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Note: Due to tech issues with my headphones and microphone, my audio on this show isn't of the typical quality for It Gets Late Early. But Dan sounds great!If you love comedy and work in tech, you must have watched HBO's Silicon Valley. If you haven't…fix that immediately, but it's a show about the struggles of Richard Hendricks, a Silicon Valley founder and engineer trying to build his own company, Pied Piper. The comedic genius of that show is straight-up legendary!Today, I have Dan Lyons, a writer on HBO's Silicon Valley and author of the NYT bestseller "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble," which the LA Times called "the best book about Silicon Valley today." He followed up this book with two more - “Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us,” and his most recent book, “STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World.” Dan also was the creator of the anonymously penned blog "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs."Dan regales us with a story about his first day working at a promising tech startup at the age of 52. He also walks us back to a time when his then-CEO was quoted in the New York Times saying, effectively, we don't appreciate old employees. You'll hear how Dan responded…and what he wishes he had done now with the benefit of hindsight.But after all his (mis)adventures in a tech company that only wanted to hire young workers, Dan now works at a job he loves at DocuSign. In fact, Dan loves working at DocuSign so much, you might even call it his Twin Flame employer. What?! Tune in to find out what we mean.Join us as we discuss his time working in a startup as the token-old guy, his experience as a writer on HBO's Silicon Valley, the concept of Twin Flames, horoscopes, and even my childhood crushes. And we will leave you with hope that you can find a job you love - at any age.This is a kind of sillier, more entertaining episode - I hope you enjoy hearing some unfiltered banter between Dan and me. "So, having come from the journalism world, you're a little freer in that world to be kind of irreverent about your own institution or your boss. You can be a little obnoxious and get away with it."- Dan LyonsIn This Episode:-How does one transition from losing a journalism job to entering a tech startup?-What is it like walking through the door on the first day as an older employee in a tech company?-Dan recollects his days working for a company whose CEO told the New York Times that "gray hair and experience are really overrated"-What was it like working at Newsweek?-Experiencing the reality of midlife collision-The call to work at HBO's Silicon Valley and Dan's big break as a writer-How Dan wrote his bestselling book "Disrupted" and the events that led him to write two more books-The Bozo Explosion explained-It all comes down to the culture-Horoscopes, Love Language, and Twin Flames-How to find your twin flame employer-Maureen's childhood crush(es) revealedAnd much more.Resources:-Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons: https://danlyons.io/books-STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World by Dan Lyons: https://danlyons.io/books-Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us by Dan Lyons:

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Thomas Middleditch is best known for playing Richard Hendricks on six seasons of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley.’ Now, he is leaving that ultra-specific persona behind to take on dozens of different characters alongside his friend Ben Schwartz in three new improvised comedy specials for Netflix called—what else?—‘Middleditch & Schwartz.’ In this episode, Thomas breaks down the tricky business of bringing live improv to the screen. Plus, he looks back on his big SNL audition, recalls almost starring in a spinoff of ‘The Office,’ expresses regret over telling ‘Playboy’ that swinging “saved” his marriage and a lot more. Twitter: @mattwilstein | Instagram: @tombini and @lastlaughpodHighlights from this episode and others at The Daily Beast.Go to ratethispodcast.com/laugh to leave us a rating and review. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If your impression of Thomas Middleditch is that of a somewhat befuddled, bumbling, awkward-bordering-on-geeky misfit, we won’t blame you... yet. He has personified that type in films such as Splinterheads, The Bronze, The Final Girls, and even The Wolf of Wall Street. So neither can we blame Silicon Valley co-creator/director Mike Judge for writing the role of socially discombobulated Richard Hendricks specifically with Middleditch in mind. And now, Hendricks’ wide-eyed, stammering bewilderment seems to stem from Middleditch’s genuine disbelief at his own good fortune; after all, he’s landed the lead on a series that’s become more popular than the latest tech fads the show sends up. If it’s possible to be both a show’s star and its secret weapon, that’s what he seems to have achieved. In calling Middleditch the most underrated actor on TV, The Decider said, “One of the reasons that Silicon Valley quickly went from good to great to one of the best is because of Middleditch, who’s made Richard into an incredibly sympathetic, watchable character despite his by-design lack of dynamism.” High praise for an actor whose character has dwelt mainly in the shade of the charismatic type-As who surround him. So Mike Judge did not misjudge. We’re guessing he knew what a lot of the show’s fans may not. Middleditch is a sharply funny and frenetic writer and comic who found his way out of bully crosshairs and subsequently out of Nelson, BC through theater. Impatient to get on with doing what he loved, he dropped out of school in Canada to start writing and acting in sketches, cartoons and commercials. Nothing happened instantly; he walked dogs and sold shoes while writing scripts that didn’t go anywhere and auditioning without success for Saturday Night Live. But sometimes all you need is the proper attitude. When asked to join the Improvised Shakespeare Company (a Chicago-based improv troupe that performs spontaneous plays in Elizabethan-sounding English), his first thought was, “That sounds impossible. Sure!” When you’re fearless and open, fate tends to fall in line. A goofy, impromptu sketch for a Second City training program, in which he rapped about his faux-abiding love for Chicken McNuggets, sat out on the internet for a year before it caught the attention of a creative director for McDonald’s, who cracked up. Cue commercials, newfound exposure and two valuable lessons: a) fate can hide in odd, deep-fried places and b) keep going until someone laughs. Since then, he’s worked with some of the most talented names in comedy, including Zach Galifianakis, Key & Peele, and Jay Roach. He’s created voices and characters for shows including Beavis and Butt-Head, The Office, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and cult web series Jake and Amir, all while writing and making a seemingly ceaseless string of odd, humorous shorts. Even if all that hadn’t happened, we bet Middleditch would still be putting funny stuff into the world, if not to entertain us, then solely to entertain himself. You get the feeling that if his schedule ever slowed down or (god forbid), his internet connection died, he’d be perfectly fine in front of the mirror making faces, voices, and scenes. But small chance of that. He’s just finished playing the title role in Jeff Baena’s Joshy and will star in the upcoming Entanglement. He’s also slated to be animated in Henchmen and Captain Underpants. Though his dance card is largely filled with comedies, Middleditch remains open to playing any kind of character that interests him, and wouldn’t mind venturing into more dramatic territory. We’d like to see him try. Seriously—we’d really like to see him try.

