It’s something that cannot be, and yet, there it stands. The paradox quickly overwhelms any rational mind.

A quick drubbing of two heavy feet on the pavement behind you, an impossible movement of hairy limbs to one side, and suddenly two lemon eyes fearlessly search your own with uncanny, brazen mockery. You’re transfixed, chilled, and completely bewildered. Once those eyes have owned you with their cogent stare for a few eternal moments, the creature’s head snaps away, fangs glinting, leaving you dazed as its hulking form leaps into the bramble or hurdles a stone fence to drop twenty feet onto a creek bed. After a parting glimpse of matted, dark fur, all you want is to be anywhere else. As your foot jams the accelerator or you stumble into a run, willing the lead from your legs so they will move in the opposite direction, you are desperately grateful to have survived this unholy meeting of strangers in the night.

And the night really is stranger, if you live in Walworth or Jefferson County.


The dark hours, the witching hours, are when the creature dubbed “The Beast of Bray Road” most often shows itself. The enigmatic “thing,” as most witnesses tend to call it, was christened for the country lane east of Elkhorn where it was seen by the first witnesses to go public. Over the past six decades it has shocked as many as three dozen area residents with its sudden, sporadic appearances.

The first known sighting was in 1936, when a security watchman at a convent and home for the developmentally disabled in Jefferson County made an unsettling discovery one evening as the clock neared midnight. Straining to see in the shadows, Mark Schackelman thought he made out something digging on an old Native American burial mound behind the main building. Thinking it must be a dog, he trained his flashlight on the animal. With a shock, he realized that it was no dog standing transfixed in the yellow glare, but a man-sized, shaggy creature with pointed ears and three long claws on each hand. In later years, he told his son, Joseph, he considered it a “demon from hell.”

Other sightings occurred through the 60s, 70s and 80s in the Jefferson and Walworth County area, with puzzled and frightened witnesses sometimes calling local police in an effort to find out what exactly they had seen. Unbeknown to one another, surrounding communities whispered for years about a creature known by its local names, “Bluff Monster” or “The Eddy.”

TThe witnesses, with one or two exceptions, seemed trustworthy. Most were reluctant, and many still felt fear when recalling their encounters. None had anything apparent to gain, and all faced ridicule from their family, friends, and neighbors. There was no single “type” of witness, either. They ranged from children to elderly, white-collar to blue-collar, male and female, local folk and those just passing through. Almost all of them said something like, “I know what I saw and nothing is going to change that.”

The descriptions stayed within a fairly close range: Height between five and seven feet; hair described as shaggy and often extremely “wild.” Coloration was usually said to be dark brown, sometimes with gray or silver streaks or tips. Those who had a good look at the head usually reported it to be like that of a wolf or German shepherd, with pointy ears, although some have claimed the head to be apelike. The creature was sometimes seen on two feet, other times on all fours. The most compelling characteristic, however, was the creature’s aggressive stare.


One witness, Williams Bay businessman Marvin Kirschnik, who came forward in 2003, was able to corroborate the other sightings with one of his own in 1981. His was unusual in that it happened in broad daylight, on an August afternoon. Driving along Highway 11 near Bray Road, Kirschnik became aware of a creature standing and staring at him from behind a fallen tree not far from the ditch. He pulled over and scrutinized it from the window of his van for a good minute, he estimated, as the creature returned his gaze. Finally, totally unnerved by its stare and by his inability to identify it, he sped off. But he made a drawing as soon as he got home. Its resemblance to those of the other witnesses is remarkable, although Kirschnik’s was made ten years before the newspaper story broke.

Does the Beast still prowl? Stories keep rolling in. However, most of the recent sightings have been in places other than Bray Road, which hasn’t had a report since the early 90s. A woman saw it in Washington County in the summer of 2003, and a Madison man saw a strange dog/ape type of creature prowling a sidewalk about 1 A.M. on a dimly lit residential street in May 2004. Some Illinois residents have also reported seeing it in four different places in recent months.

