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Ryan Colucci<\/strong>
Ryan is an alumnus of the prestigious Peter Stark Producing MFA Program at USC. He received his BA in Film Studies and Production from Hofstra University, graduating Suma Cum Laude. Before that he pursued a degree in Accounting from Villanova University and spent a year at Cambridge University in England studying Economics and Terrorism. He is a member of the Lambda Pi Eta Communications Honor Society as well as the Gamma Phi Business Honor Society.
He has over eight years of experience in the film industry, having worked in development for Artisan/Lion’s Gate (Blair Witch Project<\/em>, The Punisher<\/em>) and Disney (Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>, Freaky Friday<\/em>). He also worked at Snoot Entertainment, where he was a producer on the CG-animated feature Battle for Terra<\/em>, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and was released on May 1, 2009 from Lions Gate in both 2D and 3D.
Ryan Colucci, along with acclaimed director Mike Newell, is teaming up with Warner Brothers Pictures to produce Terry Brooks’ Shannara<\/em> fantasy series (twelve books in total). Terry is the fourth best-selling fantasy author of all time, behind only JR Tolkien, JK Rawlings and CS Lewis.
His second graphic novel, R.E.M.<\/em>, is currently in production and will be hitting shelves in the summer of 2010.
Ryan’s Blog
Battle for Terra';
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Dikran Ornekian<\/strong>
A Los Angeles-based screenwriter, Dikran currently has projects in development with Infinitum Nihil (Johnny Depp), Snoot Entertainment (Battle for Terra), Occupant Films (The Wackness) and Stone Village Pictures (Love in the Time of Cholera). His script, The Ghost and The Wolf, made the exclusive 2009 Black List. The Black List is an annual ranking of Hollywood’s best unproduced screenplays, as voted on by top studio and film executives. He is represented by Andrew Deane of Industry Entertainment.
Before focusing on screenwriting full time, Dikran worked in motion picture development for Stephen Sommers’ The Sommers Company. He served as an assistant to Mr. Sommers on Universal’s Mummy: Curse of the Dragon Emperor<\/em> and Paramount’s G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra<\/em>.
Dikran holds a B.A. in Film and History from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. from the Peter Stark Producing Program at University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. ';}
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Brian Anderson<\/strong>
Brian Anderson is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Dog eat Doug. The strip enjoys an international fan base both on and offline. He is currently working on several children’s books, including "The Prince’s New Pet" which will be released in the spring of 2010.
www.dogeatdoug.com<\/a>
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Karol Wisniewski<\/strong>
Karol is a writer, journalist and web designer from Poland with great taste that allows him to find talented artists and brilliant strips from around the planet. He also creates his own comics projects, most recently New British Comics<\/em> - an indie comics anthology published simultaneously in two editions: English and Polish. He is currently working on new comics anthologies with uncommon themes, as well as writing scripts of his own.';}
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document.getElementById('bios').innerHTML = 'When professional soldier Timothy Vance receives information from someone claiming to be his long-lost father, he takes a trip to out-of-the-way Harbor Moon, Maine. It turns out that man hasn’t been there in thirty years and pretty soon Tim’s life is in danger. Fighting for the truth and his survival, Tim discovers that Harbor Moon is harboring a secret. The entire town is werewolves and the man he was looking for may be just like them. Just as a ruthless band of werewolf hunters descend upon the town, Tim must decide whether he is going to stay and fight or turn his back on what he really is.';}
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document.getElementById('bios').innerHTML = 'Harbor Moon, Maine was founded sometime in the 1930’s by young traveler John O’Callaghan. Being the sole survivor of the massacre at his family’s ranch, the young boy set out in search of a town far enough away that he could just escape…
Along his travels he met other people like him and together they built what has become a self-sustaining community in the far reaches of the North East.
Harbor Moon is home to less than 600 residents who make their living raising cattle or operating businesses that cater to members of the town. Although crime is almost non-existent, their Sheriff also acts as the de facto mayor.