  Frère Richard Hendricks, un capucin irlandais, spécialiste de spiritualité chrétienne a écrit ce poème que j’ai traduit pour vous.   Confinement Oui, la peur est là. Oui, l’isolement est là. Oui, les achats de panique sont là. Oui, la maladie est là. Oui, même la mort est là.   Mais on dit qu’à Wuhan […]

Silicon Valley || Ray Taylor ShowWatch/Listen/Subscribe: InspiredDisorder.com/rtsShow topic: Follows the struggle of Richard Hendricks, a Silicon Valley engineer trying to build his own company called Pied Piper.Creators: John Altschuler, Mike Judge, Dave KrinskyFollow me:Twitter.com/RayTaylorInstagram.com/RayTaylorShow

Der er hede diskussioner i luften under denne uges 'Vi streamer op ad åen'. Vi kigger nemlig bredt ud over alle serier og håndplukker de karakterer, som vi godt kunne undvære. Lidt ligesom Peter godt kan undvære Tobias og Anders i sin talepodcast. Et sådant koncept skal naturligvis opkaldes efter Mandy fra The West Wing, som er den ultimative upopulære karakter i TV-land. Så 'The West Wing Mandys' bliver uddelt til Richard Hendricks, Michael Dawson, Jess Day, babyer og mange flere uønskede ilde sete karakterer. Vi høres på åen.   Forresten... Vi er på Twitter - og Instagram-mediet: @streamaaen Og også Facebook-mediet: www.facebook.com/streamaaen. Kontakt os gerne: streamaaen@gmail.com. Bag podcasten står Peter Vistisen, Tobias Iskov Thomsen og Anders Zimmer Hansen - alle tidligere karakterer, som Vi streamer op ad åens lyttere hader. Yderligere noter Citat fra film: Modern Family (ABC, Lloyd-Levitan Productions, Picador Productions, Steven Levitan Productions, 20th Century Fox, 20th Television), LOST (ABC, Bad Robot Productions, Touchstone Television, ABC Studios, Buena Vista, Disney-ABC Domestic Television), Game of Thrones (HBO, Television 360, Grok! Television, Generator Entertainment, Startling Television, Bighead Littlehead, Warner Bros. Television Distribution), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm Ltd.).

Content note: animal mutilations with details   Pic source   This week, I'm covering the Beast of Bray Road - just like Em from And That's Why We Drink did during one of their live shows here in Madison this week. I'd totally planned it already, so the coincidences are the best. What do you expect from the two coolest theybes?   Resources Wikipedia Did Legend Hunter just solve the mystery of the Beast of Bray Road and add new theories on Dogman and Chupacabra legends? 14 Facts About the Beast Prairie Ghosts Historic Mysteries Linda Godfrey's site PBS video Isthmus article The Bray Road Beast on Amazon Prime Script transcript Transcript   Welcome to episode nine of the Spooky Sconnie podcast, the podcast that covers everything fun from Wisconsin, from the criminal and the paranormal to the just plain weird. I'm your host, Kirsten Schultz. And on this edition we're covering a story I got to see live this week actually, um, this week, the wonderful podcast And That's Why We Drink was here in town. And I went and saw them both nights. They were performing at comedy on state, on state street here in Madison, and it was a really great time. Um, I love Em and Christine, the two of them are just hilarious, and it's always fun when I get to see them and say hi. So I really enjoyed that and they covered some cool stuff that I'll be bringing up soon. Um, although I guess, you know, really they covered two stories I've already done too, which is kind of cool. ----more---- Um, and that's probably my husband's fault, but I won't get into that. But, uh, no, I, I love And That's Why We Drink. I love Em and Christine and, and it was great fun to be able to see them this week. Um, and one of the stories that Em covered actually was the beast of Bray Road. So I was already planning on doing it for this week's episode and it just pushed me to do it even more. Em did a really great job and I'm not going to be able to live up to the amazing, amazing humor that they injected into the story. But I'll try. Before I get started, just another reminder that the um, true crime podcast festival in Chicago is coming up on July 13th. That is a Saturday. It is a one day deal and yours truly, we'll be there. I will have some goodies for sale, and you might even just be able to win some of them. So, you know, come the tickets aren't that pricey. Come hang out. There's a lot of other great podcasts that will be there too. Um, and it'll be a great time. I know, I'm really excited to see True Crime Obsessed the night before - they have a show which the tickets are already sold out. I'm so sorry for bringing it up, but, um, I'm really excited to be able to go listen to them, cover a story and enjoy them in person to the true crime and paranormal podcast world is kind of amazing and it's really fun to, uh, to be able to, to meet people and see how they hone their craft. So, so there you go. Make sure to put that on your calendars and come hang out with me in Chicago and while you're there, pickup Do Rite Donuts because they're fucking amazing. They have Vegan and gluten free options to just saying I am not in any way sponsored by them, but every time I go to Chicago I get so many donuts and now I just wish I had donuts. It's way too early to be functioning without donuts. Um, so yeah, so as I said, we're covering the beast of Bray road today, which is pretty exciting. This occurs in and around Elkhorn, Wisconsin, which is about 40 to 50 miles depending on where you mark it, south west of Milwaukee. It's located in Walworth county and it's basically the biggest city in the county. So it's the county seat is where like the county court house is all that kind of stuff. But despite being kind of the main city in that county, it's still pretty small town, still pretty Homey, which is kinda fun. So Bray road itself is more traveled now than it used to be. Um, it's one of the ways that people can get towards some of the highways in the area. So if you're going anywhere basically, um, Bray road is a potential for you to drive down to get towards like 43 or other highways to, to travel across the state. It used to be basically like a driveway. In fact, the road is named after four brothers who all had farms along the road. Um, and those farms have for the most part continued for multiple generations. The last Bray brother that purchased a plot, um, did so in 1902. So these families have been living on this land for all a really long time and there are definitely some non-Brays living there. But, um, it's, it's really heavily populated with people with the last name Bray and that's um, in a lot of rural and small town areas. That's how a lot of roads get their names is they're named after the people who lived on them, which is kind of fun. So I want to describe the beast itself and there's a couple of different descriptions, but these are kind of the main things you need to know as we go through the story and the history of the beast. It's been described by witnesses in several ways. Um, sometimes it's described like a bear, a bear like creature. Other times it's described as something similar to bigfoot. It's usually incredibly tall for something like a wolf. Um, but it has been compared to that too. It's around at the highest, um, six to eight feet when it's standing upright and can be as tall or described as tall as five feet when on all fours. The fact that this is an animal able to walk on its hind legs and that does so often is I think an interesting thing. Um, it's been described as weighing between 400, 700 pounds, sometimes more, sometimes less. I don't know how people estimate this stuff. Like I would just be like, it was built, I dunno. Um, and, and that's, that's a true thing too. This is supposed to be a very buff cryptid. Um, it has fur or hair that ranges from like a brown gray to a black color. Um, and again is very similar to dog or bear hair where it's not incredibly long. People have seen it eating roadkill along Bray road, but upon being seen, this creature who they would have previously described as wolf, like well then get up and run away on two legs on the back too. Naturally, witnesses have also claimed to have been chased