One woman who saw the Bluff Monster regularly while growing up in southern Jefferson County gave a description that sounds more like bigfoot than a wolfman, and there have been other witnesses who also felt the creature bore yeti-like traits. A professional couple from Kenosha both saw a seven-foot tall, almost classic Sasquatch-type creature hurdle a bridge rail at Honey Lake in eastern Walworth. Some cryptozoologists, those who study unknown animals, have speculated that the Beast may indeed be a smaller species of bigfoot.

Other popular theories are that it is a hybrid wolf-dog, a bear, a large wolf, a denizen of another dimension (either conjured up or visiting on its own), a true lycanthrope or shapeshifting werewolf, a hoax by someone with a very determined and decades-long obsession, and even a hold-over carnivore from the Ice Age, perhaps some sort of indigenous dogman. The creature seems to circulate around the Kettle Moraine State Forest, a strangely landscaped natural area with dense forests. Could something ancient have survived and reproduced here, venturing into civilization to harvest roadkill wherever cover is handy?

There have been other sightings of bipedal canines around the world and the United States, including the Michigan Dog Man flap in the mid-1980s. But the Beast of Bray Road remains unique for the number of sightings and the worldwide attention it has received. As to the true nature of the Beast, probably only time and perhaps a lucky capture or video will be able to solve the mystery to everyone’s satisfaction.

I've heard about the beast of Bray road before. Interesting.

I'd probably go with sassy, but the fact most of the encounters do state an obvious wolf like face throws it a bit.
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The state of Wisconsin is (oddly) no stranger to werewolf sightings and encounters. Although it seems impossible that a mythical creature like a werewolf could stalk the nation’s Heartland, a number of bizarre encounters in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s leaves us pondering this very idea. There had already been encounters with what some believed were werewolves in Wisconsin in 1936, 1964 and 1972 respectively, but there had been nothing like the reports that came out of the area near Delavan, starting in 1989.See other Wisconsin Werewolf Encounters



The first werewolf sighting to go public occurred (perhaps fittingly) on October 31, 1999. A young woman named Doristine Gipson, from nearby Elkhorn, was driving along Bray Road near Delavan. As she neared the intersection of Hospital Road, she leaned over to change the station on her radio when she felt her right front tire jump off the ground as if she had hit something. Concerned, she stopped the car and got out to see what it was. Finding nothing on the roadway behind her car, she began to look around. As she peered into the darkness, she suddenly saw a dark, hairy form racing toward her. She did not see what the figure looked like from the distance at which she was standing (about 50 feet) but she did see the figure was quite bulky and she would later compare the form to someone who works out continually with weights. Startled by the oncoming form, and by the sounds of its “heavy feet”, she quickly retreated to her car. She jumped in and was attempting to drive away when the beast jumped onto her trunk. Luckily, it was too wet for the creature to hang on and it fell off onto the pavement. Doristine returned to the site later on that evening with a young girl that she was taking out trick-or-treating and saw a large form on the side of the road. When she saw the creature moving, she ordered the child to lock her door and drove quickly away from the scene.

She had no idea what she had seen but wondered if perhaps it might be a bear, angry because she had struck it with her car. Regardless, she told a neighbor about the encounter the next day and showed her the scratched car. As word spread, more local people began to step forward with their own encounters with the beast, dating back to 1989.

One night in the fall of that year, 24 year old bar manager Lorianne Endrizzi was rounding a curve on Bray Road (just a half mile from the site of the later incident) and saw what she thought was a person kneeling and hunched over on the side of the road. When she slowed down, she took a closer look at the figure on the passenger side of the car. She was no more than six feet away from it at the time. The sighting lasted for about 45 seconds and she stated that she clearly saw a beast with grayish, brown hair, fangs and pointed ears. "His face was … long and snouty, like a wolf". She also noted that even though the car’s headlights were pointed ahead down the roadway, the creature’s eyes glowed with a yellowish color, just like an animal’s will do when reflected car lights. Like Doris Gipson, she also saw how wide and powerful the creature’s chest and build were. She went on to add that the arms of the beast were rather strange. They were jointed as a man’s would be and it seemed to be holding food with its palms upward, completely like any animal that she had ever heard of. The arms were muscular (“like a man who had worked out a little bit”) and the creature seemed to have human-like fingers with claws on the ends. She did not notice any sort of tail but did say that its back legs were behind it, like a person would be if kneeling.