John kept a journal about what happened to him and his vision for the town, and currently this tome is on display at the Harbor Moon library, connected to the schoolhouse.';}
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Nikodem Cabala<\/strong>
Nikodem Cabala, also know as Nick O’Damn, is one of the most hard working comics artists on this planet. To this day, he has co-created 7 graphic novels and contributed to a vast array of anthologies and magazines with dozens of his short stories and editorial illustrations. All that before he has turned 30.
For Harbor Moon<\/em> he drew an amazing vision of the origins of the Harbor Moon town. Nikodem is now working on new chapters of the space-opera BioCosmosis. Enone<\/em>, the first part of this epic saga, was presented in Heavy Metal<\/em> Magazine in March of 2009. Also, he’s preparing to shock American readers with his upcoming horror graphic novel.
www.biocosmosis.com';}
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Arcana Studio<\/strong>
Arcana is a Canadian comic book publisher and art studio founded in 2004 by Sean O’Reilly. Winner of the prestigious Shuster Award for Publisher of the Year in 2005, their titles include Kade<\/em>, Ezra<\/em>, 100 Girls<\/em> and El Arsenal<\/em>.
In five short years, they have become Canada’s top publisher with over one hundred properties to their credit. Arcana Art Studio is currently working for Disney as an official vendor, Ubisoft, HBO and developed Dragon’s Lair<\/em>, ReBoot<\/em>, Se7en<\/em> and Final Destination<\/em> for comic books.
They have also signed a publishing deal with Simon Shuster for 100 Girls<\/em> and a co-production deal with Amberwood Animation on Ralph Filmore for an animated television series. In July 2008 Arcana announced that telefilm Canada has provided funding for an animated film for their title Clockwork Girl<\/em>. Clockwork Girl<\/em> was the first release from Arcana’s all ages division, Arcana Kids.
Arcana will be releasing Spoke Lane’s graphic novel Harbor Moon in 2010.
Arcana Comics
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Paul Sambor<\/strong>
Paul is an alumnus of Poland’s top art school, receiving his Master of Arts from Radom University of Technology. Since then, he has put his skills to the test as co-founder of B5, a Polish comic magazine. Paul is ready to burst onto the comic scene with his unique vision for Harbor Moon.
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{document.getElementById('bios').innerHTML = 'Lycanthropy. The human ability to change into not only wolves but bears, big cats and other dangerous creatures. Of all of these transformations though, that of man into wolf is the best known.
There are many historical accounts of wolves preying on human beings during wars and hard winters, although not all of these accounts can be taken as fact. However, the true accounts were prevalent enough that the French had a word for the wolf that has acquired a taste for human flesh, the “werewolf” or the loup-garou<\/em>.
Although modern naturalists and wildlife experts would all agree that the wolf has gained an unfair reputation over the years, centuries of stories and links to the dark side have maintained most people’s fears about these creatures. In northern Europe, wolf men or berserkers - which were warriors clad in animal skins - were greatly feared for this viciousness and the slaughtering of other warriors and innocents alike. In the Baltic and Slavic regions of Europe, people worshipped a wolf deity that could be benevolent or deadly without warning.
As Christianity rose to power, the church condemned such beliefs and soon, the wolf was seen as a symbol of evil.
Some medically educated theorists have suggested that sightings of werewolves were of individuals afflicted with a rare genetic disease called porphyria. Porphyria suffers experience tissue distruction in the face and fingers, skin lesions, and severe photosensitivity. Their facial skin may have a brown pigmentation, and they may have personality disorders. The aversion to light, plus the physical disfigurement, may leads the victim to wonder only at night. "These features," British nuerologist L.Illis wrote in a 1964 issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, "fit well with the description, in older literature, of werewolves."
Some historians believe the werewolf legend was conceived to explain the activity of serial killers. Cyclic attacks, mutilation and cannibalism were all characteristics of alleged werewolf attacks and are commonly ascribed to serial killers today. The wolf being the most feared predator in Europe at the time, it was perhaps inevitable that it ended up being partially blame for the slaughters. Rabies may also explain some werewolf beliefs. Today few believe in werewolves, though sightings are still reported.