through cornfields and other spaces. Um, and that the beast had red glowing eyes. Some other reports have described the eyes as yellow and kind of iridescent the way animal eyes get dark. Um, with the exception of maybe you want to, it's angry thighs will be red. So there's, there's a lot of flexibility in these reports. Um, it has pointed ears and the face is very similar to a wolf. It has three long claws on each hand with two other fingers. So essentially what we would deem as like the index or a pointer finger and the thumb more like shriveled, um, which I think could make sense if we're talking about a wolf, um, or, or some similar type of creature. It's interesting. Um, the body has been likened to that of a lean, muscular man. Um, the leanness is more in the back half and the muscle tends to be more in the front half or upper half. If it's on the back two legs. It's been seen eating prey or scavenging, um, you know, roadkill. Other animals that are left out, it's never attacked anyone successfully, um, as far as the live in person. But some witnesses, um, have said that it's been very aggressive towards them and that behavior includes things like running at people, jumping on their vehicles. Um, they're not sure what the rest of the creature's diet is other than, you know, like roadkill or already dead animals. It also tends to sit back, in almost in a squat, which I think is an interesting thought. Um, or also could kneel like a man. Many locals consider it to be aware of wolf. Some crypto zoologists - people who study cryptids - really see it as a continuation of national and international bigfoot sightings. But you know, naturally since nobody has been able to get evidence of this creature, we, we don't know what it is. It may go back all the way to the very first settlers in Wisconsin who had described canine like creatures who would attack and then vanish without a trace. But a lot of those way back accounts occur in other spaces in the Midwest. So like Michigan, you know, there've been a lot of sightings of a similar creature near Detroit and that's not something I would necessarily say is very close to Elkhorn. So I dunno, I dunno about that one. Most signings tend to occur at night when it's dark. Um, usually between about 10, 30 PM and 5:00 AM, but there have been sightings that have occurred during the day or at other times just far more likely to happen during the dark times. Sightings have occurred all year round but tend to be most, um, reported between August and October. So like these are times when corn fields are growing and it might be really difficult to tell what type of an animal is in a corn field. It's believed that, um, this beast is not one of a kind, um, Linda Godfrey who will talk about a lot during this episode. Um, it was a journalist that helped break the stories, um, in the late eighties, early nineties, and she has seen and gotten reports from people of sightings that match these descriptions across the United States and across the world. It's, um, an actually fairly well known cryptid and thought to be one of the most popular and well known from Wisconsin and other places with the only, um, competition really being the Hodag, which we've already talked about. And it's just the cutest creature. Em from And That's Why We Drink also covered the hodag and it was kind of fun to hear them riff about it. Uh, it was just such a fun little creature. So fun. So with that, we're going to move into some stories about the sightings. So the very first sighting, um, is actually believed to have occurred in 1936 but the siding wasn't really reported, um, to one source until the eighties and nineties kind of phenomena of seeing this beast more often happened in this was reported by Mark Shackleton who worked at St Coletta's as a nightwatchman and occurred in Jefferson county precinct. Coletta is there one night while patrolling the grounds, he spotted a figure digging in a native burial mound, which I promise an episode on those is coming up. On taking a closer look. He saw something that was covered in hair and when it stood erect it was over six feet tall and had shriveled looking thumbs and forefingers on each hand with the other fingers fully formed and humanoid. And as I said later, these fingers would be described as long clause as well. It smelled like death and decay. Shackman returned the next night because he wanted to see the creature again. Um, and he did lucky dude. It was making a strange three syllable growling noise that he dubbed as sounding neo human. He said, it sounded like something like 'gadara' and in the new testament there's a piece about a person possessed by demons that Jesus heals, that people feel like this is in reference to. Um, the problem is from a logistical standpoint, that's likely not the name of the location of this exorcism of this demon. So like, yes, but also no, I see the connection, but also that's like not historical. Shackelman naturally was like "the fuck?" He began praying loudly and started to back away from the beast and the beast, like, mimicked his behavior and backed away too Later, his son would go on to share that his father's first thought was that it must be something satanic. Maybe that's because Shackleton knew his bible and like connected the dots between the Gadara thing or I mean naturally, what are you going to think when you see like this giant hairy beast trying to talk to you at night? I don't know. In 1964, the beast was apparently spotted near the same burial ground and in 1972 a woman had reported it outside her house. She was patro side of it. Trying to get in her home was she said it was trying to um, and harming her family. It's a really interesting story just because I can see it being that she was just very scared that it was trying to be around her home, but I could also see with such humanoid-like hands it trying to get in the home. Um, I think it's aggressive behavior that we don't normally see. So I dunno, I don't know. The rash of claimed sightings in the late eighties and early nineties prompted a local newspaper, the Walworth county week to assign Linda Godfrey to cover the story. While she was initially skeptical, she became convinced of the sincerity of the witnesses. Later on, after interviewing them, she wrote a series of articles which then like spawned this giant book, the beast of Bray road tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf. And she has a site that feels a little like it might want to be on geocities still. Um, but she has people from all over the world who contact her to report their sightings, whether that's been visiting here in Wisconsin or you know, in their local regions. That's, it's really quite fascinating. The sightings here in Wisconsin follow a rash of reported wolf man or well or Werewolf sightings from the 1970s, um, around the United States, specifically in Ohio, New Mexico and Pennsylvania. The first sighting that went public here was fittingly on Halloween in 1989, a high school senior named Doris was driving along Bray road. And as she neared the intersection of hospital road, she leaned over to change the station on her radio. She felt her right front tire jump off the ground as if she had hit something and naturally she was concerned. So she got out of the car to see what it was. And that was her first mistake. She saw nothing on the road behind the car, but began to look around to see, you know, did I hit a deer or a small animal? And as she looked into the darkness, she suddenly saw a dark hairy form racing towards her. She didn't see what the figure looks like from the distance she was standing, which was like 50 feet or so. But she did see it was quite bulky and leader. She compared it to somebody who works out continuously, like is always in the gym pumping that iron. She was really startled and he, and naturally, and um, part of that was because she described the sounds while this thing was running at her as like really heavy footsteps. Um, so I think that'd be scary as it is. She quickly ran to her car and jumped in and was starting to drive away when the beast jumped on to the trunk