Endrizzi was completely unnerved by the sighting. She later stated in an interview that the creature “appeared to be so human-like that it was scary.” He own answer to what she had seen was that it had been a “freak of nature”. She had no idea what it could have been until she saw a book at the library that had an illustration of a werewolf in it. It so closely resembled what she had seen on Bray Road that her “eyes popped out” of her head.

After hearing Doris Gipson’s account by way of rumor, Endrizzi contacted the Lakeland Animal Shelter and her mother contacted a local newspaper writer named Linda Godfrey, hoping that publicity might encourage other people who had encountered the creature to come forward. The story that followed was published on December 29, 1991 and while it contained basic information about the Gipson and Endrizzi sightings (using pseudonyms for the two women), it also included some scanty information on other sightings. It also mentioned that chickens had been stolen and than another family who lived near Bray Road had experienced their own close encounter with the beast. Karen Bowey, who actually lived along Bowers Road, stated that her daughter Heather (age 11) had seen the creature back in 1989. They had been playing outside and though they had spotted a large dog - until it stood up. She mentioned the odd shape of its back legs and the speed at which it could move. The county humane officer, John Frederickson, told the reporter that he believed the creature was a “coyote” but he did concede that there were a lot of people who believed that they had seen something out of the ordinary. He admitted that he was not sure what to make of it.

Predictably, large media outlets picked up the story and the witnesses began to suffer from practical jokes and laughter. Werewolf signs were planted in front yards and werewolf parties became common, even at the bar where Endrizzi worked. Monster t-shirts were sold and tourists cruised up and down Bray Road, hoping for a glimpse of the creature. As time went by though, the excitement decreased and the temper of the community began to wear thin. Despite all of the jokes and humor, there was still an undercurrent of fear in Delavan and Elkhorn. Something was going on out in the vicinity of Bray Road and soon people began to whisper about other things as well.

Just the summer before the wolf creature had been reported, a dozen or so animals had been dumped in a ditch along nearby Willow Road. John Frederickson, the human officer from Delavan, stated that he believed several of the animals had been used in cult rituals. While Linn police chief James Jensen dismissed this idea in June 1991, Frederickson insisted that officials were missing the point. According to the officer, some of the animals had ropes tied around their back legs and their throats were slit, some were decapitated and others were dismembered in various ways. The most recently killed animals was a dog that had its chest cavity split open and its heart removed. Several of the animals matched descriptions of recently missing pets and they certainly had not been killed by passing cars. The mutilated carcasses were almost immediately covered up - literally. The site was quickly bulldozed, ending Frederickson’s investigation but it did not end the whispers and rumors that followed.

Other reports began to reach Frederickson that summer as well. Rumors were passed on about humane officer imposters who pursued stray dogs. One incident also involved an unidentified man in a black uniform (driving a large black car) who attempted to intimidate a child who was home alone into giving up his black Labrador Retriever. Around this same time, there were also reports of occult graffiti being found in an abandoned house and at the local cemetery, where graves markers were also found to be covered with candle wax. The abandoned house was located just a quarter-mile off Bray Road. This led many to ponder whether the satanic activity and the Bray Road Beast were in some way connected. The strange stories and animal carcasses had been whispered about and discovered just a few months before the first sightings of the monster had been publicized - but the beast was apparently in the vicinity long before that.

An earlier sighting of “something” was made by a dairy farmer from Elkhorn named Scott Bray, who reported seeing a "strange looking dog" in his pasture near Bray Road in September or October of 1989. He said that the beast was larger and taller than a German Shepherd and had pointed ears, a hair tail and long gray and black hair. He added that it was built very heavy in the front, as if it had a strong chest. He followed the "dog" to a large pile of rocks but the creature had vanished. He did find that it had left behind huge footprints though, which disappeared into the grass of the pasture.

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 thi9cket. 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.

Around Christmas 1990, Heather Bowey had her previously mentioned encounter. She had no idea that she had seen the same thing as Doris Gipson until she heard the young woman talking about on the school bus. The driver, Pat Lester, (who happened to be Lori Endrizzi’s mother - coincidence?), listened to the girl’s story and passed it on to Linda Godfrey. The reporter then contacted Karen Bowey, also a school bus driver, and then mentioned the sighting in the newspaper. Heather elaborated on the encounter to Scarlett Sankey.

