Glowing eyes shine sinisterly in the darkness of the unknown. A howl rips through the
silence, raw and predatory. Animal carcasses lay shredded as if by something that is neither fully
human nor entirely beast, but possibly an abomination. The werewolf legend has lived on from
historical records, folklore, and modern eyewitnesses for centuries.
From the shrouded whispers of medieval Europe’s cursed werewolves to Norse warriors
who wielded the savagery of the beast, legends of therianthropes have stalked human history for
centuries, lurking in the shadows of myth and fear (de Blécourt 188, 194). Even today, firsthand
witnesses describe massive, bipedal wolf-like creatures. Unfortunately, authorities dismiss these
encounters, explanations shift, and evidence stays out of reach. Are these shapeshifters simply
misidentifications of a known animal, an unknown cryptid, or something even more dark and
sinister? There are those who can suppress werewolves from the history books as mere myths,
but the fact that these accounts are consistent across time and geography makes the legend more
real than fiction (202).