of her car. It was too wet for the creature to hang on, so it fell off onto the pavement. But the back of her car had these, um, like slashes on the trunk where, um, this creature had been trying to hold on. She returned to the site leader that evening, which I think is bold, um, because she was taking a younger kid out trick or treating and you know, just to had to drive that way. And she saw this thing on the side of the road and saw it start to move towards her. So, you know, this is back in the days of manual door locks. So she told the kid in the backseat to lock the door, um, and drove away as fast as she could. She had no idea what she'd seen, but some of the things she thought it was like, it was just like a bear and it was mad cause I hit it or a wolf or something like that. She told her neighbor about the encounter and the day after and then, you know, showed her car, like, this is the evidence I have. My car is fucked. And more people started talking about it and um, started to share their own encounters with the beast. So one night in the fall. Um, so around the same time a bar manager named Lori Endrizzi was rounding a curve on Bray Road and she thought she saw someone kneeling on the side of the road. So she slowed down to try to see like, is this person hurt? Do I need to help? And took a closer look at this figure. She wasn't more than like six to 10 feet away. So she was pretty close and this was a fairly long encounter as far as these go. It was almost a minute long. Endrizzi stated that what she clearly had seen was a beast with grayish brown hair things and pointed ears. She also said his face was long and snotty like a wolf. I love that she noted that even though the car's headlights were pointed towards the roadway, the creatures eyes glowed with that yellowy color. And like Doris, she saw that this creature was very wide and the chest and very powerful looking and she said the arms were really weird. Um, they were jointed like a humans and seemed to be holding the food upwards, like with the palms of the hands upwards, which no animal that isn't somewhat humanoid or ape-like does that, like dogs don't do that. Guinea pigs don't do that. Cats don't do that like that is not - well I guess unless they're licking their paw - but, like, that is not a typical animal behavior unless you're looking at like apes, monkeys and humans. She didn't notice any sorts of tail. Uh, said the back legs were behind it as though a person was kneeling. Um, you know, again, the arms were muscular and the fingers seemed human like, but there were claws on the end. Endrizzi was super unnerved by the sighting, natch. She later said in an interview that the creature appeared to be so human like that it was scary. And the only answer to what she'd seen she thought was like, maybe this is some sort of freak of nature. She didn't have any idea what else it could be until she was later at the library and saw an illustration of a werewolf. And it's so closely resembled that she like freaked out after hearing Doris is account as a rumor. Endrizzi contacted the Lakeland animal shelter. John Frederickson, who was the county humane officer at the time, spoke with her about what she saw and she also has claimed that she thought she saw the devil. I mean, you know, it happens during their conversation. There was like odd stuff going on in the office to like books were flying off the shelves behind John's desk. That doesn't seem good. Um, at this time he started to create a folder, um, to keep track of all of these interesting sightings and he just casually labeled it 'Werewolf' - just casually. Endrizzi's mother contacted Linda Godfrey hoping that the publicity might encourage other people who had seen this creature to come forward. And the story that followed was published, uh, right after Christmas in 1991. And while it contained some basic information about both what Doris and Endrizzi had seen, it also included information on other sightings. Um, and the nice thing about this was they used pseudonyms for Doris and for Endrizzi. Even though I think at this point a lot of people in the town knew who it was that was, you know, said they had had these sightings, especially Doris. The story also mentioned that chickens had been stolen and that another family who lived near the road had experienced their own close encounter with the beast. Karen Bowie, who actually lived along Bowers road, stated that her daughter, Heather, who was 11 had seen the creature in 1989 they had been playing outside and though they had spotted, oh they thought they had spotted large dog, like hanging out outside and then it's stood up. She mentioned the odd shape of the back legs and how quickly it was moving. John Fredrickson told Godfrey that he thought that this was some sort of coyote, but he did concede that there were a lot of people who believe they'd seen something funky and the he didn't know what to make of it. He'd actually believed, cause the around this time there was a lot of animal mutilation going on and he had believed initially that those mutilations were related to the occult. He'd received a call and the 90s at some point from an anonymous cult member who admitted to playing a part. But many think maybe this was just this beast, like go into town on some tasty little protein packs of animals or if the activity via cult activity brought the beast about. That's the other theory. I feel like the occult explanation as a little to say panic panic for me like this is around the same time that every city somehow had some sort of Satanic panic like, 'oh my God, there's satanists.' Um, and that just feels off for me personally. Um, one of the police chiefs locally, James Jensen, dismissed this idea in June, 1981 but Fredrickson still insisted that officials were missing the point. According to him, some of the animals had had ropes tied around their back legs and their throats were slit somewhere decapitated and others were dismembered in other ways. The most recently killed animals included a dog that had, had its chest cavity split open in its heart removed, which shit? Shit. Oh, several animals match the description of recently missing pets too and certainly had not been killed by passing cars. These mutilated animals were basically covered up immediately. Um, the site where they kept being found wound up being bulldozed. Um, it was kind of in the woods and they just kind of bulldozed everything, you know, tore down trees and that ended Frederickson's investigations into this issue, but really didn't stop anybody in the town from talking about it. Other reports began to reach Fredrickson that summer about this beast. You know, rumors were passed on about humane officer imposters who were pursuing stray dogs. One incident involved this dude nobody knows in a black uniform driving a large black car who attempted to intimidate a kid who was home alone into giving up his black lab. About the same time there were reports of occult graffiti in an abandoned house and at the local cemetery - the abandoned house was about a quarter mile off of Bray road. So that's the connection there, I guess. Um, and yeah, it led to more people wondering if these things were connected. I think it's interesting, the story has so many elements of other stories, right? If we look at the, this unidentified man, he definitely seems like a men in black guy, right? Um, at not the fun movie, like the really creepy ass stories. Um, and I, I think it's just an interesting idea to consider if this was a man in black, why is he trying to get this kid to give up his, um, his puppy? Does it make sense to me? After seeing Frederickson's folder and all of the, um, stories he'd been collecting, Godfrey began reaching out to other witnesses and upon interviewing them all, she no longer thought this was some kind of joke and realize that people had truly believed they'd seen something really freaky. She also, during her conversations with this, these people would watch them essentially going through a PTSD response while reliving their encounters to be able to tell her about them. It's a really fascinating