Bigfoot, the "beast" is very confrontational.
Mysteries Magazine review October 28, 2007
Standing up to seven feet tall, with a fang-filled snout and wolfish eyes, the Manwolf is Wisconsin's latest unexplained denizen.
Continuing the work begun in The Beast of Bray Road, Linda Godfrey's latest book documents further sightings of the elusive Manwolf, and expands its territory beyond state lines. From an actual attack in a Georgian swamp to a tale of a pygmy wolfman who chases bikers along nature trails, the accounts range from the disturbing to the playful. Maps and sketches by the author and other eyewitnesses nicely supplement the text. Especially useful is the incident chronology, which combines sightings from both books through the end of 2005.
In Godfrey's thirst to "know why so many otherwise ordinary people are seeing Manwolves, Bigfoot, and other associated upright Furries," no incident, no matter how bizarre or unrelated, escapes the author's observation. As bonafide Manwolf encounters are separated from less reliable stories, the possibilities of dire wolves, hellhounds, black panthers, lizard men, lycanthropes (werewolves), and other creatures are all considered here.
Throughout, Godfrey proposes a variety of theories to explain the various sightings. One of the most startling is an apparent connection between areas of concentrated Manwolf sightings and locations of Native American effigy mounds. While the purpose of the mounds remains a mystery, it is believed that many were watched over by fearsome water spirits. More intriguing still, two of the man-shaped effigies resemble Bigfoot and the Manwolf, suggesting that these creatures may be a remnant of these ancient guardians.
The book's main strength is its open-minded analysis. No single explanation is espoused and no definite conclusions drawn. Rather, every angle is presented in an engaging, conversational style, with a strong blend of humorous skepticism and serious deliberation.
Mysteries Magazine
Great book, both fun and informative June 17, 2007
This book is even better than the first. I love Ms. Godfrey's style of writing as a reporter and not as a scholar. She grabs our attention and tells a super story based upon the data she is able to collect from witnesses. The first time that I heard about this creature being something more than a late night movie monster was after I returned from New Orleans. I bought a book down in the Quarter called "Journey into Darkness... Ghosts and Vampires of New Orleans" by Katherine Smith C.1998 by De Simonin Publications of New Orleans. In the chapter "Loup Garou-Legacy of the Wolf" Ms. Smith relates a personal experience that is exactly like ones in this book. She too spotted something bipedal, grey, and large standing the middle of a dark and lonely road. It could have been a Manwolf, it could have been Bigfoot (aka Skunk Ape in Lousiana). Unfortunately, she doesn't give us anymore details especially about the legs or face. I was thrilled to find out that this short piece I had read was not the only or end of the story.
Ms. Godfrey.... please get us fans book three that you alluded to !
I'm certainly on the lookout whenever I travel the lonely highways at night.
Red Meat for Monster Lovers March 6, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There's something for everyone in forteanism and for me it's monsters. Whether they're furry, finned, floating in a jar, leathery winged, shape shifting, undead, or sucking a goat, monsters are the embodiment of everything bizarre and wonderful. If you feel the same way, you will love Linda Godfrey's Hunting the American Werewolf.
The book concentrates on encounters with "Manwolfs" and "Dogmen", shaggy, wolf-headed creatures that walk more or less upright, have canine back legs, and give off an evil aura and aroma to match. ("My Dogman has no nose." "How does he smell?" "Terrible.") Godfrey began writing about werewolves as a reporter covering a series of sightings that took place in 1989-90 on or near an uninteresting stretch of blacktop called Bray Road in South-east Wisconsin. She gave the creature a memorable nickname (see below) was contacted by other witnesses and discovered comparable reports from Wisconsin and neighboring states going back to the 1930s. In 2003, Godfrey published her first crypto book, The Beast of Bray Road (a title later appropriated for a godawful movie featuring a godawful werewolf costume.) Beast inspired more and more people to tell their stories and these appear in Hunting the American Werewolf. The follow-up, however, contains creatures that make the original creature seem positively housebroken.
There's a protean ape-wolf monstrosity, an "Anubis headed skinwalker", packs of fiendish canines, and a wolfish phantom standing guard over a "witch's" cottage (a teen hi-jinks adventure that seems bound to achieve urban legend status). My personal favorite is the mini-Manwolf that could have escaped from Hanna-Barbera Studios. The witness recalls that:
"For a split second, I remember thinking it was a racoon, but I quickly noticed that the knees on the hind legs were bent inward and it was running on the hind two feet with the front `arms' held out in front of its body (author's italics)
The creature was maybe three and a half feet standing, had...slicked back dark hair, a snout like a black Lab, only more narrow eyes that seemed to glow...and was fast. Man was it fast"
This incident, like most of the others, took place in Wisconsin, Michigan or Illinois. The books becomes national when looking at historical accounts, folklore and the confessions of a young man with a problem ("What's it like to be a werewolf? It stinks."). Lizard men, lake monsters and flying things are not neglected and neither is speculation.
Godfrey is not afraid to speculate and offers her thoughts and those of others, without endorsing a specific interpretation of monster experiences. Even the most extraordinary ideas (you'll know the one I mean when you read it) are explained with neither a smirk nor a wink. The author began writing about monsters as a newspaper reporter and does not editorialize.
This journalistic background is evident in other ways. She visits the scenes, talks to witnesses and writes in an informal, idiomatic style, which is characteristic of the book as a whole. This is not an elegantly arranged disquisition with the contents buffed to a high polish; rather Hunting the American Werewolf contains bales of fresh unfamiliar material, numerous drawings (by the author) and bold speculation and these are what make it a great monster book.
Finally, I should mention that the author and I are friends. I contributed to the book because I admire what she's doing.
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