The sighting occurred around 4:30 pm as Heather and several friends were returning home from sledding near Loveland Road (about a mile and a half southeast of the intersection of Bray and Hospital Roads). They happened to look up and see what appeared to be a large dog walking along a creek in snow-covered cornfield. Heather estimated that it was about a block away from them. Thinking that it was a dog, they children began calling to it. The creature looked at them and then it stood up on its hind legs. She described it as being covered with long “silverfish-like- brownish” hair. The beast took four awkward steps in their direction and then dropped down on all fours and began to run at the children in what Heather later described as being “a bigger leap than dogs run.” It followed the group about halfway to the Bowey home (about 250 yards away) before it ran off in another direction.

In March 1990, an Elkhorn dairy farmer named Mike Etten spotted something unusual along Bray Road one early morning around 2:00 am. 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. However, when the other sightings of the Bray Road Beast were made public in 1991, he had to reconsider this assumption.

One of the last reported encounters with the creature occurred in early February 1992. It happened around 10:30 pm on Highway H, about six miles southwest of the Bray and Hospital Roads intersection. A young woman named Tammy Bray, who worked for a retirement home, was driving along when a large, dog-like animal crossed the road in front of her. She quickly punched the brakes and slide to a stop, just about the same time that the creature turned and looked at her. She described the creature as have a board chest and pointed ears and being covered with matted brown and black fur. The narrow nose, thick neck and shining yellow eyes of the beast quickly convinced her that she was not looking at any sort of dog. Finally, it continued on, unafraid, across the road and she noted that it walked “strong in front, more slouchy, sloppy-like in the rear.” Tammy drove home and hurried into the house to tell her husband, Scott Bray, that she had seen the same animal that he had earlier seen in their pasture.

The sightings eventually died out but the strangeness that seemed to envelope the region took a little longer to fade. In January 1992, just as furor over the Bray Road Beast sightings was starting to quiet down, a local “reputable businessman” told reporter Linda Godfrey that he had seen two bright lights emitting sparks and moving erratically across the sky above Delavan. Later that spring, four or five horses that were pastured near Elkhorn were found with their throats slashed. John Frederickson, who investigated, was quoted as saying that “They were almost surgical-type wounds”. And then after than, things became eerily quiet.

So, what was the Bray Road Beast? Neither a coyote or the native red wolf can really match the descriptions that were given of the creature, despite humane officer John Frederickson’s comments that a coyote might rear up on its hind legs before running, explaining several witnesses claims that it walked on two legs. A gray wolf would be much larger than a red wolf but are not generally found in the area. In addition, gray wolves are much narrower in the chest than the Bray Road creature was reported to be and wolves are shy of humans and despite the matching yellow eyes, would not attack a car as the creature from the Doris Gipson encounter did. The creature simply resembled no known animals, but alternately was compared to dogs, bears and wolves. According to Jerome Clark, Dan Groebner of the International Wolf Research Center in Ely, Minnesota stated that the creature could not be a wild wolf.

Witnesses also insisted that it was not a dog, although some suggested that it could have been a wolf-dog hybrid of some sort, But how does this explain the creature’s habit of kneeling, walking on two legs and holding onto food with the flat of its paws turned upward? Also, Lori Endrizzi claimed that the animal had human-like fingers! The idea that the monster may have been a bear is also called into question. While bears do occasionally walk for short distances on two legs, they do not hold food with their palms up, do not jump onto moving cars and very rarely do they pursue or try to attack humans.

So, what could it have been? To find possible answers to that, we have to look outside of the normal confines of zoology. Researcher Richard Hendricks points to a creature that was suggested by Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark called the “shunka warak’in”. The creature was said to have lived in the wilds of the Upper Midwest and was a wolf-like animal that was known to the Native American population and to the early settlers in the region. The creature was named by the Ioway Indians and its name meant “carrying-off dogs”. Little is known for sure about the creature but apparently it was quite fierce and for awhile, a mounted specimen of one was exhibited at various times in the west Yellowstone area and in a small museum near Henry Lake in Idaho. Interestingly, the dog-hyena type creature fits many of the descriptions of witnesses in southeastern Wisconsin, including its strange look (which would have made many compare it to a wolf or a god mix), its dark shaggy fur and a sloping weakness to its back legs, which was noted in almost every report.