In reality, these creatures should not exist, but so much of our understanding of these creatures comes from anthropologists and folklorists (not to mention the movies) and since these sensible people would never believe that a werewolf could possibly be seen - they natural dismiss any true accounts that might surface.';}
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Candice Berner, a 32-year-old teacher and avid jogger who traveled to several rural schools in Alaska, was found dead on Monday along a road near Chignik Lake, a Native Alutiiq village about 475 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Snowmobilers found her severely mauled body in a pool of blood and multiple wolf tracks in the snow, according to officials. The State Medical Examiner said the cause of death was “multiple injuries due to animal mauling."
The fatal attack could be the first wolf attack on U.S. soil in more than 50 years.
2009, September. Texas.<\/strong>
CNN aired a report showing close-up video footage of an unidentified dead animal, stating that locals have begun speculating the possibility that this might be a chupacabra. A Texas taxidermist reported that he received the body from a former student whose cousin had discovered the animal in his barn, where it had succumbed to poison left out for rodents. The taxidermist expressed his belief that this is a genetically mutated coyote.
2008, August 8. Cuero, Texas. <\/strong>
A DeWitt County deputy, Brandon Riedel, filmed an unidentifiable animal along back roads near Cuero, Texas on his dashboard camera. The animal was about the size of a coyote but was hairless with a long snout, short front legs and long back legs. However, Reiter’s boss, Sherrif Jode Zavesky, believes it may be the same species of coyote identified by Texas State University–San Marcos researchers in November 2007.
2008, January 11. Capiz, Phillipines. <\/strong>
Some of the residents from the Barangay believed that it was the chupacabra that killed countless number of chickens.
2007, August. Cuero, Texas. <\/strong>
Phylis Canion and her neighbors reported to have discovered three strange animal carcasses outside Canion’s property. She took photographs of the carcasses and preserved the head of one in her freezer before turning it over for DNA analysis. Canion reported that nearly 30 chickens on her farm had been exsanguinated over a period of years, a factor which led her to connect the carcasses with the chupacabra legend. State Mammologist John Young estimated that the animal in Canion’s pictures was a Gray Fox suffering from an extreme case of mange. In November 2007, biology researchers at Texas State University–San Marcos determined from DNA samples that the suspicious animal was a coyote. The coyote, however, had grayish-blue, mostly hairless skin and large fanged teeth, which caused it to appear different from a normal coyote. Additional skin samples were taken to attempt to determine the cause of the hair loss.
2007, May. Boyaca, Colombia. <\/strong>
A series of reports on national Colombia news reported more than 300 dead sheep in the region of Boyaca, and the capture of a possible specimen to be analyzed by zoologists at the National University of Colombia.
2006, August. Turner, Maine. <\/strong>
Michelle O’Donnell described an "evil looking" rodent-like animal with fangs that had been found dead alongside a road. The animal was apparently struck by a car, and was unidentifiable. Photographs were taken and witness reports seem to be in relative agreement that the creature was canine in appearance, but in widely published photos seemed unlike any dog or wolf in the area. Photos from other angles seem to show a chow- or akita-mixed breed dog. It was reported that "the carcass was picked clean by vultures before experts could examine it." For years, residents of Maine have reported a mysterious creature and a string of dog maulings.
2006, April. Central Russia. <\/strong>
Reports from Central Russia beginning in March 2005 by MosNews tell of a beast that kills animals and sucks out their blood. Thirty-two turkeys were killed and drained overnight. Reports later came from neighboring villages when 30 sheep were killed and had their blood drained. Finally, eyewitnesses were able to describe the chupacabra. In May 2006, experts were determined to track the animal down to no avail.