thing. Um, you know, Godfrey herself hasn't said their PTSD type of encounters, but I was watching a documentary last night, um, which is why this didn't go out last night. About the beast of Bray road and, um, the way she's describing these sayings, like they began sweating the, you know, went very white. They had trouble recalling things in order, a lot of those things as someone with PTSD, like their PTSD things. So I just wanted to be clear, she hasn't said their PTSD things, but my PTSD ass did. Large media outlets started picking up this, and unfortunately when that happened, you know, people who had witnessed this animal began to be the butt of jokes and they began to deal with pranks. Um, things would happen. Like they'd wake up to Werewolf signs planted in their front yards or people would have werewolf parties. And that one, I don't think it's that bad, um, except for the fact that this even happened at the bar where Endrizzi worked. And I don't think that she was consulted about whether or not that was okay. Many witnesses who had come out publicly at this point really wished they hadn't. Um, because of all of this monster tee-shirts began to be sold and tourists began to come around, you know, driving up and down those basically this very long driveway that was Bray road at the time. I'm trying to see this creature. So it started to where patience thin around the community, there is also still this large undercurrent of fear in the area. You know, something was going on here and nobody knew exactly what it was and you still have animals being mutilated. You still have, um, pets going missing. Like this is still happening all around the same time. An earlier sighting of quote, something unquote was made by dairy farmer Scott Bray, who reported seeing a quote, strange looking dog unquote in his pasture near Bray road. He said the beast was larger and taller than a German shepherd. That it had pointed ears, a long tail covered in hair and the hair was gray and black and kind of long and shaggy. He added that it was built very heavy in the front and had like a very strong chest. He followed this animal to a large pile of rocks. But then the creature vanished. He did find that I left behind huge footprints. So now we've got this idea of this very large animal and now we've got, okay, we've got very large footprints as well. So that to me and to many disputes, the idea of like a coyote or I dunno like a Malamute gone loose or, um, even like there have even been, um, ideas that this was like a Hyena. Definitely not a Hyena with a very, very large foot, although a hyena would explain how the body is very kind of jacked in front and very, not in the back. We'll, we'll get to that in a bit though. Russell Gest also reported seeing the creature about the same time as Scott Bray. He was a block or so away from this overgrown area and he heard, you know, foliage being wrestled. So he's like, the fuck is this. He looks up to see this creature or emerge from the thicket. It was standing on their feet and took too wobbly steps towards Gest before Gest decided, 'I'm fucking out of here.' He looked back to see that the creature was now on all fours, but it did not chase him. After a short time. It did wander off in the direction of Bray road though guest said this creature was much larger than a German shepherd and again was covered in black and gray hair when it was standing upright. He said it was about five feet tall. It had this very oversized dog or wolf like head, had a big neck and wide shoulders. So this is like the jock of canine creatures. The animals form was mostly dog like and that led guests to hypothesizing that maybe this was some sort of dog wolf hybrid. Um, around Christmas 1990, Heather Bowie had her previous mentioned and counter. Um, she had no idea that she'd seen the same thing as doors, Gibson until she heard Doris talking about it on the school bus and their driver, Pat Lester, who happens to be Lori Endrizzi's mother listened to the girl's story and then pass that on to Linda Godfried. Linda contacted them. Um, well contacted Karen Bowie who was Heather's mom who is also a school bus driver and then mentioned that sighting in the newspaper. So, um, it's really interesting to go back into Heather's story a little bit. This happened at 4:30 PM and again, Heather and several friends were outside. They were returning home from sledding near Loveland road, which is about a mile and a half southeast of Bray and Hospital where, um, Doris had her encounter. They looked up and they saw this dog walking along a creek and since they thought it was a dog, what do you think they did? They're like, hey, puppy puppy, and the creature looked at them and then stood up on its back legs and they were like, oh shit. Heather described the animal as being covered with long silver fish, like brownish hair. The dog walked 4 awkward wobbly stops towards them on those back feet and then dropped down to all fours while starting to run at the children. And then Heather described it later as, um, this animal was taking bigger leaps than dogs run. If all of the group about halfway to the Bowie home before running off in another direction in Elkhorn farmer named Mike Eten also spotted something unusual around the road. Um, it was around two o'clock in the morning. Eten admits he had been drinking at the time, but he saw a dark haired creature bigger than a dog, a short distance from that intersection with hospital road, whatever the creature was. It was sitting like a raccoon sits using its front paws to hold onto something that it was eating. As he passed by the creature lifted its head and looked at him and he described the head as being thick and wide with a snout that was not as long as the dog's, the body was covered with dark, thick hair and the legs were big and thick. He wasn't able to identify it but assumed it was a bear. But then one other sightings came out publicly. He had to sit with that and wonder if what he'd seen was this beast or if he had seen a bear. One of the last reported encounters with this beast happened in early February, 1992 it was about 10:30 PM on Highway H, which is six miles southwest of that intersection of Brian Hospital. A woman named Tammy Bray - surprise - worked for a retirement home and was driving home when a large dog dog like animal, uh, she puts it, crosses the road in front of her. She had quickly hit the brakes and stopped about the same time that this creature is turning and looking at her, which would be fucking terrifying. She described the creature is having a broad chest pointed ears and being covered with maded brown and black for it had a narrow nose, thick neck and shining yellow eyes and that convinced her she was not looking at a puppy. Finally, unafraid though, it's like, it's like that scene and that movie or Joe Pesci or whoever is like, 'Hey, I'm walking here.' It's not Joe Pesci - Why did I pick him? That's okay. You get what I'm saying? Um, so you know, he basically stops the stare down and be like, 'Hey, I'm walking here' and then like walks off. She said it was strong in front and more slouchy, sloppy, like in the rear. So she hurries home and goes to tell Scott Bray that she's seen the same animal. Scott Ray, by the way, it's her husband. The sightings die out, but you know, people are still like the fuck is happening and you know, right as things calm down, a local reputable businessman tells Linda Godfrey anonymously that he's seen two bright lights emitting sparks and moving a radically across the sky above Delavan, which is a nearby town. Later that spring, four or five horses that were in the pasture near Alcorn were found with their throats slashed. John Fredrickson, remember local humane officer dude investigated it and was quoted as saying they were almost surgical type wounds. After that, things became eerily quiet again. So really nobody knows what this is. Um, Linda Godfrey had sat down and kind of sketched out what she thought based on the people she'd talked to, which is, um, kind of the stereotypical idea right now going around still of like, this is very buff werewolf. Um, uh, coyote