A resident of Washington DC suburb Woodbridge, VA called the cops when a werewolf was sighted last night.

There wasn’t even a full moon Monday night, but an anxious neighbor on Colchester Road told police he saw a werewolf. Police responded to the scene and searched the woods, but there was no sign of the mythical creature, or even a coyote.

Gives new meaning to the phrase Vote Or Die.

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Every generation of teenagers has their own “outsider” sub-culture. Goth, hippie, punk, raver… All pleasantly strange without being scary. But as yet another sign we live in the future, teenagers have finally found a way to freak out even the most die hard counter-culturist. At over a dozen high schools in San Antonio, TX teenagers are transforming into werewolves.

While there isn’t much supernatural about these teens (they put together outfits made of fake tales, novelty contacts, fangs, and dog leashes to approximate the real thing) there is plenty weird about it. The kids involved don’t find it terribly odd though.  To them it’s not a gang or a cult or a sign they need therapy. They consider their pack a support system, which is a something they’ll desperately need to make it through High School dressed as werewolves.

Is this happening elsewhere, or is it just a Texas thing? If you’ve seen a pack of wolves in your town let us know in the comments!

Weird Things Culture Researcher Matt Finaly takes a weekly look into the social, political and cultural climates of a populace at the time it was affected by a legendary paranormal, extraterrestrial or cryptid phenomenon. It appears on Tuesdays…

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Werewolves and Wisconsin have shared an epic, decades-long romance that’s spanned forests, farmland and highways. The bipedal lupine beasts have been sighted horking down road kill and lumbering at locals throughout the southern region of the state for over 70 years. It all started one night in 1936 when a lone man driving down a dark stretch of US 18, just east of Jefferson City, saw a strange, hairy creature that stood at least six feet high and had a canine muzzle and strange three-fingered hands.

The beast was digging up one of the many Native American burial mounds that dapple Wisconsin’s countryside. The witness, a local named Mark Schackelman, drove on, but returned the next night to see if he could find evidence of the creature. Schackelman reports walking over to the mound, only to find the man-wolf standing there, stinking of decaying meat and growling a strange, three-syllable word that sounded like “Gadara.” The witness goes on to report that, understanding the creature to be some agent of evil, he began praying and slowly backing away until he reached his car and was able to escape.

In the ensuing years, more and more reports of werewolf encounters began circulating the state, culminating in the 1990s, when, with dozens of sightings and an investigative book penned by a local journalist, the so-called Bbecame a fixture of Wisconsin’s popular urban lore. Looking back at the sighting that started it all, one has to wonder what truths can be excavated from Mark Schackelman’s bizarre report of his initial visual confrontation, his puzzling late-night return to the site and the talkative monster that he subsequently found there. A Federal program dedicated to the mass poisoning of wolves, religious fervor and wild talk of cannibalized human remains buried deep beneath an ancient city are just the tip of this hairy, snarling, depression-era iceberg.
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