Werewolves: Real Shapeshifters Among Us

[00:00:00] June Parker was on her way to New York to be with her niece, Virginia,

[00:00:04] to discover what actually happened to her sister Claire.

[00:00:07] That's how the story starts in this mobile game I've been playing called June's Journey.

[00:00:12] You see, Claire and her husband were found dead,

[00:00:15] and the police go with the story that the couple was arguing and then her husband shot her and then himself.

[00:00:20] But when June gets there, something doesn't add up.

[00:00:23] Clues like a muddy footprint or an extra glass of whiskey point to foul play. GMOs and artificial ingredients and plant the seeds of good in all that they bake But Dave's killer bread has done more than raise the bar on bread In fact Dave's killer bread was built on the belief that second chances can change lives when it's founder Dave the guy with the guitar You see on every loaf other men, he was not interested. He had heard about the way in which Ishtar treated her lovers. There was this one shepherd.

[00:03:00] He was devoted to Ishtar.

[00:03:02] He loved her.

[00:03:03] He brought her gift after gifts are exaggerated to sound more epic. But in these tales, there's always a grain of truth.

[00:04:24] Could the tale of the shepherd-turned-wolf have some grain of truth to it? Giles Garnier. No one in Dole knew him very well. He had just moved there with his wife and he kept to himself. It was a recluse. The accused him of lycanthropy and witchcraft. During his trial, Giles confessed. He said that he was having trouble providing for his

[00:05:41] family. It was only used to feeding himself and everything, and when he was done, he transformed back into a man and took some of the flesh back home. His wife had no idea, and so she cooked it to take to his wife. The villagers had interrupted a few of his attacks came forward during his trial. They testified, saying Giles in his wolf form, attack, kill, and devour these children.

[00:08:25] Giles Garnier was found guilty of like antherp. They all ran in one direction. The dogs were after something. The mob followed, and when the mob caught up to the pack of dogs, they were confused. The dogs hadn't cornered a wolf. It was none other than Peter's stub, a local respected farmer.

[00:09:40] Peter was wealthy in his sixties.

[00:09:42] He was widower, his wife had passed away, two pregnant women and 14 children over the years, including his own son. Peter only confessed to everything after he was viciously tortured. Just a heads up, this is pretty brutal. He was placed on a wooden rack. His limbs were tied down.

[00:11:00] And then he was stretched until his limbs were almost torn off.

[00:11:04] And that's when he confessed. just as common as witch trials. Some of these could have been forced confessions. But also, how do we explain more modern werewolf sightings? I have these bizarre stories right after this. Stay with me. June Parker was on her way to New York to be with her niece, Virginia,

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[00:13:45] I'll of it. But it didn't last. When his parents asked Bill what happened, the rage returned. He snapped his jaws growled and clawed. His parents ran inside and locked the door.

[00:15:00] He eventually calmed down, but by then his hands were bloody and scratched. animal. And this happened for years. Then, in 1983, things escalated for Bill. He was out with some friends at a bar, and after a few drinks, Bill felt the same icy chill took over his body. He ran to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. The face of a wolf

[00:16:20] looked back at him. He needed to leave. And so he went to handcuff Bill, but that wasn't enough to stop him. He needed to be tranquilized. He woke up in the morning and the episode was over. Bill checked himself out of the hospital, but he was back in two months. He felt the same pain in his chest, but when he arrived at the emergency room, he lunged at an attendant at the hospital.

[00:17:41] Four police officers arrived and surrounded Bill, who was growling and began to choke him. It took a dozen police officers and two tranquilizer injections to stop Bill. Bill was hospitalized for 10 days and underwent countless tests. No one knew what was wrong with him. Somehow renowned demonologist Ed and Lorraine Warren heard of the South and Werewolf.

[00:19:00] They happened to be in London when word about Bill got to them.

[00:19:05] Lorraine believed that Bill was possessed knows if he is alive or dead. But there have been no reported wolf rampages in South End since then. Ed and Lorraine Warren believed he was possessed by a demonic entity, but Bill maintained that

[00:20:20] it was not a demon.

[00:20:22] That he was the werewolf. In the outskirts of Gauta, a group of seven friends were hanging out around the campfire. They had heard rumors of the werewolf, but they didn't believe

[00:21:40] any of it. They were drinking and ground watching it jump from rooftop to rooftop until it ran into the woods. A few days later, eight men that lived near the mountains started patrolling the streets with whatever weapons they could find, bats, rifles, and machetes.

[00:23:00] During their patrol, the air grew extremely cold.

[00:23:04] Temperature drop was unnatural. stories of men shapeshifting into ocelots, panthers, dogs, and even goats. A man with this ability to shapeshift is known as an awali. According to legend, in order to get this ability, they have to make a pact with a devil. Some believe the werewolf of Koita was not actually a werewolf.

[00:24:21] They say that it was a young man who hadn't properly learned the ability to become an

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[00:25:42] Lemagi.

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