2004, July. San Antonio, Texas. <\/strong>
In July 2004, a rancher near San Antonio, Texas, killed a hairless dog-like creature, which was attacking his livestock. This animal, initially given the name the Elmendorf Beast, was later determined by DNA assay conducted at University of California, Davis to be a coyote with demodectic or sarcoptic mange. In October 2004, two more carcasses were found in the same area. Biologists in Texas examined samples from the two carcasses and determined they were also coyotes suffering from very severe cases of mange. In Coleman, Texas, a farmer named Reggie Lagow caught an animal in a trap he set up after the deaths of a number of his chickens and turkeys. The animal was described as resembling a mix of hairless dog, rat, and kangaroo. Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the "critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday’s trash.”
2001, March 14. Xinjiang, China. <\/strong>
CHINESE troops are on anti-wolf patrols in the far west region of Xinjiang where the worst winter for 50 years has driven packs out of the mountains and on to plains where livestock graze. According to the Red Cross Society of Xinjiang, the freezing weather has killed 31 people in the predominantly Muslim region and 33 have gone missing in blizzards. Others have died in neighboring Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Now, herdsmen and their families in Xinjiang are banding together with army garrisons to fight off wolves, which have eaten 1,500 sheep in one prefecture alone. Wolves have also attacked endangered antelope in the Kalamaili Mountain Nature Preserve. The antelope can normally outrun predators with ease, but they are starving and cannot sprint through deep snow. Temperatures are now rising in northern regions after reaching -40C, but a thaw raises the risk of floods.
1991, October 31. 8:30pm. Bray Road. Delavan, Wisconsin<\/strong>
Doristine Gipson was driving on Bray Road near Delavan, Wisconson, which is approximately thirty miles south-southeast of Jefferson (site of Shackelman encounter in 1936), when she felt her right front tire jump off the pavement as if it had hit something. The woman stopped her car and looked into the misty darkness and saw a dark hairy creature with a bulked-out chest racing towards her. She went back into her car and tried to speed away when the creature leapt onto her trunk. The creature eventually fell off from the trunk because the trunk was too wet to have a firm grip. Later, the woman returned with a little girl she was taking trick-or-treating and they had a glimpsed of a big form rising from the side of the road.
She told about her encounter the next day and as word spread, more local people began to step forward with their own encounters with the beast, dating back to 1989. And so began the legend of ‘The Bray Road Beast’.
1990, March. 2:00 am. Bray Road. Elkhorn, Wisconsin. <\/strong>
An Elkhorn dairy farmer named Mike Etten spotted something unusual along Bray Road one early morning. In the moonlight, Etten (who admitted that he had been drinking at the time) saw a dark-haired creature that was bigger than a dog, just a short distance from the Hospital Road intersection. Whatever the creature was, it was sitting “like a raccoon sits”, using its front paws to hold onto something that it was eating. As he passed by the creature, it lifted its head and looked at him. He described the head as being thick and wide, with snout that was not as long as a dog’s. The body was covered with dark, thick hair and its legs were big and thick. Not being able to identify the animal, Etten assumed that it was a bear.
1989, Fall. Bray Road. Elkhorn, Wisconsin. <\/strong>
In Elkhorn, near Delevan, a dairy farmer named Scott Bray saw a "strange looking dog" along his pasture on Bray Road. It was bigger and taller than a German shepherd, it had pointed ears and hairy tail, with long, scraggly grayish black hair. It is "built heavy in front - a real strong chest." In the soft soil nearby he found enormous footprints about four to five inches in diameter, which disappeared into the grass of the pasture.
1989, Fall. Bray Road. Elkhorn, Wisconsin. <\/strong>
Russell Gest of Elkhorn also reported seeing the creature about the same time as the Scott Bray sighting. He was about a block or so away from an overgrown area and when he heard weeds being rustled, he looked up to see a creature emerge from the thicket. It was standing on its hind feet and then took two “wobbly” steps forward before Gest began to run away. He looked back to see that the creature was now on all fours, but it never gave chase. After a short distance, it wandered off in the direction of Bray Road. Gest said that the creature was much larger than a German Shepherd and was covered with black and grayish hair. While standing upright, it appeared to be about five feet tall. It had an oversized dog or wolf-like head with a big neck and wide shoulders. The animals form was mostly dog-like, leading Gest to surmise that it was some sort of dog-wolf hybrid.
