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Lair of the Beasts: Killer-Werewolves
Savage Texas By Nick Redfern
January 16, 2010
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Living approximately halfway between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, I very often find myself on the receiving end of stories, tales and accounts relating to sightings of weird and unidentified creatures deep within the heart of the Lone State. Most of those same reports are both eye-opening and thought-provoking in equal and mysterious measures. But, without doubt, the strangest case I have received thus far – and one that really stands out in my memory - is that relating to the werewolf of Paradise.
Paradise is a small town, situated not too far from the sprawling city of Fort Worth, but one that is dominated by isolated homes, thick and somewhat mysterious woods, sprawling fields, numerous cows, and not much more at all. Aside from perhaps a killer-werewolf, that is.
Dawn had just broken on a particular day in September 1996, and Walter, a rancher who had made Paradise his home, headed out to tend his cows, which had the run of a large field at the back of his property. Walter was certainly not expecting to find the horrifying scene upon which he stumbled: one of his most valuable cows had been killed under cover of darkness.
And, by the looks of the cow, the killer had been some sort of vicious, powerful creature that surely had no place prowling the fields of Paradise. The cow was disemboweled, with its throat ripped out and both back legs completely gone.
Although Walter wasted no time in contacting the police; this turned out to be an utterly fruitless task, since the only thing that the responding officers could suggest to the irate and worried rancher was that perhaps a big cat was responsible for the atrocity and was still on the loose. And, while this was certainly a major cause for alarm and a matter they would most definitely look into, it what not, technically speaking, a crime that required the attention of the police.
So, a wholly dissatisfied Walter decided to take matters into his own hands and elected to embark upon a night-time vigil, in the hope that the beast might return and he, Walter, would have the opportunity to blow the creature’s head clean off its shoulders and put an end to the matter before it risked spiraling wildly out of control.
Thus it was that at roughly 2.00 a.m. four days later, and while dutifully scanning the field with a night-scope that was attached to his high-powered gun, Walter became frozen with fear when he caught sight of a large, hairy figure striding across the field. Around seven feet in height, very muscular and dark, it had the body of a man, yet the face, the ears and the muzzle of what looked like a large German shepherd dog or a wild wolf.
Rooted to the spot, Walter didn’t even think to fire his gun. Rather, he simply watched, dumbstruck with fear and awe, as the beast covered the width of the field very quickly and vanished into the trees that border his large property.
Rather ominously, only a short time later, and in the same exact spot where he first noticed the diabolical wolf-man, Walter found in the grass a small, stone, carved head of a large fanged monster with slits for eyes and flared nostrils.
To this day, Walter is convinced that occultists were secretly at work in the heart of his field, possibly engaged in some unholy ancient rite or ritual, and had quite literally conjured up the beast from another realm of existence. Now, he believes, the beast is wildly on the loose in our world, free of its previous moorings and trappings, and prowling the woods and fields of Texas in search of yet more tasty morsels of the bovine kind.
This is not the first time that I have heard such a tale that links werewolf encounters with the realm of the supernatural and the paranormal, And, I have a very strong feeling that it will not be the last occasion either.
Nick Redfern is the author of many books. His latest is Contactees: A History of Alien-Human Interaction, published by New Page Books.
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Man......thats BS....would make a decent horror flick though