Werewolves

I watched a show called Monster Quest recently.  This episode was about the 'American Werewolf'.  As usual, there were attention-seekers claiming to have seen a 'werewolf'...many of them actually passed lie detector tests.  But since polygraphs aren't reliable (otherwise they would be used in court cases) and if one strongly believes something, they will pass a lie detector, I must dismiss the results.  Sociopaths, good actors, and hysterics may pass the polygraph.  These people saw something explainable - a wolf, coyote, even a bear or fox - that they mistakenly assumed was a 'werewolf'.  No wonder the test results were positive!

There are no actual creatures as lycanthropes.

There are, however, people suffering from hypertrichosis.  It is also known as the 'werewolf' disease.
Werewolf Gene

I wonder what is wrong with people.  What makes a person truly believe in skunk apes, ghosts, vampires, chupacabras, werewolves, unicorns, mermaids, etc, etc?  I would not want most of these creatures to exist, with the exception of the unicorn.  I mean, seriously!  If werewolves were factual beings, there would be evidence of them.  EVIDENCE.  Yet there is none.  Absolutely zero.  Same with those other creatures of myth that some (mentally unbalanced) people believe in.  I can understand a child believing in this stuff.  But an educated adult?  Give me a freaking break!

There have been people who considered themselves to be werewolves who attacked humans in much the same manner as a wild dog might.  Werewolf Killers.   A recent example is Wolfie Blackheart, who apparently believes that she is a werewolf.  Why would anyone want to be a werewolf?  I for damn sure don't - and I never truly wanted to be a vampire either, not even when I was a so-so Goth back in the 90s!

Werewolves are hairy, slobbering, blood-crazed critters with nothing about them that speaks of beauty, elegance, or intelligence (even though they are human till the full moon rises, in most horror films that is).  

German 'werewolf killer' Peter Stumpp murdered and cannabalized 16 victims, all women and children (the usual innocent victims); some of his victims were pregnant - ol' Peter ate the fetuses, not leaving anything to waste except perhaps the bones.  Back in those days, killers weren't mollycoddled the way they are today.  Peter was put to death, broken on the wheel where his flesh was torn from his bones, then his bones smashed to bits, before being burnt and buried.  His executioners, convinced he really was a werewolf, were leaving nothing to chance.

In closing, werewolves do not exist.  We already have weird, wild-eyed psychos enough to frighten the rest of us.  Why add to the lunatic fringe?