1989, Fall. Bray Road. Delavan, Wisconsin. <\/strong>
24 year old bar manager Lorianne Endrizzi was driving on Bray Road a half-mile from the 1991 encounter, where she thought she saw a person kneeling in a haunched position at the edge of the road. She slowed down and to her surprise, the figure stared at her at no more then six feet across the passenger side of the car. The figure was covered with grayish brown hair, with big fangs and pointed ears. "His face was long and had a snout, like a wolf," she told reporter Scarlett Sankay. The figure’s eyes glowed in the darkness and they were a yellowish-gold color. “The arms were really kind of strange; jointed like a man or woman would be," she said. "He was holding his hands with his palms upward. The arms were muscular like a man who had worked out a little bit. The back legs looked like they were behind him, like a person kneeling." The sighting lasted about 45 seconds.
1972, July through October. Ohio. <\/strong>
Between July and October, a number of residents allegedly saw a werewolf-like creature. Some people reported encountering a six to eight-foot tall creature that a witness described as "human, with an oversized, wolf-like head, and an elongated nose." Another said it "had huge, hairy feet, fangs, and it ran from side to side, like a caveman in the movies."
1972, February. Hexham, Northumberland. England<\/strong>
An 11-year-old boy and his younger brother were weeding their parent’s garden in Hexham, Northumberland when they unearthed two carved stone heads.
Both heads were roughly a little smaller than tennis balls and very heavy. They were crudely carved and weathered looking, one resembling a skull-like masculine head and the other a slightly smaller female head. The female head supposedly resembled a witch. The heads were cut with hollows for eyes and mouth and a rough protrusion as a nose.
A doctor who had studied the Celtic culture and had written several books on it took possession of the stone heads to study them. She had several other heads that were similar and she was certain that the Hexham heads were Celtic and around 1800 years old.
A few nights later she woke from sleep feeling cold and frightened. She looked up and saw standing in front of the door of the room and saw a half-man, half-animal type creature.
Her description of the event runs as follows "It was about six feet high, slightly stooping, and it was black, against the white door, and it was half animal and half man. The upper part, I would have said, was a wolf, and the lower part was human and, I would have again said, that it was covered with a kind of black, very dark fur. It went out and I just saw it clearly, and then it disappeared, and something made me run after it, a thing I wouldn’t normally have done, but I felt compelled to run after it. I got out of bed and I ran, and I could hear it going down the stairs, then it disappeared towards the back of the house."
The doctor stated that there was "an evil presence about the house". Eventually she decided that the stone heads were the source of the problem and got rid of the whole collection.
The two Hexham heads passed into the hands of other collectors who experienced no werewolf phenomena however some did report that a sense of evil seemed to be emitted by the witch like head which made them very uncomfortable. Eventually the heads became untraceable and their current whereabouts are unknown.
1972. Jefferson County, Wisconsin. <\/strong>
One night, a woman in rural Jefferson County called the police to report an attempted break in at her home. According to an investigation conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, she said that the intruder was a “large, unknown animal” that had come to the house and had tried to get in the door. The creature departed but returned again a few weeks later and injured one of her farm animals. The account stated that the creature had long, dark hair, stood about eight feet tall and walked upright like a man. Its arms were long and it had claws on each hand. After trying to enter the house, the beast went out to the barn and attacked a horse that was stabled there. It left behind a deep gash on the animal that stretched from one shoulder to the other. A footprint left behind was more than a foot long.
1972, May. Sultanpur, India. <\/strong>
Shamdeo, a small boy, was discovered living among the wolves by Narsing Bahadur Singh, the headman of the village of Narangpur. On discovery, Shamdeo, had very dark skin, fingernails grown into claws, a tangle of matted hair and callouses on his palms, elbows and knees. Although he ran quickly on all fours, he couldn’t escape Singh who captured him and took him home.
