005: Shadow of the Wolf
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Werewolves have been portrayed in folklore, books, movies and television for centuries. Rageful howls under the full moon. Fangs, claws, fur, muscle and legend. Is it a monster? A ghost or a demon? Is it real? Historic folk tales about werewolves often evoke images of crisp nights in dark ages of Europe. Yet in the United States, the state of Georgia has one of the longest histories of werewolf encounters in the country. This is the story of the Georgia Werewolf.
Personal accounts and anecdotes in modern times give us a glimpse of this creature, not yet verified by science. Small-town legends passed down since the 1800s led ghost-hunters to the local cemetery. Rumors swirled around a well-known farm and the unusual behavior of a young family member. What if the monster was not in the woods, but amongst us?
Episode Highlights:
- Personal accounts of close encounters with werewolves in Georgia
- Author Linda S. Godfrey's research on the American Werewolf
- Ghost-hunters investigate the cemetery linked to the monster
- Livestock slaughters and oral history in rural Georgia
- Hunting parties searching for a killer wolf
- The troubling story of Isabella Burt
- Theories on the origins of a werewolf
Resources:
Hunting the American Werewolf by Linda S. Godfrey - Amazon
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:09.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight between science and the |
| 0:16.8 | supernatural, between history and horror. Stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:26.0 | Stories that you want to hear. |
| 0:28.0 | Stories that you need to hear. |
| 0:32.0 | Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go. My name is |
| 0:38.2 | Mike Brown and this is pleasing terrors. |
| 0:44.6 | Episode 5, Shadow of the Wolf. |
| 0:50.8 | There is a monster haunting the history of Georgia. It hides in the woods at the edge of a small town. |
| 0:59.0 | It lingers around a cemetery, refusing to allow one of its occupants to rest in peace. |
| 1:07.4 | We have all heard of it, but we have never allowed ourselves to believe that it might actually be real. |
| 1:14.7 | It is fang and claw, fur and muscle. |
| 1:19.2 | It is memory and legend. |
| 1:22.2 | It surfaces under the light of a full moon and its howl is full |
| 1:26.9 | of rage and bloodlust. It may be flesh and bone, it may be a ghost, or it may have once been something far more terrifying. |
| 1:38.4 | This is the story of the Georgia werewolf. |
| 1:46.0 | Most of us regard werewolves as fictional monsters. Our only experience with them is in the form of movies, |
| 1:50.0 | television, and books. |
| 1:52.0 | But there are people out there who claim to have encountered |
| 1:56.0 | real werewolves. As it turns out, the state with one of the longest |
| 2:01.2 | histories of werewolf encounters is the state of Georgia. |
| 2:06.6 | One of the more recent documented encounters |
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