Retired Teacher's 13-Year Hunt for Bray Road Beast Turns Up Orbs, Black Mist and Tidy Piles of Carcasses

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.

The inquiry took a stranger turn, according to the report, when Mr. Hampel began leaving roadkill, including deer and raccoons, on his property as bait. He claims the carcasses did not merely vanish but were found "surgically" gutted and stacked in neat piles, with no human footprints nearby to suggest a person had done it. He says the cameras, rather than recording a predator dragging off heavy meat, captured flashing orbs, bright white lights and a thick "black mist." The heavy animals, he says, seemed to disappear without triggering the motion sensors, and he reports electronic failures at the moment the meat went missing.

From this he has concluded that the creature may be tied to UFO activity. He also describes objects in the night sky that appear to blink out of existence. "Elkhorn doesn't like to talk about it, so we don't really know how often it is seen," he told the Chicago Tribune.

Mr. Hampel was candid about the limits of his position. He noted that a neighbor of fifty years has never seen the creature, though that neighbor reportedly finds odd tracks and cannot say what makes them. "Well, I know," Mr. Hampel said. He added that perhaps in 75 years the matter will be settled. None of his claims has been independently verified, and the only official opinion cited in the report is the state's view that the track belonged to a coyote.