1970, January. Gallup, New Mexico. <\/strong>
Four youths allegedly encountered a "werewolf" along the side of a road near Whitewater. One witness reported, "It was about five-seven, and I was surprised it could go so fast. At first I thought my friends were playing a joke on me, but when I found out they weren’t, I was scared! We rolled up the windows real fast and lock the doors of the cars. I started driving faster, about 60, but it was hard because that highway had a lot of sharp turns."
1964. Harvard, Illinois. <\/strong>
Less than two miles from Schakelman’s sighting, Dennis Fewless had a similar sighting. Fewless was driving home around midnight from his job at the Admiral Television Corp. in Harvard, Illinois. After turning onto Highway 89 from Highway 14, his headlights caught an animal running across the road in front of him. It was dark brown in color and he estimated that it weighed between 400 and 500 pounds. He also described it as being seven or eight feet tall. It ran across the highway, jumped a barbed wire fence and vanished. Fewless returned to the spot (in the daylight) hours to look for footprints or other evidence but the hard, sun-dried ground offered nothing. They did find where the corn had been pushed aside as the beast entered the field though. “I was awful scared that night,” Fewless told author Jay Rath. “That was no man. It was all hairy from head to feet.”
1958. Greggton, Texas. <\/strong>
Mrs. Delburt Gregg said that one night in 1958 when her husband was on a business trip, she moved her bed close to a screen window hoping to catch a cool breeze. She heard a scratching sound from the window shortly after she fell asleep. In a flash of a lightning, she saw a huge, shaggy, wolf-like creature clawing at the screen and staring at her with baleful, glowing, slitted eyes. It’s white fangs bared at her.
The creature fled from the yard into a clump of bushes as she leapt from her bed to grab a flash light. Mrs. Gregg said "I watched for the animal to come out of the bushes, but after a short time, instead of a great shaggy wolf running out, the figure of an extremely tall man suddenly parted the thick foliage and walked hurriedly down the road, disappearing into the darkness."
She told of her encounter in the 1960 issue of Fate. It is also one of the only accounts of a more fairy-tale like werewolf.
1936. Jefferson, Wisconsin. <\/strong>
Mark Schackelman was driving east of highway 18 in southeastern Wisconsin when he saw a figure digging in an Indian mound. He saw a hair covered creature over six feet tall with both ape-like and dog-like features with pointed ears standing erect. Its hands had shriveled thumb and forefingers on each and also three fully formed fingers.
Schackelman went back to the sighting the next evening hoping to see the creature again and he did. The creature was making "neo-human" sounds with a three syllable growling. Years later, his son who is a Kenosha newspaper editor, wrote that his "father’s first thought was that it must be something satanic."
1920. Orissa, India. <\/strong>
Kamala (eight years old) and Amala (18 months) were discovered together in a wolves’ den. However, it is believed that they were not sisters, but were abandoned — or taken by wolves — some years apart.
The girls seemed to have no trace of humanness in the way they acted and thought. It was as if they had the minds of wolves. They tore off any clothes put on them and would only eat raw meat. They slept curled up together in a tight ball and growled and twitched in their sleep. They only came awake after the moon rose and howled to be let free again. They had spent so long on all fours that their tendons and joints had shortened to the point where it was impossible for them to straighten their legs and even attempt to walk upright. They never smiled or showed any interest in human company. The only emotion that crossed their faces was fear. Even their senses had become wolf-like.
1914<\/strong>
Freud publishes ‘Wolf Man’ paper.
1830<\/strong>
Sioux warriors reported hunting in wolfskins.
1824. Versailles, France. <\/strong>
Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to lunatic asylum.
1764. Auvergne, France. <\/strong>
Bete de Gevaudon (The Beast of Gevaudon) starts werewolf scare.
The story of the Beast of Gévaudan was undoubtedly one of the strangest of our time. During the reign of Louis XV, from 1764 to 1767, a very ferocious "Beast" killed over a hundred people - mostly children. The whole episode began in 1764 in Gévaudan (Lozere) - the first victim - a girl 14 years of age (her face was ripped off) followed by others a few weeks later. As the number of cases increased Captain Duhamel, with 56 sabre carriers (soldiers) began to hunt it. However as these forces headed northwards the beast struck to the east, if they moved towards the east - the beast struck in the North. The king then decided to use armed forces and sent 20,000 hunters out, but to no avail.