But even if we accept the possibility that this creature could have been one of the rare, and possibly extinct “shunka warak’in”, then how do we still explain the fact that it picked up its food with its paws (hands?) and walked about on two legs. If the Bray Road Beast was real - it had to have been some sort of creature that has never been classified before.

Or more incredible to believe, a genuine werewolf! Investigator Todd Roll was quick to point out the hints that there may have been an occult connection to the Bray Road Beast. The discovery of the mutilated animal carcasses and the occult activity at the cemetery and the abandoned house coincided with the sightings of the monster in the region. Do we dare consider the idea that the beast was a shape shifter of some sort, blending between man and wolf?



When investigator Todd Roll examined the occult connections to the werewolf sightings, he interviewed John Frederickson, who told him of this house deep in the woods where mutilated animals had been discovered. The owner of the property insisted that the slain animals were "part of his religion". This photo was given to Todd by an anonymous source.
(Courtesy Todd Roll / Wausau Paranormal Research Society)


There is also one more theory that we have to consider - that the entire thing could have been an elaborate hoax. Notwithstanding the fact that Doris Gipson’s encounter took place on Halloween, there were other problems as well. The most obvious issue to cause suspicion was the relationships between all of those involved in the case. Endrizzi’s mother, Pat Lester, is a central figure in the case. In addition to being one witness’ mother, she was also Gipson’s neighbor and drove the school bus that Gipson, Heather Bowey and Russell Gest rode. Heather’s mother was also a school bus driver. Tammy Bray was also a friend of Pat Lester’s daughter and the wife of Scott Bray. It was also Lester who took the initiative to contact the newspaper about the sightings. However, it should be strongly pointed out that Lester never tried to influence the reports of the witnesses. It seems more likely that she was simply in a position to hear about the encounters and her interest and compassion towards those involved helped to encourage them to go public.

So, could they have been making the whole thing up? Sure, they could have been, but it doesn’t seem likely, especially based on the fact that no one had anything to gain by making the sightings public - other than ridicule and embarrassment, which is hardly an incentive to make your story known.

As time has passed, the investigation into the case has grown cold and with no further sightings of the Bray Road Beast to continue the news story, the papers have fallen silent. One has to wonder if we will ever know the truth of what happened in southeastern Wisconsin between 1989 and 1992 for the mystery, at this point, remains unsolved.

Shunka Warak'in


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In the late 19th century, the Hutchins family moved into an area of Montana along the Madison River's West Fork, in Broadwater County.  They were soon to report encounters with a mysterious canine beast known to Native Americans.

One of the descendants of the original clan was zoologist Ross Hutchins.  In 1977, he would write Trails to Nature's Mysteries: The Life of a Working Naturalist.   Within this book is reference to one of the most obscure creatures to grace North America's cryptozoological landscape.  The following account is reproduced from that book.

One winter morning my grandfather was aroused by the barking of the dogs.  He discovered that a wolflike beast of dark color was chasing my grandmother's geese.  He fired his gun at the animal but missed.  It ran off down the river, but several mornings later it was seen again at about dawn. It was seen several more times at the home ranch as well as at other ranches ten or fifteen miles down the valley.  Whatever it was, it was a great traveler...
   
Those who got a good look at the beast described it as being nearly black and having high shoulders and a back that sloped downward like a hyena.  Then one morning in late January, my grandfather was alerted by the dogs, and this time he was able to kill it.  Just what the animal was is still an open question.  After being killed, it was donated to a man named Sherwood who kept a combination grocery and museum at Henry Lake in Idaho.  It was mounted and displayed there for many years.  He called it ringdocus.



The apparent shunka warak'in shot by Hutchins.

