in mexico their's a famous 1 that everyone knows and probally some of u guys know it 2 "la yorona" it about a lady who went crazy and drown her kids but she regrets it and believes that her kids are out their so she went looking and looking but nothing so she died but her spirit still out their crying for her kids looking 4 them.

i know 1 about a werewolf legend in mexico my causins told me about it. that the aztecs or any other tribes believe they had the power of an animal. so 1 ruler of a tribe had the power of the wolf and believe he can change into that animal + he can communicate with other wolves 2 so people say that he was a werewolf. so that's were mexico got the legend of the werewolf. that's what i heard from my causins and their stories.

I was just told by my mom that theres a big wolf roaming the woods around these parts, whats weird is that kentucky no longer has any wolves, im not sure if its a werewolf or not

There's no wolves in Alabama either, only.......there's a mating pair of timber wolves near where we have the SEHowl, and they found a timber wolf on the road in Northwestern Alabama a couple of years ago, and a whole pack was released near Montgomery back around 1990, and you can't believe everything the county extension service agent says.....

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There are werewolf-like reports scattered around the kentuckybigfoot.com site (if you can keep yourself from admiring the "Bigfoot need love too" T-shirts!) :

http://www.kentuckybigfoot.com/

Well, there's this from Creatures of the Outer Edge (1978), by Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman:

"During July and August 1972, a number of people in Toledo and Defiance, Ohio, swore they had seen something which appeared to be 'human, with an oversized, wolflike head, and an elongnated nose,' and between six and eight feet in height.  Witnesses said it 'had huge hairy feet, fangs, and ran from side to side, like a caveman in the movies.'  It also possessed glowing red eyes.  A trainman working along the tracks near downtown Defiance claimed that the thing had sneaked up behind him in the early morning darkness and clobbered him with a two-by-four board.

"'We don't know what to think,' Police Chief Donald Breckler said, 'but now we're taking it seriously.'"

It might just be me, but I think possibly a werewolf that hits you with a two-by-four may have been someone dressed as a werewolf.  Still, there were more reports, mainly around Brookside Park in Cleveland, of a "manimal" covered with black hair.  Coleman and Clark continue:

"The final werewolf sighting took place in southwestern Ohio (Defiance is in the northwestern, Toledo in the northeastern parts of the state) one night late in October.  Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miller of Carlisle had driven out into the countryside between Carlisle and Germantown to look for a license plate that had fallen off the car earlier.  Mrs. Miller happened to look across a field and she noticed a black, partially erect figure running on two legs.  'It turned and came at us,' she told the Middletown Journal, 'and then it crouched down and was almost crawling.  I screamed for my husband to take me home.  I was scared to death.'"

After driving home, the Millers told three teenagers of their acquaintance what happened.  The teens immediately drove out to the area -- and found the beast, which approached them exactly as it had the Millers.  The teenagers fled.

THEN Mr. and Mrs. Miller drove back out to the scene. "But we still couldn't get a close look at it" [Mrs. Miller reported].  "It would start to run toward the car, standing up, but then it would crouch down and hide in the weeds.  And it howled at us, a loud snarling, hissing sound."

. . . And after THAT a Mr. and Mrs. Gary Moore decided to drive out to the scene!  "They were certain it was not a man.  Its eyes, which were huge, 'glowed like fluorescence in the light of the car.'  Its face and body were very hairy."

If this critter was someone in a costume, trying to scare away people Scooby-Doo fashion, he or she was failing miserably.  The Millers could have sold tickets:  "Come see the Werewolf in the Field!  Next show in fifteen minutes!"

Does anyone have any info on a werewolf legend called "El Lobizon?"  I think it's a Mexican or Brazillian folklore.  I forget which.
I know I could probably look it up right now on the web, but I was curious to see if anyone had their own take or story on this particular lore.  From what I hear it's similar to the werewolf lore, only it's suppose to be more canine like than lupine like...i think.

I remember that! That was funny

we do have few stories in Georgia but they tend to roam only in the native american tribes there is one of a tribe leader that had a "pet" wolf that was always by his side one day the tribe went to war and the tribe leader past on but his companion gave the leader the remainder of his life when the tribe leader awoke he found himself in the form of a wolf and when he tried the hardest he could return to his original form as a human and it goes to say that all of his three sons after that where blessed with the ability to change into a wolf like form by will and so it was passed down through the rest of his children and so on

vampfire: Oh, I didn't know about that one! SWEETS I liked it!

At the university I'm attending there is a story of something that lives in a nearby canyon. It is said there is a cave in along the mountain side that if you go near it during the week of a full moon you can see something terrifying. It's implied that there is a ghost of a werewolf trapped in the cave but on the full moon it can break out of the dark abyss and travel to the cave's surrounding area where it can howl at the moon. Naturally being a college student, I thought we should go there the next full moon and see if it is true. I almost wish I had not gone. The sun was setting as some friends and I went hiking up the canyon to the cave. As we went I started to feel very uneasy. It was strange, I usually don't get scared in forests, I love them, but there was something wrong in the air with this one. By the time we ended up getting to the cave, the moon was fully over the mountains shining brightly through the night sky. We didn't here anything so we went right up to the cave entrance and looked in. Our flashlights reveled nothing more than an average cave. After a few minutes we decided it was a wives tail and turned to leave. We were halfway down the side from the cave when I realized I left my water bottle by the cave entrance. I quickly went to retrieve it. As I turned my back to the cave once again, I felt a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. I was about to rush back down the hill due to the overpowering feeling of dread, when I heard a noise from behind. It was the worse noise I have yet to here in my short life. It was like a snarl or a growl but not, it that makes sense. I don't really no how to describe it. When I heard it I froze. My skin was crawling like mad. I felt as if something was standing right behind me. It seemed like ages but I regained myself and flew down the hill. My friends told me I looked like I had seen a ghost, very cliche I know.  I never went back there. For all I know it was a mountain lion, but my irrational mind still pegs it as the werewolf that the tale told about.

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Dang, that's pretty crazy. I've always wanted to do something like that, but where I live most 'haunted' places get torn down within a year. What state are you from?

I hail from Utah, and am enrolled at Utah State University. The tale is mostly oral. I haven't found much in written records except that there has been a few murders up in the cave. Most of which are unexplained or later determined as suicide, and that's about it for mention of the cave in writing. I had heard about the cave from someone in an anthropology class, who said they had had the crap scarred out of them up there. It was an interesting excursion but I don't think I will go there again.

Your story is fascinating as well. I always find it interesting when places you peg to be haunted out of your own intuition turns out being supported by tales later, how that then validates the authenticity of the haunting in that it was discovered by you and then later supported.