“White-Trash Werewolf Smorgasbord”

Yes, that quoted phrase is the subsection title that columnist Melanie Conklin of the Wisconsin State Journal of Madison, Wisconsin, employs in her little segment on the The Beast of Bray Road. It is not often that you see a modern newspaper writer employing what, in essence, is a racial slur with a mention about cryptozoology. But there it is.

Actually, to be specific, Conklin is quoting Linda Godfrey who is rather upset these days. Here is what Melanie Conklin wrote on July 12th, even mentioning this humble blog site along the way:

If you attend Wisconsin author Linda Godfrey’s book signing Thursday at 7 p.m. at Barnes & Noble West (7433 Mineral Point Road [Madison, Wisconsin]) on her new book, Hunting the American Werewolf, you can leave with more than some bizarre tales of people who’ve spotted werewolves.

Godfrey, a former cartoonist, plans to bring a “grab bag” of “free signed Beast doodles,” which are little drawings she’s done of “the manwolf” on objects of no real value, like birch bark or old floppy disks.

But right now Godfrey, who was born in Madison and lives in Elkhorn, is busy replying to many queries about a movie that will air Saturday on the Sci Fi Channel that shares a title with her last book, The Beast of Bray Road. (Her blog on the topic was posted at cryptomundo.com.)

She wants to state for the record that the Elkhorn area’s alleged werewolf has nothing in common with the one in the movie that decapitates and disembowels random humans. “They portray Wisconsin residents as brawling, foul-mouthed, beer-guzzling hicks. It’s a white-trash werewolf smorgasbord,” says Godfrey. “I had nothing to do with the movie.”

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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