An Ioway Indian named Lance Foster approached Loren Coleman in 1995 and informed him of traditions existing in that tribe of an animal called a shunka warak'in ('Carrying-Off-Dogs') which cried like a human when killed.  Foster's descriptions of an animal that looked something like a hyena and the existence of one in an Idaho museum are testimony that the animal killed at the Hutchins ranch was a Shunka Warak'in. 

Coleman speculates that the creature may have represented a survival of a prehistoric species known as Borophagus, although my own researches into the animal makes it seem even more likely that it may belong to another prehistoric species, a creodont known as Hyaenodon montanus.  H. montanus was a rather lightly built memeber of the Neohyaenodon subspecies

In the language of the Native American, Ioway people, the expression Shunka Warak'in means "carries off dogs". This name has been applied to a cryptid that is said to inhabit the great plains of North America. A purported specimen of this cryptid was shot in Montana, around the turn on of the last century, by a member of the Hutchins family. This specimen was later mounted and displayed at a general store and museum in Henry Lake Idaho where the owner called it "Ringdocus."

There is much speculation about the identity of the Shunka Warak'in, the mounted beast, and whether the mount is in fact a Shunka Warak'in. To some the mounted beast is simply a poorly mounted wolf. Various other possible identities that have been proposed for the "Ringdocus" in particular, and for the Shunka Warak'in in general, include various canid species such as the Dire Wolf, various hyaenid species, a creodont such as borophagus, some type of gracile hyeanodon, or even a long-nosed peccary.

The current location of the mounted specimen is unknown and the whole question of its identity and that of the Shunka Warak'in remains a mystery.

Toward end 19. Century established itself a certain family Hutchins in the US Federal State Montana on a bank of the Madison River's in west Fork, Broadwater County. The Hutchins should make already soon acquaintance with a mysterioesen nature, which was familiar the region up to that time only the indianischen Urbevoelkerung, the so-called Shunka Warak'in. One winter morning the grandfather of the family was waked by barking the dogs. It went of it out of wolves or Kojoten in the proximity was, in order to tear cattle. Thus it reached a large, dark, wolf-similar animal for its gun, stormed in the free and surprised with the hunt for the geese of the family. It missed the animal with its shot only scarcely, on which it fled immediately. In the time following on it the Bestie was sighted again and again in the area around the Ranch of the Hutchins. Those which more exactly the creature to face got, described them than darkly, nearly black with high shoulders and a back, which lower themselves to the rear approaching, similarly a Hyaene. After some time, it was January, the Bestie by the grandfather of the Hutchins was already shot and their liveless body to a man named Sherwood sold, which possessed a kind of local history museum in Idaho and creature let which stuff and issued. It gave the name Ringdocus to the nature.

In the year 1995 an Indian of the trunk of the Ioway drew the attention of the well-known Kryptozoologen trucks Coleman named Lance Foster to the animal and let him know, which its trunk knew since long time about this animal answer and which the indianische name of the animal Shunka Warak'in loud. Coleman speculated, which could probably act it with this nature around a survivor of a praehistorischen species named Borophagus, set up however still another second theory, according to which the Shunka Warak'in was to be ranked among the praehistorischen species of the Hyaenodon montanus. With Hyaenodon montanus it concerns a particularly easily built member of the sub-group Neohyaenodon of the group of new worlds of this animal family. Unfortunately an accurate investigation of the stuffed Kadavers was no longer possible, since this disappeared in the course of the time and was not again found. Everything which by this shot nature remained is an old photograph of the issued Kadavers.

Should it actually concern a survivor kind of premature Hyaenodonten, which apply at the latest since the last ice age as become extinct? In any case the large forest areas of Montana offer a quite good retreat area for animals, since humans arise rarely there. If it concerns usually shy animals, about which is to be gone out, then these go to humans out of the way, if these appear there. Nevertheless there is again and again sighting report of such natures, whose description fits on the Shunka Warak'in. Since the only occupied Kadaver unfortunately disappeared, thus also the only scientifically provable proof for the existence of the Shunka Warak'in was lost. If one should arrive a daily into the possession of clear traces or a further Kadavers, this legendary nature of the Indians is also zoo-logically recognized.



The Shunka Warak'in hunted by Hutchins



Is the Shunka Warak'in a survivor from the family of the Hyaenodonten?