In 1765 a large wolf was slain and sent to Paris. There was a general sigh of relief, but not for long: three months later there were new victims. The Beast was evidently not dead, and was gaining in notoriety and infamy - some thought it to be immortal. General fear and panic among the populace prevailed until 19th June 1767, a Joan Chastel, nicknamed "the magician", killed the beast with a blessed, silver bullet. The body was then exhibited to the public for some time before being sent to Paris, it arrived fifty days later in such a decomposed state, that it was buried with great haste. No researcher had an opportunity to examine or identify it, and the true nature of the "Beast" remains a mystery to this day.
1724. Hamelin, Germany. <\/strong>
A boy, described as a naked brownish black-haired creature, was seen running up and down in the fields. The boy was enticed into town, and once there immediately became a subject of great interest. He behaved like a trapped wild animal, eating birds and vegetables raw, and when threatened, he sat on his haunches or on all-fours looking for opportunities to escape. Peter was soon made the possession of King George I of England, where he lived the rest of his life. During his life Peter never learned to talk, showed a complete indifference to money or sex, and was never seen laughing.
1697. Paris, France. <\/strong>
Perrault’s Contes includes “Little Red Riding Hood”.
1623. Meremoisa, Estonia. <\/strong>
A series of court trials brought to justice eighteen men and thirteen women who were tried for lycanthropy. A woman named Ann testified that ‘she had been a werewolf for four years, and had killed a horse as well as some smaller animals.’
1610. Liege, France. <\/strong>
Two women condemned as werewolves.
1603, June 2. Gascony, France. <\/strong>
Jean Grenier, a mentally retarded teenage shepherd, was tried as werewolf and sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing and eating of many young girls. Jeanne Gaboriaut, who had worked with Jean, testified that he had told her that with the aid of a magic pelt and salve he was able to turn into a wolf.
1602, April 22. Vaud, France<\/strong>
Jeanne de la Pierre, along with Michée Bauloz and Suzanne Prevost were condemned as the ‘Werewolves of Vaud’. Changed into wolves by the Devil’s ointment, these women purportedly kidnapped a child and ate him at the Sabbat. They did not, however, eat his right hand, “which God hadn’t permitted.”
1598, Jura, France. <\/strong>
Pernette Gandillon believed she was a wolf and displayed wolf-like behavior. She attacked two children one day, and the older one survived to identify her to authorities. They seized her and "tore her to pieces." They then accused her brother, Pierre, of being a witch and a shape-shifter. He and his son confessed that they possessed an ointment that allowed them to change into wolves. The scars on their bodies reportedly attested to attacks from dogs when they were in wolf form. Once they were imprisoned, they moved around on all fours and howled. Pierre’s daughter was also accused as a witch, and all three were hanged and burned. But only Pernette had been a killer.
1598, December. Paris, France. <\/strong>
French authorities arrested Jacques Roulet after he was found hiding in some brush and covered with the blood of a mutilated teenaged boy. Roulet claimed that he had killed the boy while transformed into a werewolf. The so-called ‘Werewolf of Chalons’ was executed in Paris.
1590, June 22. Val De Travers, France. <\/strong>
Michel Jaques confessed he became a wolf seven or eight times after anointing himself with an unguent given to him by the devil. Although he had tried (and failed) to kidnap children on two different occasions, he had never eaten any.
1589, Germany. <\/strong>
A 25 year crime spree by serial killer Peter Stubb finally came to an end as he was executed as the ‘Werewolf of Cologne’. During that time, he murdered adults and children (including his own son), committed cannibalism and incest and attacked animals. Peter claimed to have made a pact with Satan, who had then given him an animal pelt that would change him into a wolf.
1575<\/strong>
Trials of the benandanti begin in the Friuli, and will continue for a century.
