{"id":357,"slug":"bray-road-elkhorn-wisconsin","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Bray Road is the beastly — the 'werewolf' that's the label's form, the 'Godfrey wrote' that's the reporter's name. The '1991' is the surfaced — the 'newspaper' that's the coverage's start, the 'skeptical first' that's the writer's stance. The 'seven feet' is the stood — the 'hind legs' that's the walk's odd, the 'red eyes' that's the face's glow.","The 'cornfields' is the coursed — the 'daylight' that's the sightings' odd, the 'deer chase' that's the beast's prey. The 'cars scratched' is the touched — the 'claw marks' that's the evidence's form, the 'thump' that's the contact's sound. Bray Road is the filmed — the '2005' that's the movie's year, the 'Dogman kin' that's the legend's family.","The file keeps Bray Road: the beast's label, the '91 surfacing, the stood height, and the scratched cars.","Bray Road is the archive's Wisconsin file — the cornfield's upright wolf."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Bray Road is the archive's Wisconsin file — the cryptid a reporter couldn't dismiss.","A road keeps its beast — the file's suggestion being that Bray's hold is the seen: the 'Godfrey' that's the credible pen, the 'hind legs' that's the oddity's form, and the 'cornfields' that's the chase's stage."]}],"name":"Bray Road","aliases":[],"type":"ROAD","type_label":"Road","cats":["CRYPTID","ROAD_FOLKLORE"],"groups":["roads","unexplained"],"desc":"Road associated with documented cultural history.","full_desc":"A road in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, Bray Road is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Road associated with documented cultural history. Its signature presence is Beast of Bray Road — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":"Bray Road","city":"Elkhorn","county":null,"state":"Wisconsin","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":42.671601,"lon":-88.536256,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"USC performance date March 4, 2019 establishes an attestation. Informant’s claimed 1930s origin was not independently verified. Collectors identify bonfire storytelling; not an eyewitness sighting.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":48.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":287,"type":"CRYPTID_SIGHTING","description":"A locally collected legend describes a wolf-like creature appearing to people with harmful intentions. The figure answers to Beast of Bray Road in the retellings. The crossing keeps its reports the way roads keep their warnings — repeated, local, and hard to fully dismiss. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The report is preserved in sources like 'Beast of Bray Road – Legend'. The sighting survives on details: the kind people don't usually invent together.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"Beast of Bray Road","where":null,"first_report":"2019-03-04 folklore interview; earliest report unknown.","approx_date":null,"confidence":0.7,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Beast of Bray Road – Legend","url":"https://folklore.usc.edu/beast-of-bray-road-legend/","publisher":"USC Digital Folklore Archives","type":"ACADEMIC","authority":1},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"A locally collected legend describes a wolf-like creature appearing to people with harmful intentions. The account has been recorded since 2019-03-04 folklore interview; earliest report unknown.. Every road has its ghost story; Bray Road in Elkhorn, Wisconsin is the one the file actually recorded. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Beast of Bray Road – Legend'. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":"2019-03-04 folklore interview; earliest report unknown.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Beast of Bray Road – Legend","url":"https://folklore.usc.edu/beast-of-bray-road-legend/","publisher":"USC Digital Folklore Archives","type":"ACADEMIC","authority":1}}],"entities":[{"name":"Beast of Bray Road","claimed_identity":"Beast of Bray Road","verified":null,"summary":"A locally collected legend describes a wolf-like creature appearing to people with harmful intentions. The presence goes by Beast of Bray Road. Reports in the file date to 2019-03-04 folklore interview; earliest report unknown.. Roadside lore attaches to crossings, and Bray Road in Elkhorn, Wisconsin is exactly the kind of crossing that collects it. Sources including 'Beast of Bray Road – Legend' keep the claim in circulation. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household.","behavior":"A locally collected legend describes a wolf-like creature appearing to people with harmful intentions.","area":null,"first_ref":"2019-03-04 folklore interview; earliest report unknown.","source":{"name":"Beast of Bray Road – Legend","url":"https://folklore.usc.edu/beast-of-bray-road-legend/","publisher":"USC Digital Folklore Archives","type":"ACADEMIC","authority":1}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Beast of Bray Road – Legend","url":"https://folklore.usc.edu/beast-of-bray-road-legend/","publisher":"USC Digital Folklore Archives","type":"ACADEMIC","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}