Scientific Explanation of Werewolf Phenomenon:

Modern physicians diagnose the lycanthrope as suffering from 1. Schizophrenia, 2. Organic Brain Syndrome with psychosis, 3. Psychotic Depressive Reaction, 4. Hysterical Neurosis of the dissociative type, 5. Manic-depressive Psychosis and 6. Psychomotor Epilepsy. Science has found a chemical basis for lycanthropy. Hallucinogenic plants and fungus-infected grain had caused many of the so-called lycanthrope to believe that they had turned into wolves. The main ingredients of the ointments used by the werewolves were belladonna or nightshade that could produce hallucination and delusions of bodily metamorphose. 

The diet of medieval peasants may have been another source of lycanthropic delusions. Bread was frequently made from ergot infected grains. Ergot is a fungus of which alkaloids are chemically related to LSD (LysergicAcid Diethylamide, a strong hallucinogenic psychoactive drug. The drug produces dreamlike changes in mood and thought, and alters the perception of time and space. It can create a feeling of lack of self-control, extreme terror and blur the feeling between the individual and the environment.) Like this modern drug, ergot infected grains can induce powerful and long lasting hallucination. In 1951, nearly 135 people had to be hospitalized and 6 died from ergot poisoning in the French town of Pont St. Esprit. They ate bread made from fungus infected rye. The victims had horrible visions of being attacked by tigers and snakes and of turning into beasts. This incident suggests that organic hallucination, rather than supernatural causes, may explain the werewolf phenomenon.

Something else has to be considered as well: the distinct possibility that some so-called werewolves were in fact the tragic victims of rare diseases like Rabies and Porphyria. A strain of virus carried by dogs, wolves and other animals including vampire bats causes Rabies. The virus strikes the central nervous system and produces uncontrollable excitement and painful contractions of the throat muscles’ intervention, which prevent the victim from drinking. Death usually occurs within three to five days of the first symptom. The second disease, Porphyria is a rare genetic disorder that results in a deficiency of heme, one of the pigments in the oxygen-carrying red blood cells. At the 1985 conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, biochemist David Dolphin suggested that the untreated symptoms of Porphyria match many of the traits associated with the classic lycanthrope. One of them is severe photosensitivity, which makes venturing out into daylight extremely painful and thus dooms the sufferer to a life of shadows and darkness. As the condition advances, the victim’s appearance grows increasingly morbid. Discoloration of the skin and an unusual thick growth of facial or body hair occur. There is a tendency for an abnormal change in skin and formation of sores. Eventually the disease attacks cartilage (the soft bone) and causes a progressive deterioration of the nose, ears, eyelids and fingers. The teeth, as well as the fingernails and the flesh beneath them might turn red or reddish brown because of deposition of Porphyrin, a component of Hemoglobin in the blood. Porphyria is often accompanied by mental disturbance, from mild hysteria to delirium and manic-depressive psychoses.

Ok I am probley, probley not gonna sound like the brightest crayon in the box when ask this but dose anyone beleive in ware wolfs? One day actualy it was halloween my fave holiday i like to go trik or treeting still, but anyways i was watching the travel channe and i heard of people seeing ware wolfs and it realy freaked me out dose anyone else beleive n them or have they seen them
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i think werewolves only are real when you have dropped one hit of acid too many!
other than that,it's all a bunch of bullshit.  
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yes, almost the same thing in Ohio called "The Beast" ...NOT SATAN!
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Whats more are we tallking about the conventional Werewolf (you know, on the night full moon changes no matter what, can't stop itself) because if so I'm sure there would be incident where a guy accedently catches a late train...

Actually, the "conventional" werewolf usually transformed through controllable processes such as magic or pacts with the devil or they could transform whenever they liked.
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What if these are just another breed of "shapeshifter?"
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Whilst on the subject of shapeshifters, can we logically discard the whole vampires into bats theory? If these were simply another form of WEREWOLVES/SHAPESHIFTERS then how could a 6'2 human being turn into a winged creature that could fit in your hand?
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werewolves are a crock to me. the whole silver bullet thing, kind of like vampires. why is it that a piece of wood through the heart will kill it but not a bullet?  things like that never made much sense to me, and i doubt they ever will.
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