1573. Dole, France. <\/strong>
A recluse by the name of Gilles Garnier freely confessed to killing two of the numerous children’s corpses that were found in the area of Dôle in the summer of 1573.
The partially devoured corpses of children started appearing around that area and a number of local peasants claimed to have spotted a strange wolf-like beast with Garnier’s face. A group of villagers, following the sound of a young girl’s terrified screams and hearing the howl of a wolf, discovered her in the forest, still alive but badly wounded, in the clutches of a huge wolf fitting this description. Although the wolf escaped, Garnier and his wife were arrested a few days later when a ten year old boy disappeared in the vicinity of Garnier’s home.
Garnier, at the trial, confessed to some of the murders, and to being a werewolf. He and his wife were both burned at the stake.
1555. Prussia, Lithuania, Livonia. <\/strong>
Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves.
1550. Livonia. <\/strong>
Hermann Witekind interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga.
1541. Pavia, Italy. <\/strong>
A Paduan farmer dies after torture, having arms and legs hacked off searching for the wolf hair that he claims he wore on his inside. The farmer, as a wolf, fell upon many men in the open country and tore them to pieces. After much trouble the maniac was caught, and he then assured his captors that the only difference that existed between himself and a natural wolf, was that in a true wolf the hair grew outward, whilst in him it struck inward.
1521<\/strong>
Pierre Bourgot was executed after he claimed he had broken the neck of a nine-year-old girl and eaten her. Bourgot, one of the ‘Werewolves of Poligny’, along with Philibert Montot, was accused of lycanthropy by their so-called accomplice, Michel Verdun.
1407<\/strong>
Werewolves mentioned during witchcraft trial at Basel.
1347-1351<\/strong>
First major outbreak of the Black Death.
1344 <\/strong>
An account by Benedictine monks tells of a boy aged 7 or 8 that had been living with wolves since he was taken by them at the age of 3. They looked after him by surrounding him in cold weather, and fed him the best meat from the hunt. When returned to human civilization he said that he preferred living with the wolves. He was taken to the court of Henry, prince (Landgrave) of Hesse.
1275-1300<\/strong>
Volsungasaga<\/em>, Germanic werewolf saga, written down.
1182-1183. Ossory, Ireland. <\/strong>
An unnamed priest was traveling from Ulster to Meath on an important mission with his assistant, a young boy. The two stopped for the night near woods at the edge of the See of Ossory. As they lay down to sleep, the priest hears a human voice calling from the nearby forest. He gets up and looking out into the darkness and sees a giant wolf coming near. The priest and boy draw back in terror, but the wolf speaks in a human voice and tells them not to be afraid. The wolf said that he wasn’t really a wild animal, but a man that was part of a clan from the district that had been cursed by a grumpy saint named St. Natalis.
What happened was every seven years two of their clan had to assume the shape of a wolves and go to live in the forest. After seven years pass, they come back to the clan and resume human form, and then two others take on wolf form. The last couple that had taken wolf form was a man and woman, a husband and wife.
The wolf asked the priest to come with him and administer the Holy Sacrament to his dying wife.
Giraldus Cambrensis wrote on the subject and these writings were then sent to the Bishop of Ossory then to Pope Urban III. Showing you just how serious they took this werewolf tale, one of the first ever recorded.
1101 <\/strong>
Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, alleged Ukrainian werewolf.
650<\/strong>
Paulus Aegineta, a Byzantine Greek physician best known for writing the medical encyclopedia Medical Compendium in Seven Books<\/em>, describes ‘melancholic lycanthropia’.
617<\/strong>
Wolves said to have attacked heretical monks.
600<\/strong>
Saint Albeus of Ireland said to have been suckled by wolves.
170<\/strong>
Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolf rites.
100-75 B.C. <\/strong>
Virgil’s eighth ecologue (first voluntary transformation of werewolf).
2,000 B.C. <\/strong>
Epic of Gilamesh written down (first literary evidence of werewolves).
6,000 B.C. <\/strong>
Catal Huyuk cave-drawings depict leopard men hunting.
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