doesn't match a native Red Wolf doesn't match. Um, gray wolf's are larger than red wolves, but like, they're not really in the area and they're much nearer were in the chest, so it doesn't fit. Um, it just really doesn't resemble anything, even what it was compared to, um, Dan Groebner of the International Wolf Research Center in Minnesota, I was like, Nah, this is not a wild wolf. Y'All not a wild wolf. You know, there's, there's a lot of thoughts of what this could be. Um, could it be some sort of beast along the lines of Incadu from Gilgamesh, this type of Proto-human that isn't civilized yet? Um, I don't know. I, I think it's hard to say, right? There's a lot of our world that's still unexplored, but I also feel like white people are so good at finding, like on, you know, quote on civilized people, unquote to quote, fix on quote that I just feel like we would have found them by now and fucked it up. A researcher named Richard Hendricks points to a creature suggested by a couple of others called the "shunka warak’in" - it's a creature that is said to have lived in the wilds of the upper Midwest. It's a wolf like animal that was known to the native and indigenous population and early settlers in the region region. Um, the creature was named by a native American tribe and the name means carrying off dogs. Nobody really knows that much about the creature naturally, but apparently it was quite fierce. Um, at one point it was a mounted specimen at exhibits in the Yellowstone area and in a small museum in Idaho. Um, and it is some sort of like dog hyena hybrid, which fits a lot of the descriptions that we've seen. So it could be something like that. Uh, other Native American related things could be like skin walkers, although the running theory with skin walkers is that other people within the tribe would know. And a, I would assume someone would have come forward at this point. Could it be an interesting mutation or part of evolution? That's one of Godfrey's theories that she's been working with. Um, another thing she's run into a is people telling her that they felt this was some sort of harbinger of doom, um, not unlike the moth man of, you know, mostly West Virginia lore, although it has been spotted in Chicago in the last couple of years, which is fucking scary. But you know, there's a thought of that, although there's not been some sort of huge tragedy here, like the silver bridge collapse in West Virginia, at least not that we know of. Um, another thought other than Werewolf is could it be some sort of other animal? Um, so we've already talked a bit about like wild dogs. Um, there's a thought that it could be a wolf dog hybrid. There's a thought. It could be a coyote dog hybrid. Um, there were similar encounters about the same time in Michigan and they, um, have labeled it the dog man. So is this some sort of like related thing? I don't know. Um, there is somebody from the show called legend hunter and he believes that, um, the first thing to do is to start by examining the natural wildlife and the region in the area. So wolves hadn't been seen. There are many theories, which we've already covered. Um, but he did consider that an increase in the wolf population everywhere could mean that, you know, wolves are passing through again though we don't think that's a thing. There's not enough forest cover, there's not enough available prey. And the thing is just bigger than a wolf. He did find odd tracks, but again, they didn't match wolves. The other major problem with the idea of this being some sort of wolf if is is wolves are hunters. They are not scavengers, right? Like they don't go and eat things that are already dead. Hyenas do. But we've also already covered why that doesn't fit. Witnesses have also noted that the animal, right was like squatting down and like lifting pray to with mouth to eat, which again, not a wolf trait. You know what is it s trait of? Bears. Bears display this behavior. Bears can walk up. Right. And they're were not supposed to be in the area either. The bears have been spotted in the general, like larger area, so it could be feasible. And Spain from legend Hunter thinks that this is a bear with mange. You know, it would not be easily easy to recognize that this was a bear. Mange makes animals look funky. Um, but I just don't know. I don't know. The other theory, sorry to say is that this could be a very large hoax. So Doris' account took place on Halloween, which that's kind of a red flag, right? The biggest issue though is that there's relationships between a lot of these people and that raises red flags for some, for me, I dunno, it's hard. I can see where they're coming from. But this is also a small town. I don't know. Um, injuries. The mother Pat Lestor is a central figure in this case. In addition to being one witnesses mother, she's also Doris Gibson's neighbor. Um, and drove the bus that Gibson, Heather Bowley and Russell Gest rode. Heather's mother was also a school bus driver. Karen. Um, Tammy Bray was a friend of Pat Lester's daughter and Scott's wife and it was also Lester who took the initiative to contact the newspaper about the sightings. But Lester never tried to influence the reports of witnesses. Um, and so people just think, well she was just in a position to over hear what people were saying and encourage them to talk about it. It's, it's an interesting thing to consider. I think. I found some wild firsthand accounts that I would love to share with you because Holy Shit. So this first account, um, I just found, I don't know who it is from, but it's an account: “I lived in the town of Franklin, WI. This was about 1997-98 We had just moved into a brand new subdivision, and were currenty the only house that was built. The rest of the area for a long distance was empty lots on what used to be the adjoining farm’s old land. Our back yard had a running creek. On the other side of the creek was some brush and a single lane road with an old wooden streetlight that gave off an orange hue about 30 yards or so away. It was a warm summer night, and I was having a sleepover with one of my friends. We had all the lights off and were playing hide and seek in the dark. I went back into our sunroom and saw something crouched over illuminated through the brush and the orange streetlight. I’m not sure how to descrbe its body posture. You know how when you’re about to throw up, and you hunch over on your knees and palms? I was similar to that. Its breaths were so deep and heavy that you could see its chest heaving from that distance. We had a 140lb Akita who stood 6 ft on his hind legs. I could easily tell that whatever this was dwarfed my akita. I also know that it wasn’t any type of dog or wolf. Its hind legs were thick and muscular like a mans but its body tapered at the abdomen and head like a wolf or canine. I called out to my friend who came over and just said “what the fuck is that!?” to me, trying not to make much noise. We sat there as it was hunched for a good 30 minutes. My dad (who was a hardass Vietnam Vet) came out to see what the hell we were doing up so late. We asked what it was and he just said ” I…..don’t know.” He then went outside as we stayed in, scared for my dad. He had one of those old “megalights” that had “the power of 1000 candles” and took it with him. He stood in the driveway and shined it onto whatever we were watching. It looked back at us and I honestly dont remember its eye color. What I do remember is that when it took off into the brush it took off upright, like a sprinter from the on all 4’s stance. My dad heard it splash through the creek and hightailed it in. It was one of those fucked up moments you dont really talk about because people with think you were crazy. When I heard about it so many years later I immiediately knew I’d seen it too.” Another account involves speeding away from the beast only to have it keep pace with a car speeding in excess of 60 miles an hour. Here's some other fun ones. Uh, okay. This first one, I don't know who it's from, but the next couple I do, so I will chime in with their name before I dig into their kind of long quotes. “I’ve