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Retired Teacher's 13-Year Hunt for Bray Road Beast Turns Up Orbs, Black Mist and Tidy Piles of Carcasses
Lee Hampel, who owns a 35-acre farm on the Wisconsin road, says his data-driven inquiry links the legendary creature to unexplained lights in the night sky.
ELKHORN, WIS. — A retired mathematics and computer science teacher who farms along Bray Road in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, says that after thirteen years of methodical investigation he has found what he believes is evidence that the area's celebrated "werewolf" is connected to unidentified flying objects, according to a report in the Daily Star.
The creature in question is the Beast of Bray Road, a hairy, wolf-like figure said to have stalked the lanes around Elkhorn since the 1980s. Lee Hampel, who owns 35 acres on the road, told reporters he brought to the subject the habits of his old profession. According to an investigative report by NewsNation, as relayed by the Daily Star, he has accumulated thousands of files, among them what he says are more than 100,000 photographs stored on roughly 200 SD cards from motion-activated trail cameras scattered across his land.
Chief among his exhibits, the report states, is an iPhone photograph of a dark figure standing near a cornfield. Mr. Hampel says a scale analysis put the figure at about seven feet tall with shoulders roughly three and a half feet across, dimensions considerably larger than those of a typical wolf or coyote. He further claims to have seen the beast personally on three occasions and to have taken plaster casts of its tracks, which he describes as showing a large five-toed, seven-pad print unlike that of any known local animal.
Officialdom, by his account, was unmoved. He says he carried one 3.5-inch track to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, where it was dismissed as an abnormal coyote.