spent some time on Bray Road. A good friend of mine has too. You hear things in the woods, maybe see shadows in the fields, but I’ve never had a “true” sighting of anything. Just a creepy being watched feeling. But that could simply be nerves as you’re expecting/hoping for something to happen. My friend has experienced quite a bit and has some impressive EVP’s from different areas. I had something on two legs run out in front of me on the north side of Madison/Middleton, but it happened so fast, it’s hard to say what it was or could have been a deer/wolf/coyote lunging. It seemed pretty big.” So here we can see that, you know, the sightings may not necessarily just be confined again to this area and Elkhorn. Tom Brichta shared his own um, interesting interaction: "it was a Saturday night, late July, early August and I was coming home from a wedding reception, I had my friend Scott and my friend Chris from Hanover Park Illinois in the car with me, it was very foggy, we could barely see two car lengths ahead of you. And we started smelling this funny odor, this real foul smelling odor like this skunky kind of smell. I had noticed a hand sticking out into the road, and my friend had noticed me looking out on the side of the road, and he had looked and he had seen whatever it was, it was huge, it was really large, it was whitish, gray and black, streaks in it. It was hairy, it was reaching out towards my car, it scratched a small piece of pin striping from my car. The fingers were either pointed or had quite the nails on them, I did not get any facial detail but it was frightening, it was very frightening. And now as long as I think about this, not a day goes by that I don't, and I know a day won't go by that I won't think about it. I can remember like it was just yesterday." in case you're wondering, Tom was a teenager when he saw this and coming back from a wedding reception with friends with his car and maybe they smelled weed. I'm just saying that's all I'm saying. Um, this next account is from a man named Ricky Sanchez. Um, and I'll be sharing a good chunk of what he said on the documentary that I'll talk about in a couple minutes here. But he lives out towards the Horicon march area, which is I think about 70 miles north ish of Milwaukee area. Um, and it's, um, it sits right on this marsh, which is really pretty. It's kind of the area my husband grew up in, so I'm really familiar with it but has a lot of wild life and even if you kind of know what you're looking at, it's kind of scary sometimes to be out there at night. But, um, this is just a very interesting story. So in between a couple of really long quotes from him, I'm going to share something that was on the documentary, the broke up, these two long quotes because I think it's really interesting and it adds to the story. So here we go: “2017 is when it all started at my property. It all started one night around one o'clock. I walked outside with a head lamp, we don't have, like we're out in the country, so there's no lights out, and I saw this large black object in the property but beside the silhouette which really could focus with the headlamps were the two eyes." I just want to chime in and say that some of these accounts difficult to read because I have a thing for grammar and I want to correct them, but I'm not, so if I'm stumbling, that's why. Back to the quote! Didn't really pay much attention to it because it was really low to the ground, so I kept walking towards the car. As I got to the trunk of the car I glanced at again, and it was slowly walking crouched down to the ground but towards me. So I'm trying to figure out what is this? So I walked towards it a little bit, and it walked backwards while still looking at me. That sparked my curiosity because it was coming towards me, the cat normally doesn't come towards me, I put the headlamp on brighter and kind of walked towards it, and it tried to back in the same position. So I walked towards it more and it kept on walking backwards and backwards while still looking at me, and still looking at me walked back until it reached one of the trees on the property. Flipped up, looked at me, now it's eyes shine at my height and it just stood and stared at me. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell because now it's higher up, so my headlamp can't really focus on what it is. Brought the water in, brought the dogs inside, by the time I went back out it was gone.” 'For the next few weeks repeated activity would occur on Ricky's property, including multiple sightings of strange shapes moving through the fields and forests surrounding his house. On more then one occasion he saw not one, but multiple pairs of strange glowing eyes peering at him from the darkness. As Ricky began to search for answers as to what was prowling on his farm he began to investigate other sightings of upright canids in the surrounding area. Soon the activity would extend to his neighbors homes including the house located closest to his.' “So according to my neighbor, which is my nextdoor neighbor he gets up to work at two o'clock in the morning. He puts his trash in the back of his pickup truck, and drives out to the front of the road, picks up his trash, goes to the corner, puts it down. But he's hearing something from the truck, as he turns around to go back towards his truck he sees this dog like, wolf like creature in front of his pickup truck pacing back and forth, looking at him. He froze, it was in a kind of crouched down position but not completely on fours, looking at him as it paced back and forth. He got into his truck and went to work after he got his composure back because he didn't know what it was. Probably a week after, this was mostly every week, we were outside with a bonfire me and my neighbor, and my dad, my dad comes home from Springfield, Mass for vacation. My dad had gone inside, so it was one of those days we decided to just call it quits because there were too many mosquitoes and go inside. When we threw water on the fire it was looking at us from the other side of our field of our property. His eye shine was probably at my height, but you could see a silhouette, it wasn't on all fours, it wasn't starting erectile, it looked like it was scared. It looked terrified, it ran. While it was on the grass it ran on two legs. When we got to the trail, it's already overgrown, so you can't see through the treeline, it's already June. So you know, you have bushes and everything, you can't see, so I got kind of iffy, I told him let's head back because if this guy is either side we don't have a lot of space between us to react. So by then I told my neighbor I think it's time for us to go inside.” yeah. I'm sorry. Some of these quotes like since I heard these people say them, I'm trying to stick to a, how they said them. So I'm sorry that it's not like in my normal nice quote reading voice. The next long quote is from a man named Lee Hampel: “I cut hay, and it was ready to be bailed on a Sunday in September 2013. So I basically went down the road to a couple of local farmers, and I said I need help getting hay up, will you guys come and help, and they said, sure we'll come and help. So they did. And after we got done, the one guys said, he said well you know the Beast of Bray Road lives back on your property there. He said, oh yeah, he said, my wife saw it, and another farmer saw it, and then he's telling me another farmer saw it. The one farmer who had seen it on Bray Road, eating a raccoon. And I go okay, sure, you know, so forth. So a couple days later I was driving down Bowers Road and there was a raccoon so I took it and threw it outback on my property line, and go back two days later, and here the raccoon is cut open, and the intestines are gone. So then I, couple days later, I got a badger, it was dead on the road, roadkill, put it down in the hole, three days later it's out of the hole like 10-15 feet away, and a badger weighs 20-25 pounds. So I know a birds not picking this thing up, and there's no path, the grass is all still around this. So what I do is reach down and take it out. I said so alright some guys coming back on my property and doing this, that's crazy. So then I started setting up cameras." And the um, the documentary goes on to like break this up and you have like Linda Godfrey's take on it. You have like the narrator's take on it. It's really interesting. So when I tell you about it in a minute, go watch it. "I basically had a deer out for three years, three to four years. There was things happening with the deer and the lights, they were very close together. And then a mist came and like cloaked it, and then the deer's gone. There's these five toed, seven pad tracks that I have many pictures of and castings off along the edge of the field. I've gone to the Field Museum, they sent me to a track expert, who said these are not tracks, these are not animals. They said, you can go to home depot and buy stilts and walk around your field and make those tracks. There's nobody walking around my field with stilts. I tried universities, University of Wisconsin, I tried to talk to them. I've tried VNR, they tell me it's an abnormal coyote, and they've looked at the tracks, oh that's an abnormal coyote. I believe it exists, I've seen it. I have evidence, I'm past that, now I want to to know where is it coming from? Does it really live here? Why does it need food at all, does it actually use it for food? That's my pursuit.”" Lee's story is really interesting and Linda talks a lot more about like some of these lights and some things going on. Um, if you want to see you, the beasts of Bray road, please note that the land around Bray road is privately owned. It is under increasing development. People who see you on their land, will call the neighbors to let them know there's some random person there and we'll call you on the sheriff and report you for trespassing. You have to obtain permission from land owners if you want to walk in their fields or the woods right there. Honestly, you'd be better off camping. Um, there's a lot of campgrounds around the area who and, and they have like a lot of hiking trails. So like do that. Um, also some assholes keep stealing the Bray road sign. It's not cool. That is a criminal acts. It is disrespectful of the Goddamn town. Leave signs alone. Okay. Of course, if you're lucky or unlucky, I guess you'll wind up being one of the many people who have seen a similar creature around the world. If not, go watch this documentary. It's called the Bray road beast. It's available for free on Amazon prime right now. The documentary features interviews with people who've had firsthand encounters, um, interviews with Linda Godfrey, with John Fredrickson, um, and a lot more, um, Ricky Sanchez and Lee Hampel shared theirs. Um, so did Tom Brichda, Duh. So those are all from the documentary itself. It's an interesting film for a cinematography perspective. Uh, the recreation's are little. Oh, awful. I mean it's from Wisconsin, it's going to be cheesy. Ah, but, um, the actual footage of like driving down roads and stuff, they, they interject some weird like static things and you know, uh, pixelization and things like that. It has the feeling of like being very related to the movie footage from the ring, like while they're watching the shitty VCR shape. So keep that in mind. Um, I, I've already found like a couple of problems with the documentary. It's interesting. Um, I don't think there, there was a lot of hype here locally for it to come out and people were really excited and when I came out, it just, it's not great. It's only an hour and six minutes. Uh, it's just really upsetting to me personally because I think they could've done a better job, especially with Linda involved in this. Like, hello, can you just do this? But you know, it's still pretty interesting and I'll link to it in the show notes. For those of you who would like to take a look at it. Um, as I said, don't expect anything. Super Fantastic. So that's the piece of prey road. Um, there have been sightings at other points in time, but not quite as maybe reputable or well known. So I left some out. And you know, it's not too difficult to find those by just doing a Google search or duck duck go search or wherever you search. Um, I'll put the uh, uh, put a bunch of links for further reading and that include my sources in the show notes. Um, some of the things from the original sources, I found some better information. Um, so some dates were altered to make them actually what it looks like. It happened like closer to the actual time period. But yeah, it was, it was a really interesting thing to dive into and I'm really glad that, um, it just so happened that the Amazon prime, like having this documentary just recently happened. So it was nice to be able to like watch that last night and be able to talk about it. Um, and considering doing some kinds of mini episodes where I do reviews of documentaries, um, shitty movie and other things that are related to Wisconsin. So if that's something you're interested in, let me know. Um, I might just put it on Patreon and see if that goes somewhere. We'll see. Um, for now I think that's all. I'll have an interesting story next time. I think there's, um, there's some really interesting kidnapping stories that have happened about this time of year and, um, that are recently, you know, picking up steam again, um, cold the case kidnappings from decades ago. So I think I'm going to cover one of those for the next episode unless I find something more timely. Um, and if you were keeping track of the Jayme Closs case, I believe that, um, Jake Patterson's next arraignment day is coming up in June or July. So there will probably be some upcoming mini episodes about that too. All right. Um, like always, you can make sure to reach out to me on social media or via email if you have some thoughts you'd like to share. Um, and make sure to go check out the podcast And That's Why We Drink. Um, I'm sure they'll probably be releasing some of the Madison episodes coming up soon. Um, and they might already have the Milwaukee went up. I'd have to check am I'm a couple episodes behind myself because work has been interesting, so make sure to go check them out. And then, um, next episode I'll also have a trailer from another podcast that I'll be sharing so that, um, you know, those of you who are interested in checking out other things, no. What cool things to check out until next time, please take care. You just listened to the Spooky Sconnie podcast. It is produced every two weeks by me, Kirsten Schultz. The intro, outro music is from Purple Plant. You can find show notes and more over at spookysconnie.podbean.com, including a transcript in case you missed anything. Take a minute and rate and subscribe if you can. You'll help more people see the show by rating and you won't miss a single episode if you subscribe, and that's pretty dope. You can support the show over at patreon.com/spookysconniepodcast and you can email me anything you'd like me to know at spookysconniepodcast@gmail.com. Meantime, sleep tight. Don't let the badgers bite. Bye.

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Linda S. Godfrey is considered one of the most respected authorities on anomalous animals and paranormal phenomenon in Wisconsin. Linda is also known as a journalist, professional artist, teacher and mother. It was while working as a journalist that Linda first broke the story of a beast lurking in the forest around Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Linda has authored several books including "The Beast of Bray Road” “Tailing Wisconsin's Werewolf," "Weird Wisconsin", Your Travel Guide to Wisconsin's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets,” (co-authored by Richard Hendricks) and "The Poison Widow", a True Story of Sin, Strychnine and Murder." As the one person who is an acknowledged authority on the Beast of Bray road, Linda has done a myriad of interviews on The Beast. A few of these include Inside Edition, Sightings, Animal Planet, Discovery Kids and the Sci-Fi C Channel. Recently, Linda was featured on an episode of History Channel’s Monster Quest American Werewolf. Please help us Welcome Linda Godfrey as our guest tonight on Nite Callers